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On January 29, 1886, German engineer Karl Benz patented the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, considered the world's first automobile powered by an internal combustion engine. The three-wheeled vehicle, with a 0.75 hp engine, was the starting point of the automotive industry that would transform transportation, cities and the global lifestyle of the twentieth century.

On January 29, 1845, Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" was published in The American Review — the most famous work in American horror literature. The poem, with its celebrated refrain "Nevermore" spoken by the raven, was an immediate success and catapulted Poe's fame, though the author received only $9 for it. It is one of the most memorised poems in the English language.

On January 29, 2002, President George W. Bush delivered his State of the Union address in which he described Iraq, Iran and North Korea as the "Axis of Evil" — a phrase that would define American foreign policy in the post-9/11 era and justify the invasion of Iraq in 2003 on the pretext of weapons of mass destruction.