January 29 is the 29th day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. Number of days remaining until the end of the year336.

Railways

• January 29, 1899 The concession of the port of Haydarpaşa is granted to the German company Anadolu Railway Company.
• On January 29, 1993 began to operate the electric train between Ankara-Haydarpaşa.

Olaylar

• 1595 – play by William Shakespeare Romeo and Julietmaybe played for the first time.
• 1676-III. Fyodor became Tsar of Russia.
• 1861 – Kansas joins the United States as the 34th state.
• 1886 – Karl Benz patents the first gasoline-powered automobile.
• 1916 – World War I: Paris is bombed for the first time by German zeppelins.
• 1923 – Mustafa Kemal Pasha marries Latife Hanım in Izmir.
• 1928 – The Bursa American College for Girls is closed by decision of the Council of Ministers. It has been alleged that Christian propaganda was made in the school.
• 1930 – Spanish dictator General Miguel Primo de Rivera is forced to resign after student protests; General Dámaso Berenguer is appointed Prime Minister.
• 1931 – In the Menemen Incident, 37 people were sentenced to death and the decision was submitted to Parliament for approval.
• 1932 – Eight hafizes read the Koran in Turkish at the Blue Mosque.
• 1934 – The first Turkish film to participate in an international festival Leblebici Horhor Agha’Filming is over. Directed by Muhsin Ertuğrul, screenplay Mumtaz Osman Written under the pseudonym Nâzım Hikmet, the film received the “Diplôme d’honneur” at the 2nd Venice Film Festival the same year.
• 1937 – In the Soviet Union, 13 opponents of Stalin are sentenced to death.
• 1944 – The world’s largest warship, the Missouri, is launched.
• 1950 – earthquake in Iran; About 1500 people died.
• 1950 – The first convoy of tourists after the war arrives in Istanbul.
• 1957 – The Convention on the Nationality of Married Women is opened for signature. Turkey has not ratified this convention.
• 1958 – Film actor Paul Newman marries Joanne Woodward.
• 1964 – Beginning of the Winter Olympics in Innsbruck (Austria).
• 1967 – Poet Hasan Hüseyin Korkmazgil is arrested. Kızılırmak He was accused of making communist propaganda in his poetry book.
• 1971 – The Güven Party changes its name to the National Trust Party.
• 1978 – The Workers’ and Peasants’ Party of Turkey (TİKP) is founded. After the September 12 coup, it was closed on October 16, 1981, along with other parties.
• 1978 – Sweden bans the use of aerosols due to ozone depletion, becoming the first country to introduce such a ban.
• 1979 – Chinese Vice President Deng Xiaoping and US President Jimmy Carter sign the treaty, which revives diplomatic relations.
• 1983 – The 12th, 32nd, 33rd and 34th executions of the September 35 coup: left-wing militants Ramazan Yukarıgöz, who kill a jeweler and a policeman, open fire on security forces and the public, and scan the police car, in the robbery of the jewelry store they tried to find money for the communist organization to which they belonged, Ömer Yazgan, Erdoğan Yazgan and Mehmet Kambur were executed in Izmit.
• 1986 – Yoweri Museveni takes office as President of Uganda.
• 1988 – The dollar jumped to 1.385 lira. Police raided Tahtakale and prevented currency exchange.
• 1996 – Jacques Chirac announces that France has ended nuclear testing.
• 2005 – After 55 years of China, the first flight to Taiwan was made.
• 2006 – An explosion occurred in a warehouse full of fireworks in Linzhou City, Henan Province, China: 16 people were killed.
• 2009 – Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan chatting with Israeli President Shimon Peres during the press conference on the Palestinian events at the World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland.

births

• 1749-VII. Christian, King of Denmark and Norway (died 1808)
• 1750 – Bailey Bartlett, American politician (died 1830)
• 1782 – Daniel Auber, French composer (died 1871)
• 1810 – Eduard Kummer, German mathematician (d. 1893)
• 1838 – Edward Morley, American physicist and professor of chemistry (died 1923)
• 1843 – William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (died 1901)
• 1860 – Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (died 1904)
• 1862 Frederick Delius, English post-romantic composer (died 1934)
• 1866 – Romain Rolland, French novelist, daramaturg and essayist (winner of the 1915 Nobel Prize in Literature) (died 1944)
• 1870 – Süleyman Nazif, Turkish poet, writer and statesman (died 1920)
• 1874 – John D. Rockefeller Jr., American businessman (died 1960)
• 1884 – Rickard Sandler, Prime Minister of Sweden (died 1964)
• 1888 – Wellington Koo, President of China (died 1985)
• 1892 – Gyula Moravcsik, Hungarian Byzantinologist (died 1972)
• 1911 – Peter von Siemens, German businessman (died 1986)
• 1925 – Robert Crichton, American novelist (died 1993)
• 1927 – Urkiye Mine Balman, Turkish Cypriot poet and teacher
• 1926 – Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist and Nobel laureate in physics (died 1996)
• 1932 – Erdal Alantar, Turkish painter (died 2014)
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• 1947 – Linda B. Buck, American scientist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 1954 – Oprah Winfrey, American host and actress
• 1955 – Liam Reilly, Irish singer (died 2021)
• 1960 – Gia Carangi, America’s first model (died 1986)
• 1962 – Olga Tokarczuk, Polish poet, writer and Nobel laureate
• 1964 – İhsan Dağ, Turkish scholar, writer and columnist for Zaman newspaper
• 1968 – Hakan Meriçliler, Turkish actor
• 1972 – Engin Günaydın, Turkish actor
• 1980 – Ivan Klasnić, Croatian footballer
• 1988 – Aydın Yılmaz, Turkish footballer
• 1988 – Denys Boyko, Ukrainian footballer
• 1996 – Melis Alpacar, Turkish volleyball player
• 1996 – Orkan Cinar, Turkish footballer
• 1984 – Oğuzhan Uğur, Turkish musician

Armed

• 1430 – Andrey Rublyov, Russian painter (b. 1360)
• 1678 – Giulio Carpioni, Italian painter and painting cliche (born 1613)
• 1820-III. George, King of England (b. 1738)
• 1830 – Ernst Moritz Arndt, German poet and politician (b. 1769)
• 1848 – Joseph Görres, German writer and journalist (b. 1776)
• 1888 – Edward Lear, English artist, illustrator, musician, writer and poet (b. 1812)
• 1890 – Eduard Georg von Wahl, Baltic German surgeon (b. 1833)
• 1899 – Alfred Sisley, British painter (b. 1839)
• 1919 – Franz Mehring, German politician, historian and literary critic (b. 1846)
• 1934 – Fritz Haber, German chemist (born 1868)
• 1941 – Yannis Metaxas, Greek general and statesman (b. 1871)
• 1946 – İsmail Fenni Ertuğrul, Turkish mystic, philosopher and writer (b. 1855)
• 1950 – Ahmed al-Jaber al-Sabbath, Sheikh of Kuwait (b. 1885)
• 1957 – Ziya Osman Saba, Turkish poet and writer (born in 1910)
• 1963 – Robert Frost, American poet (b. 1874)
• 1964 – Alan Ladd, American actor (born 1913)
• 1980 – Jimmy Durante, American actor, comedian, singer and pianist (born 1893)
• 1991 – Tarık Zafer Tunaya, Turkish scholar (b. 1916)
• 1997 – Metin Bükey, Turkish composer and musician (born in 1933)
• 2003 – Natalia Dudinskaya, Russian ballerina (born in 1912)
• 2005 – Ephraim Kishon, Israeli writer and director (born in 1924)
• 2005 – Saliha Nimet Altınöz, Turkish educator (one of the first female teachers in the Republic of Turkey) (b. 1914)
• 2007 – Hasan Kavruk, Turkish painter (born in 1918)
• 2007 – Edward Robert Harrison, British astronomer and cosmologist (b. 1919)
• 2013 – Arif Peçenek, Turkish footballer and manager (died 1959)
• 2014 – Ayşe Nana, Armenian-Turkish-Italian actress and dancer (born 1936)
• 2016 – Jacques Rivette, French director (born in 1928)
• 2019 – Jane Aamund, Danish journalist and author (born in 1936)
• 2019 – George Fernandes, Indian politician, author, trade unionist, agronomist and journalist (b. 1930)
• 2019 – James Ingram, American soul musician and producer (born 1952)

Holidays and special occasions

• National Resistance Day of the Turks of Western Thrace