Today in HistoryToday is Monday, January 29, the 29th day of 2007. There are 336 days left in the year.

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In 1820, Britain’s King George III died at Windsor Castle, ending a reign that had seen both the American and French revolutions.

In 1845, Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” was first published, in the New York Evening Mirror.

In 1850, Henry Clay introduced in the US Senate compromise proposals on slavery.

In 1861, Kansas became the 34th state of the Union.

In 1979, President Carter formally welcomed Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping to the White House, following the establishment of diplomatic relations.

In 2002, Afghanistan’s old national flag was hoisted over Kabul for the first time since a 1978 communist takeover that marked the beginning of 23 years of invasion and bloodshed.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” — Robert Frost, American poet (1874-1963).