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January 29 - the day in history
On this day in 1595, Romeo and Juliet was probably first performed.
Today is Friday, January 29, the twenty eighth day of 2005.
There are 337 days left in the year.
Highlights in history on this date:
1595 - Romeo and Juliet was probably first performed.
1814 - France defeated Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.
1856 - Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross.
1861 - Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
1886 - Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
1916 - World War I: Paris is bombed by German zeppelins for the first time.
1933 - President of Germany appoints Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany.
1944 - Battle of Cisterna in central Italy.
1944 - About 300 were massacred indiscriminately at the Massacre in Koniuchy in Poland.
1959 - Sleeping Beauty, the last animated feature produced by Walt Disney to be based upon a fairy tale, was first released.
1963 - First inductees into the Football Hall of Fame are announced.
1996 - President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear testing.
2001 - Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
2002 - In his State of the Union Address, US President George Bush described "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of Evil.
Today's birthdays
Thomas Paine, UIS patriot, radical, pamphleteer (1737-1809)
Anton Chekhov, playwright and short story writer (1860-1904)
Romain Rolland, dramatist (1866-1944)
John D. Rockefeller Jr., entrepreneur (1874-1960)
Victor Mature, actor (1915-1999)
Germaine Greer, writer, feminist (1939--)
Oprah Winfrey, actress, talk show host, producer, publisher (1954--)
Greg Louganis, Olympics gold medalist in diving (1960--)
Heather Graham, actress (1970--)
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, shooter (1970--)
