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01/29/1850
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Ebenezer Howard, London, pioneer of garden cities
Type: Birth
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01/29/1850
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Lawrence Hargrave, inventor (box kite)
Type: Birth
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01/29/1852
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Frederick Hymen Cowen, composer
Type: Birth
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01/29/1852
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Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian actor/playwright (O Noapte Furtunoasa)
Type: Birth
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01/29/1854
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Willem PC Knuttel, Dutch bibliographer/librarian
Type: Birth
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01/29/1856
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Victoria Cross established to acknowledge bravery
Type: Event
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01/29/1860
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American College established in Rome by Pope Pius IX
Type: Event
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01/29/1860
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Tagarov Russia, playwright (Cherry Orchard)
Type: Birth
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01/29/1861
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Kansas becomes 34th state
Type: Event
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01/29/1862
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Frederick Delius, Bradford England, composer (Hiawatha)
Type: Birth
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01/29/1863
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Battle at Bear River, Washington: US army vs indians
Type: Event
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01/29/1864
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Battle of Moorefield, WV (Rosser's Raid)
Type: Event
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01/29/1864
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Adolf Philipp, composer
Type: Birth
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01/29/1866
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Romain Rolland, France, writer (Jean-Christophe) (Nobel 1915)
Type: Birth
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01/29/1867
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Vicente Blasco Ib ¤ez, Spain, writer (4 Horsemen of Apocalypse)
Type: Birth
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01/29/1869
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Andrey Vladimirovich Scherbachov, composer
Type: Birth
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01/29/1871
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Eduardo Lopez-Chavarri y Marco, composer
Type: Birth
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01/29/1872
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Francis L Cardoza elected State Treasurer of South Carolina
Type: Event
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01/29/1873
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Luigi A, duke of the Abruzzes, Italy, explorer/climber (Mt St Elias)
Type: Birth
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01/29/1874
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John David Rockefeller Jr, Cleveland Ohio, philanthropist
Type: Birth
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01/29/1874
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Robert Lach, composer
Type: Birth
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01/29/1876
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Carl Henrik Ludolf Nielsen, composer
Type: Birth
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01/29/1876
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Havergal Brian, Dresden Staffordshire, composer
Type: Birth
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01/29/1878
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Barney Oldfield, Ohio, daredevil
Type: Birth
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01/29/1879
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Custer Battlefield National Monument, Mont established
Type: Event
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01/29/1879
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Antonia MB Antonucci, Italian cardinal/diplomat, dies at 80
Type: Death
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01/29/1880
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W C Fields, [William Claude Dukenfield], Phila, actor (Bank Dick)
Type: Birth
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01/29/1884
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Juhan Aavic, composer
Type: Birth
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01/29/1886
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1st successful gasoline-driven car patented, Karl Benz, Karlsruhe
Type: Event
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01/29/1887
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Albert Conti, Trieste Austria, actor (Jazz Heaven, Doomed Battalion)
Type: Birth
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01/29/1888
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Edward Lear, poet/author, dies at 75
Type: Death
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01/29/1889
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Francisco Santiago, composer
Type: Birth
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01/29/1889
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Rudolf Mauersberger, composer
Type: Birth
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01/29/1890
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Marguerite Canal, composer
Type: Birth
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01/29/1891
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R N Williams II, tennis champ (US Open-1914)
Type: Birth
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01/29/1892
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Clifford Gray, US, bobsled (Olympic-gold-1928)
Type: Birth
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01/29/1893
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Edric Cundell, composer
Type: Birth
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01/29/1893
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Martian Negrea, composer
Type: Birth
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01/29/1895
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King Koko's Kopermannen assault on Akassa Niger, 100's killed
Type: Event
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01/29/1896
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Emile Grubbe is 1st dr to use radiation treatment for breast cancer
Type: Event
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01/29/1896
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Teddy Hoad, cricketer (pioneering West Indian Test batsman)
Type: Birth
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01/29/1898
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Fernand Quinet, Belgian cellist/composer/conductor (La Guerre)
Type: Birth
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01/29/1898
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Karl Bjarnhof, Danish blind journalist/writer (History of Sascha)
Type: Birth
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01/29/1899
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Alfred Sisley, painter, dies
Type: Death
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01/29/1899
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Robert J Fruin, Dutch historian (80-year war), dies at 75
Type: Death
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01/29/1900
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Boers under Joubert beat English at Spionkop Natal, 2,000 killed
Type: Event
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01/29/1900
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American League organized in Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee and Minneapolis
Type: Event
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01/29/1900
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Marco Tajcevic, composer
Type: Birth
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01/29/1900
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Willem F K Hussem, Dutch painter/poet (Coastline, Lookout on Sea)
Type: Birth
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01/29/1901
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Allen B DuMont, inventor (perfected coml practical cathode ray tube)
Type: Birth
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