29 January
Notable Births
Jarell Quansah
b. 2003
English footballer (born 2003)
Lee Dae-hwi
b. 2001
South Korean singer (born 2001)
Joel Eriksson Ek
b. 1997
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1997)
Jack Roslovic
b. 1997
American ice hockey player (born 1997)
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu
b. 1993
Japanese singer and model
Markel Brown
b. 1992
American basketball player (born 1992)
Maxi Kleber
b. 1992
German basketball player (born 1992)
Mohamed Abou Gabal
b. 1989
Egyptian footballer (born 1989)
Kevin Shattenkirk
b. 1989
American ice hockey player (born 1989)
Ayobami Adebayo
b. 1988
Nigerian writer (born 1988)
Jake Auchincloss
b. 1988
American politician (born 1988)
Hank Conger
b. 1988
American baseball player (born 1988)
Shay Logan
b. 1988
English footballer
José Abreu
b. 1987
Cuban-born baseball player (born 1987)
Alex Avila
b. 1987
American baseball player (born 1987)
Jessica Burkhart
b. 1987
American writer
Vladimír Mihálik
b. 1987
Slovak ice hockey player (born 1987)
Chris Bourque
b. 1986
American ice hockey player (born 1986)
Thomas Greiss
b. 1986
German ice hockey player (born 1986)
Jair Jurrjens
b. 1986
Curaçaoan baseball player (born 1986)
Notable Deaths
Salwan Momika
d. 2025
Iraqi refugee and anti-Muslim demonstrator (1986–2025)
Richard Williamson (bishop)
d. 2025
British excommunicated Catholic bishop (1940–2025)
Vadim Naumov
d. 2025
Russian pair skater (1969–2025)
Evgenia Shishkova
d. 2025
Russian pair skater and coach (1972–2025)
Inna Volyanskaya
d. 2025
Russian pair skater (1965–2025)
Alexandr Kirsanov
d. 2025
Russian-American ice dancer (1978–2025)
Hazel McCallion
d. 2023
Canadian politician (1921–2023)
Will Steffen
d. 2023
Climate scientist (1947–2023)
Gero Storjohann
d. 2023
German politician (1958–2023)
Howard Hesseman
d. 2022
American actor (1940–2022)
Walker Boone
d. 2021
Canadian actor (1944–2021)
George Fernandes
d. 2019
Indian trade unionist and politician (1930–2019)
James Ingram
d. 2019
American singer, songwriter, and record producer (1952–2019)
Jacques Rivette
d. 2016
French film director, screenwriter and film critic
Colleen McCullough
d. 2015
Australian author (1937–2015)
Rod McKuen
d. 2015
American poet, songwriter, composer, and singer (1933–2015)
Alexander Vraciu
d. 2015
US Navy fighter pilot
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro
d. 2012
President of Italy from 1992 to 1999
Camilla Williams
d. 2012
American opera singer (1919–2012)
Milton Babbitt
d. 2011
American composer (1916–2011)
On This Day in History
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2025
American Eagle Flight 5342 collided mid-air with a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk operated by the United States Army and crashed into the Potomac River, killing all 67 people onboard both aircraft.
American Eagle (airline brand)
2025
A chartered Beechcraft 1900 crashes near the Unity oilfield in South Sudan, killing 20 people.
Beechcraft 1900
2022
Canadian truck drivers and pedestrians gathered to rally and protest on Parliament Hill against Canadian COVID-19 restrictions, which caused traffic and closures around the city.
Truck driver
2017
A gunman opens fire at the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City, killing six people and wounding 19 others in a spree shooting.
Quebec City mosque shooting
2014
Rojava conflict: The Afrin Canton declares its autonomy from the Syrian Arab Republic.
Rojava Revolution
2013
SCAT Airlines Flight 760 crashes near the Kazakh city of Almaty, killing 21 people.
SCAT Airlines Flight 760
2009
Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is removed from office 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-U.S. president-elect Barack Obama.
Governor of Illinois
2008
An Egyptian court rules that people who do not adhere to one of the three government-recognised religions, while not allowed to list any belief outside of those three, are still eligible to receive government identity documents.
Religion in Egypt
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.
Mainland China
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.
2002 State of the Union Address
2001
Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
Indonesia
1996
President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing.
Jacques Chirac
1991
Gulf War: The Battle of Khafji, the first major ground engagement of the war, as well as its deadliest, begins between Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
Gulf War
1989
Cold War: Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making it the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so.
Cold War
1983
Singapore cable car crash: Panamanian-registered oil rig, Eniwetok, strikes the cables of the Singapore Cable Car system linking the mainland and Sentosa Island, causing two cabins to fall into the water and killing seven people and leaving thirteen others trapped for hours.
Singapore cable car crash
1973
EgyptAir Flight 741 crashes into the Kyrenia Mountains in Cyprus, killing 37 people.
EgyptAir Flight 741
1971
The last of its many UFO sightings is made at Pudasjärvi, Finland.
UFOs of Pudasjärvi
1959
The first Melodifestivalen is held at Cirkus in Stockholm, Sweden.
Melodifestivalen
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 attacked by Soviet partisan units.
Kaniūkai
1944
World War II: In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical theatre of the Archiginnasio is completely destroyed in an air-raid.
Bologna