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February 1 Events 1713 - The Kalabalik or Skirmish at Bender resulted from the Ottoman sultan's order that his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized.     The  Skirmish at Bender  (Swedish :  Kalabaliken i Bender  and Finnish:  Benderin kalabaliikki ) was devised to remove Charles XII of Sweden  from the Ottoman Empire  after his military defeats in Russia. It took place on February 1, 1713, on Ottoman  territory, in what is now the town of Bender, Moldova.  After the Swedish defeat at the Battle of Poltava on June 27, 1709, and the surrender of most of the Swedish army at Perevolochna three days later, Charles XII of Sweden fled together with a few hundred Swedish soldiers and a large number of Cossacks to the Ottoman Empire, where they spent a total of five years. On January 31, 1713, Turkish artillery fired on the Swedish camp. On February 1, the Ottoman forces, commanded by the Serasker...

January 31 Events 1900 - Datu Muhammad Salleh was killed in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion. 1942 - World War II: Allied forces were defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to Singapore. 1946 - Cold War: Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling that of the Soviet Union, established six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia) 2001 - In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicted Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquitted another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland,   2019 - Abdullah of Pahang was sworn in as the 16th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia. Births 1884 - Mammad Amin Rasulzade, Azerbaijani scholar and politician, 1st President of The Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan (d. 1955)  1960 - Akbar Ganji, Iranian journalist and author 1966 - Umar Alisha, Indian journalist and philanthropist Deaths 1561 - Bairam Kh...

January 30 Events 1925 - The Government of Turkey expelled Patriarch Constantine VI.  1942 - World War II: Battle of Ambon.  Japanese forces invaded the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies.  Some 300 captured Allied troops are massacred at Laha airfield.  Three-fourths of the remaining POWs did not have survive, including 250 men who were shipped to Hainan Island in the South China Sea and never returned. 1959 - The forces of the Sultanate of Muscat occupied the last strongholds of the Imamate of Oman, Saiq and Shuraijah, marking the end of Jebel Akhdar War in Oman. 1960 - The African National Party was founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.  1972 - Pakistan left the Commonwealth of Nations in protest of its recognition of breakaway Bangladesh.   1989 - The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan was closed. Births 1938 - Islam Karimov, Uzbek politician, 1st President of Uzbekistan (d. 2016) 1962 - Abdullah II of Jordan 1987...

January 29 Events 946 - Caliph Al-Mustakfi was blinded and deposed by Emir Mu'izz al-Dawla, ruler of the Buyid Empire.  He was succeeded by Al-Mufti as caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate.  1948 - The Pakistan Socialist Party was founded in Karachi. 1996 - President Jacques Chirac announced a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing. 2001 - Thousands of student protestors in Indonesia stormed parliament and demanded that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.  2002 - In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush described "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of Evil , in which he included Iraq, Iran and North Korea.   2009 - The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt ruled that people who do not adhere to one of the three government recognized religions, while not allowed to list any belief outside of those three, were still eligible to receive government identity documents. 2013 - SCAT Airlin...

  January 28 Events 732 (07 Dhu al-Hijjah, AH 114) -  The Twelver and Isma'ili Shi'ite Imam, Muhammad al-Baqir, was poisoned under unresolved circumstances. Muhammad al-Baqir (full name Muhammad bin 'Ali bin al-Husayn bin Ali bin Abi Talib and also known as Abu Ja'far or simply al-Baqir ["the one who opens knowledge"] was the fifth Imam in Shia Islam, succeeding his father Zayn al-Abidin and succeeded by his son Ja'far al-Sadiq.  His mother, Fatima Umm Abdallah, was the daughter of the second Shia Imam, Hasan ibn Ali.  So, Muhammad al-Baqir was the first Imam descended from both grandsons of Muhammad: Hasan ibn Ali and Husayn ibn Ali. Muhammad al-Baqir (b. 01 Rajab 57 AH [May 10, 676], Medina, Umayyad Empire - d. 07 Dhu al-Hijjah AH 114 [January 28, 732], Medina, Umayyad Empire) was born in Medina, about the time when Muawiyah was trying to take the oath of allegiance for his son, Yazid. As a child, al-Baqir witnessed the Tragedy of Karbala, in which a...

January 27 Events 661 - The Rashidun Caliphate was effectively ended with the assassination of 'Ali, the last Rashidun Caliph. 'Ali ibn Abi Talib, the fourth Rashidun caliph and the first Shi'a Imam was assassinated by a Kharijite  named Abd al-Rahman ibn 'Amr ibn Muljam al-Muradi on January 27, 661, at the Great Mosque of Kufah in present-day Iraq.  'Ali, who was then 62 or 63 years of age, died due to his injuries two days after Abd al-Rahman ibn 'Amr ibn Muljam al-Muradi struck 'Ali on his head with a poison-coated sword, on the 21 (or 19) Ramadan 40 AH (January 29 or January 27, 661 CC). He was the third successive caliph, after Umar and Uthman, to be assassinated. 'Ali became the caliph after the assassination of Uthman in 656. However, he faced opposition from some factions including the Levant governor, Muawiyah I.  A civil war, called the First Fitna, took place within the early Islamic state which resulted in the overthrow of th...