Daily Calendar for Thursday, January 29, 2026

Robert Frost (poet) – 1963
Jimmy Durante (actor) – 1980
Dick "Night Train" Lane (football player ) – 2002
Harold Russell (received two Oscars for portrayal of wounded veteran in The Best Years of Our Lives, after losing both his hands in WW II) – 2002
Joshua Miner (Outward Bound USA founder) – 2002
Mary-Ellis Bunim (producer who helped bring television into the age of reality with The Real World and Road Rules) – 2004
Larry L. McGraw (founder of Home Orchard Society) – 2005
Rod McKuen (poet) – 2015

Geologist William Edmond Logan became first Canadian-born knight – 1856
Kansas was admitted to the Union as the 34th state – 1861
Charles Steinmetz patented a system of distribution by alternating current. – 1895
U.S. physician Emil H. Grube became the first to use X-ray treatment for breast cancer – 1896
American Baseball League formed in Chicago – 1900
Carl Taylor’s ice cream cone-rolling machine patented – 1924
The Baseball Hall of Fame elected its first members – 1936
Actor Paul Newman married actress Joanne Woodward – 1958
Emily H. Warner became the first female pilot of a U.S. commercial airline – 1973
21-pound 8-ounce bowfin caught in Forest Lake, South Carolina – 1980
Julio Cesar Chavez suffered the first defeat of his pro boxing career, losing his WBC super lightweight crown on a split decision to 32 year-old Frankie Randall in Las Vegas – 1994

The “Great Olympic Blowdown” windstorm struck the Washington coast, with winds up to 113 mph. Eight billion board feet of timber was destroyed in North Head, Washington. – 1921
62 degrees in Nampa, Idaho – 1954
Fields full of snow rollers were sighted in Weld County, Colorado. – 2001
January 26 to 29: An atmospheric river caused a major West Coast storm – 2021

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