
KEY HISTORICAL EVENTS ON JANUARY 29th:
1780: Hickey’s Bengal Gazette, the first Indian newspaper, began publication in Calcutta, marking {Link: Indian Newspaper Day.}
1845: Edgar Allan Poe’s famous poem, “The Raven,” was first published in *The Evening Mirror*.
1886: Karl Benz received the patent for his gasoline-powered automobile, considered the birth of the modern car.
1861: Kansas was admitted as the 34th state of the United States.
1929: The first school for training guide dogs for the visually impaired, The Seeing Eye, opened in Tennessee.
1998: A bomb exploded at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama.
Famous Birthdays:
Anton Chekhov (1860) – Russian playwright.
Oprah Winfrey (1954) – Media mogul and philanthropist.
Greg Louganis (1960) – Olympic diver.

