Wiki143:Selected anniversaries/January 29
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Henry Clay
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Karl Benz's "Motorwagen"
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Queen Liliʻuokalani
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe
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"The Raven" illustration
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Charles Curtis
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Pope Sergius III
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"Mantra-Rock Dance" poster
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Singapore cable car crash
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| 1850 – U.S. Senator Henry Clay introduced the Compromise of 1850, a series of laws designed to balance the interests between the slaveholding Southern United States and the free states of the north. | refimprove section |
| 1863 – American Indian Wars: The U.S. Army led by Patrick Edward Connor massacred Chief Bear Hunter and Shoshone forces at the Bear River Massacre in present-day Franklin County, Idaho. | citations needed |
| 1886 – German engine designer and engineer Karl Benz filed a patent for the Motorwagen, the first purpose-built, gasoline-driven automobile. | refimprove |
| 2002 – In his State of the Union Address, U.S. president George W. Bush described governments he accused of sponsoring terrorism and seeking weapons of mass destruction as an "axis of evil", specifically naming Iran, Iraq, and North Korea. | refimprove |
| 2009 – Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich was convicted 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. | already featured on December 9 |
| Hélio Gracie |d|2009 | unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 904 – Sergius III returned from exile to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
- 1814 – War of the Sixth Coalition: At the Battle of Brienne, both sides' commanders, Napoleon and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, were nearly captured.
- 1845 – American poet Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" appeared in The Evening Mirror as the newspaper's first publication attributed to Poe.
- 1856 – Queen Victoria introduced the Victoria Cross, originally to recognise acts of valour by British military personnel during the Crimean War.
- 1891 – Liliʻuokalani, the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Hawaiian Kingdom, ascended the throne.
- 1911 – Mexican Revolution: The Magonista rebellion began when Mexican Liberal Party troops captured the town of Mexicali.
- 1943 – World War II: The Battle of Rennell Island, the last major naval engagement between the United States Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Guadalcanal campaign, began.
- 1944 – World War II: At least 38 civilians were killed and about a dozen others injured when the Polish village of Koniuchy was attacked by a Soviet partisan unit with a contingent of Jewish partisans.
- 1967 – The Mantra-Rock Dance (poster pictured), called the "ultimate high" of the hippie era, took place in San Francisco, featuring Swami Bhaktivedanta, Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, and Allen Ginsberg.
- 1991 – The first major ground engagement of the Gulf War began with the Iraqi invasion of Khafji, Saudi Arabia, recaptured three days later by Coalition forces.
- 2009 – The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt ruled that people who did not adhere to one of the three government-recognised religions were also eligible to receive government identity documents.
- 2013 – Twenty-one people died when SCAT Airlines Flight 760 crashed near Almaty, Kazakhstan.
- Born/died: | Salih ibn Wasif |d|870| Pope Gelasius II |d|1119| Giuliano Bugiardini |b|1475| Emanuel Swedenborg |b|1688| Albert Gallatin |b|1761| George III |d|1820| Frederick Delius |b|1862| Józefa Joteyko |b|1866| Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé |d|1871| Alice Catherine Evans |b|1881| Geraldine Pittman Woods |b|1921| Hy Cohen |b|1931| Aminah Cendrakasih |b|1938| Teresa Teng |b|1953| Jarell Quansah|b|2003 Jean-Marie Doré |d|2016
Notes
- Victoria Cross for Australia appears on January 15, so Victoria Cross should not appear in the same year
- Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii appears on January 17, so Liliuokalani should not appear in the same year
- Pope Sylvester I appears on January 31, so Sergius III should not appear in the same year
January 29: Chinese New Year (2025); Kansas Day (Kansas, United States); Korean New Year (2025); Tết (Vietnam, 2025) Template:Main page image/OTD
- 757 – An Lushan, leader of a revolt against the Tang dynasty and emperor of Yan, was assassinated in a plot involving his own son, An Qingxu.
- 946 – The Abbasid caliph, al-Mustakfi, was deposed, going on to spend the rest of his life as a prisoner in the caliphal palace.
- 1907 – Kaw Nation citizen Charles Curtis (pictured) of Kansas became the first Native American U. S. Senator.
- 2006 – India's Irfan Pathan became the only bowler to take a Test cricket hat-trick in the opening over of a match.
- 2017 – A lone gunman carried out a mass shooting at a mosque in Quebec City, Canada, killing six people and injuring up to nineteen others.
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