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January 29th, 2005EventThe 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, 2002EventIn 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, 2001EventThousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
January 29th, 1998EventIn 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, 1996EventPresident Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear testing.
January 29th, 1996EventLa Fenice, Venice s opera house, is destroyed by fire.
January 29th, 1989EventHungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making them the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so
January 29th, 1979EventBrenda 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, 1978EventSweden outlaws aerosol sprays due to their harmful effect on the ozone layer, becoming the first nation to enact such a ban.
January 29th, 1966EventThe first of 608 performances of Sweet Charity opens at the Palace Theatre, New York.

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