TODAY IN HISTORY

Sunday, January  29, 2012 AP Highlight in History:  On Jan. 29, 2002, in his first State of the Union address, President George W. Bush warned of "an axis of evil" consisting of North Korea, Iran and Iraq.   AP Photo/Doug Mills
On this date in: 1820 Britain's King George III died insane at Windsor Castle. 1843 William McKinley, the 25th president of the United States, was born in Niles, Ohio. 1845 Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" was first published, in the New York Evening Mirror. 1850 Henry Clay introduced in the Senate a compromise bill on slavery that included the admission of California into the Union as a free state. 1860 Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov was born in the port city of Taganrog. 1861 Kansas became the 34th state of the Union. 1900 The American League, consisting of eight baseball teams, was organized in Philadelphia. 1936 The first five members of baseball's Hall of Fame, including Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, were named in Cooperstown, N.Y. 1958 Actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward were married. AP Photo 1963 Poet Robert Frost died at age 88. 1979 President Jimmy Carter welcomed Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping to the White House following the establishment of diplomatic relations. 1995 The San Francisco 49ers became the first team to win five Super Bowl titles when they beat the San Diego Chargers 49-26 in Super Bowl XXIX. 1998 A bomb exploded at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., killing an off-duty policeman and severely wounding a nurse. (The bomber, Eric Rudolph, was captured in May 2003 and is serving a life sentence.) 2006 ABC "World News Tonight" co-anchor Bob Woodruff and a cameraman were seriously injured in a roadside bombing in Iraq. 2009 The Illinois Senate voted to remove Gov. Rod Blagojevich from office. 2010 Abortion opponent Scott Roeder was convicted of murder by a jury in Wichita, Kan., in the shooting death of Dr. George Tiller, one of the only doctors to offer late-term abortions in the U.S. 2011 With protests raging, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak named his intelligence chief, Omar Suleiman, as his first-ever vice president as chaos engulfed Cairo.		Video Highlights of This Day in History Today's Birthdays: Talk show host Oprah Winfrey turns 58 years old today. AP Photo/Mary Altaffer Name Profession Age Katharine Ross Actress 72 Tom Selleck Actor ("Magnum P.I.") 67 Ann Jillian Actress 62 Irlene Mandrell Country singer 56 Judy Norton Taylor Actress ("The Waltons") 54 Greg Louganis Olympic gold-medal diver 52 Nicholas Turturro Actor ("NYPD Blue") 50 Dominik Hasek Hockey player 47 Edward Burns Actor, director 44 Heather Graham Actress 42 Sara Gilbert Actress ("Roseanne," "The Big Bang Theory") 37 Jonny Lang Blues musician 31 House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., turns 42 years old today. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite