January 29 in History

Historical Events on January 29

1834 US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.

1861 Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.

1891 Liliuokalani is proclaimed the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

1916 World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.

1944 World War II: Approximately 38 people are killed and about a dozen injured when the Polish village of Koniuchy (present-day Kaniūkai, Lithuania) is attacked by Soviet partisan units.

1967 The "ultimate high" of the hippie era, the Mantra-Rock Dance, takes place in San Francisco and features Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, and Allen Ginsberg.

1991 Gulf War: The Battle of Khafji, the first major ground engagement of the war, as well as its deadliest, begins.

2001 Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.

2005 The first direct commercial flights from mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines flight lands in Beijing.

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Famous Birthdays on January 29

1939 Germaine Greer

1954 Oprah Winfrey

1970 Paul Ryan

1982 Adam Lambert

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Famous Deaths on January 29

1820 George III of the United Kingdom

1928 Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

2016 Jacques Rivette

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