January 29

Facts & Historical Events On This Day

2016

Zayn Malik's 'Pillowtalk' single was released.

2015

Missing Malaysian flight MH370 was announced to have been an accident with no survivors.

2014

Cristiano Ronaldo became the first non-Spanish player to captain Real Madrid.

2002

President George W. Bush gave his State of Union Address.

1996

French President Jacques Chirac announced France's nuclear test program had finished.

1985

Margaret Thatcher became the first post-war prime minister who was refused a degree.

1964

A two-stage version of the Saturn I rocket was launched for the first time.

1959

Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty' was released in theaters.

1907

Charles Curtis started his six-year term as the first Native American US Senator.

1892

The Coca-Cola Company was incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.

1861

Kansas entered the Union, making it the 34th state to join the United States of America.

1845

The New York Evening Mirror published Edgar Allan Poe's famous poem 'The Raven.'

1781

Wolfgang Mozart's opera 'Idomeneo' premiered at the Cuvilliés Theatre in Munich, Germany.

1595

One of William Shakespeare's most acclaimed plays, 'Romeo & Juliet' was performed for the first time.