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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (47704)1/29/2005 4:30:07 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 50167
 
Today in history-January 29:

1845 - The Raven, a popular poem by Edgar Allan Poe, was first published in the New York Evening Mirror.

1856 - The Victoria Cross was first awarded, recognizing acts of valour during the Crimean War.

1886 - Carl Benz received a patent for the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.

1959 - The Disney animated film Sleeping Beauty was first released.

2002 - In his State of the Union Address, U.S. President George W. Bush described Iraq, Iran and North Korea as "regimes that sponsor terror", forming an "Axis of Evil".