What are the important events that happened on January 29? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
January 29: Facts & Myths About This Day
January 29 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 16, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,968,480 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘icosienneagon’ day.
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Aquarius is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,422 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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January 29 Historical Events
- 1676 –Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia.
- 1819 –Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.
- 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.
- 1903 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- 1963 –The first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.
- 1979 –Brenda Spencer kills two people and wounds eight at the Grover Cleveland Elementary School shootings.
- 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.
- 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.
Who were born on January 29?
- 1711 –Giuseppe Bonno, Austrian composer (d. 1788)
- 1891 –Elizaveta Gerdt, Russian ballerina (d. 1975)
- 1926 –Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1996)
- 1942 –Claudine Longet, French singer and dancer
- 1953 –Hwang Woo-Suk, South Korean biomedical scientist
- 1970 –Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Indian shooter
- 1979 –Andreas Thorstensson, Swedish website developer
- 1986 –Drew Tyler Bell, American actor
- 1986 –Mark Howard, English football player
- 1993 –Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Japanese model, blogger and recording artist
Who died on January 29?
- 1240 –Pelagio Galvani, Cardinal-Bishop of Albano (b. c. 1165)
- 1647 –Francis Meres, English writer (b. 1565)
- 1696 –Tsar Ivan V of Russia, Russian tsar (b. 1666)
- 1899 –Alfred Sisley, British impressionist painter (b. 1839)
- 1956 –H. L. Mencken, American journalist (b. 1880)
- 1962 –Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist (b. 1875)
- 1977 –Buster Nupen, South African cricketer (b. 1902)
- 1992 –Willie Dixon, American composer and musician (b. 1915)
- 1993 –Ron Kostelnik, American football player (b. 1940)
- 2009 –Hélio Gracie, Brazilian martial artist (b. 1913)
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