January 29 Holidays

🕰️ On This Day in History

• 2017 — Quebec City mosque shooting Alexandre Bissonnette opens fire at mosque in Sainte-Foy, Quebec, killing six and wounding 19 others in a... ↗
• 2013 — SCAT Airlines Flight 760 crashes near the Kazakh city of Almaty, killing 21 people. ↗
• 2009 — The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt rules that people who do not adhere to one of the three government-recognised religions, while... ↗
• 2009 — Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is removed from office following his conviction of several corruption charges, including the... ↗
• 2005 — The first direct commercial flights from mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a... ↗

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🎂 Notable Births

• 1989 — Kevin Shattenkirk, American ice hockey player
• 1988 — Tatyana Chernova, Russian heptathlete
• 1988 — Shay Logan, English footballer
• 1988 — Aydın Yılmaz, Turkish footballer
• 1987 — José Abreu, Cuban baseball player