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Events
661 – The Rashidun Caliphate ends with the death of Ali.
757 – An Lushan, leader of a revolt against the Tang dynasty and emperor of Yan, is murdered by his own son, An Qingxu.
904 – Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
1258 – First Mongol invasion of Đại Việt: Đại Việt defeats the Mongols at the battle of Đông Bộ Đầu, forcing the Mongols to withdraw from the country.
1676 – Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia.
1785 – Citing health reasons, John Hancock resigns as Governor of Massachusetts.
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.
1834 – US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.
1845 – "The Raven" is published in The Evening Mirror in New York, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe, making him a household name.
1850 – Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.
1856 – Queen Victoria issues a Warrant under the Royal sign-manual that establishes the Victoria Cross to recognise acts of valour by British military personnel during the Crimean War.
1861 – Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
1863 – Bear River Massacre: A detachment of California Volunteers led by Colonel Patrick Edward Connor engage the Shoshone at Bear River, Washington Territory, killing hundreds of men, women, and children. The site is located near the present-day city of Preston in Franklin County, Idaho.
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 Hawaiʻi.
1900 – The American League is organized in Philadelphia with eight founding teams.
1907 – Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
1916 – World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
1918 – Ukrainian–Soviet War: An armed 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.
1920 – Walt Disney begins work as an artist at KC Slide Co for a salary of $40 a week.
1936 – The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced: Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth, and Honus Wagner.
1940 – Three trains on the Sakurajima Line, in Osaka, Japan, collide and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi Station. One hundred eighty-one people are killed.
1941 – Alexandros Koryzis becomes Prime Minister of Greece upon the sudden death of his predecessor, dictator Ioannis Metaxas.
1943 – The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, U.S. cruiser Chicago 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 attacked by Soviet partisan units.
1944 – In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical theatre of the Archiginnasio is destroyed in an air-raid.
1948 – The Pakistan Socialist Party is founded in Karachi.
1963 – The first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.
1967 – The "ultimate high" of the hippie era, the Mantra-Rock Dance, takes place in San Francisco and features Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, and Allen Ginsberg.
1989 – Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, 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.
1996 – President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing.
1996 – La Fenice, Venice's opera house, is destroyed by fire.
1998 – In Birmingham, Alabama, a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic, killing one and severely wounding another. Serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph is suspected as the culprit.
2001 – Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
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.
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.
2006 – India's Irfan Pathan became the first bowler to take a Test cricket hat-trick in the opening over of a match.
2009 – The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt 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.
2009 – Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is removed from office following his conviction of several corruption charges, including the alleged 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.
2013 – SCAT Airlines Flight 760 crashes near the Kazakh city of Almaty, killing 21 people.
2013 – A gunman kills a school bus driver and holds a 6-year-old boy hostage in an underground bunker in Midland City, Alabama.
2015 – Malaysia has officially declared the disappearance of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 an accident and its passengers and crew presumed dead.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Confessor, and Doctor of the Church. Double.
Contemporary Western
Aquilinus of Milan
Gildas
Joseph Freinademetz
Juniper
Valerius of Trèves
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Andrei Rublev (Episcopal Church (USA))
Eastern Orthodox
January 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Martyr Chryse (ca. 41-54)
Martyrs Sarbelus (Thathuil) and his sister Bebaia, of Edessa (110)
Saint Barsimaeus the Confessor, Hieromartyr Bishop of Edessa (114)
The Holy Seven Martyrs of Samosata (297):
Martyrs Romanus, James, Philotheus, Hyperechius, Abibus, Julian,
and Paregorius, at Samosata.
Hieromartyrs Silvanus, Bishop of Emesa, Luke the Deacon,
and Mocius the Reader (312)
Venerable Aphrahates the Persian, Hermit of Antioch (370)
Venerable Ascepsimus, monk
Saint Ashot Kuropalates of Tao-Klarjeti, Georgia (829)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Caesarius, a deacon in Angoulême in France under its first bishop,
St Ausonius (1st c.)
Hieromartyr Constantius of Perugia, first Bishop of Perugia, and Companions (170)
Martyr Sabinian of Troyes (275)
Martyrs Papias and Maurus, soldiers martyred in Rome under Maximian (ca. 303)
Saint Valerius, second Bishop of Trier in Germany (ca. 320)
Saint Blath (Flora), a cook at St Brigid's convent in Kildare
where she was honoured as a holy woman (523)
Saint Gildas the Wise, Abbot, of Rhuys, Brittany (ca. 570)
Saint Severus (Sulpitius I of Bourges, Sulpicius Severus), Bishop of Bourges (591)
Saint Dallán Forgaill (of Cluain Dallain), a relative of St Aidan of Ferns,
born in Connaught, martyred at Inis-coel by pirates (598)
Saint Aquilinus of Mediolanum (Milan), martyred by the Arians (650)
Saint Voloc, a bishop from Ireland who worked in Scotland (ca. 724)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Venerable Ignatios the Sinaite, of Rethymno, Crete
Venerable Laurence, recluse of the Kiev Caves and Bishop of Turov (1194)
Saint Ignatius, Bishop of Smolensk (1210)
Saint Andrei Rublev, iconographer, of the Spaso-Andronikov Monastery
(Moscow) (1430)
Saints Gerasimus (1441), Pitirim (1455), and Jonah (1470), Bishops of Perm
New Martyr Demetrius of Chios, at Constantinople (1802)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyrs John Granitov and Leontius Klimenko, Priests;
Constantine Zverev, Deacon; and with them 5 Martyrs (1920)
Other commemorations
Traditional Western
Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Confessor, and Doctor of the Church. Double.
Contemporary Western
Aquilinus of Milan
Gildas
Joseph Freinademetz
Juniper
Valerius of Trèves
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Andrei Rublev (Episcopal Church (USA))
Eastern Orthodox
January 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Martyr Chryse (ca. 41-54)
Martyrs Sarbelus (Thathuil) and his sister Bebaia, of Edessa (110)
Saint Barsimaeus the Confessor, Hieromartyr Bishop of Edessa (114)
The Holy Seven Martyrs of Samosata (297):
Martyrs Romanus, James, Philotheus, Hyperechius, Abibus, Julian,
and Paregorius, at Samosata.
Hieromartyrs Silvanus, Bishop of Emesa, Luke the Deacon,
and Mocius the Reader (312)
Venerable Aphrahates the Persian, Hermit of Antioch (370)
Venerable Ascepsimus, monk
Saint Ashot Kuropalates of Tao-Klarjeti, Georgia (829)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Caesarius, a deacon in Angoulême in France under its first bishop,
St Ausonius (1st c.)
Hieromartyr Constantius of Perugia, first Bishop of Perugia, and Companions (170)
Martyr Sabinian of Troyes (275)
Martyrs Papias and Maurus, soldiers martyred in Rome under Maximian (ca. 303)
Saint Valerius, second Bishop of Trier in Germany (ca. 320)
Saint Blath (Flora), a cook at St Brigid's convent in Kildare
where she was honoured as a holy woman (523)
Saint Gildas the Wise, Abbot, of Rhuys, Brittany (ca. 570)
Saint Severus (Sulpitius I of Bourges, Sulpicius Severus), Bishop of Bourges (591)
Saint Dallán Forgaill (of Cluain Dallain), a relative of St Aidan of Ferns,
born in Connaught, martyred at Inis-coel by pirates (598)
Saint Aquilinus of Mediolanum (Milan), martyred by the Arians (650)
Saint Voloc, a bishop from Ireland who worked in Scotland (ca. 724)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Venerable Ignatios the Sinaite, of Rethymno, Crete
Venerable Laurence, recluse of the Kiev Caves and Bishop of Turov (1194)
Saint Ignatius, Bishop of Smolensk (1210)
Saint Andrei Rublev, iconographer, of the Spaso-Andronikov Monastery
(Moscow) (1430)
Saints Gerasimus (1441), Pitirim (1455), and Jonah (1470), Bishops of Perm
New Martyr Demetrius of Chios, at Constantinople (1802)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyrs John Granitov and Leontius Klimenko, Priests;
Constantine Zverev, Deacon; and with them 5 Martyrs (1920)
Other commemorations
Bishop of Antioch (107)
Synaxis of All Saints of Yekaterinburg
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