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| January 29th, 2005 | Event | The first direct commercial flights from the mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines carrier landed in Beijing. |
| January 29th, 2002 | Event | In his State of the Union Address, United States President George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of Evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea. |
| January 29th, 2001 | Event | Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals. |
| January 29th, 1998 | Event | In Birmingham, Alabama, a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic, killing one and severely wounding another. Serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph is suspected as the culprit. |
| January 29th, 1996 | Event | President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear testing. |
| January 29th, 1996 | Event | La Fenice, Venice s opera house, is destroyed by fire. |
| January 29th, 1989 | Event | Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making them the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so |
| January 29th, 1979 | Event | Brenda Ann Spencer kills 2 and injures 9 in the Cleveland Elementary School shootings, inspiring the "I don t Like Mondays" song by Boomtown Rats. |
| January 29th, 1978 | Event | Sweden outlaws aerosol sprays due to their harmful effect on the ozone layer, becoming the first nation to enact such a ban. |
| January 29th, 1966 | Event | The first of 608 performances of Sweet Charity opens at the Palace Theatre, New York. |
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