426 Historic Events for January 29
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| 1938 |
Birth |
Bill Christian, US, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1960)
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| 1939 |
Birth |
Germaine Greer, Melbourne Australia, feminist/author (Female Eunich)
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| 1939 |
Birth |
O P Kolomitsev, cosmonaut
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| 1941 |
Death |
Ioannis Metaxas, Greek gen/dictator (1936-41), commits suicide at 69
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| 1942 |
Birth |
Arnaldo Tamayo-Mendez, Cuba, cosmonaut (Soyuz 38)
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| 1942 |
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1st broadcast of Roy Plomley's "Desert Island Discs" on BBC
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| 1942 |
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German and Italian troops occupy Banghazi
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| 1942 |
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Peru and Ecuador sign Protocol of Rio (boundary determiniation)
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| 1942 |
Death |
Ladislao Joseph Philip Paul Zavrtal, composer, dies at 92
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| 1942 |
Birth |
Claudine Longet, France, former Mrs Andy Williams/singer
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| 1942 |
Birth |
Katharine Ross, Hollywood Cal, actress (Graduate, Francesca-Colbys)
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| 1942 |
Birth |
Richard Needham, British MP
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| 1942 |
Birth |
F R Hartley, Vice-Chancellor (Cranfield University)
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| 1942 |
Birth |
Robin Morgan, Lake Worth Fla, actress (Dagmar-Mama)
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| 1943 |
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New Zealand's Kiwi cruiser collides with Jap sub I-1 at Guadalcanal
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| 1943 |
Birth |
Timothy Andrew James Souster, composer
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| 1943 |
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Sidney Kingsley's "Patriots," premieres in NYC
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| 1943 |
Birth |
Charles Fitzgerald-Lombard, Abbot of Downside
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| 1944 |
Birth |
Barbara Moore, Wardell Mo, actress (Lisa Rogers-Man From UNCLE)
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| 1944 |
Birth |
Hans Plomp, Dutch writer/poet (Venus in Holland)
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| 1944 |
Death |
William Allen White, US journalist (Emporia Gazette), dies at 75
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| 1944 |
Event |
285 German bombers attack London
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| 1945 |
Birth |
Donna Marie Caponi Young, Detroit, LPGA golfer (US Open 1969, 70)
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| 1945 |
Birth |
James Nicholson, British MEP
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| 1945 |
Birth |
Tom Selleck, Detroit Mich, actor (Lance-Rockford Files, Magnum PI)
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