Today in History
What happened on the 29th of January in history?
Change Date:
- 1788
Australia Day
- 1861
Kansas becomes 34th state
- 1900
American (baseball) League formed with 8 teams
- 1904
1st athletic letters given: to Univ of Chicago football team
- 1919
Prohibition goes into effect (18th amendment)
- 1920
Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist $40 week with KC Slide Co
- 1922
Union of Costa Rica Guatemala Honduras & El Salvador dissolved
- 1936
1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
- 1955
William Cox buys Yankee Stadium
- 1958
Charles Starkweather captured by police in Wyoming
- 1959
Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" is released
- 1984
41-B (STS-11) Challenger launched
- 1986
193.8 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange