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Day Of The Week: 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 2025. The day of the week is Wednesday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Aquarius is your zodiac sign. Garnet is your modern birthstone. Emerald is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: January 29
- 904 –Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
- 1814 –France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.
- 1863 –Bear River Massacre.
- 1916 –World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
- 1940 –Three trains on the Sakurajima Line, in Osaka, Japan, collide and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi Station. 181 people are killed.
- 1949 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Ox in Chinese astrology.
- 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.
- 1989 –Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making it the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so
- 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.
Who were born on January 29?
- 1926 –Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1996)
- 1952 –Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-born musician and record producer (The Ramones)
- 1953 –Charlie Wilson, American singer (The Gap Band)
- 1957 –Grazyna Miller, Italian poet, translator, and journalist
- 1960 –J. G. Thirlwell, Australian-born musician
- 1969 –Hyde, Japanese singer (L'Arc-en-Ciel)
- 1976 –Chris Castle, American singer-songwriter
- 1979 –Andrew Keegan, American actor
- 1979 –Sui Feifei, Chinese basketball player
- 1987 –Alex Avila, American baseball player
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