JAN 29

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QUOTE

Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.

--C. S. Lewis

BIRTHDAYS

1860 Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer
1940 Katharine Ross, American actress and author

IN MEMORY

1964 – Alan Ladd, American actor (b. 1913)

IN ON THIS DAY

1258 – First Mongol invasion of Đại Việt: Đại Việt defeats the Mongols at the battle of Đông Bộ Đầu, forcing the Mongols to withdraw from the country.

1907 – Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.[

1980 – The Rubik’s Cube makes its international debut at the Ideal Toy Corp. In Earl’s Court, London.

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