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On This Day · The 29th day of the year

January 29

25 years on from Indonesia, January 29 is a date with an anniversary worth pausing on. Most of the weight falls in the 21st century, where conflict is a recurring thread.

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Aquarius is the sign for January 29 — read more on the Aquarius page, or see January's birthstone & birth flower.

Compiled & reviewed by · Last reviewed September 6, 2026

What happened on January 29?

January 29 is the 29th day of the year. It marks 10 notable events in history, dated between 904 and 2017. Famous people born on January 29 include Anton Chekhov, Abdus Salam and William McKinley.

Released on January 29

Movies, games, albums & shows

2026

  • Game Cairn
  • Game City Tales: Medieval Era
  • Game Code Vein II
  • Game Don't Stop, Girlypop!
  • Game I Hate this Place
  • Game Dark Auction

2025

  • Game The End of the Sun
  • Movie Ne Zha 2

2023

  • TV Become a Farmer

2022

  • TV Immortality

Release data from TMDB & IGDB.

Events

10 notable moments
  1. 904

    Pope Sergius III

  2. 1814

    War of the Sixth Coalition

  3. 1856

    Queen Victoria

  4. 1891

    Liliʻuokalani

  5. 1907

    Charles Curtis

  6. 1911

    Mexican Revolution

  7. 1943

    World War II

  8. 2001

    Indonesia

  9. 2013

    SCAT Airlines Flight 760

  10. 2017

    Quebec City mosque shooting

Famous birthday twins

Born on January 29

Anton Chekhov

b. 1860

Abdus Salam

b. 1926

William McKinley

b. 1843

Sam Trammell

b. 1969

Romain Rolland

b. 1866

Ernst Lubitsch

b. 1892

Elio Petri

b. 1929

Oprah Winfrey

b. 1954

Deaths

  • 2012Oscar Luigi Scalfaro
  • 1988James Rhyne Killian
  • 1960Mack Harrell
  • 1934Fritz Haber
  • 1597Elias Ammerbach

Holidays & observances

  • —Christian feast day: Aphrahat
  • —Christian feast day: Gildas
  • —Christian feast day: Sabinian of Troyes
  • —Christian feast day: Sulpitius I of Bourges
  • —Christian feast day: Blessed Villana de' Botti
  • —Christian feast day: 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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