About January 29
January 29, 2025 is the 29th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 336 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
What Happened On January 29
- 1676 –Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia.
- 1814 –France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.
- 1819 –Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.
- 1845 –“The Raven” is published in the New York Evening Mirror, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe
- 1856 –Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross.
- 1863 –Bear River Massacre.
- 1886 –Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
- 1900 –The American League is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with 8 founding teams.
- 1916 –World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
- 1918 –Ukrainian-Soviet War: An armed uprising organized by the Bolsheviks in anticipation of the encroaching Red Army begins at the Kiev Arsenal, which will be put down six days later.
- 1940 –Three trains on the Sakurajima Line, in Osaka, Japan, collide and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi Station. 181 people are killed.
- 1944 –In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical Theatre of the Archiginnasio is destroyed in an air-raid.
- 1949 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Ox in Chinese astrology.
- 1985 –Final recording session of We Are The World, by the supergroup USA for Africa.
- 1989 –Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making it the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so
- 1991 –Gulf War: The Battle of Khafji, the first major ground engagement of the war, as well as its deadliest, begins.
- 1996 –La Fenice, Venice’s opera house, is destroyed by fire.
- 2001 –Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
- 2002 –In his State of the Union Address, President George W. Bush describes “regimes that sponsor terror” as an Axis of Evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.
- 2005 –The first direct commercial flights from mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines flight lands in Beijing.
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