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Sunday January 29, 2023

January 29: Day of the Week

January 29, 2023 was the 29th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 336 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Sunday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is domingo.

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

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Zodiac & Birthstone

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.

January 29 Historical Event(s)

  • 1834
    US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.
  • 1845
    “The Raven” is published in the New York Evening Mirror, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe
  • 1886
    Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
  • 1903
    New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
  • 1936
    The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1985
    Final recording session of We Are The World, by the supergroup USA for Africa.
  • 1996
    La Fenice, Venice’s opera house, is destroyed by fire.

Who were born on January 29?

  • 1749
    King Christian VII of Denmark (d. 1808)
  • 1915
    John Serry, Sr., American musician and arranger (d. 2003)
  • 1924
    Luigi Nono, Italian composer (d. 1990)
  • 1930
    Derek Bailey, English guitar virtuoso (d. 2005)
  • 1939
    Germaine Greer, Australian writer
  • 1942
    Claudine Longet, French singer and dancer
  • 1952
    Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-born musician and record producer (The Ramones)
  • 1968
    Edward Burns, American actor
  • 1980
    Yael Bar-Zohar, Israeli actress and model
  • 1985
    Athina Onassis, French heiress

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