Hello everyone, today is January 29, 2024, and here are some of the major events that happened today in history:
Domestic: 1On January 29, 220 AD, Guan Yu, a famous general in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, died;
2.On January 29, 757 AD, the founding emperor of the puppet Yan and the initiator of the "Anshi Rebellion", An Lushan died;
3.On January 29, 917, the third emperor of the Liao Dynasty, Yelu Ruan of Liao Shizong, was born;
4.On January 29, 1705, the famous historian and writer of the Qing Dynasty, Quan Zuwang was born, and his works were extremely rich, reaching 35 books and more than 400 volumes, and most of the academic works were extremely profound. His main works include "The Collection of the Pavilion of the Fish", "Three Notes on the Chronicles of Sleepy Learning", "Notes on the Water Classics of the Seven Schools", etc.;
5.On January 29, 1726, the Qing Dynasty's "Collection of Ancient and Modern Books" was finalized. The book is divided into 32 chronicles, 10,000 volumes, and there are six compilations: calendar, Fangyu, Minglun, naturalism, science, and economics. The editor-in-chief is Chen Menglei, and later Jiang Tingxi revised it;
6.On January 29, 1896, Mao Yisheng, a Chinese bridge scientist, civil engineer and educator, and the designer and builder of the Qiantang River Bridge, was born;
7.On January 29, 1899, Qu Qiubai, an early leader of the Communist Party of China, writer and translator, was born;
8.On January 29, 1935, the Red Army of the Long March began to cross Chishui four times;
9.On January 29, 1950, the Chinese People's Liberation Army launched a struggle against banditry;
10.On January 29, 2004, King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand awarded Thailand's highest medical award, the Prince Mahidol Award, to the Chinese medical group that developed the antimalarial drug artemisinin, in recognition of their contributions to malaria.
Abroad: 1On January 29, 1801, France and Spain issued an ultimatum to Portugal, demanding that Portugal not submit to the British;
2.On January 29, 1820, George III, the third monarch of the Hanoverian dynasty of England, died;
3.On January 29, 1886, German engineer Carl Benz obtained the patent right for the world's first automobile fueled by gasoline;
4.On January 29, 1860, Anton Chekhov, a writer and playwright, and one of the "world's three major short story writers" along with the French writer Maupassant and the American writer O. Henry, was born;
5.On January 29, 1916, the German army attacked Paris for the first time with airships;
6.On January 29, 1963, France used its veto power to deny Britain access to the European Common Market;
7.On January 29, 1964, the American Saturn rocket launched the heaviest satellite into space.
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