| 11637 | January 29 | Event | 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 docume |
| 11638 | January 29 | Event | 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 f |
| 11639 | January 29 | Event | 2013 – SCAT Airlines Flight 760 crashes near the Kazakh city of Almaty, killing 21 people. |
| 11640 | January 29 | Event | 2013 – A gunman kills a school bus driver and holds a 6-year-old boy hostage in an underground bunker in Midland City, Alabama. |
| 11611 | January 29 | Event | 1863 – The 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. |
| 11612 | January 29 | Event | 1886 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile. |
| 11613 | January 29 | Event | 1891 – Liliuokalani is proclaimed the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii. |
| 11614 | January 29 | Event | 1900 – The American League is organized in Philadelphia with eight founding teams. |
| 11615 | January 29 | Event | 1907 – Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator. |
| 11616 | January 29 | Event | 1916 – World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins. |
| 11617 | January 29 | Event | 1918 – Ukrainian–Soviet War: The Bolshevik Red Army, on its way to besiege Kiev, is met by a small group of military students at the Battle of Kruty. |
| 11618 | January 29 | Event | 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. |
| 11619 | January 29 | Event | 1936 – The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced. |
| 11620 | January 29 | Event | 1940 – Three trains on the Sakurajima Line, in Osaka, Japan, collide and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi Station. One hundred eighty-one people are killed. |
| 11621 | January 29 | Event | 1941 – Alexandros Koryzis becomes Prime Minister of Greece upon the sudden death of his predecessor, dictator Ioannis Metaxas. |
| 11622 | January 29 | Event | 1943 – The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, U.S. cruiser Chicago is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers. |
| 11623 | January 29 | Event | 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. |
| 11624 | January 29 | Event | 1944 – In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical theatre of the Archiginnasio is destroyed in an air-raid. |
| 11625 | January 29 | Event | 1948 – The Pakistan Socialist Party is founded in Karachi. |
| 11626 | January 29 | Event | 1963 – The first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced. |
| 11627 | January 29 | Event | 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. |
| 11628 | January 29 | Event | 1989 – Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making it the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so. |
| 11629 | January 29 | Event | 1991 – Gulf War: The Battle of Khafji, the first major ground engagement of the war, as well as its deadliest, begins. |
| 11630 | January 29 | Event | 1996 – President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing. |
| 11631 | January 29 | Event | 1996 – La Fenice, Venice's opera house, is destroyed by fire. |
| 11632 | January 29 | Event | 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. |
| 11633 | January 29 | Event | 2001 – Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals. |
| 11634 | January 29 | Event | 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. |
| 11635 | January 29 | Event | 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. |
| 11636 | January 29 | Event | 2006 – India's Irfan Pathan became the first bowler to take a Test cricket hat-trick in the opening over of a match. |