What Day of the Week

January 29, 2021 was the 29^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 336 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Friday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Kin'yōbi.

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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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• 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.
• 1863

  Bear River Massacre.
• 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.
• 1963

  The first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.
• 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.
• 1996

  President Jacques Chirac announces a “definitive end” to French nuclear weapons testing.
• 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.

• 1905

  Barnett Newman, American painter (d. 1970)
• 1932

  Tommy Taylor, English footballer (d. 1958)
• 1937

  Bobby Scott, American musician, producer and songwriter (d. 1990)
• 1942

  Claudine Longet, French singer and dancer
• 1947

  Marián Varga, Slovak musician
• 1953

  Dwight Takamine, Okinawan-American Hawaii state senator
• 1960

  Sean Kerly, English field hockey player
• 1961

  Petra Thumer, German swimmer
• 1977

  Justin Hartley, American actor
• 1986

  Drew Tyler Bell, American actor

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