What Day of the Week

January 29, 2022 was the 29^th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 336 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Saturday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is samedi.

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Here’s the January calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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.

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• 904

  Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
• 1845

  “The Raven” is published in the New York Evening Mirror, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe
• 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: 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.
• 1979

  Brenda Spencer kills two people and wounds eight at the Grover Cleveland Elementary School shootings.
• 1991

  Gulf War: The Battle of Khafji, the first major ground engagement of the war, as well as its deadliest, begins.
• 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.
• 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.
• 2006

  New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Dog in Chinese astrology.

• 1688

  Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish scientist and philosopher (d. 1772)
• 1782

  Daniel Auber, French composer (d. 1871)
• 1876

  Havergal Brian, British composer (d. 1972)
• 1915

  Bill Peet, American children’s book illustrator
• 1926

  Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1996)
• 1944

  Patrick Lipton Robinson, Jamaican judge
• 1950

  Jody Scheckter, South African race car driver
• 1953

  Ronnie Moore, English footballer
• 1961

  Mike Aldrete, Carmel, California
• 1963

  Monica Horan, American actress

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