WHAT HAPPENED ON 29. JANUARY
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Alexandros Koryzis becomes Prime Minister of Greece upon the sudden death of his predecessor, dictator Ioannis Metaxas. (29. January 1941)

The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, U.S. cruiser Chicago is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers. (29. January 1943)

World War II: Approximately 38 people are killed and about a dozen injured when the Polish village of Koniuchy (present-day Kaniūkai, Lithuania) is attacked by Soviet partisan units. (29. January 1944)

In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical theatre of the Archiginnasio is destroyed in an air-raid. (29. January 1944)

The first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced. (29. January 1963)

The "ultimate high" of the hippie era, the Mantra-Rock Dance, takes place in San Francisco and features Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, and Allen Ginsberg. (29. January 1967)

Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making it the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so (29. January 1989)

Gulf War: The Battle of Khafji, the first major ground engagement of the war, as well as its deadliest, begins. (29. January 1991)

President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing. (29. January 1996)

La Fenice, Venice's opera house, is destroyed by fire. (29. January 1996)

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. (29. January 1998)

Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals. (29. January 2001)

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. (29. January 2002)

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. (29. January 2005)

India's Irfan Pathan became the first bowler to take a Test cricket hat-trick in the opening over of a match. (29. January 2006)

The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt rules that people who do not adhere to one of the three government-recognised religions, while not allowed to list any belief outside of those three, are still eligible to receive government identity documents. (29. January 2009)

Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is removed from office following his conviction 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. (29. January 2009)

SCAT Airlines Flight 760 crashes near the Kazakh city of Almaty, killing 21 people. (29. January 2013)