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The following events took place on January 29. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 42 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 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.
• 1676

  Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia.
• 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.
• 1940

  Three trains on the Sakurajima Line, in Osaka, Japan, collide and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi Station. One hundred eighty-one people are killed.
• 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.
• 1944

  In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical theatre of the Archiginnasio is destroyed in an air-raid.
• 1948

  The Pakistan Socialist Party is founded in Karachi.
• 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.

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