01-29-2007, 05:02 AM
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January 29th
1845 ~ Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" was first published, in the New York Evening Mirror.
1856 ~ Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross.
1880 ~ Birthday of W.C. Fields, Actor.
1933 ~ Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg.
1936 ~ The first members of baseball's Hall of Fame, including Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, were named in Cooperstown, N.Y.
1944 ~ The USS Missouri, a 45,000 ton Iowa class battleship was launched.
1956 ~ Death of H. L. Mencken, Journalist.
1962 ~ Death of Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist.
1963 ~ Death of Robert Frost, Poet.
2002 ~ In his State of the Union Address, President Bush coined the term "Axis of Evil".
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