SomeFacts | January 29

On this day - January 29

904 — Sergius III is elected pope, after coming out of retirement to ...

946 — Caliph al-Mustakfi is blinded and deposed by Mu'izz ...

1814 — War of the Sixth Coalition: France engages Russia and Prussia ...

1819 — Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.

1845 — "The Raven" is published in The Evening Mirror in ...

1850 — Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. ...

1856 — Queen Victoria issues a Warrant under the Royal sign-manual ...

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

1863 — The Bear River Massacre: A detachment of California Volunteers ...

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

1891 — Liliʻuokalani is proclaimed the last monarch and only queen ...

1907 — Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American ...

1911 — Mexican Revolution: Mexicali is captured by the Mexican ...

1918 — Ukrainian–Soviet War: An armed uprising organized by the ...

1918 — Ukrainian–Soviet War: The Bolshevik Red Army, on its way to ...

1936 — The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are ...

1940 — Three trains on the Nishinari Line; present Sakurajima Line, ...

1943 — World War II: The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, ...

1944 — World War II: In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical theatre of the ...

1944 — World War II: Approximately 38 people are killed and about a ...

1959 — The first Melodifestivalen is held at Cirkus in Stockholm, ...

1971 — The last of its many UFO sightings is made at Pudasjärvi, ...

1973 — EgyptAir Flight 741 crashes into the Kyrenia Mountains in ...

1983 — Singapore cable car crash: Panamanian-registered oil rig, ...

1989 — Cold War: Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South ...

1991 — Gulf War: The Battle of Khafji, the first major ground ...

1996 — President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive ...

2001 — Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament ...

2002 — In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush ...

2005 — The first direct commercial flights from mainland China (from ...

2008 — An Egyptian court rules that people who do not adhere to one ...

2009 — Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is removed from office ...

2013 — SCAT Airlines Flight 760 crashes near the Kazakh city of ...

2014 — Rojava conflict: The Afrin Canton declares its autonomy from ...

2017 — A gunman opens fire at the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec ...

2022 — Canadian truck drivers and pedestrians gathered to rally and ...

2025 — A chartered Beechcraft 1900 crashes near the Unity oilfield in ...

2025 — American Eagle Flight 5342 collided mid-air with a Sikorsky ...