Today is Tuesday, Jan. 29, the 29th day of 2013. There are 336 days left in the year.
On Jan. 29, 1963, poet Robert Frost died in Boston at age 88.
On this date:
In 1820, Britain's King George III died at Windsor Castle.
In 1861, Kansas became the 34th state.
In 1863, the Bear River Massacre took place as the U.S. Army attacked Shoshone in present-day Idaho.
In 1919, the ratification of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which launched Prohibition, was certified by Acting Secretary of State Frank L. Polk.
In 1929, The Seeing Eye, a New Jersey-based school that trains guide dogs to assist the blind, was incorporated by Dorothy Harrison Eustis and Morris Frank.
In 1979, President Jimmy Carter formally welcomed Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping to the White House, following the establishment of diplomatic relations.
In 1998, a bomb rocked an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., killing security guard Robert Sanderson and critically injuring nurse Emily Lyons. (The bomber, Eric Rudolph, was captured in May 2003 and is serving a life sentence.)