01-29-2006, 06:43 AM
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January 29th
1845 ~ The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe was published for the first time.
1856 ~ Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross.
1880 ~ Birthday of W.C. Fields, Actor.
1933 ~ President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany.
1944 ~ The battleship USS Missouri was launched.
1956 ~ Death of H. L. Mencken, Journalist.
1962 ~ Death of Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist.
1963 ~ Death of Robert Frost, Poet.
1996 ~ President Jacques Chirac announced a "definitive end" to French nuclear testing.
2002 ~ In his State of the Union Address, President Bush coined the term Axis of Evil.
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