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Today ( January  29 )
Birth Days

1843 - William McKinley, 25th President from (1897 - 1901).

1850 - Lawrence Hargrave, invented the box kite.

1860 - Anton Chekhov, writer (The Cherry Orchard.)

1880 - Claude William Dukenfield (better known as W.C. Fields.)

1901 - Allen B DuMont, perfected first commercially practical cathode ray tube.

1945 - Tom Selleck, actor, P.I.

1953 - Oprah Winfrey, talk show hostess.

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Events

1845 - Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" first published in New York.

1861 - Kansas becomes a state.

1904 - First athletic letters given: to Univ of Chicago football team.

1978 - Sweden becomes the first nation to curb use of aerosol cans.

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  I think they quite like me when I work because I'm one of the safer directors to back, because even if my films don't bring their costs in back home, once they're shown outside of India they manage to cover the costs.
- Satyajit Ray

When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
- Woody Allen

Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
- Jawaharlal Nehru

The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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