About January 29
January 29, 2024 is the 29th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 337 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 12 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 29
- 904 –Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
- 1819 –Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.
- 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.
- 1891 –Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, its last monarch.
- 1900 –The American League is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with 8 founding teams.
- 1916 –World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2025 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Snake in Chinese astrology.
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