On this day | January 29th

On this day: January 29th

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904 Pope Sergius III is elected pope, after coming out of retirement to take over the pope from the deposed antipope Christopher.

946 Caliph al-Mustakfi is blinded and deposed by Mu'izz al-Dawla, ruler of the Buyid dynasty. He is succeeded by al-Muti as caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate.

1814 War of the Sixth Coalition: France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.

1819 Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.

1845 "The Raven" is published in ''The Evening Mirror'' in New York, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe.

1850 Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the United States Congress.

1856 Queen Victoria issues a Warrant (law) under the Royal sign-manual that establishes the Victoria Cross to recognise acts of valour by British Empire military personnel during the Crimean War.

1861 Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.

1863 The Bear River Massacre: A detachment of List of California Civil War Union units led by Colonel Patrick Edward Connor engage the Shoshone at Bear River (Washington), Washington Territory, killing hundreds of men, women and children.

1886 Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.

1891 Liliuokalani is proclaimed the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

1907 Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American United States Senate.

1911 Mexican Revolution: Mexicali is Capture of Mexicali by the Mexican Liberal Party, igniting the Magonista rebellion of 1911.

1918 Ukrainian–Soviet War: The Bolshevik Red Army, on its way to besiege Kyiv, is met by a small group of military students at the Battle of Kruty.

1918 Ukrainian–Soviet War: An Kiev Arsenal January 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.

1936 The List of members of the Baseball Hall of Fame into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.

1940 Three trains on the Nishinari Line; present Sakurajima Line, in Osaka, Japan, collide and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi Station. One hundred and eighty-one people are killed.

1943 World War II: The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.

1944 World War II: Approximately 38 people are killed and about a dozen injured when the Polish village of Koniuchy (present-day Kaniūkai, Lithuania) is Koniuchy massacre by Soviet partisan units.

1944 World War II: In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical theatre of the Archiginnasio is completely destroyed in an air-raid.

1959 The first Melodifestivalen is held at Cirkus (Stockholm) in Stockholm, Sweden.

1973 EgyptAir Flight 741 crashes into the Kyrenia Mountains in Cyprus, killing 37 people.

1983 Singapore cable car crash: Panamanian-registered Oil platform, ''Eniwetok'', strikes the cables of the Singapore Cable Car system linking the mainland and Sentosa, causing two cabins to fall into the water and killing seven people and leaving thirteen others trapped for hours.

1989 Cold War: Hungary–South Korea relations, making it the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so.

1991 Gulf War: The Battle of Khafji, the first major ground engagement of the war, as well as its deadliest, begins between Ba'athist Iraq and Saudi Arabia.

1996 President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing.

2001 Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President of Indonesia Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.

2002 In his 2002 State of the Union Address, President George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor terrorism" as an ''Axis of evil'', in which he includes Ba'athist Iraq, Iran and North Korea.

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.

2008 An Egyptian court rules that people who do not adhere to one of the three Religion in Egypt # Recognized religions, while not allowed to list any belief outside of those three, are still Egyptian identification card controversy government identity documents.

2009 Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich Rod Blagojevich corruption charges following his conviction of several corruption charges, including solicitation of personal benefit in exchange for an appointment to the United States Senate as a replacement for then-President-elect of the United States Barack Obama.

2013 SCAT Airlines Flight 760 crashes near the Kazakhstan city of Almaty, killing 21 people.

2014 Rojava conflict: The Afrin Region declares its autonomy from the Syria.

2017 A gunman Quebec City mosque shooting at the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City, killing six and wounding 19 others in a spree shooting.

1455 Johann Reuchlin, German-born humanist and scholar (d. 1522)

1475 Giuliano Bugiardini, Italian painter (d. 1555)

1499 Katharina von Bora, wife of Martin Luther; formerly a Roman Catholic nun (d. 1552)

1525 Lelio Sozzini, Italian humanist and reformer (d. 1562)

1584 Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (d. 1647)

1591 Franciscus Junius (the younger), German pioneer philologist (d. 1677)

1602 Countess Amalie Elisabeth of Hanau-Münzenberg (d. 1651)

1632 Johann Georg Graevius, German scholar and critic (d. 1703)

1688 Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish astronomer, philosopher, and theologian (d. 1772)

1711 Giuseppe Bonno, Austrian composer (d. 1788)

1715 Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian organist and composer (d. 1777)

1717 Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, English field marshal and politician, 19th List of Governors General of Canada (d. 1797)

1718 Paul Rabaut, French pastor (d. 1794)

1737 Thomas Paine, English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary (d. 1809)

1749 Christian VII of Denmark (d. 1808)

1754 Moses Cleaveland, American general, lawyer, and politician, founded Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1806)

1756 Henry Lee III, American general and politician, 9th Governor of Virginia (d. 1818)

1761 Albert Gallatin, Swiss-American ethnologist, linguist, and politician, 4th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1849)

1782 Daniel Auber, French composer (d. 1871)

1792 Lemuel H. Arnold, American politician (d. 1852)

1801 Johannes Bernardus van Bree, Dutch violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1857)

1810 Ernst Kummer, Polish-German mathematician and academic (d. 1893)

1810 Mary Whitwell Hale, American teacher, school founder, and hymnwriter (d. 1862)

1843 William McKinley, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 25th President of the United States (d. 1901)

1846 Karol Olszewski, Polish chemist, mathematician and physicist (d. 1915)

1852 Frederic Hymen Cowen, Jamaican-English pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1935)

1858 Henry Ward Ranger, American painter and academic (d. 1916)

1860 Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer (d. 1904)

1861 Florida Ruffin Ridley, American civil rights activist, teacher, editor, and writer (d. 1943)

1862 Frederick Delius, English composer (d. 1934)

1864 Sir Richard Gregory, 1st Baronet, British astronomer (d. 1952)

1866 Romain Rolland, French historian, author, and playwright, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (d. 1944)

1867 Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Spanish journalist and author (d. 1928)

1874 John D. Rockefeller Jr., American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1960)

1876 Havergal Brian, English composer (d. 1972)

1880 W. C. Fields, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter (d. 1946)

1881 Alice Catherine Evans, American microbiologist (d. 1975)

1884 Juhan Aavik, Estonian-Swedish composer and conductor (d. 1982)

1886 Karl Freudenberg, German chemist (d. 1983)

1888 Sydney Chapman (mathematician), English mathematician and geophysicist (d. 1970)

1888 Wellington Koo, Chinese statesman (d. 1985)

1892 Ernst Lubitsch, German American film director, producer, writer, and actor (d. 1947)

1895 Muna Lee (writer), American poet and author (d. 1965)

1901 Allen B. DuMont, American engineer and broadcaster, founded the DuMont Television Network (d. 1965)

1901 E. P. Taylor, Canadian businessman and horse breeder (d. 1989)

1905 Barnett Newman, American painter and etcher (d. 1970)

1913 Victor Mature, American actor (d. 1999)

1915 Bill Peet, American author and illustrator (d. 2002)

1915 John Serry Sr., Italian-American concert accordionist and composer (d. 2003)

1916 Roy Markham, British plant virologist (d. 1979)

1917 John Raitt, American actor and singer (d. 2005)

1918 John Forsythe, American actor (d. 2010)

1920 Paul Gayten, American R&B pianist, songwriter, producer, and record company executive (d. 1991)

1923 Paddy Chayefsky, American author and screenwriter (d. 1981)

1923 Eddie Taylor, American electric blues guitarist and singer (d. 1985)

1926 Abdus Salam, Pakistani-British physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (d. 1996)

1927 Edward Abbey, American environmentalist and author (d. 1989)

1928 Joseph Kruskal, American mathematician and computer scientist (d. 2010)

1929 Elio Petri, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1982)

1931 Leslie Bricusse, English playwright and composer (d. 2021)

1931 Ferenc Mádl, Hungarian academic and politician, 2nd President of Hungary (d. 2011)

1932 Raman Subba Row, English cricketer and referee (d. 2024)

1933 Sacha Distel, French singer and guitarist (d. 2004)

1934 Alan Cowley, British chemist (d. 2020)

1936 James Jamerson, American bass player (d. 1983)

1936 Veturi, Indian poet and songwriter (d. 2010)

1937 Jeff Clyne, British musician (d. 2009)

1939 Germaine Greer, Australian journalist and author

1939 Jeanne Lee, American jazz singer, poet and composer (d. 2000)

1940 Justino Díaz, Puerto Rican opera singer

1940 Katharine Ross, American actress and author

1941 Robin Morgan, American actress, journalist, and author

1941 Gamini Jayawickrama Perera, Sri Lankan politician (d. 2024)

1942 Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, Cuban military officer, legislator and cosmonaut

1943 Tony Blackburn, English radio and television host

1943 Pat Quinn (ice hockey), Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2014)

1943 Mark Wynter, English singer and actor

1945 Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, Malian academic and politician, Prime Minister of Mali (d. 2022)

1945 Tom Selleck, American actor and businessman

1946 Geater Davis, American singer-songwriter (d. 1984)

1946 Bettye LaVette, American singer-songwriter

1947 Linda B. Buck, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate

1947 David Byron, English singer-songwriter (d. 1985)

1947 Marián Varga, Slovak organist and composer (d. 2017)

1948 Raymond Keene, English chess player and author

1948 Cristina Saralegui, Cuban-American journalist, actress and talk show host

1948 Marc Singer, Canadian-American actor

1949 Doris Davenport (poet), American poet and teacher

1949 Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-American drummer and producer (d. 2014)

1950 Ann Jillian, American actress and singer

1950 Miklós Vámos, Hungarian writer, novelist, screenwriter and translator

1952 Pete Geren, American attorney and politician

1952 Tim Healy (actor), British actor

1953 Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer (d. 1995)

1953 Charlie Wilson (singer), American singer-songwriter and producer

1954 Terry Kinney, American actor and director

1954 Oprah Winfrey, American talk show host, actress, and producer, founded Harpo Productions

1955 Greg Ballard (basketball), American basketball player and coach (d. 2016)

1955 John Tate (boxer), American boxer (d. 1998)

1956 Irlene Mandrell, American musician, actress, and model

1956 Amii Stewart, American singer and dancer

1957 Diane Delano, American actress (d. 2024)

1957 Ron Franscell, American author and journalist

1958 Judy Norton, American actress and theater director

1960 Cho-liang Lin, Taiwanese-American musician

1960 Greg Louganis, American diver and author

1960 Steve Sax, American baseball player

1960 Gia Carangi, American supermodel

1961 Strive Masiyiwa, Zimbabwean businessman and philanthropist

1962 Gauri Lankesh, Indian journalist and activist (d. 2017)

1962 Lee Terry, American politician and lawyer

1962 Nicholas Turturro, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

1964 Roddy Frame, Scottish singer-songwriter and musician

1964 Andre Reed, American football player

1965 David Agus, American physician and author

1965 Dominik Hašek, Czech ice hockey player

1967 Sean Burke, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

1967 Stacey King, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster

1968 Edward Burns, American actor, director, writer, and producer

1968 Monte Cook, American game designer and writer

1968 Aeneas Williams, American football player

1969 Sam Trammell, American actor

1970 Heather Graham, American actress

1970 Jörg Hoffmann (swimmer), German swimmer

1970 Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Indian colonel and politician

1970 Paul Ryan, American politician, 62nd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

1971 Clare Balding, English broadcaster, journalist and author

1972 Brian Wood (comics), American writer, illustrator and graphic designer

1973 Megan McArdle, American journalist

1973 Jason Schmidt, American baseball player

1975 Sharif Atkins, American actor

1975 Sara Gilbert, American actress, producer, and talk show host

1975 Kelly Packard, American actress

1977 Justin Hartley, American actor

1977 Sam Jaeger, American actor and screenwriter

1979 Andrew Keegan, American actor

1979 Christina Koch, American engineer and astronaut

1980 Jason James Richter, American actor and musician

1981 Tenoch Huerta, Mexican actor

1981 Jonny Lang, American singer, songwriter and guitarist

1982 Adam Lambert, American singer, songwriter and actor

1983 Tim Gleason, American ice hockey player

1985 Marc Gasol, Spanish basketball player

1985 Isabel Lucas, Australian actress and model

1985 Rag'n'Bone Man, English singer-songwriter

1986 Chris Bourque, American ice hockey player

1986 Thomas Greiss, German ice hockey player

1986 Jair Jurrjens, Curaçaoan baseball player

1987 José Abreu, Cuban baseball player

1987 Alex Avila, American baseball player

1987 Jessica Burkhart, American author

1987 Vladimír Mihálik, Slovak ice hockey player

1988 Ayobami Adebayo, Nigerian author

1988 Jake Auchincloss, American politician, businessman, and Marine veteran

1988 Hank Conger, American baseball player

1988 Shay Logan, English footballer

1989 Mohamed Abou Gabal, Egyptian footballer

1989 Kevin Shattenkirk, American ice hockey player

1992 Markel Brown, American basketball player

1992 Maxi Kleber, German basketball player

1993 Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Japanese singer

1997 Joel Eriksson Ek, Swedish ice hockey player

1997 Jack Roslovic, American ice hockey player

2003 Jarell Quansah, English footballer

AD 757 An Lushan, Chinese general (b. 703)

1119 Pope Gelasius II (b. 1060)

1597 Elias Ammerbach, German organist and composer (b. 1530)

1647 Francis Meres, English priest and author (b. 1565)

1678 Jerónimo Lobo, Portuguese missionary and author (b. 1593)

1706 Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier (b. 1643)

1737 George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, Scottish-English field marshal and politician, List of colonial governors of Virginia (b. 1666)

1743 André-Hercule de Fleury, French cardinal (b. 1653)

1763 Juan José Eguiara y Eguren, Mexican bishop and Catholic scholar (b. 1696)

1763 Louis Racine, French poet (b. 1692)

1820 George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)

1829 Paul Barras, French captain and politician (b. 1755)

1870 Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1797)

1888 Edward Lear, English poet and illustrator (b. 1812)

1899 Alfred Sisley, French-English painter (b. 1839)

1901 Eugène Louis-Marie Jancourt, French bassoonist, composer and pedagogue (b. 1815)

1906 Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818)

1910 Édouard Rod, French-Swiss novelist (b. 1857)

1912 Herman Bang, Danish journalist and author (b. 1857)

1916 Sibylle von Olfers, German art teacher, author and nun (b. 1881)

1917 Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, British statesman, diplomat and colonial administrator (b. 1841)

1923 Elihu Vedder, American symbolist painter, book illustrator and poet (b. 1836)

1928 Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Scottish field marshal (b. 1861)

1929 Jacques Bouhy, Belgian baritone (b. 1848)

1929 Charles Fox Parham, American preacher and evangelist (b. 1873)

1933 Sara Teasdale, American poet (b. 1884)

1934 Fritz Haber, Polish-German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (b. 1868)

1934 Dukinfield Henry Scott, British botanist (b. 1854)

1935 Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh, American explorer (b. 1853)

1940 Edward Harkness, American philanthropist (b. 1874)

1941 Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general and politician, 130th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1871)

1944 William Allen White, American journalist and author (b. 1868)

1946 Harry Hopkins, American businessman and politician, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1890)

1946 Sidney Jones (composer), English conductor and composer (b. 1861)

1948 Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta (b. 1900)

1951 James Bridie, Scottish playwright, screenwriter and physician (b. 1888)

1954 Walter Conrad Arensberg, American art collector, critic and poet (b. 1878)

1955 Hans Hedtoft, Danish politician (b. 1903)

1956 H. L. Mencken, American journalist and critic (b. 1880)

1959 Pauline Smith, South African novelist, short story writer, memoirist and playwright (b. 1882)

1960 Mack Harrell, American operatic and concert baritone vocalist (b. 1909)

1960 George S. Messersmith, American diplomat (b. 1883)

1961 Angela Thirkell, English novelist (b. 1890)

1962 Fritz Kreisler, Austrian-American violinist and composer (b. 1875)

1962 William Francis Gray Swann, Anglo-American physicist (b. 1884)

1963 Robert Frost, American poet and playwright (b. 1874)

1964 Vera Hall, American folk singer (b. 1902)

1964 Alan Ladd, American actor (b. 1913)

1965 Jack Hylton, English pianist, composer, band leader and impresario (b. 1892)

1966 Pierre Mercure, Canadian composer, TV producer, bassoonist and administrator (b. 1927)

1967 Harold Munro Fox, English zoologist (b. 1889)

1969 Allen Dulles, American banker, lawyer, and diplomat, 5th Director of Central Intelligence (b. 1893)

1969 - Max Weinreich, Russian-American-Jewish linguist and cofounder of YIVO (b. 1894)

1970 Lawren Harris, Canadian painter (b. 1885)

1970 B. H. Liddell Hart, French-English soldier, historian, and journalist (b. 1895)

1973 Johannes Paul Thilman, German composer (b. 1903)

1974 H. E. Bates, English writer (b. 1905)

1976 Jesse Fuller, American one-man band musician (b. 1896)

1977 Johnny Franz, English record producer and pianist (b. 1922)

1977 Freddie Prinze, American comedian and actor (b. 1954)

1978 Tim McCoy, American actor and military officer (b. 1891)

1978 Frank Nicklin, Australian politician, 28th Premier of Queensland (b. 1895)

1979 Sonny Payne, American jazz drummer (b. 1926)

1980 Jimmy Durante, American entertainer (b. 1893)

1981 Jack A. W. Bennett, New Zealander literary scholar (b. 1911)

1981 John Glassco, Canadian poet, memoirist and novelist (b. 1909)

1982 Rudolph Peters, British biochemist (b. 1889)

1982 Roger Stanier, Canadian microbiologist (b. 1916)

1982 Charles Sykes (metallurgist), British physicist and metallurgist (b. 1905)

1983 Stuart H. Ingersoll, American naval aviator, USN vice admiral (b. 1898)

1984 Frances Goodrich, American actress, dramatist and screenwriter (b. 1890)

1984 John Macnaghten Whittaker, British mathematician (b. 1905)

1987 Vincent R. Impellitteri, American politician and judge, 101st Mayor of New York City (b. 1900)

1988 James Rhyne Killian, American educator, scientist and White House advisor (b. 1904)

1989 Morton DaCosta, American theatre and film director, film producer, writer and actor (b. 1914)

1991 Yasushi Inoue, Japanese author and poet (b. 1907)

1992 Willie Dixon, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1915)

1993 Adetokunbo Ademola, Nigerian lawyer and jurist, 2nd Chief Justice of Nigeria (b. 1906)

1994 Ulrike Maier, Austrian skier (b. 1967)

1999 Lili St. Cyr, American model and dancer (b. 1918)

2002 Harold Russell, Canadian-American soldier and actor (b. 1914)

2003 Frank Moss (politician), American lawyer and politician (b. 1911)

2004 Janet Frame, New Zealand author and poet (b. 1924)

2005 Ephraim Kishon, Israeli author, screenwriter, and director (b. 1924)

2006 Nam June Paik, South Korean-American artist (b. 1932)

2008 Margaret Truman, American singer and author (b. 1924)

2009 Hélio Gracie, Brazilian martial artist (b. 1913)

2009 John Martyn, British singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948)

2011 Milton Babbitt, American composer, educator, and theorist (b. 1916)

2012 Ranjit Singh Dyal, Indian general and politician, 10th Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry (b. 1928)

2012 Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Italian lawyer and politician, 9th President of Italy (b. 1918)

2012 Camilla Williams, American soprano and educator (b. 1919)

2015 Colleen McCullough, Australian neuroscientist, author, and academic (b. 1937)

2015 Rod McKuen, American singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1933)

2015 Alexander Vraciu, American commander and pilot (b. 1918)

2016 Jean-Marie Doré, Guinean lawyer and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Guinea (b. 1938)

2016 Jacques Rivette, French director, screenwriter, and critic (b. 1928)

2019 George Fernandes, Indian politician (b. 1930)

2019 James Ingram, American musician (b. 1952)

2021 Walker Boone, Canadian actor (b. 1944)

2022 Howard Hesseman, American actor (b. 1940)

2023 Hazel McCallion, Canadian businesswoman and politician, 5th Mayor of Mississauga (b. 1921)

2023 Will Steffen, American-Australian chemist (b. 1947)

2023 Gero Storjohann, German politician (b. 1958)

Christian feast day:

- Gildas

- Sabinian of Troyes

- Sulpitius I of Bourges

- January 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Earliest day on which Fat Thursday can fall, while March 4 is the latest; celebrated on Thursday before Ash Wednesday. (Christianity)

Kansas Day (Kansas, United States)

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[https://www.onthisday.com/events/january/29 Historical Events on January 29]