{"id":25076,"date":"2016-01-29T08:55:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T14:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=25076"},"modified":"2016-01-29T08:17:32","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T14:17:32","slug":"today-in-history-148","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=25076","title":{"rendered":"Today In History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
Today in History: Friday, January\u00a0 29, 2016<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\nOn Jan. 29, 2002, in his first State of the Union address, President George W. Bush warned of “an axis of evil” consisting of North Korea, Iran and Iraq.
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1820<\/td>\nBritain’s King George III died insane at Windsor Castle.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1843<\/td>\nWilliam McKinley, the 25th president of the United States, was born in Niles, Ohio.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1845<\/td>\nEdgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” was first published, in the New York Evening Mirror.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1850<\/td>\nHenry Clay introduced in the Senate a compromise bill on slavery that included the admission of California into the Union as a free state.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1860<\/td>\nRussian author and playwright Anton Chekhov was born in the port city of Taganrog.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1861<\/td>\nKansas became the 34th state of the Union.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1900<\/td>\nThe American League, consisting of eight baseball teams, was organized in Philadelphia.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1936<\/td>\nThe first five members of baseball’s Hall of Fame, including Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, were named in Cooperstown, N.Y.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1958<\/td>\nActors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward were married.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1963<\/td>\nPoet Robert Frost died at age 88.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1979<\/td>\nPresident Jimmy Carter welcomed Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping to the White House following the establishment of diplomatic relations.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1995<\/td>\nThe San Francisco 49ers became the first team to win five Super Bowl titles when they beat the San Diego Chargers 49-26 in Super Bowl XXIX.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1998<\/td>\nA bomb exploded at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., killing an off-duty policeman and severely wounding a nurse. (The bomber, Eric Rudolph, was captured in May 2003 and is serving a life sentence.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2009<\/td>\nThe Illinois Senate voted to remove Gov. Rod Blagojevich from office.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Today’s Birthdays:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., turns 46 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Katharine Ross<\/td>\nActress<\/td>\n76<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tom Selleck<\/td>\nActor (“Magnum P.I.”)<\/td>\n71<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ann Jillian<\/td>\nActress<\/td>\n66<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oprah Winfrey<\/td>\nTalk show host<\/td>\n62<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Irlene Mandrell<\/td>\nCountry singer<\/td>\n60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Judy Norton Taylor<\/td>\nActress (“The Waltons”)<\/td>\n58<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Greg Louganis<\/td>\nOlympic gold-medal diver<\/td>\n56<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nicholas Turturro<\/td>\nActor (“NYPD Blue”)<\/td>\n54<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Edward Burns<\/td>\nActor, director<\/td>\n48<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Heather Graham<\/td>\nActress<\/td>\n46<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jonny Lang<\/td>\nBlues musician<\/td>\n35<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Adam Lambert<\/td>\nSinger (“American Idol”)<\/td>\n34<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Actress Sara Gilbert (“Roseanne,” “The Big Bang Theory”) turns 41 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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