About January 29

January 29, 2021 is the 29th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 336 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

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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.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 14 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On January 29

  • 904 –
    Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
  • 1676 –
    Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia.
  • 1819 –
    Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.
  • 1834 –
    US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.
  • 1845 –
    “The Raven” is published in the New York Evening Mirror, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe
  • 1850 –
    Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.
  • 1861 –
    Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
  • 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: 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.
  • 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.
  • 1979 –
    Brenda Spencer kills two people and wounds eight at the Grover Cleveland Elementary School shootings.
  • 1985 –
    Final recording session of We Are The World, by the supergroup USA for Africa.
  • 1987 –
    New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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