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On this day: January 29

POSTED: 09:33 PM PST Jan 27, 2013 UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Jan 28, 2013

"The Raven" is first published, baseball and football induct their first hall of fame classes, the Gulf War fighting takes to the ground, and President George W. Bush coins the phrase "Axis of Evil," all on this day.

OTD January 29 - Robert Frost — 22 / 39

Library of Congress

1963: Robert Frost, one of the most popular and critically respected American poets of his generation, dies of complications from prostate surgery at the age of 88 in Boston, Mass. Frost won four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry during his life.

OTD January 29 - Thomas Paine

OTD January 29 - King George III

OTD January 29 - William McKinley

OTD January 29 - The Raven

OTD January 29 - Anton Chekhov

OTD January 29 - Kansas

OTD January 29 - WC Fields

OTD January 29 - Benz Patent-Motorwagen

OTD January 29 - Charles Curtis

OTD January 29 - Victor Mature

OTD January 29 - John Forsythe

OTD January 29 - Baseball Hall of Fame

OTD January 29 - Katharine Ross

OTD January 29 - Tom Selleck

OTD January 29 - Oprah Winfrey

OTD January 29 - HL Mencken

OTD January 29 - Newman-Woodward

OTD January 29 - Charles Starkweather

OTD January 29 - Sleeping Beauty

OTD January 29 - Greg Louganis

OTD January 29 - Pro Football Hall of Fame

OTD January 29 - Robert Frost

OTD January 29 - Alan Ladd

OTD January 29 - Dr Strangelove

OTD January 29 - Edward Burns

OTD January 29 - Heather Graham

OTD January 29 - Paul Ryan

OTD January 29 - Sara Gilbert

OTD January 29 - Freddie Prinze

OTD January 29 - Brenda Spencer

OTD January 29 - Jimmy Durante

OTD January 29 - Adam Lambert

OTD January 29 - Gulf War

OTD January 29 - Super Bowl XXIX

OTD January 29 - Eric Rudolph

OTD January 29 - Axis of Evil

OTD January 29 - Dick 'Night Train' Lane

OTD January 29 - Barbaro

OTD January 29 - Margaret Truman

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