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, 482,808 hours 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
- 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
- 1856 –Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross.
- 1886 –Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
- 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.
- 1949 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Ox in Chinese astrology.
- 1985 –Final recording session of We Are The World, by the supergroup USA for Africa.
- 1989 –Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making it the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so
- 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.
Who were born on January 29?
- 1715 –Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian composer (d. 1777)
- 1749 –King Christian VII of Denmark (d. 1808)
- 1891 –Elizaveta Gerdt, Russian ballerina (d. 1975)
- 1911 –Peter von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1986)
- 1932 –George Allen, English footballer
- 1939 –Germaine Greer, Australian writer
- 1976 –Charles Divins, American model and actor
- 1977 –Chaly Jones, Dutch footballer
- 1979 –Andrew Keegan, American actor
- 1982 –Adam Lambert, American actor and singer
Who died on January 29?
- 1678 –Jeronimo Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit missionary (b. 1593)
- 1906 –King Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818)
- 1948 –Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (b. 1900)
- 1959 –Winifred Brunton, British-born South African painter (b. 1880)
- 1963 –Robert Frost, American poet (b. 1874)
- 1977 –Buster Nupen, South African cricketer (b. 1902)
- 1980 –Jimmy Durante, American actor and comedian (b. 1893)
- 1998 –Joseph Alioto, American politician (b. 1916)
- 2007 –Barbaro, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 2003)
- 2009 –Hélio Gracie, Brazilian martial artist (b. 1913)
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