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

  • 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
  • 1861 –
    Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
  • 1863 –
    Bear River Massacre.
  • 1886 –
    Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
  • 1891 –
    Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, its last monarch.
  • 1900 –
    The American League is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with 8 founding teams.
  • 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.
  • 1936 –
    The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.
  • 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.
  • 1963 –
    The first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.
  • 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.
  • 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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