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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2021
January 29 is the 29th day of the year in
the Gregorian calendar.
336 days remain until the end of the year (337 in leap years). Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
904 – Sergius III is consecrated pope, after
coming out of retirement to take over the papacy from
the deposed antipope Christopher.[1] ·
946 – Caliph Al-Mustakfi is blinded and deposed by
Emir Mu'izz al-Dawla,
ruler of the Buyid Empire. He
is succeeded by Al-Muti as caliph
of the Abbasid Caliphate.[2] ·
1258 – First Mongol
invasion of Đại Việt: Đại
Việt defeats the Mongols at the battle of Đông Bộ
Đầu, forcing the Mongols to withdraw from the country. ·
1814 – War of the
Sixth Coalition: France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne. ·
1819 – Stamford Raffles lands on the island
of Singapore. ·
1845 – "The Raven" is published in The Evening Mirror in
New York, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe. ·
1850 – Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to
the U.S. Congress. ·
1856 – Queen Victoria issues a Warrant under the Royal sign-manual that
establishes the Victoria Cross to
recognise acts of valour by British military personnel during
the Crimean War. ·
1861 – Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state. ·
1863 – The Bear River Massacre:
A detachment of California
Volunteers led by Colonel Patrick Edward
Connor engage the Shoshone at Bear River, Washington Territory,
killing hundreds of men, women and children. ·
1886 – Karl Benz patents the first
successful gasoline-driven
automobile. ·
1891 – Liliuokalani is proclaimed the last
monarch and only queen regnant of
the Kingdom of Hawaii. ·
1907 – Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native
American U.S. Senator.[3] ·
1911 – Mexican Revolution: Mexicali is captured by
the Mexican Liberal Party,
igniting the Magonista
rebellion of 1911.[4] ·
1916 – World War I: Paris is first bombed by
German zeppelins. ·
1918 – Ukrainian–Soviet War:
The Bolshevik Red Army, on its way to besiege Kyiv,
is met by a small group of military students at the Battle of Kruty. ·
1918 – Ukrainian–Soviet War: An armed
uprising organized by the Bolsheviks in anticipation of the
encroaching Red Army begins
at the Kiev Arsenal,
which will be put down six days later. ·
1936 – The first
inductees into the Baseball Hall of
Fame are announced. ·
1940 – Three trains on
the Nishinari Line; present Sakurajima Line, in Osaka, Japan, collide and explode while
approaching Ajikawaguchi Station.
One hundred and eighty-one people are killed.[5] ·
1941 – Alexandros Koryzis becomes Prime
Minister of Greece upon the sudden death of his predecessor,
dictator Ioannis Metaxas. ·
1943 – World War II: The first day of the Battle of
Rennell Island, USS Chicago (CA-29) is torpedoed and heavily
damaged by Japanese bombers. ·
1944 – World War II:
Approximately 38 people are killed and about a dozen injured when the Polish
village of Koniuchy (present-day Kaniūkai, Lithuania) is attacked by Soviet partisan units. ·
1944 – In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical
theatre of the Archiginnasio is completely destroyed in an
air-raid, during the Second World War.[6] ·
1948 – The Pakistan
Socialist Party is founded in Karachi.[7] ·
1959 – The first Melodifestivalen is held in Cirkus, Stockholm, Sweden. ·
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. ·
1980 – The Rubik's Cube makes its international
debut at the Ideal Toy Corp. in
Earl's Court, London. ·
1989 – Cold War: Hungary
establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making it the
first Eastern Bloc nation
to do so. ·
1991 – Gulf War: The Battle of Khafji, the first major ground
engagement of the war, as well as its deadliest, begins. ·
1996 – President Jacques Chirac announces a
"definitive end" to French nuclear weapons
testing. ·
2001 – Thousands of
student protesters in Indonesia storm
parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign
due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals. ·
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. ·
2009 – The Supreme
Constitutional Court of Egypt rules that people who do not
adhere to one of the three government-recognised
religions, while not allowed to list any belief outside of those three,
are still eligible
to receive government identity documents. ·
2009 – Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is
removed from office following his conviction of several
corruption charges, including the alleged solicitation of personal benefit in
exchange for an appointment to the United States Senate as
a replacement for then-U.S.
president-elect Barack Obama. ·
2013 – SCAT Airlines
Flight 760 crashes near the Kazakh city of Almaty, killing 21 people. ·
2013 – Alabama
bunker hostage crisis: After shooting and killing of school bus
driver, 66 years old Charles Albert Poland, Jr, by 65 year old Vietnam War era veteran, Jimmy Lee
Dykes.[8] ·
2017 – Quebec City
mosque shooting: Alexandre Bissonnette opens fire at mosque
in Sainte-Foy, Quebec,
killing six and wounding 19 others in a spree shooting. Births[edit]
·
919 – Shi Zong,
emperor of the Liao Dynasty (d.
951) ·
1455 – Johann Reuchlin, German-born humanist and
scholar (d. 1522)[9] ·
1475 – Giuliano Bugiardini,
Italian painter (d. 1555)[10] ·
1499 – Katharina von Bora,
wife of Martin Luther;
formerly a Roman Catholic nun (d. 1552)[11] ·
1525 – Lelio Sozzini, Italian humanist and reformer
(d. 1562)[12] ·
1584 – Frederick
Henry, Prince of Orange (d. 1647)[13] ·
1591 – Franciscus
Junius, pioneer of Germanic philology (d. 1677)[14] ·
1602 – Countess Amalie Elisabeth of Hanau-Münzenberg (d.
1651)[15] ·
1632 – Johann Georg
Graevius, German scholar and critic (d. 1703)[16] ·
1650 – Juan de Galavís,
Spanish Roman Catholic archbishop of Santo Domingo and Bogotá (d. 1739) ·
1688 – Emanuel Swedenborg,
Swedish astronomer, philosopher, and theologian (d. 1772)[17] ·
1711 – Giuseppe Bonno, Austrian composer (d. 1788)[18] ·
1715 – Georg Christoph
Wagenseil, Austrian organist and composer (d. 1777)[19] ·
1717 – Jeffery
Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, English field marshal and politician,
19th Governor
General of Canada (d. 1797) ·
1718 – Paul Rabaut, French pastor (d. 1794) ·
1737 – Thomas Paine, prominent for publishing Common Sense (1776),
which established him as one of the Founding
Fathers of the United States (d. 1809)[20] ·
1749 – Christian VII of
Denmark (d. 1808) ·
1754 – Moses Cleaveland, American general, lawyer,
and politician, founded Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1806) ·
1756 – Henry Lee III, American general and
politician, 9th Governor of Virginia (d.
1818) ·
1761 – Albert Gallatin, Swiss-American ethnologist,
linguist, and politician, 4th United
States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1849) ·
1782 – Daniel Auber, French composer (d. 1871) ·
1801 – Johannes
Bernardus van Bree, Dutch violinist, composer, and conductor (d.
1857) ·
1810 – Ernst Kummer, Polish-German mathematician
and academic (d. 1893) ·
1810 – Mary Whitwell Hale,
American teacher, school founder, and hymnwriter (d. 1862)[21] ·
1843 – William McKinley, American soldier, lawyer,
and politician, 25th President
of the United States (d. 1901) ·
1846 – Karol Olszewski, Polish chemist,
mathematician, and physicist (d. 1915) ·
1852 – Frederic Hymen Cowen,
Jamaican-English pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1935) ·
1858 – Henry Ward Ranger,
American painter and academic (d. 1916) ·
1860 – Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short
story writer (d. 1904) ·
1861 – Florida Ruffin
Ridley, African-American civil rights activist, teacher, editor,
and writer (d. 1943)[22] ·
1862 – Frederick Delius, English composer (d. 1934)[23] ·
1866 – Julio Peris Brell,
Spanish painter (d. 1944) ·
1866 – Romain Rolland, French historian, author,
and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1944)[24] ·
1867 – Vicente Blasco
Ibáñez, Spanish journalist and author (d. 1928)[25] ·
1870 – Süleyman Nazif,
Turkish poet and civil servant (d. 1927) ·
1874 – John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1960)[26] ·
1876 – Havergal Brian, English composer (d. 1972) ·
1877 – Georges Catroux, French general and diplomat
(d. 1969) ·
1880 – W. C. Fields, American actor, comedian, and
screenwriter (d. 1946) ·
1881 – Alice Catherine
Evans, American microbiologist (d. 1975) ·
1884 – Juhan Aavik, Estonian-Swedish composer and
conductor (d. 1982) ·
1888 – Sydney
Chapman, English mathematician and geophysicist (d. 1970) ·
1888 – Wellington Koo, Chinese statesman (d. 1985) ·
1891 – Elizaveta Gerdt, Russian ballerina and
educator (d. 1975) ·
1891 – R. Norris Williams,
Swiss-American tennis player and banker (d. 1968) ·
1892 – Ernst Lubitsch, German American film
director, producer, writer, and actor (d. 1947) [27] ·
1895 – Muna Lee,
American poet and author (d. 1965) ·
1901 – Allen B. DuMont, American engineer and
broadcaster, founded the DuMont
Television Network (d. 1965) ·
1901 – E. P. Taylor, Canadian businessman and horse
breeder (d. 1989) ·
1903 – Yeshayahu Leibowitz,
Russian-Israeli biochemist and philosopher (d. 1994) ·
1905 – Barnett Newman, American painter and etcher
(d. 1970) ·
1906 – Joe Primeau, Canadian ice hockey player and
coach (d. 1989) ·
1913 – Victor Mature, American actor (d. 1999) ·
1915 – Bill Peet, American author and illustrator
(d. 2002) ·
1915 – John Serry Sr., Italian-American concert
accordionist and composer (d.2003)[28][29] ·
1917 – John Raitt, American actor and singer (d.
2005) ·
1918 – John Forsythe, American actor (d. 2010) ·
1921 – Geraldine Pittman
Woods, American science administrator and embryologist (d. 1999) ·
1923 – Jack Burke Jr., American golfer ·
1923 – Paddy Chayefsky, American author and
screenwriter (d. 1981) ·
1926 – Abdus Salam, Pakistani-British physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1996) ·
1926 – Amelita Ramos, 11th First Lady of the
Philippines ·
1927 – Edward Abbey, American environmentalist and
author (d. 1989) ·
1929 – Elio Petri, Italian director and
screenwriter (d. 1982) ·
1929 – Joseph Kruskal, American mathematician and
computer scientist (d. 2010) ·
1931 – Leslie Bricusse, English playwright and
composer ·
1931 – Ferenc Mádl, Hungarian academic and
politician, 2nd President of Hungary (d.
2011) ·
1932 – Raman Subba Row, English cricketer and
referee ·
1932 – Tommy Taylor, English footballer (d. 1958) ·
1933 – Sacha Distel, French singer and guitarist
(d. 2004) ·
1934 – Branko
Miljković, Serbian poet and academic (d. 1961) ·
1936 – Veturi
Sundararama Murthy, Indian poet and songwriter (d. 2010) ·
1937 – Hassan Habibi, Iranian lawyer and
politician, 1st Vice President of
Iran (d. 2013) ·
1937 – Bobby Scott,
American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (d. 1990) ·
1939 – Germaine Greer, Australian journalist and
author ·
1940 – Katharine Ross, American actress and author ·
1940 – Kunimitsu Takahashi,
Japanese motorcycle racer and race car driver ·
1941 – Robin Morgan, American actress, journalist,
and author ·
1943 – Tony Blackburn, English radio and television
host ·
1943 – Pat Quinn,
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2014) ·
1944 – Andrew Loog Oldham,
English record producer and manager ·
1944 – Patrick Lipton
Robinson, Jamaican lawyer and judge ·
1944 – Pauline van der
Wildt, Dutch swimmer ·
1945 – Ibrahim Boubacar
Keïta, Malian academic and politician, Prime Minister of
Mali ·
1945 – Jim
Nicholson, Northern Irish politician ·
1945 – Tom Selleck, American actor and businessman ·
1946 – Bettye LaVette, American singer-songwriter ·
1947 – Linda B. Buck, American biologist and
academic, Nobel
Prize laureate ·
1947 – David Byron, English singer-songwriter (d.
1985) ·
1947 – Marián Varga, Slovak organist and composer ·
1948 – Raymond Keene, English chess player and
author ·
1949 – doris davenport,
American poet and teacher[30] ·
1949 – Evgeny Lovchev, Russian footballer and
manager ·
1949 – Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-American drummer and
producer (d. 2014) ·
1950 – Ann Jillian, American actress and singer ·
1950 – Jody Scheckter, South African race car
driver and sportscaster ·
1951 – Fereydoon Forooghi,
Iranian singer-songwriter (d. 2001) ·
1951 – Andy Roberts,
Caribbean cricketer ·
1953 – Peter Baumann, German keyboard player and
songwriter ·
1953 – Charlie Wilson,
American singer-songwriter and producer ·
1953 – Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer (d. 1995) ·
1954 – Christian Bjelland
IV, Norwegian businessman and art collector ·
1954 – Terry Kinney, American actor and director ·
1954 – Oprah Winfrey, American talk show host,
actress, and producer, founded Harpo Productions ·
1956 – Jan Jakub Kolski, Polish director,
screenwriter, and cinematographer ·
1957 – Philippe Dintrans,
French rugby player ·
1957 – Ron Franscell, American author and
journalist ·
1957 – Grażyna Miller,
Italian journalist and poet ·
1959 – Mike Foligno, Canadian ice hockey player and
coach ·
1960 – Gia Carangi, American supermodel (d. 1986) ·
1960 – Greg Louganis, American diver and author ·
1961 – Petra Thümer, German swimmer and
photographer ·
1962 – Nicholas Turturro,
American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1964 – John Anthony
Gallagher, English-New Zealand rugby player ·
1965 – Dominik Hašek, Czech ice hockey player ·
1965 – Peter Lundgren, Swedish tennis player and
coach ·
1966 – Romário, Brazilian footballer, manager, and
politician ·
1967 – Stacey King, American basketball player,
coach, and sportscaster ·
1968 – Edward Burns, American actor, director, and
producer ·
1968 – Susi Erdmann, German luger and bobsledder ·
1970 – Rajyavardhan
Singh Rathore, Indian colonel and politician ·
1970 – Heather Graham, American actress ·
1970 – Jörg Hoffmann,
German swimmer[31] ·
1970 – Paul Ryan, American economist and
politician, 62nd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives ·
1970 – Mohammed
Yusuf, Nigerian Islamist leader, founded Boko Haram (d. 2009) ·
1975 – Sara Gilbert, American actress, producer,
and talk show host ·
1980 – Ivan Klasnic, German-Croatian footballer ·
1982 – Adam Lambert, American singer, songwriter
and actor[32] ·
1984 – Natalie du Toit, South African swimmer ·
1984 – Nuno Morais, Portuguese footballer ·
1985 – Marc Gasol, Spanish basketball player[33] ·
1987 – José Abreu,
Cuban baseball player[34] ·
1988 – Tatyana Chernova, Russian heptathlete ·
1988 – Shay Logan, English footballer[35] ·
1988 – Aydın
Yılmaz, Turkish footballer ·
1989 – Kevin Shattenkirk,
American ice hockey player[36] ·
1993 – Kyary Pamyu Pamyu,
Japanese singer [37] Deaths[edit]
·
661 – Ali,
cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad (b. 601) ·
702 – Princess Ōku of Japan (b. 661) ·
757 – An Lushan, Chinese general (b. 703)[38] ·
870 – Salih ibn Wasif, Muslim general ·
1119 – Pope Gelasius II (b. 1060) ·
1327 – Adolf,
Count Palatine of the Rhine (b. 1300) ·
1465 – Louis, Duke of Savoy (b.
1413) ·
1597 – Elias Ammerbach, German organist and
composer (b. 1530) ·
1608 – Frederick
I, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1557) ·
1647 – Francis Meres, English priest and author (b.
1565) ·
1678 – Jerónimo Lobo, Portuguese missionary and
author (b. 1593) ·
1706 – Charles
Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier (b. 1638) ·
1737 – George
Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, Scottish-English field marshal and
politician, Colonial
Governor of Virginia (b. 1666) ·
1743 – André-Hercule de
Fleury, French cardinal (b. 1653) ·
1763 – Louis Racine, French poet (b. 1692) ·
1820 – George
III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738) ·
1829 – Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras, French
captain and politician (b. 1755) ·
1829 – István Pauli, Hungarian-Slovenian priest and
poet (b. 1760) ·
1870 – Leopold
II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1797) ·
1871 – Philippe-Joseph
Aubert de Gaspé, Canadian author (b. 1786) ·
1888 – Edward Lear, English poet and illustrator
(b. 1812) ·
1899 – Alfred Sisley, French-English painter (b.
1839) ·
1906 – Christian IX of
Denmark (b. 1818) ·
1928 – Douglas Haig,
1st Earl Haig, Scottish field marshal (b. 1861) ·
1931 – Henri Mathias
Berthelot, French general during World War I (b. 1861) ·
1933 – Sara Teasdale, American poet (b. 1884) ·
1934 – Fritz Haber, Polish-German chemist and
engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1868) ·
1941 – Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general and
politician, 130th Prime Minister
of Greece (b. 1871) ·
1944 – William Allen White,
American journalist and author (b. 1868) ·
1946 – Harry Hopkins, American businessman and
politician, 8th United
States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1890) ·
1948 – Prince
Aimone, Duke of Aosta (b. 1900) ·
1950 – Ahmad Al-Jaber
Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler (b. 1885) ·
1951 – Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer and
umpire (b. 1880) ·
1956 – H. L. Mencken, American journalist and
critic (b. 1880) ·
1959 – Winifred Brunton, South African painter and
illustrator (b. 1880) ·
1962 – Fritz Kreisler, Austrian-American violinist
and composer (b. 1875) ·
1963 – Robert Frost, American poet and playwright
(b. 1874) ·
1964 – Alan Ladd, American actor (b. 1913) ·
1969 – Allen Welsh Dulles,
American banker, lawyer, and diplomat, 5th Director
of Central Intelligence (b. 1893) ·
1970 – B. H. Liddell Hart,
French-English soldier, historian, and journalist (b. 1895) ·
1977 – Freddie Prinze, American comedian and actor
(b. 1954) ·
1978 – Frank Nicklin, Australian politician,
28th Premier of
Queensland (b. 1895) ·
1980 – Jimmy Durante, American entertainer (b.
1893) ·
1991 – Yasushi Inoue, Japanese author and poet (b.
1907) ·
1992 – Willie Dixon, American singer-songwriter and
producer (b. 1915) ·
1993 – Adetokunbo Ademola,
Nigerian lawyer and jurist, 2nd Chief Justice of
Nigeria (b. 1906) ·
1994 – Ulrike Maier, Austrian skier (b. 1967) ·
1999 – Lili St. Cyr, American model and dancer (b.
1918) ·
2002 – Harold Russell, Canadian-American soldier
and actor (b. 1914) ·
2003 – Frank Moss,
American lawyer and politician (b. 1911) ·
2004 – Janet Frame, New Zealand author and poet (b.
1924) ·
2005 – Ephraim Kishon, Israeli author,
screenwriter, and director (b. 1924) ·
2006 – Nam June Paik, South Korean-American artist,
(b. 1932) ·
2008 – Bengt Lindström,
Swedish painter and sculptor (b. 1925) ·
2008 – Margaret Truman, American singer and author
(b. 1924) ·
2009 – Hélio Gracie, Brazilian martial artist (b.
1913) ·
2011 – Milton Babbitt, American composer, educator,
and theorist (b. 1916) ·
2012 – Ranjit Singh Dyal,
Indian general and politician, 10th Lieutenant
Governor of Puducherry (b. 1928) ·
2012 – Oscar Luigi Scalfaro,
Italian lawyer and politician, 9th President of Italy (b.
1918) ·
2012 – Camilla Williams, American soprano and
educator (b. 1919) ·
2014 – François Cavanna,
French journalist and author (b. 1923) ·
2015 – Colleen McCullough,
Australian neuroscientist, author, and academic (b. 1937) ·
2015 – Rod McKuen, American singer-songwriter and
poet (b. 1933) ·
2015 – Alexander Vraciu, American commander and
pilot (b. 1918) ·
2016 – Jean-Marie Doré,
Guinean lawyer and politician, 11th Prime Minister
of Guinea (b. 1938) ·
2016 – Jacques Rivette, French director,
screenwriter, and critic (b. 1928) ·
2019 – George Fernandes, Indian politician (b. 1930)[39] ·
2019 – James Ingram, American musician (b. 1952)[40] Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Christian feast day: o Andrei Rublev (Episcopal Church
(USA)) o Gildas o Juniper o January
29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Earliest day on which Fat Thursday can fall, while March 4 is
the latest; celebrated on Thursday before Ash Wednesday. (Christianity) ·
Kansas Day (Kansas, United States) |
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