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Historical Events on January 29

661
The Rashidun Caliphate ends with the death of Ali, and the Imamah of the Shia going to the second Imam, Hassan ibn Ali
757
An Lushan, leader of a revolt against the Tang dynasty and emperor of Yan, is murdered by his own son, An Qingxu.
904
Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
1258
First Mongol invasion of Đại Việt: Đại Việt defeats the Mongols at the battle of Đông Bộ Đầu, forcing the Mongols to withdraw from the country.
1790
The first boat specializing as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne.
1814
War of the Sixth Coalition: France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.
1819
Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.
1834
US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.
1845
"The Raven" is published in The Evening Mirror in New York, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe
1850
Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.
1856
Queen Victoria issues a Warrant under the Royal sign-manual that establishes the Victoria Cross to recognise acts of valour by British military personnel during the Crimean War.
1861
Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
1863
The Bear River Massacre: A detachment of California Volunteers led by Colonel Patrick Edward Connor engage the Shoshone at Bear River, Washington Territory, killing hundreds of men women and children.
1886
Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
1891
Liliuokalani is proclaimed the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
1900
The American League is organized in Philadelphia with eight founding teams.
1907
Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
1916
World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
1918
Ukrainian-Soviet War: The Bolshevik Red Army, on its way to besiege Kiev, is met by a small group of military students at the Battle of Kruty.
1918
Ukrainian-Soviet War: An armed uprising organized by the Bolsheviks in anticipation of the encroaching Red Army begins at the Kiev Arsenal, which will be put down six days later.
1936
The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.
1941
Alexandros Koryzis becomes Prime Minister of Greece upon the sudden death of his predecessor, dictator Ioannis Metaxas.
1943
The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, U.S. cruiser Chicago is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.
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.
1963
The first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.
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.
1989
Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making it the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so.
1991
Gulf War: The Battle of Khafji, the first major ground engagement of the war, as well as its deadliest, begins.
1996
President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing.
2001
Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
2002
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.
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.
2009
The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt rules that people who do not adhere to one of the three government-recognised religions, while not allowed to list any belief outside of those three, are still eligible to receive government identity documents.
2009
Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is removed from office following his conviction of several corruption charges, including the alleged 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
SCAT Airlines Flight 760 crashes near the Kazakh city of Almaty, killing 21 people.
2017
Quebec City mosque shooting Alexandre Bissonnette opens fire at mosque in Sainte-Foy, Quebec, killing six and wounding 19 others in a spree shooting.

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