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Thursday, 29 January 2026

2006

India's Irfan Pathan becomes the first bowler to take a Test cricket hat-trick in the opening over of a match.

2005

The first direct commercial flights from mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines flight lands in Beijing.

2002

In his State of the Union Address, President George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an ''Axis of Evil'', in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.

2001

Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.

1998

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.

1996

President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing.

La Fenice, Venice's opera house, is destroyed by fire.

1989

Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making it the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so

1985

Final recording session of We Are The World, by the supergroup USA for Africa.

1979

Brenda Spencer kills two people and wounds eight at the Grover Cleveland Elementary School shootings.

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