Ingenpedia:OnThisDay/January 29, 2021

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 * 1845 – American poet Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" appeared in The Evening Mirror, its first publication attributed to Poe.
 * 1856 – Queen Victoria introduced the Victoria Cross, originally to recognise acts of valour by British military personnel during the Crimean War.
 * 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.
 * 1959 – The first Melodifestivalen, an annual Swedish music competition that determines the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest, was held in Stockholm.
 * 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 nineteen others.
 * Born/died: | Salih ibn Wasif |d|870| 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| Alice Catherine Evans |b|1881| Teresa Teng |b|1953| Jean-Marie Doré |d|2016|