25 January
January 25 is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 340 days remaining (341 in leap years).
Events
- 1327 - Edward III becomes King of England.
- 1494 - Alfonso II becomes King of Naples.
- 1533 - Henry VIII of England marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.
- 1554 - Foundation of São Paulo city, Brazil.
- 1755 - Moscow University established.
- 1791 - The British Parliament splits the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.
- 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.
- 1881 - Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
- 1890 - The United Mine Workers of America is founded.
- 1890 - Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
- 1917 - The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million.
- 1919 - The League of Nations is founded.
- 1924 - The 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, France (in the French Alps), inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
- 1942 - Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.
- 1946 - The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
- 1949 - At the Hollywood Athletic Club the first Emmy Awards are presented.
- 1949 - The first Israeli election -- David Ben-Gurion becomes Prime Minister.
- 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.
- 1961 - In Washington, DC John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
- 1971 - Charles Manson and three female "family members" are found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.
- 1971 - Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.
- 1971 - Himachal Pradesh becomes the 18th Indian state.
- 1981 - Super Bowl XV: The Oakland Raiders defeat the Philadelphia Eagles, 27-10.
- 1987 - Super Bowl XXI: The New York Giants beat the Denver Broncos, 39-20.
- 1990 - The Burns' Day storm hits Northwestern Europe.
- 1993 - Mir Amir Kansi kills two employees outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
- 1995 - The 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.
- 1998 - Super Bowl XXXII: The Denver Broncos beat the Green Bay Packers, 31-24.
- 1999 - A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.
- 2002 - BambooWeb switches to PHP software (Magnus Manske Day).
- 2004 - Opportunity (MER-B) landed on surface of Mars.
Births
- 1477 - Anna, Duchess of Brittany and consort queen of France
- 1627 - Robert Boyle, chemist (d. 1691)
- 1759 - Robert Burns, poet (d. 1796)
- 1796 - William MacGillivray, naturalist and ornithologist (d. 1852)
- 1841 - Jackie Fisher, First Sea Lord (d. 1920)
- 1858 - Kokichi Mikimoto, pearl farm pioneer (d. 1954)
- 1860 - Charles Curtis, Vice President of the United States (d. 1936)
- 1874 - William Somerset Maugham (d. 1965)
- 1878 - Ernst Alexanderson, television pioneer
- 1882 - Virginia Woolf, writer (d. 1941)
- 1886 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, conductor (d. 1954)
- 1900 - Yojiro Ishizaka, writer (d. 1986)
- 1917 - Ilya Prigogine, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1977 (d. 2003)
- 1918 - Ernie Harwell, baseball sportscaster
- 1919 - Edwin Newman, journalist, writer
- 1923 - Arvid Carlsson, scientist, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1930 - Dean Jones, actor
- 1933 - Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines
- 1938 - Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian bard (poet, singer) and actor (d. 1980)
- 1938 - Etta James, singer
- 1942 - Eusébio, football player
- 1943 - Tobe Hooper, director
- 1969 - Jimmy Whitman, basketball player
- 1975 - Tim Montgomery, American athlete
- 1981 - Alicia Keys, singer, musician
Deaths
- 477 - Geiseric, King of the Vandals and Alans (b. ca. 389)
- 844 - Pope Gregory IV
- 1908 - Ouida, writer (b. 1839)
- 1947 - Al Capone, gangster (b. 1899)
- 1969 - Irene Castle, dancer
- 1970 - Jane Bathori, opera singer (b. 1877)
- 1981 - Adele Astaire, dancer (b. 1897)
- 1990 - Ava Gardner, actress (b. 1922)
- 1994 - Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician (b. 1909)
- 1996 - Jonathan Larson, American composer (b. 1960)
- 2004 - Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (b. 1918)
- 2004 - Miklos Fehér, football player (b. 1979)
Holidays and observances
January 24 - January 26 - December 25 - February 25 -- listing of all days
