January 29
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1802 - John Beckley became the first Librarian of the U.S. Congress. He was paid $2 a day. Not bad, considering in 1802 you could buy a house for $25.00 and a chicken.1845 - The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe, was published for the first time in the New York Evening Mirror. Poe took the pen name, Quarles, in signing the poem.
1861 - Kansas, the Sunflower State, entered the United States of America this day. The capital of the 34th state is Topeka. It’s easy to figure out why Kansas is the Sunflower State; it’s a toss-up as to whether Kansas has more of those huge yellow blossoms that are also the state flower, or amber waves of wheat. The state’s other nickname is, however, slightly more obscure. Kansas, the Jayhawk State, is named so because before and during the War Between the States, guerillas in the antislavery camp ... known as jayhawkers ... were extremely active in the Kansas territory. The pro- and anti-slavery groups fought such vicious battles that the state was referred to as ‘Bleeding Kansas’. Through peace and battles, the western meadowlark, the state bird, continues to sing its song ... or maybe it sings the state song: Home on the Range. The roaming buffalo is the state animal, and the state tree is the cottonwood. Kansas, derived from the Sioux Indian word meaning ‘people of the southwind’, uses the Latin phrase ‘Ad astra per aspera’ or ‘To the stars through difficulties’ as its motto.
1891 - Hawaii proclaimed Liliuokalani as its queen. Fast forward four years: Under house arrest on charges of treason, she abdicated on January 24, 1895 after four years of turbulence. During her life, Liliuokalani composed hundreds of songs, including Aloha Oe. She also sang and played the guitar.
1924 - Carl R. Taylor of Cleveland, OH patented the ice cream cone rolling machine. Ice cream cones in Cleveland in January? Silly idea... but it took off anyway. Don’t you just love those rolled sugar cones!
1929 - The Seeing Eye was incorporated -- in Nashville, TN. Its purpose was to train dogs to guide the blind. The Seeing Eye (founded in Nashville, TN) is now located in Morristown, NJ, has matched thousands of dogs with persons who are blind or visually impaired in the U.S. and Canada.
1936 - Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson were the first players to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. It happened on this day in Cooperstown, NY.
1937 - Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra waxed the famous Song of India on Victor Records.
1940 - The W. Atlee Burpee Seed Company displayed the first tetraploid flowers at the New York City Flower Show; and a marigold treated with colchicine produced a flower 1-1/2 times its original size. You green-thumbers out there will soon receive a pop quiz on this, so, please, reread it and pay close attention. Thank you.
1945 - Lionel Barrymore became host of the Lux Radio Theatre on this day. Actually, he replaced the previous host. Some guy named Cecil B. DeMille.
1949 - The ship, The Newport News, was commissioned as the first air-conditioned naval ship -- in Virginia.
1951 - Liz Taylor got her very first divorce on this day -- from Conrad Hilton Jr
1956 - One of the last of radio’s popular series programs, Indictment, debuted. The program, on CBS radio, stayed on the air for three years.
1959 - Walt Disney’s Sleeping Beauty was released. The animated fantasty features the voices Mary Costa (as Princess Aurora and Briar Rose), Bill Shirley (as Prince Phillip) Eleanor Audley (Maleficent) Verna Felton (Flora) Barbara Luddy (Merryweather) Barbara Jo Allen (Fauna) Taylor Holmes (King Stefan) and Bill Thompson (as King Hubert).
1963 - The first members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame were announced in Canton, Ohio. The Hall of Fame building officially opened on Sep 7, 1963 with 17 charter inductees: Sammy Baugh, Bert Bell, Joe Carr, Earl (Dutch) Clark, Harold (Red) Grange, George Halas, Mel Hein, Wilbur (Pete) Henry, Robert (Cal) Hubbard, Don Hutson, Earl (Curly) Lambeau, Tim Mara, George Preston Marshall, John (Blood) McNally, Bronko Nagurski, Ernie Nevers and Jim Thorpe.
1963 - Robert Frost died in Boston. He was 88. Frost was a four-time Pulitzer prize-winning poet: Birches, Mending Wall, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. He read The Gift Outright at inauguration of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
1966 - Sweet Charity, with Gwen Verdon, opened at the Palace Theatre in New York City. The musical, by Neil Simon, was an adaptation of the Federico Fellini film, Notti di Cabiria. The play ran for 608 performances. In 1969, Hollywood produced a big-budget version of the Broadway musical starring Shirley MacLaine.
1968 - Gore Vidal’s controversial sex novel, Myra Breckinridge, was published by Little, Brown & Company. It was later made into a film starring Raquel Welch and Mae West.
1973 - Johnny Rivers received a gold record for the hit single, Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu. As is tradition, Rivers removed the fragile gold disk from the wooden frame and, as he was putting it on his stereo, had a ferocious sneezing fit and never did find out how his song sounded in solid gold.
1977 - Rose Royce earned the #1 spot on the music charts with Car Wash, from the movie of the same name. The song stayed at the peak of the pop charts for one week before its popularity began to drain away...
1984 - The East All-Stars defeated the West All-Stars, for a record, fifth straight year in the NBA’s All-Star Game. This game went into overtime (the third time in the game’s history). Isaiah Thomas of the Detroit Pistons was named Most Valuable Player in the 154-145 win.
1985 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average peaked at a new high of 1,292.62, eclipsing the record set on November 29, 1983.
1987 - For artists everywhere, this note from the So Now We Know Department: The famous smile of Mona Lisa, according to Physician’s Weekly, was caused by a “...facial paralysis resulting from a swollen nerve behind the ear.” How about that! Bet Leonardo da Vinci would have been impressed. Modern medicine at its finest. That will be $54 for the visit. Next, please...
1990 - Former Exxon Valdez skipper Joseph Hazelwood went on trial in Anchorage, Alaska, on charges stemming from the Alaskan oil spill. Hazelwood later was acquitted of the major charges and convicted of a misdemeanor.
1991 - Nelson Mandela (president of South Africa) and Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi held the first talks in almost 30 years between predominantly Zulu Inkatha and the ethnically mixed African National Congress.
1992 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin said his country’s nuclear weapons would no longer be aimed at any U.S. targets.
1993 - U.S. President Bill Clinton announced that he was ordering the draft of a formal directive to end the longstanding ban on homosexuals in the U.S. military.
1995 - Super Bowl XXIX (at Miami): San Francisco 49ers 49, San Diego Chargers 26. 49ers’ QB Steve Young (MVP) threw six (a record) TD passes and directed an offense that generated seven TDs, 28 first downs and 455 total yards. The 49ers were the first team to win five Super Bowls. Tickets: $200.00.
1996 - Canadian country singer Shania Twain was named best new country artist at the American Music Awards.
1997 - Threatened with lawsuits across the U.S., America Online agreed to give refunds to customers who had been unable to log on after AOL offered a flat $19.95-a-month rate.
1998 - A bomb exploded outside the New Woman, All Women Health Care Clinic in Birmingham, Alabama. The explosion killed Robert Sanderson, an off-duty police officer working as a security guard. Emily Lyons, a nurse, was critically injured. Police captured the bomber, Eric Robert Rudolph, on May 31, 2003.
1999 - She’s All That debuted in the U.S. The romantic comedy stars Freddie Prinze Jr., Rachael Leigh Cook, Paul Walker, Jodi Lyn O’Keefe, Anna Paquin, Kieran Culkin, Matthew Lillard, Lil’ Kim, Dule Hill, Elden Henson and Kevin Pollak.
2000 - Joe Montana and Ronnie Lott, participants in San Francisco’s Super Bowl dynasty, were among five individuals elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
2001 - U.S. President George Bush (II) established the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.
2002 - In his first State of the Union Address, U.S. President George W. Bush (II) said terrorists were threatening the U.S. He warned of “an axis of evil,” consisting of North Korea, Iran and Iraq.
2002 - Actor Harold Russell, who received two Oscars for his sensitive portrayal of a disabled veteran in The Best Years of Our Lives died in Needham, Mass. He was 88 years old.
2003 - AOL Time Warner posted a record $98.7 billion loss, the biggest in U.S. corporate history. It included a $45.5 billion write down on the value of AOL. AOL Time Warner also announced the resignation of vice chairman Ted Turner.
2004 - Israel released more than 420 prisoners in a long-awaited swap with the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah in exchange for an Israeli businessman and the bodies of three Israeli soldiers.
2005 - Clint Eastwood was named best director of 2004 by the Directors Guild of America for his his boxing-melodrama Million Dollar Baby.
2006 - ABC World News Tonight co-anchor Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt were seriously injured by an improvised explosive device near Taji, Iraq.
2007 - Lauren Nelson was crowned Miss America on this day. It was the second year in a row that a Miss Oklahoma had won. (Jennifer Berry was crowned Miss America in 2006.)
2008 - Senator John McCain defeated former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (36-31 percent) in Florida’s Republican primary. The Democratic race, won by Hillary Clinton, was moot because Democratic Party rules forbade the state from holding its primary before February 5.
2009 - Iraq announced that it had barred Blackwater Worldwide from providing security protection for U.S. diplomats. Iraq said Blackwater’s contractors had used excessive force.
2009 - Pat Quinn, Illinois Democratic Lt. Governor, became governor after the state Senate convicted Rod Blagojevich of abuse of power.
2010 - New movies in the U.S.: Dread, starring Jackson Rathbone, Shaun Evans, Hanne Steen, Laura Donnelly, Jonathan Readwin, Carl McCrystal, Zoe Stollery, Eva Wyrwal, Elissa Dowling, Kirean Murphy, Elspeth Rae, Erin Gavin and Matt Jessup; The Graves, with Clare Grant, Jillian Murray, Bill Moseley, Tony Todd, Amanda Wyss, Patti Tindall and Dean Matthew Ronalds; Saint John of Las Vegas, starring Steve Buscemi, Romany Malco, Emily Mortimer, Peter Dinklage, Tim Blake Nelson, John Cho and Emmanuelle Chriqui; Edge of Darkness, with Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston, Shawn Roberts, Bojana Novakovic, Frank Grillo and Gbenga Akinnagbe; When in Rome, starring Kristen Bell, Josh Duhamel, Will Arnett, Alexis Dziena, Jon Heder, Dax Shepard, Kate Micucci, Bobby Moynihan, Danny DeVito and Anjelica Huston; and Preacher’s Kid, with Letoya Luckett, Tammy Townsend, Carlos Davis, Andre Butler, Nadiyah Hollis, Javen Campbell, Clayton English, Kelly Finley and Ella Joyce.
2010 - Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said there had been no ‘covert’ deal with then U.S. president George W. Bush to invade Iraq in 2003. Blair adamantly defended his decision to take Britain into the Iraq War.
2010 - U.S. President Barack Obama engaged with Republican critics holding a GOP House Issues Conference. Obama testily accused the Republicans of trying to block his policies, but urged them to “join with me” in creating jobs.
2011 - Saudi Arabia’s stock exchange fell 6.4 percent, setting the stage for other regional markets to drop as concerns mounted about violent protests going on in Egypt.
2011 - Massey Energy Co., struggling with losses after an explosion that killed 29 workers at its West Virginia coal mine, agreed to be bought by Alpha Natural Resources -- for $7.1 billion.
2012 - Thousands of cars flying white ribbons or balloons circled central Moscow, Russia in a show of protest against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The ribbons had become an opposition symbol during protests after the fraud-tainted Dec 4, 2012 parliamentary election won by Putin’s party.
2013 - Mexican immigration authorities said they broke up a bizarre cult that ran a sex-slavery ring among its followers on the U.S. border. The Defensores de Cristo (Defenders of Christ) recruited women to have sex with a Spanish man who claimed to be Christ reincarnated. Cult members were forced to provide sex, prostitution and forced labor, according to Mexico’s National Immigration Institute.
2014 - Google said it was selling Motorola Mobility’s smartphone business to Chinese multinational computer tech company Lenovo for $2.9 billion. The deal came less than two years after Google bought Motorola Mobility for $12.4 billion in the biggest acquisition of Google’s 15-year history. But Motorola turned out to be a money-loser. Google said it would maintain ownership of the vast majority of the Motorola Mobility patent portfolio after the sale. When Google bought Motorola, the company said it planned to use those patents to ward off lawsuits from Apple and Microsoftthat threatened Android.
2015 - Poet and songwriter Rod McKuen died in Beverly Hills. He was 81 years old. His work included some 200 albums and over 30 collections of poetry. Some of his best-known songs, including If You Go Away and Seasons in the Sun were written with Belgian composer Jacques Brell.
2016 - Films debuting in the U.S. included: Fifty Shades of Black, starring Jane Seymour, Marlon Wayans and Kali Hawk; The Finest Hours, with Chris Pine, Graham McTavish and Holliday Grainger; Jane Got a Gun, starring Natalie Portman, Joel Edgerton and Ewan McGregor; the animated Kung Fu Panda 3, featuring the voices of Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman, Jackie Chan, Seth Rogen and Lucy Liu; and Rabin, the Last Day, with Yitzhak Hizkiya, Pini Mittelman and Michael Warshaviak.
2016 - A secret, daylong law enforcement operation around the Arizona border with Mexico resulted in the arrest of two dozen high-level Mexican drug cartel members. Mexican authorities arrested up to 24 members of the Sinaloa drug cartel in the joint operation with the U.S.
2016 - Another big bust saw U.S. authorities idict more than 50 members of the MS-13 gang in and around Boston -- on federal racketeering charges.
2017 - Six worshippers were killed and nineteen others injured when a lone gunman opened fire shortly after the end of evening prayers at the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City, Canada. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the shooting was a terrorist attack. Perpetrator Alexandre Bissonnette was later charged with six counts of murder.
2017 - POTUS Donald Trump’s second weekend in office saw huge nationwide protests over his order that all travelers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen be denied entry to the U.S. for 90 days. What started out Saturday as a spontaneous demonstration at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York quickly spread to airports from coast to coast. And the ban inspired fear, petitions -- and some applause -- around the world.
2018 - U.S. federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents began raiding businesses in northern California demanding proof that their employees were legally allowed to work in the U.S. 77 workplaces were targeted in the raids.
2018 - New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed an executive order to put the state back into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).
2019 - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) and its parent filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection because of mounting tolls from California fires.
2019 - China asked the U.S. government to “stop the unreasonable crackdown” on Huawei after the U.S. stepped up pressure on the tech giant by indicting it (Monday, Jan 28) on charges of stealing technology and violating sanctions on Iran. Huawei Technologies Ltd., which had spent a decade battling U.S. accusations that it is a front for Chinese spying, denied committing any of the violations contained in the indictment.
2019 - Prominent atheist video blogger Sherif Gaber launched a crowdfunding page called Help Me Escape Egypt to aid him in purchasing another nationality so he could override an exit ban imposed by the Egyptian secret police. Gaber had been repeatedly detained by authorities accusing him of blasphemy, which is sometimes prosecuted in Egypt under laws against “insulting religion.”
2020 - A memo from Peter Navarro, POTUS Trump’s trade adviser, warned that failing to contain a coronavirus outbreak could cost the U.S. trillions of dollars and put millions of Americans at risk of illness or death. (This memo was not made public until April 7.)
2020 - American Airlines suspended two routes to China, citing significant decline in demand for travel to and from China.
2020 - The U.S. deployed its first low-yield Trident nuclear warhead on a submarine that was patrolling the Atlantic Ocean. This, in what arms control advocates feared was a dangerous step towards making a nuclear launch more likely.
2021 - Movies released in the U.S. (theatres and virtual) this day included: The Little Things, starring Denzel Washington, Rami Malek and Jared Leto; Haymaker, with Zoë Bell, Veronica Falcón and D.B. Sweeney; The Night, starring Shahab Hosseini, Niousha Noor and George Maguire; and Supernova, starring Colin Firth, Stanley Tucci and Pippa Haywood.
2021 - Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill extending the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between Russia and the U.S. -- a week before the pact was due to expire.
2021 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a sweeping order requiring the use of face masks on nearly all forms of public transportation. This as the U.S. continued to report thousands of daily COVID-19 deaths.
2022 - Nine people died and six were injured after a six-car crash in north Las Vegas when a car raced through a red light and crashed into multiple vehicles at an intersection.
2022 - Workers at the University of Hong Kong covered a painted slogan commemorating China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown, the latest instance of a public June 4 memorial being removed in China-ruled Hong Kong.
2023 - Australian Open Women’s Tennis: World #1 Ash Barty won her home Grand Slam event for the first time; beating U.S. star Danielle Collins 6-3, 7-6. In Men’s Tennis: Serbian Novak Đoković beat Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-3, 7-6, 7-6 for his 10th Australian Open and record-equalling 22nd Grand Slam title.
2023 - The Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs were headed to the Super Bowl (Feb 12 in Glendale, AZ). In Kansas City, Missouri, quarterback Patrick Mahomes led his team to a victory in a back-and-forth game against the Cincinnati Bengals that ended in a slim 23-20 victory. And the Philadelphia Eagles beat the San Francisco 49ers 31-7 in Philadelphia, to advance to the big game.
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Birthdays on This Day January 29
1736 - Thomas Paine
American revolutionary leader, political philosopher: Common Sense, The Age of Reason, The Crisis: “These are the times that try men’s souls.”; died Jun 8, 18091820 - Harriet Tubman
abolitionist, political activist: was an armed scout and spy for the Union Army in the Civil War; born into slavery she escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue enslaved people, including family and friends; died Mar 10, 19131843 - William McKinley
25th U.S. President [1897-1901]; assassinated six months after the start of his second term: Sep 14, 19011860 - Anton Chekhov
short story writer: The Party, The Darling; playwright: The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters, Uncle Vanya; died Jul 15, 19041874 - John Davison Rockefeller Jr.
industrialist: founder of Standard Oil Co.; Rockefeller Foundation; died May 11, 19601880 - W.C. (William Claude) Fields (Dukenfield)
“Ah, yes...”: entertainer: films: Pool Sharks, My Little Chickadee [w/Mae West], The Bank Dick, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break; famous lines: “Doctors say don’t worry about your heart -- it will last as long as you live.”, “It was a woman who drove me to drink and I never even thanked her.”; died Dec 25, 19461906 - Joe Primeau
Hockey Hall of Fame player and coach: Toronto Maple Leafs: only coach to win Memorial Cup, Allan Cup and Stanley Cup; died May 14, 19891909 - Eddie Dew
actor: Beyond the Last Frontier, Raiders of Sunset Pass, A Star Is Born, Government Agents vs Phantom Legion, Renegades of the Rio Grande, Raiders of Sunset Pass, Six Gun Gospel; died Apr 6, 19721911 - Bryan Coleman
actor: Chaplin, The Black Candle, Mona Lisa, Country, Zeppelin, Mr. Brown Comes Down the Hill, The Hand, Blood of the Vampire; died July 4, 20051913 - Victor (John) Mature
actor: The Robe, Samson and Delilah, The Las Vegas Story, Song of the Islands, After the Fox; died Aug 4, 19991917 - John Raitt
actor, singer: The Pajama Game, The Chevy Show, The Buick Circus Hour; died Feb 20, 20051918 - John Forsythe (Freund)
actor: Bachelor Father, Charlie’s Angels, Dynasty, To Rome with Love, The Powers That Be, See How They Run, The Miss and Missiles, The John Forsythe Show, And Justice for All, Scrooged; TV host: I Witness Video; died Apr 1, 20101918 - Bill (William Joseph) ‘Specs’ Rigney
‘The Cricket’: baseball: NY Giants [all-star: 1948/World Series: 1951]; died Feb 20, 20011923 - Paddy (Sidney) Chayefsky
Academy Award-winning playwright: Marty [1955]; Paint Your Wagon, Altered States, Network; died Aug 1, 19811934 - Noel Harrison
actor: The Best of Enemies, The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., The Murder in China Basin; singer: The Windmills Of Your Mind [The Thomas Crown Affair movie soundtrack]; son of actor Rex Harrison; died Oct 19, 20131937 - Bobby Scott
singer, musician: pianist: Chain Gang; songwriter: A Taste of Honey; died Nov 5, 19901939 - Bobby (Donald) Bolin
baseball: pitcher: SF Giants [World Series: 1962], Boston Red Sox, Milwaukee Brewers; died Jun 2, 20231939 - Germaine Greer
feminist author: Daddy We Hardly Knew You, The Change1940 - Katharine Ross
actress: The Graduate, The Final Countdown, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Singing Nun, The Colbys1942 - Claudine Longet
singer: LPs: Claudine, The Look of Love, Love is Blue, Colours; actress: McHale’s Navy, Hogan’s Heroes, The Party, How to Steal An Airplane, Only One Day Left Before Tomorrow1945 - Donna Maria Caponi (Young)
golf champion: U.S. Open [1969, 1970], Nabisco Dinah Shore [1980], Du Maurier Classic [1976], LPGA [1979, 1981]; sportscaster: ABC Sports1945 - Tom Selleck
Emmy Award-winning actor: Magnum, P.I. [1983-1984]; Three Men and a Baby, Mr. Baseball, Runaway, Lassiter, Quigley Down Under, 3 Men and a Little Lady, Running Mates, Las Vegas, Blue Bloods1945 - Wayne Stephenson
hockey: NHL: SL Blues, Philadelphia Flyers, Washington Capitals1947 - David Byron
singer: groups: Uriah Heep: Gypsy, Salisbury, July Morning, Easy Livin’; Stalkers and Spice; died Feb 28, 19851949 - Jim (James Vernon) Tyrone
baseball: Chicago Cubs, Oakland Athletics1950 - Ann Jillian (Jurate Nauseda)
actress: Ann Jillian, It’s a Living, Jennifer Slept Here, Hazel1952 - Billy Harris
hockey: NHL: NY Islanders, LA Kings, Toronto Maple Leafs1952 - Tommy Ramone
musician: drums, songwriter: group: The Ramones I Wanna Be Sedated, Teenage Lobotomy, Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue, Sheena is a Punk Rocker, Chinese Rock; died Jul 11, 20141953 - Charlie Wilson
singer, songwriter, record producer: group: The Gap Band: Burn Rubber on Me (Why You Wanna Hurt Me), Early in the Morning, Beep a Freak, All of My Love; solo artist: Without You, Charlie, Last Name Wilson, There Goes My Baby You Are, Life of the Party, My Love Is All I Have, Chills, Forever Valentine, One I Got)1954 - Terry Kinney
actor: Oz, Kidnapped, Canterbury’s Law, The Unusuals, Being Human, NYC 22, Promised Land, The Black Box1954 - Oprah Winfrey
Emmy Award-winning talk show host: Oprah Winfrey [1986, 1990-1994]; actress: The Color Purple, Native Son, The Women of Brewster Place1955 - Greg Ballard
basketball [forward]: Univ of Oregon; NBA: Washington Bullets, Golden State Warriors, Seattle SuperSonics; assistant coach: Dallas Mavericks, Minnesota Timberwolves, Atlanta Hawks1955 - Eddie Jordan
basketball: NBA: Cleveland Cavaliers, New Jersey Nets, Los Angeles Lakers, Portland Trail Blazers; coach: Sacramento Kings, Washington Wizards, Philadelphia 76ers; assistant coach: Los Angeles Lakers1959 - Chris Charming
actor [1997-2012]: X-rated films: Stop! My Ass Is on Fire! 2, Versaute Teeny-Sex-Parties, Mandy’s wilde Pflaumen, Lethal Injections, Double Reamed and Creamed, Swallow the Leader, Invasion of the Porno Shooters, Addicted to Boobs 21960 - Matthew Ashford
actor: Days of our Lives, Paper Bullets, Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss, Species, Night Sins, One Stormy Night1960 - Greg Louganis
diver: Olympic gold medalist: [1984, 1988]1961 - Eddie Jackson
musician: bass Queensryche, The Warning, Rage for Order, Operation: Mindcrime, Empire, The Promised Land, Operation: Livecrime1962 - Nicholas Turturro
actor: NYPD Blue, The Longest Yard, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, The District, Third Watch, The King of Queens, Blue Bloods1964 - Roddy Frame
musician: guitar, singer, songwriter: group: Aztec Camera: Oblivious, Walk Out to Winter, All I Need is Everything, Birth of the True, Knife, Just like the USA; solo LP: Love1964 - Andre Reed
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Kutztown Univ; NFL: Buffalo Bills, Washington Redskins1965 - Dominik Hašek
hockey [goalie]: Chicago Blackhawks, Buffalo Sabres, Detroit Red Wings1965 - Julia Stemberger
actress: Hexenkusse, Julie, chevalier de Maupin, 1809 Andreas Hofer - Die Freiheit des Adlers, Teuflischer Engel, Quintett komplett1966 - Romário De souza Faria
Brazilian footballer [striker]: 55 goals in 70 appearances [1987-2005] for Brazil; 1994 FIFA World Cup Championship1967 - Sean Burke
hockey [goalie]: NJ Devils, Hartford Whalers, Carolina Hurricanes, Vancouver Canucks, Philadelphia Flyers, Florida Panthers,Phoenix Coyotes1968 - Edward Burns
actor: The Groomsmen, A Sound of Thunder, Looking for Kitty, Life or Something Like It, 27 Dresses, One Missed Call1968 - Aeneas Williams
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Southern Univ; NFL: Phoenix/Arizona Cardinals, SL Rams1969 - Sam Trammell
actor: True Blood, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, Miracle of Phil, The Details, Shrinking Charlotte, Unshakable, Cold Case, Medium, Law & Order: Criminal Intent1970 - Heather Graham
actress: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Boogie Nights, Diggstown, Swingers, Killing Me Softly1970 - Paul Ryan
U.S. Congressman from Wisconsin [1999–2019]: 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives [2015-2019]; Vice Presidential nominee for Republican Party [2012]1973 - Steve Passmore
hockey: Edmonton Oilers, Chicago Blackhawks, LA Kings1973 - Jason Schmidt
baseball [pitcher]: Atlanta Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates, San Francisco Giants1975 - Sara Gilbert (Sara Rebecca Abeles)
actress: Roseanne; sister of actress Melissa Gilbert and actor Jonathan Gilbert1975 - Kelly Packard
actress: Auto Focus, Baywatch: White Thunder at Glacier Bay, Get Your Stuff, Little Bigfoot, And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird1977 - Justin Hartley
actor: Smallville, Red Canyon, Spring Breakdown, A Way with Murder, Scorpio Men on Prozac, The Challenger, Emily Owens, M.D., Revenge1977 - Sam Jaeger
actor: Parenthood, Friday Night Lights, Advantage Hart, Take Me Home1979 - Andrew Keegan
actor: 10 Things I Hate About You, Independence Day, Camp Nowhere, Thunder Alley, 7th Heaven, Party of Five1980 - Katie Lohmann
Playboy magazine Playmate, actress: Room 6, Headache, National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze, The Hot Chick, The Model Solution, Bubble Boy, Tomcats1985 - Marc Gasol
basketball [center]: NBA: Memphis Grizzies [2008–2019]; Toronto Raptors [2019-2020]; Los Angeles Lakers [2020-2021]1985 - Isabel Lucas
actress: MacGyver, Home and Away, Immortals, The Pacific, Daybreakers, The Loft, Give Me Love, Careful What You Wish For, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
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Hit Music on This Day January 29
1950Dear Hearts and Gentle People (facts) - Dinah Shore
The Old Master Painter (facts) - Richard Hayes
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