| Date | Weekday | Event |
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| January 29, 1788 | Tuesday | Australia Day |
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| January 29, 1861 | Tuesday | Kansas becomes 34th state |
| January 29, 1900 | Monday | American (baseball) League formed with 8 teams |
| January 29, 1904 | Friday | 1st athletic letters given: to Univ of Chicago football team |
| January 29, 1919 | Wednesday | Prohibition goes into effect (18th amendment) |
| January 29, 1920 | Thursday | Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist $40 week with KC Slide Co |
| January 29, 1922 | Sunday | Union of Costa Rica Guatemala Honduras & El Salvador dissolved |
| January 29, 1936 | Wednesday | 1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
| January 29, 1955 | Saturday | William Cox buys Yankee Stadium |
| January 29, 1958 | Wednesday | Charles Starkweather captured by police in Wyoming |
| January 29, 1959 | Thursday | Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" is released |
| January 29, 1984 | Sunday | 41-B (STS-11) Challenger launched |
| January 29, 1986 | Wednesday | 193.8 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange |