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
- 904 –Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
- 1834 –US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.
- 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.
- 1963 –The first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.
- 1996 –La Fenice, Venice’s opera house, is destroyed by fire.
- 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.
Who were born on January 29?
- 1911 –Peter von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1986)
- 1913 –Victor Mature, American actor (d. 1999)
- 1923 –Ivo Robić, Croatian singer and songwriter (d. 2000)
- 1924 –Peter Voulkos, American artist (d. 2002)
- 1960 –Greg Louganis, American diver
- 1961 –Petra Thumer, German swimmer
- 1965 –Peter Lundgren, Swedish tennis coach
- 1976 –Charles Divins, American model and actor
- 1978 –Martin Schmitt, German ski jumper
- 1979 –Marvin Agustin, Filipino actor and entrepreneur
Who died on January 29?
- 1597 –Elias Ammerbach, German organist (b. 1530)
- 1737 –George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier (b. 1666)
- 1763 –Louis Racine, French poet (b. 1692)
- 1918 –Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin, Russian-counter revolutionary (b. 1861)
- 1928 –Douglas Haig, British soldier (b. 1861)
- 1951 –Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (b. 1880)
- 1956 –H. L. Mencken, American journalist (b. 1880)
- 1986 –Leif Erickson, American actor (b. 1911)
- 1991 –Yasushi Inoue, Japanese historian (b. 1907)
- 2008 –Philippe Khorsand, French actor (b. 1948)
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