History Events on January 29

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.

#Hippie

Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.

#Henry_Clay

Quebec City mosque shooting: Alexandre Bissonnette opens fire at mosque in Sainte-Foy, Quebec, killing six and wounding 19 others in a spree shooting.

#Quebec_City_mosque_shooting

The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.

#List_of_members_of_the_Baseball_Hall_of_Fame

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

#Andrew_Jackson

2013 Alabama bunker hostage crisis, after shooting and killing of school bus driver, 66 years old Charles Albert Poland, Jr, by 65 year old Vietnam War era veteran, Jimmy Lee Dykes.

#2013_Alabama_bunker_hostage_crisis

An Lushan, leader of a revolt against the Tang dynasty and emperor of Yan, is murdered by his own son, An Qingxu.

#An_Lushan

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

#World_War_I

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.

#Governor_of_Illinois

Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.

#Stamford_Raffles

Caliph Al-Mustakfi is blinded and deposed by Emir Mu'izz al-Dawla, ruler of the Buyid Empire. He is succeeded by Al-Muti as caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate.

#Al-Mustakfi

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

#Indonesia

World War II: The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, USS Chicago (CA-29) is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.

#World_War_II

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

#Gulf_War

In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical theatre of the Archiginnasio is completely destroyed in an air-raid, during the Second World War.

#Bologna

SCAT Airlines Flight 760 crashes near the Kazakh city of Almaty, killing 21 people.

#SCAT_Airlines_Flight_760

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.

#Kiev_Arsenal_January_Uprising

Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.

#Charles_Curtis

Three trains on the Nishinari Line; present Sakurajima Line, in Osaka, Japan, collide and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi Station. One hundred and eighty-one people are killed.

#Sakurajima_Line

"The Raven" is published in The Evening Mirror in New York, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe.

#The_Raven

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.

#Queen_Victoria

The Rubik's Cube makes its international debut at the Ideal Toy Corp. in Earl's Court, London.

#Rubik's_Cube

War of the Sixth Coalition: France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.

#War_of_the_Sixth_Coalition

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

#Kani?kai

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

#Kansas

First Mongol invasion of ??i Vi?t: ??i Vi?t defeats the Mongols at the battle of ?ông B? ??u, forcing the Mongols to withdraw from the country.

#Mongol_invasions_of_Vietnam

Alexandros Koryzis becomes Prime Minister of Greece upon the sudden death of his predecessor, dictator Ioannis Metaxas.

#Alexandros_Koryzis

President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing.

#Jacques_Chirac

Cold War: Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making it the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so.

#Cold_War

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.

#Guangzhou

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.

#Bear_River_Massacre

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.

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.

The first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.

The first Melodifestivalen is held in Cirkus, Stockholm, Sweden.

The Pakistan Socialist Party is founded in Karachi.

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.

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

Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.

Sergius III is consecrated pope, after coming out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.