What Day of the Week

January 29, 2020 was the 29^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 337 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Wednesday.

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

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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
• 1856

  Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross.
• 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.
• 1949

  New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Ox in Chinese astrology.
• 1963

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

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

• 1843

  William McKinley, American politician, 39th Governor of Ohio, and 25th President of the United States (d. 1901)
• 1860

  Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (d. 1904)
• 1866

  Julio Peris Brell, Spanish painter (d. 1944)
• 1922

  Gerda Steinhoff, Nazi concentration camp supervisor (d. 1946)
• 1940

  Kunimitsu Takahashi, Japanese motorcycle racer and racing driver
• 1947

  Linda B. Buck, American scientist, Nobel laureate
• 1953

  Ronnie Moore, English footballer
• 1961

  Petra Thumer, German swimmer
• 1971

  Clare Balding, British sports presenter
• 1980

  Yael Bar-Zohar, Israeli actress and model

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