Today in History - January 29
Events with Connections to Union Square and Southwest Baltimore (Sowebo)
1845
On Jan. 29, 1845, Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” was first published in the New York Evening Mirror.
1936
In 1936, the first inductees of baseball’s Hall of Fame, including Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, were named in Cooperstown, New York.
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| Babe Ruth - Baltimore Orioles (1914) |
1956
In 1956, editor-essayist H. L. Mencken, the “Sage of Baltimore,” died at age 75.
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| H. L. Mencken at home on Hollins Street with Union Square in the window |
Thought for Today:
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
— Robert Frost, American poet (born 1874, died this date in 1963).
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