What Happened on January 29th

Many events happen in our everyday life. Some of those turn out to be significant whereas some are not. We want to remind our readers of those events that came to be historical as time reels.

Events

1845 – "The Raven"

On this day, Poe’s world-famous narrative poem ‘The Raven’ was published in The Evening Mirror in New York, the first publication with the name of the author- Edgar Allan Poe.

Births

Anton Chekhov — a Russian playwright and short-story writer — was born on this day in 1860. He is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history.

Romain Rolland — a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic — was born on this day in 1866. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings".

Abdus Salam — a Pakistani theoretical physicist — was born on this day in 1926. He was the first Pakistani to receive a Nobel Prize in science- for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory.

Germaine Greer — an Australian writer and public intellectual — was born on this day in 1939. She is regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminist movement in the latter half of the 20th century.

Deaths

On this day in 1837, Alexander Pushkin — a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist — died. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature.

On this day in 1888, Edward Lear — an English artist, illustrator, musician, author, and poet — died. He is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularized.

On this day in 1963, Robert Frost — an American poet — died. The four-time-Pulitzer-winning poet is known for his realistic depictions of rural life and mesmerizing poetry.