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Events

• 1819 (207 years ago) Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.
• 1973 (53 years ago) EgyptAir Flight 741 crashes into the Kyrenia Mountains in Cyprus, killing 37 people.
• 1991 (35 years ago) Gulf War: The Battle of Khafji, the first major ground engagement of the war, as well as its deadliest, begins between Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
• 2001 (25 years ago) Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
• 2002 (24 years ago) 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.
• 2009 (17 years ago) Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is removed from office following his conviction of several corruption charges, including solicitation of personal benefit in exchange for an appointment to the United States Senate as a replacement for then-U.S. president-elect Barack Obama.
• 2013 (13 years ago) SCAT Airlines Flight 760 crashes near the Kazakh city of Almaty, killing 21 people.
• 2014 (12 years ago) Rojava conflict: The Afrin Canton declares its autonomy from the Syrian Arab Republic.

Births

• 1688 (338 years ago) Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish astronomer, philosopher, and theologian (died 1772)
• 1737 (289 years ago) Thomas Paine, English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary (died 1809)
• 1843 (183 years ago) William McKinley, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 25th President of the United States (died 1901)
• 1860 (166 years ago) Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer (died 1904)
• 1866 (160 years ago) Romain Rolland, French historian, author, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1944)
• 1926 (100 years ago) Abdus Salam, Pakistani-British physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1996)
• 1947 (79 years ago) Linda B. Buck, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1954 (72 years ago) Oprah Winfrey, American talk show host, actress, and producer, founded Harpo Productions

Deaths

• 1119 (907 years ago) Pope Gelasius II,
• 1820 (206 years ago) George III of the United Kingdom,
• 1899 (127 years ago) Alfred Sisley, French-English painter (born 1839)
• 1906 (120 years ago) Christian IX, King of Denmark (born 1818)
• 1934 (92 years ago) Fritz Haber, Polish-German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1868)
• 1956 (70 years ago) H. L. Mencken, American journalist and critic (born 1880)
• 1963 (63 years ago) Robert Frost, American poet and playwright (born 1874)
• 2012 (14 years ago) Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Italian lawyer and politician, 9th President of Italy (born 1918)

All 315 events, births and deaths of January 29