About January 29
January 29, 2025 is the 29th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 336 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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.
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.
- 1943 –The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, U.S. cruiser Chicago is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 –President Jacques Chirac announces a “definitive end” to French nuclear weapons testing.
- 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.
- 2006 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Dog in Chinese astrology.
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