Tuesday, January 29, 2013

TODAY IN HISTORY

JANUARY 29


1845:Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven was published.

1850:Henry Clay introduced the Compromise of 1850 to the Senate.

1861:Kansas became the 34th state in the United States.

1886:Karl Benz received a patent for the first successful gasoline-driven car.

1936:Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson, and Walter Johnson were the first players elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.

1963:Poet Robert Frost died in Boston.




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