January 29th in History
January 29th
1834 President Jackson orders first use of US troops to suppress a labor dispute
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1848 - Greenwich Mean Time was adopted by Scotland.
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1856Queen Victoria instituted Britain’s highest military decoration, the Victoria Cross (VC). The medal is awarded to British and Commonwealth armed forces for outstanding bravery ‘on the field of battle’. The medal was originally made from the metal of cannon captured from the Russians at Sevastopol, until the supply came to an end in 1942.
Sebastopol - near me- was named after Sevastopol because someone local fought in Crimea.
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January 29, 1891 - Hawaii proclaimed Liliuokalani as its queen. Renowned for her song Aloha Oe, she had a reign of only four years until she was forced to abdicate in 1895 under pressure from powerful businessmen.
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1918 Ukrainian–Soviet War: The Bolshevik Red Army, on its way to besiege Kyiv , is met by a small group of military students at the Battle of Kruty.
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1942The first broadcast of Desert Island Discs on BBC radio, devised and presented by Roy Plomley. It is the longest-running factual programme in the history of radio.
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1996: La Fenice, Venice's opera house, is destroyed by fire. As it's name – which translates to "The Phoenix" – suggests, it is not the first time it has been destroyed by fire. It had risen from the ashes after two previous fires, one in 1774 and the other in 1836.
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1964: The Beatles spend a day at EMI's Paris studios recording German language versions of their recent songs "She Loves You" and "I Want to Hold Your Hand". Although a translator was on-hand to coach the band, their time in Hamburg helped record what would become "Sie Liebt Dich" and "Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand'.
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and today is..
Today is the feast day of Saint Gildas.
Born c.500, Gildas was a cleric, historian and writer, the earliest British writer whose work is still available. He wrote the De Excidio et Conquestu Britannie (the Ruin and conquest of Britain), about the post-Roman history of Britain.
1834 President Jackson orders first use of US troops to suppress a labor dispute
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1848 - Greenwich Mean Time was adopted by Scotland.
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1856Queen Victoria instituted Britain’s highest military decoration, the Victoria Cross (VC). The medal is awarded to British and Commonwealth armed forces for outstanding bravery ‘on the field of battle’. The medal was originally made from the metal of cannon captured from the Russians at Sevastopol, until the supply came to an end in 1942.
Sebastopol - near me- was named after Sevastopol because someone local fought in Crimea.
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January 29, 1891 - Hawaii proclaimed Liliuokalani as its queen. Renowned for her song Aloha Oe, she had a reign of only four years until she was forced to abdicate in 1895 under pressure from powerful businessmen.
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1918 Ukrainian–Soviet War: The Bolshevik Red Army, on its way to besiege Kyiv , is met by a small group of military students at the Battle of Kruty.
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1942The first broadcast of Desert Island Discs on BBC radio, devised and presented by Roy Plomley. It is the longest-running factual programme in the history of radio.
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1996: La Fenice, Venice's opera house, is destroyed by fire. As it's name – which translates to "The Phoenix" – suggests, it is not the first time it has been destroyed by fire. It had risen from the ashes after two previous fires, one in 1774 and the other in 1836.
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1964: The Beatles spend a day at EMI's Paris studios recording German language versions of their recent songs "She Loves You" and "I Want to Hold Your Hand". Although a translator was on-hand to coach the band, their time in Hamburg helped record what would become "Sie Liebt Dich" and "Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand'.
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and today is..
Today is the feast day of Saint Gildas.
Born c.500, Gildas was a cleric, historian and writer, the earliest British writer whose work is still available. He wrote the De Excidio et Conquestu Britannie (the Ruin and conquest of Britain), about the post-Roman history of Britain.
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