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

• 1327 – Edward III becomes King of England.
• 1494 – Alfonso II becomes King of Naples.
• 1533 – Henry VIII of England secretly 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.
• 1792 – The London Corresponding Society is founded
• 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.
• 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.
• 1915 – Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 playing 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.
• 1990 – Honduras becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
• 1993 – Mir Amir Kansi kills two employees outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
• 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.
• 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 switched to the new version of its software ("Phase II") aka Magnus Manske Day
• 2004 – Opportunity (MER-B) landed on surface of Mars.
• 2005 – A stampede during a pilgrimage in India kills at least 215.

Births

• 1477 – Anna, Duchess of Brittany, queen of Charles VIII of France (d. 1514)
• 1627 – Robert Boyle, English chemist (d. 1691)
• 1736 – Joseph Louis Lagrange, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1813)
• 1759 – Robert Burns, Scottish 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, English writer (d. 1965)
• 1878 – Ernst Alexanderson, television pioneer
• 1882 – Virginia Woolf, English writer (d. 1941)
• 1886 – Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (d. 1954)
• 1900 – Yojiro Ishizaka, writer (d. 1986)
• 1900 – Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian-American geneticist and biologist (d. 1975)
• 1917 – Ilya Prigogine, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2003)
• 1918 – Ernie Harwell, baseball sportscaster
• 1919 – Edwin Newman, journalist, writer
• 1923 – Arvid Carlsson, scientist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 1927 – Antonio Carlos Jobim, bossa nova musician
• 1928 – Eduard Shevardnadze, President of Georgia
• 1930 – Tanya Savicheva, Russian schoolgirl
• 1931 – Dean Jones, actor
• 1933 – Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines
• 1936 – Diana Hyland, American actress (d. 1977)
• 1938 – Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian poet, singer, and actor (d. 1980)
• 1938 – Etta James, singer
• 1941 – Buddy Baker, American race car driver
• 1941 – Gregory Sierra, American actor
• 1942 – Carl Eller, American football player
• 1942 – Eusébio, Portuguese footballer
• 1943 – Tobe Hooper, director
• 1944 – Leigh Taylor-Young, American actress
• 1951 – Steve Prefontaine, American runner (d. 1975)
• 1952 – Timothy White, American journalist (d. 2002
• 1958 – Dinah Manoff, American actress
• 1969 – Kina, American singer
• 1971 – Luca Badoer, Italian race car driver
• 1975 – Tim Montgomery, American athlete
• 1976 – Mia Kirshner, Canadian actress
• 1980 – Christian Olsson, Swedish athlete
• 1981 – Alicia Keys, singer and musician

Deaths

• 477 – Geiseric, King of the Vandals and Alans (b. ca. 389)
• 844 – Pope Gregory IV
• 1908 – Mikhail Chigorin, chess player (b. 1850)
• 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)
• 1982 – Mikhail Suslov, Soviet politician
• 1990 – Ava Gardner, actress (b. 1922)
• 1994 – Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician (b. 1909)
• 1995 – John Smith, American actor
• 1996 – Jonathan Larson, American composer (b. 1960)
• 1999 – Robert Shaw, American conductor (b. 1916)
• 2003 – Robert Rockwell, American actor
• 2004 – Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (b. 1918)
• 2004  – Miklós Fehér, football player (b. 1979)
• 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

• Catholicism and Anglicanism – Conversion of Saint Paul.
• Christian ecumenism — Week of Prayer for Christian Unity ends.
• Burns Night – Burns suppers are held in many parts of the world around this date.
• Tu Bishvat (Jewish holiday, 2005)
• Roman Empire – second day of the Sementivae in honour of Ceres and Terra
• Magnus_Manske_Day – The day in 2002 when Wikipedia switched to the new PHP software ("Phase II")

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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