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January 29
| 1813 | Jane Austin publishes Pride and Prejudice. | |
| 1861 | Kansas is admitted into the Union as the 34th state. | |
| 1865 | 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. | |
| Born on January 29 | ||
| 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). | |
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