January 29<\/p>\n
1845 \u2013 “The Raven” is published in The Evening Mirror in New York, the first story published by Edgar Allan Poe.<\/p>\n
1850 \u2013Senators Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas, with the support of President Millard Fillmore, introduce the Compromise of 1850, a set of 5 laws, which reorganizes the areas of different territories, the states of California and Texas and fugitive slaves in free states.<\/p>\n
1856 \u2013 Queen Victoria issues a Warrant that establishes the Victoria Cross to recognize acts of valor by British military personnel during the Crimean War.<\/p>\n
1861 \u2013 Kansas is admitted as the 34th state.<\/p>\n
1886 \u2013 Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline powered automobile.<\/p>\n
1891 \u2013 Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen Regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii, the last monarch of the kingdom before being overthrown less than 2 years later.<\/p>\n
1907 \u2013 Charles Curtis of Kansas, a member of the Kaw tribe, becomes the first American Indian U.S. Senator and later becomes the 31st vice president of the United States under Herbert Hoover.<\/p>\n
1936 \u2013 The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.<\/p>\n
1963 \u2013 The first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.<\/p>\n
1991 \u2013 3 Iraqi Army divisions invading from occupied Kuwait, attack and temporarily occupy the Saudi Arabian city of Kafji, until engaged and repelled by U.S. and coalition forces.<\/p>\n
2002 \u2013 In his State of the Union address, President Bush describes regimes that sponsor terror as an ‘Axis of Evil’, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.<\/p>\n
2009 \u2013 Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is removed from office following his conviction on several corruption charges<\/p>\n
2020 \u2013 The administration of President Trump establishes the White House Coronavirus Task Force under Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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