Man’s best friend

Given that it is Thursday, it is only appropriate that we throw out a #tbt. While your Instagram feed will be full of baby pictures and vacation pictures with captions like, “cutest baby #fatrolls” and ” take me back #summer2014,” Bwog would like to fill your feed with some historic moments in history that took place on January 29th.

• 1845-Edger Allen Poe’s “Raven” is published for the first time
• 1861-Kansas becomes a free state under the Wyandotte Constitution
• 1886-Karl Benz patented the first successful gasoline-run car
• 1929-The seeing eye dog organization is formed in the United States
• First baseball players elected to the Hall of Fame: Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson, Ty Cobb, and Walter Johnson
• 1959-Walt Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty” was released
• 1988-United Airlines flight flies around the world in 36 hours, 54 minutes, and 15 seconds
• 1996-The play “Cats” is officially performed 6,138, and becomes the longest running Broadway musical
• 1995-The 49ers win the Superbowl for the fifth time
• 2011-Taco Bell begins a campaign defending their questionable beef after being sued for selling beef that was actually only 35% beef
• 2014- Scientists figured out how to produce stem cells from normal cells in mice
• 2015- We will see

Canine eyes via Shutterstock

Sources: Historyorb.com, Thepeoplehistory.com