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January 25
January 25 is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 340 days remaining (341 in leap years).
Events
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1327 - Edward III becomes King of England.
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1494 - Alfonso II becomes King of Naples.
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1533 - Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.
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1554 - Foundation of São Paulo city, Brazil.
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1755 - Moscow University established.
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1791 - The British Parliament splits the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.
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1792 - The London Corresponding Society is founded
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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, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia.
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1881 - Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
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1890 - The United Mine Workers of America is founded.
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1890 - Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
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1915 - Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service.
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1917 - The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million.
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1919 - The League of Nations is founded.
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1924 - The 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, France (in the French Alps), inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
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1941 - Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese. It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.
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1942 - Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.
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1946 - The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
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1949 - At the Hollywood Athletic Club the first Emmy Awards are presented.
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1949 - The first Israeli election -- David Ben-Gurion becomes Prime Minister.
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1960 - The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the Payola scandal by threatening fines for any disk jockeys who accepted money for playing particular records.
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1961 - In Washington, DC John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
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1971 - Charles Manson and three female "family members" are found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.
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1971 - Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.
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1971 - Himachal Pradesh becomes the 18th Indian state.
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1981 - Super Bowl XV: The Oakland Raiders defeat the Philadelphia Eagles, 27-10.
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1987 - Super Bowl XXI: The New York Giants beat the Denver Broncos, 39-20.
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1990 - The Burns' Day storm hits Northwestern Europe.
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1990 - Honduras becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
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1993 - Mir Amir Kansi kills two employees outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
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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 missile by the Olenegorsk early-warning radar station.
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1998 - Super Bowl XXXII: The Denver Broncos beat the Green Bay Packers, 31-24.
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1999 - A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.
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2002 - Wikipedia switched to the new version of its software ("Phase II") aka Magnus Manske Day
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2004 - Opportunity (MER-B) landed on surface of Mars.
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2005 - A stampede during a pilgrimage in India kills at least 215.
Births
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1477 - Anna, Duchess of Brittany, queen of Charles VIII of France (d. 1514)
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1627 - Robert Boyle, chemist (d. 1691)
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1736 - Joseph Louis Lagrange, mathematician and astronomer (d. 1813)
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1759 - Robert Burns, poet (d. 1796)
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1796 - William MacGillivray, naturalist and ornithologist (d. 1852)
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1841 - Jackie Fisher, First Sea Lord (d. 1920)
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1858 - Kokichi Mikimoto, pearl farm pioneer (d. 1954)
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1860 - Charles Curtis, Vice President of the United States (d. 1936)
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1874 - William Somerset Maugham (d. 1965)
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1878 - Ernst Alexanderson, television pioneer
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1882 - Virginia Woolf, writer (d. 1941)
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1886 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, conductor (d. 1954)
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1900 - Yojiro Ishizaka, writer (d. 1986)
- 1900 - Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian-American geneticist and biologist (d. 1975)
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1917 - Ilya Prigogine, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1977 (d. 2003)
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1918 - Ernie Harwell, baseball sportscaster
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1919 - Edwin Newman, journalist, writer
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1923 - Arvid Carlsson, scientist, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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1927 - Antonio Carlos Jobim, bossa nova musician
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1928 - Eduard Shevardnadze, President of Georgia
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1931 - Dean Jones, actor
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1933 - Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines
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1936 - Diana Hyland, American actress (d. 1977)
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1938 - Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian bard (poet, singer) and actor (d. 1980)
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1938 - Etta James, singer
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1941 - Buddy Baker , NASCAR racer
- 1941 - Gregory Sierra , American actor
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1942 - Carl Eller, American football player
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1942 - Eusébio, Portuguese football player
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1943 - Tobe Hooper, director
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1944 - Leigh Taylor-Young , American actress
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1951 - Steve Prefontaine, distance runner (d. 1975)
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1952 - Timothy White, American journalist (d. 2002
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1958 - Dinah Manoff , American actress
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1969 - Kina, American singer
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1971 - Luca Badoer, Formula One driver from Italy
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1975 - Tim Montgomery, American athlete
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1976 - Mia Kirshner, Canadian actress
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1980 - Christian Olsson, Swedish triple jumper
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1981 - Alicia Keys, singer, musician
Deaths
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477 - Geiseric, King of the Vandals and Alans (b. ca. 389)
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844 - Pope Gregory IV
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1908 - Ouida, writer (b. 1839)
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1947 - Al Capone, gangster (b. 1899)
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1969 - Irene Castle, dancer
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1970 - Jane Bathori, opera singer (b. 1877)
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1981 - Adele Astaire, dancer (b. 1897)
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1982 - Mikhail Suslov, Soviet politician
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1990 - Ava Gardner, actress (b. 1922)
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1994 - Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician (b. 1909)
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1995 - John Smith , American actor
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1996 - Jonathan Larson, American composer (b. 1960)
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1999 - Robert Shaw, American conductor (b. 1916)
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2003 - Robert Rockwell , American actor
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2004 - Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (b. 1918)
- 2004 - Miklós Fehér, football player (b. 1979)
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2005 - William Augustus Bootle, United States district judge who helped oversee desegregation in the US south (b. 1902)
- 2005 - Philip Johnson, United States architect (b. 1906)
- 2005 - Vicky LaMotta, ex-wife of American boxer Jake LaMotta (b. 1930)
- 2005 - Ray Peterson, United States popular singer best known for the early 1960s hit Tell Laura I Love Her
- 2005 - Max Velthuijs , Dutch writer and illustrator (b. 1923)
- 2005 - Nettie Witziers-Timmer, Dutch athlete (b. 1923)
- 2005 - Dieter Zehentmayr , Austrian caricaturist (b. 1941)
- 2005 - Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (b.1923)
Holidays and observances
External links
January 24 - January 26 - December 25 - February 25 -- listing of all days
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