What happened on January 25? There are more than 276 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About January 25
January 25 is the 25th day of the year 2024. There are 341 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday. This day falls under the 4th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Nashville, Tennessee 37201 sunrise occured at 06:51 AM and sunset occured at 05:07 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Aquarius. The modern birthstone for this month is Garnet while the mystical birthstone is Emerald.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 16 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (February 10, 2024).
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Historical Events For January 25
- 41After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate.
- 1348A strong earthquake strikes the South Alpine region of Friuli in modern Italy, causing considerable damage to buildings as far away as Rome.
- 1494Alfonso II becomes King of Naples.
- 1533Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.
- 1554Founding of São Paulo city, Brazil.
- 1573Battle of Mikatagahara, in Japan; Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu.
- 1575Luanda, the capital of Angola is founded by the Portuguese navigator Paulo Dias de Novais.
- 1755Moscow University is established on Tatiana Day.
- 1787American Daniel Shays leads a rebellion to seize Federal arsenal to protest debtor’s prisons.
- 1791The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.
- 1792The London Corresponding Society is founded.
- 1858The 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, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia.
- 1879The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.
- 1881Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
- 1890Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
- 1909Richard Strauss’ opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
- 1915Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
- 1918Ukraine declares independence from Bolshevik Russia.
- 1919The League of Nations is founded.
- 1924The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, France (in the French Alps), inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
- 1932Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese National Revolutionary Army begins its defense of Harbin.
- 1937The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until Sept. 18, 2009.
- 1941Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese. It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.
- 1942World War II: Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.
- 1945World War II: The Battle of the Bulge ends.
- 1946The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
- 1949At the Hollywood Athletic Club the first Emmy Awards are presented.
- 1955The Soviet Union ends state of war with Germany.
- 1960The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the Payola scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accept money for playing particular records.
- 1961In Washington, D.C. John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
- 1969Brazilian Army captain Carlos Lamarca deserts in order to fight against the military dictatorship, taking with him 10 machine guns and 63 rifles.
- 1971Charles Manson and three female “Family” members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders.
- 1971Himachal Pradesh becomes the 18th Indian state.
- 1971Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda’s president.
- 1981Jiang Qing, the widow of Mao Zedong, is sentenced to death.
- 1986The National Resistance Movement topples the government of Tito Okello in Uganda.
- 1990The Burns’ Day storm hits northwestern Europe.
- 1993Five people are shot outside the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia resulting in two murders.
- 1994The Clementine space probe launches.
- 1995The Norwegian Rocket Incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.
- 1996Billy Bailey became the last person to be hanged in the United States of America.
- 1998A suicide attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Sri Lanka’s Temple of the Tooth kills 8 people and injures 25 others.
- 1998During a historic visit to Cuba, Pope John Paul II demands the release of political prisoners and political reforms while condemning US attempts to isolate the country.
- 1999A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.
- 2001A 50-year-old Douglas DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela killing 24.
- 20032003 Invasion of Iraq: A group of people left London, England, for Baghdad, Iraq, to serve as human shields to prevent the U.S.-led coalition troops from bombing certain locations.
- 2004Opportunity rover (MER-B) lands on surface of Mars.
- 2005A stampede at the Mandher Devi temple in Mandhradevi in India kills at least 258.
- 2006Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza is arrested in conjunction with the serial killing of at least 10 elderly women.
- 2006Three independent observing campaigns announce the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb through gravitational microlensing, the first cool rocky/icy extrasolar planet around a main-sequence star.
- 2010Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after take-off from Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport, killing all 90 people on-board.
- 2011Egyptian Revolution of 2011 begins in Egypt, with a series of street demonstrations, marches, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes in Cairo, Alexandria, and throughout other cities in Egypt.
- 2020New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rat in Chinese astrology.
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Who Were Born On January 25?
- 750Leo IV the Khazar, Byzantine Emperor (d. 780)
- 1477Anna, Duchess of Brittany, wife of Charles VIII of France (d. 1514)
- 1509Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (d. 1580)
- 1615Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (d. 1660)
- 1627Robert Boyle, Irish chemist (d. 1691)
- 1634Gaspar Fagel, Dutch statesman (d. 1688)
- 1640William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman (d. 1707)
- 1688Juraj Jánošík, famous Slovak outlaw (d. 1713)
- 1736Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian-born mathematician (d. 1813)
- 1739Charles François Dumouriez, French general (d. 1823)
- 1743Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, German philosopher (d. 1819)
- 1755Paolo Mascagni, Anatomist (d. 1815)
- 1759Robert Burns, Scottish poet (d. 1796)
- 1777Karoline Jagemann, German actor (d. 1848)
- 1794François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (d. 1878)
- 1796William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (d. 1852)
- 1813James Marion Sims, American physician (d. 1883)
- 1822Charles Reed Bishop, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1915)
- 1824Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Bengali author. (d. 1873)
- 1825George Pickett, American Confederate General (d. 1875)
- 1841Jackie Fisher, British First Sea Lord (d. 1920)
- 1858Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese pearl farmer (d. 1954)
- 1860Charles Curtis, 31st Vice President of the United States (d. 1936)
- 1864Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and writer (d. 1934)
- 1868Juventino Rosas, Mexican composer (d. 1894)
- 1874W. Somerset Maugham, English writer (d. 1965)
- 1878Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish television pioneer (d. 1975)
- 1882Virginia Woolf, English writer (d. 1941)
- 1885Kitahara Hakushū, Japanese poet and children’s author (d. 1942)
- 1886Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (d. 1954)
- 1896Florence Mills, American cabaret singer, dancer, and comedian (d. 1927)
- 1899Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian politician (d. 1972)
- 1900István Fekete, Hungarian writer (d. 1970)
- 1900Yojiro Ishizaka, Japanese writer (d. 1986)
- 1901Martin De Alzaga, Argentine racing driver (d. 1982)
- 1902Pablo Antonio, Filipino modernist architect (d. 1975)
- 1905Maurice Roy, French-Canadian Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1985)
- 1913Huang Hua, Chinese statesman (d. 2010)
- 1913Luis Marden, American photojournalist (d. 2003)
- 1913Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer (d. 1994)
- 1916Frank “Pop” Ivy, American football coach (d. 2003)
- 1917Ilya Prigogine, Russian scientist Nobel Laureate (d. 2003)
- 1917Jânio Quadros, Brazilian politician (d. 1992)
- 1918Ernie Harwell, American baseball sportscaster (d. 2010)
- 1919Edwin Newman, American broadcast journalist (d. 2010)
- 1921Samuel T. Cohen, American physicist (d. 2010)
- 1923Arvid Carlsson, Swedish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1923Rusty Draper, American country and pop singer (d. 2003)
- 1923Shirley Ardell Mason, American psychiatric patient (d. 1998)
- 1924Lou Groza, American football player (d. 2000)
- 1924Speedy West, American musician (d. 2003)
- 1925Giorgos Zampetas, Greek musician and songwriter (d. 1992)
- 1927Antônio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian composer (d. 1994)
- 1928Eduard Shevardnadze, President of Georgia (1995–2003)
- 1928Jérôme Choquette, Quebec lawyer and politician
- 1929Benny Golson, American jazz musician
- 1929Robert Faurisson, French academic and holocaust denier
- 1930Tanya Savicheva, Russian diarist (d. 1944)
- 1931Dean Jones, American actor
- 1933Corazon Aquino, 11th President of the Philippines (d. 2009)
- 1935António Ramalho Eanes, Portuguese politician
- 1935Conrad Burns, American politician
- 1936Diana Hyland, American actress (d. 1977)
- 1937Ange-Félix Patassé, Central African Republican politician
- 1937Judith Ann Mayotte, American humanitarian and author
- 1938Etta James, American singer
- 1938Leiji Matsumoto, Japanese anime author
- 1938Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese manga author (d. 1998)
- 1938Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian poet (d. 1980)
- 1939Gabriel Romanus, Swedish politician
- 1941Buddy Baker, American race car driver
- 1941Gregory Sierra, American actor
- 1942Carl Eller, American football player
- 1942Eusébio, Portuguese footballer
- 1942Shinobu Tsukasa, Japanese organized crime figure
- 1943Roy Black, German pop singer (d. 1991)
- 1943Tobe Hooper, American film director
- 1944Anita Pallenberg, Italian model
- 1945John Leslie, American pornographic actor and filmmaker (d. 2010)
- 1945Leigh Taylor-Young, American actress
- 1947Ángel Nieto, Spanish motorcycle racer
- 1947Tostão, Brazilian footballer
- 1948Gueorgui Chichkine, Russian painter
- 1948Ros Kelly, Australian politician
- 1949John Cooper Clarke, English punk-poet
- 1949Paul Nurse, English biochemist, Nobel Laureate
- 1950Gloria Naylor, African American novelist
- 1950John Terry, American actor
- 1951Steve Prefontaine, American runner (d. 1975)
- 1952Peter Tatchell, Australian-born British LGBT activist
- 1952Sara Mandiano, French singer and songwriter
- 1952Timothy White, American journalist (d. 2002)
- 1953Mark Weil, Uzbek theatre director (d. 2007)
- 1953The Honky Tonk Man, American professional wrestler
- 1954Kay Cottee, Australian maritime sailor
- 1954Kim Gandy, American feminist activist
- 1954Ricardo Bochini, Argentinian footballer
- 1954Richard Finch, American bass player (KC and the Sunshine Band)
- 1955Terry Chimes, English musician (The Clash)
- 1956Andy Cox, English musician (The Beat, Fine Young Cannibals)
- 1957Andrew P. Harris, American politician
- 1957Eskil Erlandsson, Swedish politician
- 1957Jenifer Lewis, American actress
- 1958Dinah Manoff, American actress
- 1961Vivian Balakrishnan, Singaporean politician
- 1961Willie Revillame, Filipino game show host and comedian
- 1962Chris Chelios, American ice hockey player
- 1965Esa Tikkanen, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1965Mark Jordon, English actor
- 1966Chet Culver, American politician
- 1967Mark Bamford, American writer/director
- 1967Randy McKay, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1969Kina, American singer
- 1970Chris Mills, American basketball player
- 1970Milt Stegall, American-born Canadian Football League player
- 1970Stephen Chbosky, American writer
- 1971Ana Ortiz, American actress and singer
- 1971China Kantner, American actress
- 1971Luca Badoer, Italian race car driver
- 1973Chris Guy, American professional wrestler
- 1973Geoff Johns, American comic book writer
- 1974Attilio Nicodemo, Italian footballer
- 1974Robert Budreau, Canadian film director
- 1975Dat Phan, Vietnamese stand-up comedian
- 1975Mia Kirshner, Canadian actress
- 1975Tim Montgomery, American athlete
- 1976Mario Haberfeld, Brazilian racing car driver
- 1978Denis Menchov, Russian cyclist
- 1978Derrick Turnbow, American baseball player
- 1978Jason Roberts, English footballer
- 1979Christine Lakin, American actress
- 1979Gabe Jennings, American distance runner
- 1979Pi Hongyan, French badminton player
- 1979Rodrigo Ribeiro, Brazilian racing driver
- 1979Zoe Britton, American Pornographic Actress
- 1980Efstathios Tavlaridis, Greek footballer
- 1980Michelle McCool, American professional wrestler
- 1980Xavi, Catalan Spanish footballer
- 1981Alicia Keys, American singer
- 1981Charlie Bewley, English actor
- 1981Francis Jeffers, English footballer
- 1981Toše Proeski, Macedonian singer (d. 2007)
- 1982Shawna Waldron, American actress
- 1982Sho Sakurai, Japanese singer and actor
- 1983Andrée Watters, Canadian singer
- 1984Robinho, Brazilian footballer
- 1985Acie Law IV, American basketball player
- 1985Brent Celek, American football player
- 1985James Ball, Musician
- 1985Patrick Willis, American football player
- 1985Tina Karol, Ukrainian singer
- 1986Chris O'Grady, English footballer
- 1986Shahriar Nafees, Bangladeshi cricketer
- 1987Maria Kirilenko, Russian tennis player
- 1988Tatiana Golovin, French tennis player
- 1989Mikako Tabe, Japanese stage and film actress
- 1989Sheryfa Luna, French singer
- 1989Víctor Ruiz Torre, Spanish footballer
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Who Died On January 25?
- 389Gregory Nazianzus, theologian and Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 329)
- 477King Geiseric of the Vandals and Alans
- 844Pope Gregory IV
- 967Sayf al-Daula, Hamdanid Emir of Aleppo (b. 916)
- 1067Emperor Yingzong of China (b. 1032)
- 1366Henry Suso, German mystic
- 1431Charles II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1364)
- 1494King Ferdinand I of Naples (b. 1423)
- 1559King Christian II of Denmark (b. 1481)
- 1573Hirate Hirohide, Japanese samurai (b. 1553)
- 1578Mihrimah Sultana, Ottoman princess (b. 1522)
- 1586Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (b. 1515)
- 1640Robert Burton, English scholar (b. 1577)
- 1670Nicholas II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1612)
- 1726Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (b. 1675)
- 1733Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet (b. 1652)
- 1751Paul Dudley, American attorney and politician (b. 1675)
- 1881Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (b. 1794)
- 1884Périclès Pantazis, Greek impressionist painter (b. 1849)
- 1907René Pottier, French cyclist (b. 1879)
- 1908Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (b. 1850)
- 1908Ouida, English writer (b. 1839)
- 1912Dmitry Milyutin, Russian field marshal (b. 1816)
- 1925Ivan Vucetic, Croatian anthropologist (b. 1858)
- 1939Charles Davidson Dunbar, British military piper (b. 1870)
- 1940Elias Simojoki, Finnish clergyman and politician (b. 1899)
- 1947Al Capone, American organized crime figure (b. 1899)
- 1949Makino Nobuaki, Japanese statesmanӌ8;(b. 1861)
- 1954Manabendra Nath Roy, Indian political activist (b. 1887)
- 1957Ichizo Kobayashi, Japanese industrialist (b. 1873)
- 1957Kiyoshi Shiga, Japanese physician and bacteriologist (b. 1871)
- 1963Wilson Kettle, Canadian centenarian (b. 1860)
- 1966Saul Adler, Russian-born British parasitologist (b. 1895)
- 1969Irene Castle, English dancer (b. 1887)
- 1970Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese television writer and producer (b. 1901)
- 1970Jane Bathori, French mezzo-soprano (b. 1877)
- 1972Erhard Milch, German field marshal (b. 1892)
- 1975Charlotte Whitton, Canadian politician (b. 1896)
- 1976Chris Kenner, American singer and songwriter (b. 1929)
- 1978Skender Kulenović, Bosnian poet (b. 1910)
- 1980Queenie Watts, English actress (b. 1926)
- 1981Adele Astaire, American dancer (b. 1897)
- 1982Mikhail Suslov, Soviet politician (b. 1902)
- 1985Ilias Iliou, Greek politician (b. 1904)
- 1987Frank J. Lynch, American jurist and state legislator (b. 1922)
- 1990Ava Gardner, American actress (b. 1922)
- 1994Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician (b. 1909)
- 1996Jonathan Larson, American composer (b. 1960)
- 1999Robert Shaw, American conductor (b. 1916)
- 1999Sarah Louise “Sadie” Delany, American author (b. 1889)
- 1999Ted Mallie, American radio and television announcer (b. 1924)
- 2003Samuel Weems, American jurist (b. 1936)
- 2003Sheldon Reynolds, American television producer (b. 1923)
- 2004Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (b. 1918)
- 2004Miklós Fehér, Hungarian footballer (b. 1979)
- 2005Manuel Lopes, Cape Verdean writer and poet (b. 1907)
- 2005Nettie Witziers-Timmer, Dutch athlete (b. 1923)
- 2005Philip Johnson, American architect (b. 1906)
- 2005Ray Peterson, American singer (b. 1935)
- 2005Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (b. 1923)
- 2005William Augustus Bootle, American judge (b. 1902)
- 2006Anna Malle, adult film star (b. 1967)
- 2008Christopher Allport, American actor (b. 1947)
- 2008Evelyn Barbirolli, English musician (b. 1911)
- 2009Kim Manners, American television producer and director (b. 1951)
- 2010Ali Hassan al-Majid, Iraqi defense minister and military commander (b. 1941)
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