On January 29, 1936, the U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame elected
its first members in Cooperstown, New York: Ty Cobb, Babe
Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Matthewson and Walter Johnson.

The Hall of Fame actually had its beginnings in 1935, when
plans were made to build a museum devoted to baseball
and its 100-year history.

To help sell the idea, the foundation advanced the idea that
U.S. Civil War hero Abner Doubleday invented baseball in
Cooperstown.

The story proved to be phony, but baseball officials, eager
to capitalize on the marketing and publicity potential of a
museum to honor the game’s greats, gave their support to
the project anyway.

         
SANDY KOZEL

President Ronald Reagan

‘’The crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger honored us by the
manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget
them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they
prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and "slipped
the surly bonds of earth" to "touch the face of God."

On January 27, 1965, the Shelby GT 350, a version of a Ford
Mustang sports car developed by the American auto racer
and car designer Carroll Shelby,was launched.

Carroll Hall Shelby
(1923 – 2012)

             
MIKE GRACIA

Janet Graham Travell (December 17, 1901 – August 1, 1997)

On January 26, 1961, just about a week after his inauguration,
President John F. Kennedy appointed Janet Travell, 59, as
his personal physician, making her the first woman in history
to hold the post.