On January 29:

• 1802:  John Beckley became the first Librarian of the U.S. Congress. He was paid $2 a day.
• 1845:  ”The Raven”, by Edgar Allan Poe, was published for the first time in the “New York Evening Mirror”.
• 1936:  Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson were the first players to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
• 2010: Protesters are calling for Tony Blair to face war crimes charges as the former prime minister gave evidence to the Iraq inquiry in London, England. 

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