29 January History
- 1813 - Jane Austin publishes Pride and Prejudice.
- 1861 - Kansas is admitted into the Union as the 34th state.
- 1862 - William Quantrill and his Confederate raiders attack Danville, Kentucky.
- 1918 - The Supreme Allied Council meets at Versailles.
- 1926 - Violette Neatley Anderson becomes the first African-American woman admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.
- 1929 - The Seeing Eye, America's first school for training dogs to guide the blind, founded in Nashville, Tennessee.
- 1931 - Winston Churchill resigns as Stanley Baldwin's aide.
- 1942 - German and Italian troops take Benghazi in North Africa.
- 1944 - The world's greatest warship, Missouri, is launched.
- 1950 - Riots break out in Johannesburg, South Africa, over the policy of Apartheid.
- 1967 - Thirty-seven civilians are killed by a U.S. helicopter attack in Vietnam.
- 1979 - President Jimmy Carter commutes the sentence of Patty Hearst.
- 1984 - President Ronald Reagan announces that he will run for a second term.
- 1984 - The Soviets issue a formal complaint against alleged U.S. arms treaty violations.
- 1991 - Iraqi forces attack into Saudi Arabian town of Kafji, but are turned back by Coalition forces.
29 January Birthdays
- 1737 - Thomas Paine, political essayist (The Rights of Man, The Age of Reason).
- 1843 - William McKinley, 25th President of the United States.
- 1880 - W.C. Fields, comedian and actor (David Copperfield, My Little Chickadee).