“States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world.”

1998A bomb rocks at a abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama. The blast kills an off-duty policeman working as a security guard and critically injures a nurse. Years later, the bomber, Eric Rudolph, an anti-government extremist is caught. He pleads guilty to that bombing and others in the south including the Atlanta Olympic Park blast. Rudolph gets life behind bars.

1845Edgar Allan Poe's chilling poem “The Raven” is first published in the New York Evening Mirror Newspaper.

1936Ty Cobb and another baseball legend Babe Ruth are named the first members of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.

And 1954Talk show host and entrepreneur Oprah Winfrey is born in Mississippi.

Today in History, January 29th, Ross Simpson, the Associated Press.