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.
- 1834 –US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.
- 1845 –“The Raven” is published in the New York Evening Mirror, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 –In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical Theatre of the Archiginnasio is destroyed in an air-raid.
- 1944 –World War II: Approximately 38 men, women, and children die in the Koniuchy massacre in Poland.
- 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.
- 1985 –Final recording session of We Are The World, by the supergroup USA for Africa.
- 1996 –La Fenice, Venice’s opera house, is destroyed by fire.
- 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.
- 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.
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