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
- 1814 –France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.
- 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.
- 1856 –Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross.
- 1863 –Bear River Massacre.
- 1886 –Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1987 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- 1989 –Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making it the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so
- 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.
- 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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