About January 29
January 29, 2023 is the 29th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 336 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 377 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.
- 1834 –US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.
- 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.
- 1863 –Bear River Massacre.
- 1886 –Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
- 1903 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- 1916 –World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
- 1936 –The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1996 –President Jacques Chirac announces a “definitive end” to French nuclear weapons testing.
- 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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