Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Jan 29
Reuters
1941 - Ioannis Metaxas, prime minister of Greece from 1936, died.
1986 - Yoweri Museveni sworn-in as Uganda's Head of State.
1996 - Venice's opera house, fatefully named La Fenice or "The Phoenix", was destroyed by fire for the second time in its history.
2000 - Song Yongyi, a Chinese academic based in the United States and detained in China on suspicion of gathering state secrets, left for home after being freed.
2001 - Student protesters storm Indonesian parliament.
2002 - Biggest cappuccino in the world made in Verona.
2002 - U.S. President George W. Bush describes "axis of evil" in State of the Union address.
2005 - Historic charter flights between China and Taiwan are launched.
2013 - SCAT Airlines passenger plane crash in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
2017 - Fatal shooting at Quebec City mosque.
2017 - World record set in Argentina for most people floating while holding hands.
