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.
  • 1819 –
    Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.
  • 1850 –
    Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.
  • 1861 –
    Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
  • 1863 –
    Bear River Massacre.
  • 1886 –
    Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
  • 1900 –
    The American League is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with 8 founding teams.
  • 1916 –
    World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
  • 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.
  • 1943 –
    The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, U.S. cruiser Chicago is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.
  • 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.
  • 1979 –
    Brenda Spencer kills two people and wounds eight at the Grover Cleveland Elementary School shootings.
  • 1985 –
    Final recording session of We Are The World, by the supergroup USA for Africa.
  • 1987 –
    New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
  • 1996 –
    President Jacques Chirac announces a “definitive end” to French nuclear weapons testing.
  • 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.
  • 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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