📜 This Day in History

January 29

• 757An Lushan, leader of a revolt against the Tang dynasty and emperor of Yan, was assassinated in a plot involving his own son, An Qingxu.
• 1814War of the Sixth Coalition: At the Battle of Brienne, both sides' commanders, Napoleon and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, were nearly captured.
• 1891Liliʻuokalani, the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Hawaiian Kingdom, ascended the throne.
• 1944World 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.
• 2006India's Irfan Pathan became the first bowler to take a Test cricket hat-trick in the opening over of a match.
• 2017A lone gunman carried out a mass shooting at a mosque in Quebec City, Canada, killing six people and injuring up to nineteen others.

Born on this day

• 1843William McKinley, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 25th President of the United States (died 1901)
• 1860Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer (died 1904)
• 1866Romain Rolland, French historian, author, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1944)
• 1954Oprah Winfrey, American talk show host, actress, and producer, founded Harpo Productions