January 29, 1973 (Monday)
- The Troubles: The Ulster Defence Association shoots dead a Catholic civilian at his workplace, a petrol station on Kennedy Way, Belfast. On the same day the UDA kills a 15-year-old Catholic civilian in a drive-by shooting at Falls Road/Donegall Road junction, Belfast, and the Provisional IRA shoots dead UDA member Francis 'Hatchet' Smith in west Belfast; Smith was rumoured to have led the group that shot the teenager.
- The Miss Dominican Republic 1973 contest is won by Liliana Maritza Fernández González.
- Born: Jason Schmidt, American baseball pitcher, in Lewiston, Idaho
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Famous quotes containing the word january:
“and you undid the reins
and I undid the buttons,
the bones, the confusions,
The New England postcards,
the January ten o’clock night,
and we rose up like wheat....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)