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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 ...