Today is Friday, Jan. 29, the 29th day of 2016. There are 337 days left in the year.

Today’s Birthdays: Composer-lyricist Leslie Bricusse is 85. Feminist author Germaine Greer is 77. Actress Katharine Ross is 76. Actor Tom Selleck is 71. Actress Ann Jillian is 66. Talk show host Oprah Winfrey is 62. Olympic gold-medal diver Greg Louganis is 56. Actor-director Edward Burns is 48. House Speaker Paul Ryan, Republican of Wisconsin, is 46. Blues musician Jonny Lang is 35.

In 1919, the ratification of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which launched Prohibition, was certified.

In 1936, the first inductees of baseball’s Hall of Fame, including Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, were named in Cooperstown, N.Y.

In 1964, Stanley Kubrick’s satire ‘‘Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’’ premiered.

In 1975, a bomb exploded inside the US State Department in Washington, causing considerable damage, but injuring no one; the Weather Underground claimed responsibility.

In 1990, former Exxon Valdez skipper Joseph Hazelwood went on trial in Alaska, on charges stemming from the 1989 oil spill. (Hazelwood was acquitted of the major charges.)

In 1998, a bomb rocked an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., killing security guard Robert Sanderson and critically injuring a nurse. (The bomber, Eric Rudolph, was captured in 2003 and is serving a life sentence.)

Last year, a Superior Court judge rejected a deal that would have allowed Partners HealthCare in Boston to acquire three community hospitals, including South Shore Hospital.