1. In 1756, during the French and Indian War, General John Armstrong and his colonial troops destroyed the native Lenape Indian village of Kittanning in present-day Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, in a surprise raid.

2. On January 29, 1891, longtime Philadelphia Phillies outfielder and Hall of Famer Ed Delahanty was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Delahanty played for the Phillies from 1888 to 1901 and is regarded as one of the greatest hitters of the dead-ball era of baseball.

3. In 1983, the Pittsburgh Steelers won their fourth Super Bowl title in a victory over the Los Angeles Rams at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. The game was notable for being the first national telecast of the Super Bowl in the United States.

4. On January 29, 1956, the first commercial nuclear power plant in the United States began operation in Shippingport, Pennsylvania. The plant was operated by the Duquesne Light Company and had a capacity of 60 megawatts.

5. In 1845, American author and poet Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" was first published in the New York Evening Mirror. Poe had lived in Philadelphia for several years and had worked for various newspapers in the city, including the Philadelphia Inquirer.