What events happened on January 29?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 International Day of Mobilization Against the Threat of Nuclear War.
👉 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇲🇩 Moldova – Prosecutors’ Day.
🇳🇵 Nepal – Martyrs’ Day.
🇨🇳 China – Chinese New Year
🇺🇸 USA – National Carnation Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Kansas State Day.
🇵🇭 Philippines – National Police Anniversary Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1616 – Cape Horn, the southernmost point of South America, was discovered.
– 1710 – The Russian alphabet was introduced by decree of Peter I.
– 1804 – Kharkov University was founded.
– 1819 – Stanford Ruffles founded Singapore.
– 1833 – The first city post office in Russia was established in St. Petersburg.
– 1845 – A New York newspaper published a poem by Edgar Allan Poe.
– 1856 – Queen Victoria of Great Britain approved the country’s highest military award – the Victoria Cross.
– 1861 – Kansas became the 34th state of the United States.
– 1886 – Karl Benz patented the first car powered by an internal combustion engine.
– 1896 – American physicist E. Grubb was the first in the world to use radioactive radiation to treat cancer.
– 1908 – The Russian Aeroclub was founded in St. Petersburg.
– 1916 – The first tank tests were conducted in England.
– 1919 – The 18th Amendment to the US Constitution was adopted to prohibit the production, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages.
– 1932 – The first truck – “GAZ-AA” was produced at the Gorky plant.
– 1958 – The first article about the dangers of the insecticide DDT appeared.
– 1960 – The first artificial kidney was created.
– 1964 – The 9th Winter Olympics opened in Innsbruck, Austria.
– 1964 – Skiing competitions were held for the first time at the Olympic Games.
– 1992 – Diplomatic relations were established between Uzbekistan and the Republic of Korea.
– 2000 – Las Vegas casino waitress Cynthia Jay won $35 million on the “One-Armed Bandit” slot machine (the world’s largest win on a slot machine).
– 2002 – George Bush called the DPRK, Iraq and Iran “centers of evil”.
– 2010 – The first flight of the Russian fifth-generation fighter Su-57.
– 2013 – CRJ-200 crash near Almaty, 21 people died.
