Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 29
This is a list of selected January 29 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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"The Raven" illustration
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Charles Curtis -
Pope Sergius III -
"Mantra-Rock Dance" poster
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 757 – An Lushan, leader of a revolt against the Tang dynasty and emperor of Yan, was murdered by his own son, An Qingxu. | refimprove sections |
| 904 – Sergius III (pictured), whose pontificate was marked by feudal violence and disorder in central Italy, returned from exile to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher. | citations needed |
| 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 |
| 1911 – Mexican Revolution: The Magonista rebellion began when Mexican Liberal Party troops captured the town of Mexicali. | 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
- 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.
- 1907 – Charles Curtis of Kansas became the first Native American U.S. Senator.
- 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.
- 2006 – India's Irfan Pathan became the only bowler to take a Test cricket hat-trick in the opening over of a match.
- 2009 – The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt ruled that people who did not adhere to one of the three government-recognised religions are also eligible to receive government identity documents.
- 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.
- Born/died: | Pope Gelasius II |d|1119| Giuliano Bugiardini |b|1475| Emanuel Swedenborg |b|1688| Albert Gallatin |b|1761 Mary Whitwell Hale |b|1810| 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 |Elin Rombo |b|1976| Colleen McCullough |d|2015| 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)
- 1814 – War of the Sixth Coalition: At the Battle of Brienne, both sides' commanders, Napoleon and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, were nearly captured.
- 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.
- 2013 – Twenty-one people died when SCAT Airlines Flight 760 crashed near Almaty, Kazakhstan.
- Salih ibn Wasif (d. 870)
- George III (d. 1820)
- Teresa Teng (b. 1953)
- Jarell Quansah (b. 2003)