January 25
January 25 is the 25th day of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar. There are 340 days remaining (341 in
leap years).
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Events
\n*1327 - Edward III becomes King of England.\n*1494 - Alfonso II becomes King of Naples.\n*1533 - Henry VIII of England marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.\n*1554 - Foundation of São Paulo city, Brazil.\n*1755 - Moscow University established.\n*1791 - The British Parliament splits the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.\n*1858 - The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional after it is played on this day at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter and the Crown Prince of Prussia.\n*1881 - Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.\n*1890 - The United Mine Workers of America is founded.\n* 1890 - Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.\n*1917 - The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million.\n*1919 - The League of Nations is founded.\n*1924 - The 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, France (in the French Alps), inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.\n*1942 - Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.\n*1946 - The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.\n*1949 - At the Hollywood Athletic Club the first Emmy Awards are presented.\n* 1949 - The first Israeli election -- David Ben-Gurion becomes Prime Minister.\n*1960 - The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the Payola scandal by threatening fines for any disk jockeys who accepted money for paying particular records.\n*1961 - In Washington, DC John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.\n*1971 - Charles Manson and three female "family members" are found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.\n* 1971 - Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.\n* 1971 - Himachal Pradesh becomes the 18th Indian state.\n*1981 - Super Bowl XV: The Oakland Raiders defeat the Philadelphia Eagles, 27-10.\n*1987 - Super Bowl XXI: The New York Giants beat the Denver Broncos, 39-20.\n*1993 - Mir Amir Kansi kills two employees outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.\n*1995 - The Norwegian Rocket Incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, is mistaken for a US Trident missle by the Olenegorsk early-warning radar station.\n*1998 - Super Bowl XXXII: The Denver Broncos beat the Green Bay Packers, 31-24.\n*1999 - A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.\n*2002 - Wikipedia switches to PHP software (Magnus Manske Day).\n*2004 - Opportunity (MER-B) landed on surface of Mars.
Births
\n*1477 - Anna, Duchess of Brittany and consort queen of France\n*1627 - Robert Boyle, chemist (d. 1691)\n*1759 - Robert Burns, poet (d. 1796)\n*1841 - Jackie Fisher, First Sea Lord (d. 1920)\n*1858 - Kokichi Mikimoto, pearl farm pioneer (d. 1954)\n*1860 - Charles Curtis, Vice President of the United States (d. 1936)\n*1874 - William Somerset Maugham (d. 1965)\n*1878 - Ernst Alexanderson, television pioneer\n*1882 - Virginia Woolf, writer (d. 1941)\n*1886 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, conductor (d. 1954)\n*1900 - Yojiro Ishizaka, writer (d. 1986)\n*1917 - Ilya Prigogine, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1977 (d. 2003)\n*1918 - Ernie Harwell, baseball sportscaster\n*1919 - Edwin Newman, journalist, writer\n*1923 - Arvid Carlsson, scientist, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine\n*1930 - Dean Jones, actor\n*1933 - Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines\n*1938 - Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian bard (poet, singer) and actor (d. 1980)\n*1938 - Etta James, singer\n*1942 - Eusébio, football player\n*1943 - Tobe Hooper, director\n*1969 - Jimmy Whitman, basketball player\n*1975 - Tim Montgomery, American athlete\n*1981 - Alicia Keys, singer, musician
Deaths
\n*477 - Geiseric, King of the Vandals and Alans (b. ca. 389)\n*844 - Pope Gregory IV\n*1908 - Ouida, writer (b. 1839)\n*1947 - Al Capone, gangster (b. 1899)\n*1969 - Irene Castle, dancer\n*1970 - Jane Bathori, opera singer (b. 1877)\n*1981 - Adele Astaire, dancer (b. 1897)\n*1990 - Ava Gardner, actress (b. 1922)\n*1994 - Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician (b. 1909)\n*1996 - Jonathan Larson, American composer (b. 1960)\n*2004 - Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (b. 1918)
Holidays and observances
\n* Catholicism - Conversion of Saint Paul.\n* Burns Night - Burns suppers are held in many parts of the world around this date.\n* Roman Empire - second day of the Sementivae in honor of Ceres and Terra
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