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.
- 1819 –Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.
- 1850 –Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.
- 1856 –Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross.
- 1861 –Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
- 1891 –Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, its last monarch.
- 1900 –The American League is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with 8 founding teams.
- 1903 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- 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.
- 1918 –Ukrainian-Soviet War: The Bolshevik Red Army, on its way to besiege Kiev, is met by a small group of military students at the Battle of Kruty.
- 1936 –The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.
- 1943 –The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, U.S. cruiser Chicago is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.
- 1944 –In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical Theatre of the Archiginnasio is destroyed in an air-raid.
- 1944 –World War II: The Battle of Cisterna takes place in central Italy.
- 1963 –The first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.
- 1967 –The “ultimate high” of the hippie era, the Mantra-Rock Dance, takes place in San Francisco and features Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, and Allen Ginsberg.
- 1996 –La Fenice, Venice’s opera house, is destroyed by fire.
- 1996 –President Jacques Chirac announces a “definitive end” to French nuclear weapons testing.
- 1998 –In Birmingham, Alabama, a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic, killing one and severely wounding another. Serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph is suspected as the culprit.
- 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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