Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 29
- 904 – Sergius III came out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
- 1850 – U.S. Senator Henry Clay introduced the Compromise of 1850, a series of laws designed to balance the interests between the slaveholding Southern United States and the free states of the north.
- 1856 – The Victoria Cross was created, originally to recognise acts of valour by British and Commonwealth military personnel during the Crimean War.
- 1886 – German engine designer and engineer Karl Benz filed a patent for the Motorwagen (replica pictured), the first purpose-built, gasoline-driven automobile.
- 2002 – In his State of the Union Address, U.S. President George W. Bush described governments that he accused of sponsoring terrorism and seeking weapons of mass destruction as an "axis of evil", specifically naming Iran, Iraq and North Korea.
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