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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