January 25 - Wikipedia

January 25 is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 340 days remaining (341 in leap years).

Table of contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

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 Sao_Paulo city, Brazil
1791 - The British Parliament splits the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada
1858 - The Wedding March[?] by Felix Mendelssohn is played for the first time (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 first Winter Olympic Games are inaugurated (Chamonix in the French Alps[?])
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 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
1987 - Super Bowl XXI: The New York Giants beat the Denver Broncos, 39-20
1993 - A gunman kills two employees outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia[?]
1995 - World War III: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after a Norwegian missile launch for scientific research is detected and thought to be an attack on Russia. Norway had notified the world that it would be making the launch, but the Russian Defense Ministry had neglected to notify those monitoring Russia's nuclear defense systems.
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 - Wikipedia switches to PHP software(Magnus Manske Day)

Births

1627 - Robert Boyle, chemist (+ 1691)
1759 - Robert Burns, poet (+ 1796)
1858 - Kokichi Mikimoto, pearl farm pioneer (+ 1954)
1860 - Charles Curtis, Vice President of the United States (+ 1936)
1874 - William Somerset Maugham, (+ 1965)
1878 - Ernst Alexanderson[?], television pioneer
1882 - Virginia Woolf, writer (+ 1941)
1886 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, conductor (+ 1954)
1917 - Ilya Prigogine, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1977 (+ 2003)
1919 - Edwin Newman[?], journalist, writer
1930 - Dean Jones[?], actor
1933 - Corazon Aquino[?], President of the Philippines[?]
1938 - Etta James, singer
1943 - Tobe Hooper[?], director
1981 - Alicia Keys, singer, musician

Deaths

477 - Geiseric, King of the Vandals and Alans
844 - Pope Gregory IV
1908 - Ouida, writer
1947 - Al Capone, gangster
1969 - Irene Castle[?], dancer
1970 - Jane Bathori, opera singer
1981 - Adele Astaire, dancer
1990 - Ava Gardner, actress
1994 - Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician

Holidays and observances

Catholicism - Conversion of Saint Paul.
Burns Night - Burns suppers are held in many parts of the world around this date.
Roman Empire - second day of the Sementivae in honor of Ceres and Terra

See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

January 24 - January 26 - December 25 - February 25 - Historical anniversaries