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What happend on 29. January in History
In our data base we found 327 events happened on 29. January:
• 904: Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher. [category: Events]
• 1119: Pope Gelasius II [category: Deaths]
• 1240: Pelagio Galvani, Cardinal-Bishop of Albano (b. c. 1165) [category: Deaths]
• 1342: Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1279) [category: Deaths]
• 1584: Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (d. 1647) [category: Births]
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• 1597: Elias Ammerbach, German organist (b. 1530) [category: Deaths]
• 1608: Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1557) [category: Deaths]
• 1632: Johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic (d. 1703) [category: Births]
• 1647: Francis Meres, English writer (b. 1565) [category: Deaths]
• 1676: Tsar Alexis I of Russia (b. 1629) [category: Deaths]
• 1676: Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia. [category: Events]
• 1678: Jeronimo Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit missionary (b. 1593) [category: Deaths]
• 1688: Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish scientist and philosopher (d. 1772) [category: Births]
• 1696: Tsar Ivan V of Russia, Russian tsar (b. 1666) [category: Deaths]
• 1703: Carlmann Kolb, German priest, organist, and composer (d. 1765) [category: Births]
• 1706: Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier (b. 1638) [category: Deaths]
• 1711: Giuseppe Bonno, Austrian composer (d. 1788) [category: Births]
• 1715: Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian composer (d. 1777) [category: Births]
• 1717: Jeffrey Amherst, British military leader (d. 1797) [category: Births]
• 1718: Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (d. 1794) [category: Births]
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• 1737: Thomas Paine, English-born American patriot (d. 1809) [category: Births]
• 1737: George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier (b. 1666) [category: Deaths]
• 1743: André-Hercule de Fleury, French statesman (b. 1653) [category: Deaths]
• 1749: King Christian VII of Denmark (d. 1808) [category: Births]
• 1754: Moses Cleaveland, founder of Cleveland (d. 1806) [category: Births]
• 1756: Henry Lee III, American General (d. 1818) [category: Births]
• 1761: Albert Gallatin, Swiss-American politician, 4th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1849) [category: Births]
• 1763: Louis Racine, French poet (b. 1692) [category: Deaths]
• 1782: Daniel Auber, French composer (d. 1871) [category: Births]
• 1801: Horatia Nelson, daughter of Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson (d. 1881) [category: Births]
• 1801: Johannes Bernardus van Bree, Dutch composer, violinist and conductor (d. 1857) [category: Births]
• 1810: Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (d. 1893) [category: Births]
• 1814: France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne. [category: Events]
• 1819: Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore. [category: Events]
• 1820: King George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738) [category: Deaths]
• 1829: István Pauli (Pável) Hungarian Slovene priest and writer (b. 1760) [category: Deaths]
• 1829: Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras, French politician (b. 1755) [category: Deaths]
• 1834: US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute. [category: Events]
• 1843: William McKinley, American politician, 25th President of the United States (d. 1901) [category: Births]
• 1845: The Raven is published in the New York Evening Mirror, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe [category: Events]
• 1846: Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (d. 1915) [category: Births]
• 1847: Athanasios Christopoulos, Greek poet (b. 1772) [category: Deaths]
• 1850: Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress. [category: Events]
• 1856: Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross. [category: Events]
• 1860: Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (d. 1904) [category: Births]
• 1861: Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state. [category: Events]
• 1862: Frederick Delius, English composer (d. 1934) [category: Births]
• 1863: Bear River Massacre. [category: Events]
• 1866: Julio Peris Brell, Spanish painter (d. 1944) [category: Births]
• 1866: Romain Rolland, French writer, Nobel Laureate (d. 1944) [category: Births]
• 1867: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Spanish writer (d. 1928) [category: Births]
• 1869: Wilhelm Carstens, German rower (death date unknown) [category: Births]
• 1870: Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1797) [category: Deaths]
• 1871: Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer (b. 1786) [category: Deaths]
• 1874: John D. Rockefeller Jr., American entrepreneur (d. 1960) [category: Births]
• 1876: Havergal Brian, British composer (d. 1972) [category: Births]
• 1877: Georges Catroux, French general (d. 1969) [category: Births]
• 1880: W. C. Fields, American actor (d. 1946) [category: Births]
• 1884: Douglass Cadwallader, American golfer (d. 1971) [category: Births]
• 1886: Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile. [category: Events]
• 1888: Sydney Chapman, British mathematician and geophysicist (d. 1970) [category: Births]
• 1888: Edward Lear, English artist, illustrator, author, and poet (b. 1812) [category: Deaths]
• 1891: Elizaveta Gerdt, Russian ballerina (d. 1975) [category: Births]
• 1891: R. Norris Williams, American survivor of the RMS Titanic sinking (d. 1968) [category: Births]
• 1891: Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, its last monarch. [category: Events]
• 1895: Muna Lee, American poet (d. 1965) [category: Births]
• 1899: Alfred Sisley, British impressionist painter (b. 1839) [category: Deaths]
• 1900: The American League is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with 8 founding teams. [category: Events]
• 1901: Allen B. DuMont, American scientist and inventor (d. 1965) [category: Births]
• 1901: King Milan I of Serbia (b. 1855) [category: Deaths]
• 1905: Barnett Newman, American painter (d. 1970) [category: Births]
• 1906: King Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818) [category: Deaths]
• 1907: Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator. [category: Events]
• 1910: Colin Middleton, Irish artist (d. 1983) [category: Births]
• 1911: Peter von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1913: Daniel Taradash, American screenwriter (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1913: Peter von Zahn, German journalist and writer (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1913: Victor Mature, American actor (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1915: Bill Peet, American children's book illustrator (d.2002) [category: Births]
• 1915: John Serry, Sr., American musician and arranger (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1916: World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins. [category: Events]
• 1918: John Forsythe, American actor (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1918: Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin, Russian-counter revolutionary (b. 1861) [category: Deaths]
• 1918: Ukrainian-Soviet War: An armed uprising organized by the Bolsheviks in anticipation of the encroaching Red Army begins at the Kiev Arsenal, which will be put down six days later. [category: Events]
• 1918: Ukrainian-Soviet War: The Bolshevik Red Army, on its way to besiege Kiev, is met by a small group of military students at the Battle of Kruty. [category: Events]
• 1920: José Luis de Vilallonga, Spanish aristocrat (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1921: Anthony George, American actor (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1922: Gerda Steinhoff, Nazi concentration camp supervisor (d. 1946) [category: Births]
• 1923: Ivo Robić, Croatian singer and songwriter (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1923: Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (d. 1981) [category: Births]
• 1924: Luigi Nono, Italian composer (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1924: Marcelle Ferron, French-Canadian painter and stained glass artist (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1924: Peter Voulkos, American artist (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1925: Harold C. Agerholm, American Marine (d. 1944) [category: Births]
• 1925: Raúl Corrales, Cuban photographer (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1925: Robert W. McCollum, American virologist, (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1925: Tofik Bahramov, Azerbaijani footballer (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1926: Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1926: Franco Cerri, Italian musician [category: Births]
• 1927: Edward Abbey, American author and environmentalist (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1928: Lee Shau Kee, Hong Kong property developer [category: Births]
• 1928: Douglas Haig, British soldier (b. 1861) [category: Deaths]
• 1929: George Ross Anderson, Jr., American federal judge United States District Court for the District of South Carolina [category: Births]
• 1930: Derek Bailey, English guitarist (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1930: John Junkin, English radio, television and film performer (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1931: Ferenc Madl, President of Hungary (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1931: Jim Baumer, American baseball player (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1932: George Allen, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1932: Tommy Taylor, English footballer (d. 1958) [category: Births]
• 1933: Hugo Herrestrup, Danish actor [category: Births]
• 1933: Paul Sally, American mathematician [category: Births]
• 1933: Sacha Distel, French singer and guitarist (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1933: Sara Teasdale, American poet (b. 1884) [category: Deaths]
• 1934: Branko Miljković, Serbian poet (d. 1961) [category: Births]
• 1934: Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Laureate (b. 1868) [category: Deaths]
• 1935: Roger Payne, American biologist [category: Births]
• 1936: James Jamerson, American bass guitarist (The Funk Brothers) (d. 1983) [category: Births]
• 1936: Patrick Caulfield, English painter and printmaker (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1936: The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced. [category: Events]
• 1937: Bobby Scott, American musician, producer and songwriter (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1938: Shuji Tsurumi, Men's artistic gymnastics [category: Births]
• 1939: Germaine Greer, Australian writer [category: Births]
• 1940: Kunimitsu Takahashi, Japanese motorcycle racer and racing driver [category: Births]
• 1940: Three trains on the Sakurajima Line, in Osaka, Japan, collide and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi Station. 181 people are killed. [category: Events]
• 1941: Robin Morgan, American feminist and activist [category: Births]
• 1941: Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general and dictator (b. 1871) [category: Deaths]
• 1941: Alexandros Koryzis becomes Prime Minister of Greece upon the sudden death of his predecessor, dictator Ioannis Metaxas. [category: Events]
• 1942: Claudine Longet, French singer and dancer [category: Births]
• 1943: Désiré Letort, French cyclist (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1943: Tony Blackburn, English disc jockey [category: Births]
• 1943: The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, U.S. cruiser Chicago is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers. [category: Events]
• 1944: Andrew Loog Oldham, English rock and roll producer [category: Births]
• 1944: Katharine Ross, American actress [category: Births]
• 1944: Patrick Lipton Robinson, Jamaican judge [category: Births]
• 1944: Pauline van der Wildt, Dutch swimmer [category: Births]
• 1944: Yoweri Museveni, President of Uganda [category: Births]
• 1944: In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical Theatre of the Archiginnasio is destroyed in an air-raid. [category: Events]
• 1944: World War II: Approximately 38 men, women, and children die in the Koniuchy massacre in Poland. [category: Events]
• 1945: Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, Malian prime minister [category: Births]
• 1945: Jim Nicholson, Irish politician [category: Births]
• 1945: Tom Selleck, American actor, screenwriter and film producer [category: Births]
• 1946: Bettye Lavette, American soul singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1946: Harry Hopkins, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1890) [category: Deaths]
• 1947: David Byron, English singer (Uriah Heep and Spice) (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1947: Linda B. Buck, American scientist, Nobel laureate [category: Births]
• 1947: Marián Varga, Slovak musician [category: Births]
• 1948: Cristina Saralegui, American talk-show host [category: Births]
• 1948: Marc Singer, Canadian-born actor [category: Births]
• 1948: Pat Kenny, Irish TV presenter and radio host [category: Births]
• 1948: Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (b. 1900) [category: Deaths]
• 1949: Evgeny Lovchev, Russian footballer [category: Births]
• 1949: Tommi Salmelainen, Finnish hockey player [category: Births]
• 1950: Ann Jillian, American actress [category: Births]
• 1950: Jody Scheckter, South African race car driver [category: Births]
• 1950: Miklós Vámos, Hungarian writer, television host [category: Births]
• 1950: Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1885) [category: Deaths]
• 1951: Andy Roberts, West Indian cricketer [category: Births]
• 1951: Fereydoon Foroughi, Iranian singer,songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (d.2001) [category: Births]
• 1951: Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1952: Klaus-Peter Hanisch, German footballer (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1952: Rupert Hanley, South African cricketer [category: Births]
• 1952: Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-born musician and record producer (The Ramones) [category: Births]
• 1953: Caesar Cervin, American soccer player [category: Births]
• 1953: Charlie Wilson, American singer (The Gap Band) [category: Births]
• 1953: Dwight Takamine, Okinawan-American Hawaii state senator [category: Births]
• 1953: Hwang Woo-Suk, South Korean biomedical scientist [category: Births]
• 1953: Louie Pérez, American songwriter, percussionist and guitarist (Los Lobos and Latin Playboys) [category: Births]
• 1953: Lynne McGranger, Australian actress [category: Births]
• 1953: Paul Fusco, American puppeteer, voice-over artist and character actor [category: Births]
• 1953: Paulin Bordeleau, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1953: Peter Baumann, German musician (Tangerine Dream) [category: Births]
• 1953: Richard Younger-Ross, British politician [category: Births]
• 1953: Ronnie Moore, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1953: Steve March-Tormé, American musician [category: Births]
• 1953: Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1954: Doug Risebrough, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and executive [category: Births]
• 1954: Oprah Winfrey, American talk show host and actress [category: Births]
• 1954: Richard Manitoba, American singer (The Dictators and MC5) [category: Births]
• 1954: Terry Kinney, American actor [category: Births]
• 1955: Eddie Jordan, American basketball player and head coach [category: Births]
• 1955: Femi Pedro, Nigerian politician [category: Births]
• 1956: Irlene Mandrell, American musician, actress [category: Births]
• 1956: Jan Jakub Kolski, Polish film director [category: Births]
• 1956: H. L. Mencken, American journalist (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1957: Grazyna Miller, Italian poet, translator, and journalist [category: Births]
• 1958: Glen Cochrane, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1958: Linda Smith, British comedian (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1958: Stephen Lerner, American labor organizer [category: Births]
• 1959: Michael Sloane, American actor [category: Births]
• 1959: Mike Foligno, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1959: Winifred Brunton, British-born South African painter (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1960: Gia Carangi, American model (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1960: Greg Louganis, American diver [category: Births]
• 1960: J. G. Thirlwell, Australian-born musician (Wiseblood and The Immaculate Consumptive) [category: Births]
• 1960: Matthew Ashford, American actor [category: Births]
• 1960: Sean Kerly, English field hockey player [category: Births]
• 1960: Steve Sax, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1961: Mike Aldrete, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1961: Petra Thumer, German swimmer [category: Births]
• 1961: John F. O'Ryan, American major general (b. 1874) [category: Deaths]
• 1962: Nicholas Turturro, American actor [category: Births]
• 1962: Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist (b. 1875) [category: Deaths]
• 1963: Bob Holly, American professional wrestler [category: Births]
• 1963: Monica Horan, American actress [category: Births]
• 1963: Robert Frost, American poet (b. 1874) [category: Deaths]
• 1963: The first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced. [category: Events]
• 1964: Andre Reed, American football player [category: Births]
• 1964: Anna Ryder Richardson, British interior designer and television presenter [category: Births]
• 1964: Alan Ladd, American actor (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 1965: Dominik Hašek, Czech ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1965: Peter Lundgren, Swedish tennis coach [category: Births]
• 1966: Romário, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1966: Pierre Mercure, French Canadian composer (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 1967: Cyril Suk, Czech tennis player [category: Births]
• 1967: Stacey King, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1967: The "ultimate high" of the hippie era, the Mantra-Rock Dance, takes place in San Francisco and features Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, and Allen Ginsberg. [category: Events]
• 1968: Edward Burns, American actor [category: Births]
• 1968: Sora Jung, Korean actress [category: Births]
• 1968: Susi Erdmann, German bobsledder and luger [category: Births]
• 1969: Hyde, Japanese singer (L'Arc-en-Ciel and Vamps) [category: Births]
• 1969: Allen Dulles, American CIA director (b. 1893) [category: Deaths]
• 1970: Heather Graham, American actress [category: Births]
• 1970: Jörg Hoffmann, German swimmer [category: Births]
• 1970: Paul Ryan, American politician [category: Births]
• 1970: Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Indian shooter [category: Births]
• 1970: B. H. Liddell Hart, British historian (b. 1895) [category: Deaths]
• 1971: Clare Balding, British sports presenter [category: Births]
• 1972: Brian Wood, American writer and artist of graphic novels [category: Births]
• 1972: Matt Brandstein, American writer [category: Births]
• 1973: Jason Schmidt, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1974: Michael Andersen, Danish basketball player [category: Births]
• 1975: Sara Gilbert, American actress [category: Births]
• 1975: Orestis Makris, Greek actor (b. 1898) [category: Deaths]
• 1976: Charles Divins, American model and actor [category: Births]
• 1976: Chris Castle, American singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1976: Karsten Kroon, Dutch professional road bicycle racer [category: Births]
• 1977: Chaly Jones, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: Justin Hartley, American actor [category: Births]
• 1977: Buster Nupen, South African cricketer (b. 1902) [category: Deaths]
• 1977: Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (b. 1954) [category: Deaths]
• 1978: Martin Schmitt, German ski jumper [category: Births]
• 1978: Rob Bironas, American football player [category: Births]
• 1979: Andreas Thorstensson, Swedish website developer [category: Births]
• 1979: Andrew Keegan, American actor [category: Births]
• 1979: April Scott, American actress and model [category: Births]
• 1979: Joseph Todd, Arena Football League player [category: Births]
• 1979: Marvin Agustin, Filipino actor and entrepreneur [category: Births]
• 1979: Sui Feifei, Chinese basketball player [category: Births]
• 1979: Brenda Spencer kills two people and wounds eight at the Grover Cleveland Elementary School shootings. [category: Events]
• 1980: Ingimundur Ingimundarson, Icelandic handball player [category: Births]
• 1980: Ivan Klasnić, Croatian football player [category: Births]
• 1980: Jason James Richter, American actor [category: Births]
• 1980: Yael Bar-Zohar, Israeli actress and model [category: Births]
• 1980: Jimmy Durante, American actor and comedian (b. 1893) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: Darío Lopilato, Argentine actor [category: Births]
• 1981: Jonny Lang, American musician [category: Births]
• 1981: Rui En, Singaporean actress & singer [category: Births]
• 1981: Álex Ubago, Spanish musician [category: Births]
• 1982: Adam Lambert, American actor and singer [category: Births]
• 1982: Heidi Mueller, American actress [category: Births]
• 1982: Irina Shabayeva American fashion designer [category: Births]
• 1983: Biagio Pagano, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: Nedžad Sinanović, Bosnian basketball player [category: Births]
• 1984: David Sencar, Austrian footballer [category: Births]
• 1984: Mohd Safee Mohd Sali, Malaysian footballer [category: Births]
• 1984: Natalie du Toit, South African swimmer [category: Births]
• 1984: Nuno Morais, Portuguese footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Athina Onassis, French heiress [category: Births]
• 1985: Isabel Lucas, Australian actress [category: Births]
• 1985: Marc Gasol, Spanish basketball player [category: Births]
• 1985: Mikey Hachey, American musician (Suburban Legends) [category: Births]
• 1985: Todd Herzog, American reality-show contestant Survivor: China [category: Births]
• 1985: Final recording session of We Are The World, by the supergroup USA for Africa. [category: Events]
• 1986: Drew Tyler Bell, American actor [category: Births]
• 1986: Jair Jurrjens, Dutch baseball player [category: Births]
• 1986: Mark Howard, English football player [category: Births]
• 1986: Simon Vukčević, Montenegrin footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Leif Erickson, American actor (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 1987: Alex Avila, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1987: Matthew Wilson, English world rally driver [category: Births]
• 1988: Stephanie Gilmore, Australian surfer [category: Births]
• 1988: Tatyana Chernova, Russian heptathlete [category: Births]
• 1989: Kevin Shattenkirk, American ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1989: Halina Konopacka, Polish athlete (b. 1900) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making it the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so [category: Events]
• 1991: Hugh Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor, son of the Duke of Westminster [category: Births]
• 1991: Yasushi Inoue, Japanese historian (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Gulf War: The Battle of Khafji, the first major ground engagement of the war, as well as its deadliest, begins. [category: Events]
• 1992: Willie Dixon, American composer and musician (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Japanese model, blogger and recording artist [category: Births]
• 1993: Michelle Larcher de Brito, Portuguese tennis player [category: Births]
• 1993: Adetokunbo Ademola, Nigerian Chief Justice (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Ron Kostelnik, American football player (b. 1940) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Tofik Bahramov, Baku, Azerbaijan SSR (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Ulrike Maier, Austrian alpine skier (b. 1967) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: La Fenice, Venice's opera house, is destroyed by fire. [category: Events]
• 1996: President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing. [category: Events]
• 1998: Joseph Alioto, American politician (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: In Birmingham, Alabama, a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic, killing one and severely wounding another. Serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph is suspected as the culprit. [category: Events]
• 1999: Lili St. Cyr, American dancer (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals. [category: Events]
• 2002: Dick "Night Train" Lane, American football player (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Harold Russell, Canadian-born American actor (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: In his State of the Union Address, President George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of Evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea. [category: Events]
• 2003: Frank Moss, American politician (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Janet Frame, New Zealand writer (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: M. M. Kaye, British writer (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Ephraim Kishon, Israeli satirist (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Eric Griffiths, Welsh guitarist (The Quarrymen) (b. 1940) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: The first direct commercial flights from mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines flight lands in Beijing. [category: Events]
• 2006: Raul Corrales, Ciego de Avila, Cuba (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Barbaro, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 2003) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Dia Abdul Zahra Kadim, Iraqi extremist leader (b. 1970) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Bengt Lindström, Swedish artist (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Margaret Truman, American writer, daughter of Harry S. Truman (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Philippe Khorsand, French actor (b. 1948) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Raymond Jacobs, American soldier (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Bill Frindall, English cricket scorer and statistician (b. 1939) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Hélio Gracie, Brazilian martial artist (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: John Martyn, Scottish singer and songwriter (b. 1948) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Robert W. McCollum, Waco, Texas (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Milton Babbitt, American composer (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Constitution Day (Gibraltar) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: January 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Juniper [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Valerius of Trèves [category: Holidays and observances]