Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 29

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 * 1856 – Queen Victoria introduced the Victoria Cross, originally to recognise acts of valour by British military personnel during the Crimean War.
 * 1891 – Liliʻuokalani, the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Hawaiian Kingdom, ascended the throne.
 * 1907 – Charles Curtis of Kansas became the first Native American U.S. Senator.
 * 1943 – World War II: The Battle of Rennell Island, the last major naval engagement between the United States Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Guadalcanal campaign, began.
 * 1944 – World War II: At least 38 civilians were killed and about a dozen others injured when the Polish village of Koniuchy was attacked by a Soviet partisan unit with a contingent of Jewish partisans.
 * 2006 – India's Irfan Pathan became the only bowler to take a Test cricket hat-trick in the opening over of a match.
 * 2009 – The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt ruled that people who did not adhere to one of the three government-recognised religions are also eligible to receive government identity documents.
 * 2017 – A lone gunman carried out a mass shooting at a mosque in Quebec City, Canada, killing six people and injuring up to nineteen others.
 * Born/died: | Pope Gelasius II |d|1119| Giuliano Bugiardini |b|1475| Emanuel Swedenborg |b|1688| Albert Gallatin |b|1761 Mary Whitwell Hale |b|1810| Frederick Delius |b|1862| Józefa Joteyko |b|1866| Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé |d|1871| Alice Catherine Evans |b|1881| Geraldine Pittman Woods |b|1921| Hy Cohen |b|1931| Aminah Cendrakasih |b|1938 |Elin Rombo |b|1976| Colleen McCullough |d|2015| Jean-Marie Doré |d|2016