January 25
January 25 is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 340 days remaining until the end of the year (341 in leap years).
Events
- 41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate.
- 1348 – A strong earthquake strikes the South Alpine region of Friuli in modern Italy, causing considerable damage to buildings as far away as Rome.
- 1494 – Alfonso II becomes King of Naples.
- 1533 – Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.
- 1554 – Founding of São Paulo city, Brazil.
- 1573 – Battle of Mikatagahara, in Japan; Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu.
- 1575 – Luanda, the capital of Angola is founded by the Portuguese navigator Paulo Dias de Novais.
- 1755 – Moscow University is established on Tatiana Day.
- 1787 – American Daniel Shays leads a rebellion to seize Federal arsenal to protest debtor's prisons.
- 1791 – The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and 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.
- 1879 – The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.
- 1881 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
- 1890 – Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
- 1909 – Richard Strauss' opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
- 1915 – Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
- 1918 – Ukraine declares independence from Bolshevik Russia.
- 1919 – The League of Nations is founded.
- 1924 – The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, France (in the French Alps), inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
- 1932 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese National Revolutionary Army begins its defense of Harbin.
- 1937 – The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until Sept. 18, 2009.
- 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 – World War II: Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.
- 1945 – World War II: The Battle of the Bulge ends.
- 1946 – The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
- 1949 – At the Hollywood Athletic Club the first Emmy Awards are presented.
- 1955 – The Soviet Union ends state of war with Germany.
- 1960 – The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the Payola scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accept money for playing particular records.
- 1961 – In Washington, D.C. John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
- 1969 – Brazilian Army captain Carlos Lamarca deserts in order to fight against the military dictatorship, taking with him 10 machine guns and 63 rifles.
- 1971 – Charles Manson and three female "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders.
- 1971 – Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.
- 1971 – Himachal Pradesh becomes the 18th Indian state.
- 1981 – Jiang Qing, the widow of Mao Zedong, is sentenced to death.
- 1986 – The National Resistance Movement topples the government of Tito Okello in Uganda.
- 1990 – The Burns' Day storm hits northwestern Europe.
- 1993 – Five people are shot outside the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia resulting in two murders.
- 1994 – The Clementine space probe launches.
- 1995 – The Norwegian Rocket Incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.
- 1996 – Billy Bailey became the last person to be hanged in the United States of America.
- 1998 – During 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.
- 1998 – A suicide attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth kills 8 people and injures 25 others.
- 1999 – A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.
- 2001 – A 50-year-old Douglas DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela killing 24.
- 2003 – 2003 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.
- 2004 – Opportunity rover (MER-B) lands on surface of Mars.
- 2005 – A stampede at the Mandher Devi temple in Mandhradevi in India kills at least 258.
- 2006 – Three 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.
- 2006 – Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza is arrested in conjunction with the serial killing of at least 10 elderly women.
- 2010 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after take-off from Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport, killing all 90 people on-board.
- 2011 – Egyptian 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.
Births
- 750 – Leo IV the Khazar, Byzantine Emperor (d. 780)
- 1477 – Anna, Duchess of Brittany, wife of Charles VIII of France (d. 1514)
- 1509 – Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (d. 1580)
- 1615 – Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (d. 1660)
- 1627 – Robert Boyle, Irish chemist (d. 1691)
- 1634 – Gaspar Fagel, Dutch statesman (d. 1688)
- 1640 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman (d. 1707)
- 1688 – Juraj Jánošík, famous Slovak outlaw (d. 1713)
- 1736 – Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian-born mathematician (d. 1813)
- 1739 – Charles François Dumouriez, French general (d. 1823)
- 1743 – Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, German philosopher (d. 1819)
- 1755 – Paolo Mascagni, Anatomist (d. 1815)
- 1759 – Robert Burns, Scottish poet (d. 1796)
- 1777 – Karoline Jagemann, German actor (d. 1848)
- 1794 – François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (d. 1878)
- 1796 – William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (d. 1852)
- 1813 – James Marion Sims, American physician (d. 1883)
- 1822 – Charles Reed Bishop, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1915)
- 1824 – Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Bengali author. (d. 1873)
- 1825 – George Pickett, American Confederate General (d. 1875)
- 1841 – Jackie Fisher, British First Sea Lord (d. 1920)
- 1858 – Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese pearl farmer (d. 1954)
- 1860 – Charles Curtis, 31st Vice President of the United States (d. 1936)
- 1864 – Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and writer (d. 1934)
- 1868 – Juventino Rosas, Mexican composer (d. 1894)
- 1874 – W. Somerset Maugham, English writer (d. 1965)
- 1878 – Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish television pioneer (d. 1975)
- 1882 – Virginia Woolf, English writer (d. 1941)
- 1885 – Kitahara Hakushū, Japanese poet and children's author (d. 1942)
- 1886 – Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (d. 1954)
- 1896 – Florence Mills, American cabaret singer, dancer, and comedian (d. 1927)
- 1899 – Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian politician (d. 1972)
- 1900 – István Fekete, Hungarian writer (d. 1970)
- 1900 – Yojiro Ishizaka, Japanese writer (d. 1986)
- 1901 – Martin De Alzaga, Argentine racing driver (d. 1982)
- 1902 – Pablo Antonio, Filipino modernist architect (d. 1975)
- 1905 – Maurice Roy, French-Canadian Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1985)
- 1913 –Huang Hua, Chinese statesman (d. 2010)
- 1913 – Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer (d. 1994)
- 1913 – Luis Marden, American photojournalist (d. 2003)
- 1916 – Frank "Pop" Ivy, American football coach (d. 2003)
- 1917 – Ilya Prigogine, Russian scientist Nobel Laureate (d. 2003)
- 1917 – Jânio Quadros, Brazilian politician (d. 1992)
- 1918 – Ernie Harwell, American baseball sportscaster (d. 2010)
- 1919 – Edwin Newman, American broadcast journalist (d. 2010)
- 1921 – Samuel T. Cohen, American physicist (d. 2010)
- 1923 – Arvid Carlsson, Swedish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1923 – Rusty Draper, American country and pop singer (d. 2003)
- 1923 – Shirley Ardell Mason, American psychiatric patient (d. 1998)
- 1924 – Lou Groza, American football player (d. 2000)
- 1924 – Speedy West, American musician (d. 2003)
- 1925 – Giorgos Zampetas, Greek musician and songwriter (d. 1992)
- 1927 – Antônio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian composer (d. 1994)
- 1928 – Jérôme Choquette, Quebec lawyer and politician
- 1928 – Eduard Shevardnadze, President of Georgia (1995–2003)
- 1929 – Robert Faurisson, French academic and holocaust denier
- 1929 – Benny Golson, American jazz musician
- 1930 – Tanya Savicheva, Russian diarist (d. 1944)
- 1931 – Dean Jones, American actor
- 1933 – Corazon Aquino, 11th President of the Philippines (d. 2009)
- 1935 – Conrad Burns, American politician
- 1935 – António Ramalho Eanes, Portuguese politician
- 1936 – Diana Hyland, American actress (d. 1977)
- 1937 – Judith Ann Mayotte, American humanitarian and author
- 1937 – Ange-Félix Patassé, Central African Republican politician
- 1938 – Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese manga author (d. 1998)
- 1938 – Etta James, American singer
- 1938 – Leiji Matsumoto, Japanese anime author
- 1938 – Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian poet (d. 1980)
- 1939 – Gabriel Romanus, Swedish politician
- 1941 – Buddy Baker, American race car driver
- 1941 – Gregory Sierra, American actor
- 1942 – Carl Eller, American football player
- 1942 – Eusébio, Portuguese footballer
- 1942 – Shinobu Tsukasa, Japanese organized crime figure
- 1943 – Roy Black, German pop singer (d. 1991)
- 1943 – Tobe Hooper, American film director
- 1944 – Anita Pallenberg, Italian model
- 1945 – John Leslie, American pornographic actor and filmmaker (d. 2010)
- 1945 – Leigh Taylor-Young, American actress
- 1947 – Ángel Nieto, Spanish motorcycle racer
- 1947 – Tostão, Brazilian footballer
- 1948 – Gueorgui Chichkine, Russian painter
- 1948 – Ros Kelly, Australian politician
- 1949 – John Cooper Clarke, English punk-poet
- 1949 – Paul Nurse, English biochemist, Nobel Laureate
- 1950 – Gloria Naylor, African American novelist
- 1950 – John Terry, American actor
- 1951 – Steve Prefontaine, American runner (d. 1975)
- 1952 – Sara Mandiano, French singer and songwriter
- 1952 – Peter Tatchell, Australian-born British LGBT activist
- 1952 – Timothy White, American journalist (d. 2002)
- 1953 – The Honky Tonk Man, American professional wrestler
- 1953 – Mark Weil, Uzbek theatre director (d. 2007)
- 1954 – Ricardo Bochini, Argentinian footballer
- 1954 – Kay Cottee, Australian maritime sailor
- 1954 – Richard Finch, American bass player (KC and the Sunshine Band)
- 1954 – Kim Gandy, American feminist activist
- 1955 – Terry Chimes, English musician (The Clash)
- 1956 – Andy Cox, English musician (The Beat, Fine Young Cannibals)
- 1957 – Eskil Erlandsson, Swedish politician
- 1957 – Andrew P. Harris, American politician
- 1957 – Jenifer Lewis, American actress
- 1958 – Dinah Manoff, American actress
- 1961 – Vivian Balakrishnan, Singaporean politician
- 1961 – Willie Revillame, Filipino game show host and comedian
- 1962 – Chris Chelios, American ice hockey player
- 1965 – Mark Jordon, English actor
- 1965 – Esa Tikkanen, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1966 – Chet Culver, American politician
- 1967 – Mark Bamford, American writer/director
- 1967 – Randy McKay, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1969 – Kina, American singer
- 1970 – Stephen Chbosky, American writer
- 1970 – Chris Mills, American basketball player
- 1970 – Milt Stegall, American-born Canadian Football League player
- 1971 – Luca Badoer, Italian race car driver
- 1971 – China Kantner, American actress
- 1971 – Ana Ortiz, American actress and singer
- 1973 – Chris Guy, American professional wrestler
- 1973 – Geoff Johns, American comic book writer
- 1974 – Robert Budreau, Canadian film director
- 1974 – Attilio Nicodemo, Italian footballer
- 1975 – Mia Kirshner, Canadian actress
- 1975 – Tim Montgomery, American athlete
- 1975 – Dat Phan, Vietnamese stand-up comedian
- 1976 – Mario Haberfeld, Brazilian racing car driver
- 1978 – Denis Menchov, Russian cyclist
- 1978 – Jason Roberts, English footballer
- 1978 – Derrick Turnbow, American baseball player
- 1979 – Pi Hongyan, French badminton player
- 1979 – Gabe Jennings, American distance runner
- 1979 – Christine Lakin, American actress
- 1979 – Rodrigo Ribeiro, Brazilian racing driver
- 1979 – Zoe Britton, American Pornographic Actress
- 1980 – Michelle McCool, American professional wrestler
- 1980 – Efstathios Tavlaridis, Greek footballer
- 1980 – Xavi, Catalan Spanish footballer
- 1981 – Charlie Bewley, English actor
- 1981 – Francis Jeffers, English footballer
- 1981 – Alicia Keys, American singer
- 1981 – Toše Proeski, Macedonian singer (d. 2007)
- 1982 – Sho Sakurai, Japanese singer and actor
- 1982 – Shawna Waldron, American actress
- 1983 – Andrée Watters, Canadian singer
- 1984 – Robinho, Brazilian footballer
- 1985 – Brent Celek, American football player
- 1985 – James Ball, Musician
- 1985 – Tina Karol, Ukrainian singer
- 1985 – Acie Law IV, American basketball player
- 1985 – Patrick Willis, American football player
- 1986 – Chris O'Grady, English footballer
- 1986 – Shahriar Nafees, Bangladeshi cricketer
- 1987 – Maria Kirilenko, Russian tennis player
- 1988 – Tatiana Golovin, French tennis player
- 1989 – Sheryfa Luna, French singer
- 1989 – Víctor Ruiz Torre, Spanish footballer
- 1989 – Mikako Tabe, Japanese stage and film actress
Deaths
- 389 – Gregory Nazianzus, theologian and Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 329)
- 477 – King Geiseric of the Vandals and Alans
- 844 – Pope Gregory IV
- 967 – Sayf al-Daula, Hamdanid Emir of Aleppo (b. 916)
- 1067 – Emperor Yingzong of China (b. 1032)
- 1366 – Henry Suso, German mystic
- 1431 – Charles II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1364)
- 1494 – King Ferdinand I of Naples (b. 1423)
- 1559 – King Christian II of Denmark (b. 1481)
- 1573 – Hirate Hirohide, Japanese samurai (b. 1553)
- 1578 – Mihrimah Sultana, Ottoman princess (b. 1522)
- 1586 – Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (b. 1515)
- 1640 – Robert Burton, English scholar (b. 1577)
- 1670 – Nicholas II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1612)
- 1726 – Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (b. 1675)
- 1733 – Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet (b. 1652)
- 1751 – Paul Dudley, American attorney and politician (b. 1675)
- 1881 – Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (b. 1794)
- 1884 – Périclès Pantazis, Greek impressionist painter (b. 1849)
- 1907 – René Pottier, French cyclist (b. 1879)
- 1908 – Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (b. 1850)
- 1908 – Ouida, English writer (b. 1839)
- 1912 – Dmitry Milyutin, Russian field marshal (b. 1816)
- 1925 – Ivan Vucetic, Croatian anthropologist (b. 1858)
- 1939 – Charles Davidson Dunbar, British military piper (b. 1870)
- 1940 – Elias Simojoki, Finnish clergyman and politician (b. 1899)
- 1947 – Al Capone, American organized crime figure (b. 1899)
- 1949 – Makino Nobuaki, Japanese statesman (b. 1861)
- 1954 – Manabendra Nath Roy, Indian political activist (b. 1887)
- 1957 – Ichizo Kobayashi, Japanese industrialist (b. 1873)
- 1957 – Kiyoshi Shiga, Japanese physician and bacteriologist (b. 1871)
- 1963 – Wilson Kettle, Canadian centenarian (b. 1860)
- 1966 – Saul Adler, Russian-born British parasitologist (b. 1895)
- 1969 – Irene Castle, English dancer (b. 1887)
- 1970 – Jane Bathori, French mezzo-soprano (b. 1877)
- 1970 – Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese television writer and producer (b. 1901)
- 1972 – Erhard Milch, German field marshal (b. 1892)
- 1975 – Charlotte Whitton, Canadian politician (b. 1896)
- 1976 – Chris Kenner, American singer and songwriter (b. 1929)
- 1978 – Skender Kulenović, Bosnian poet (b. 1910)
- 1980 – Queenie Watts, English actress (b. 1926)
- 1981 – Adele Astaire, American dancer (b. 1897)
- 1982 – Mikhail Suslov, Soviet politician (b. 1902)
- 1985 – Ilias Iliou, Greek politician (b. 1904)
- 1987 – Frank J. Lynch, American jurist and state legislator (b. 1922)
- 1990 – Ava Gardner, American actress (b. 1922)
- 1994 – Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician (b. 1909)
- 1996 – Jonathan Larson, American composer (b. 1960)
- 1999 – Sarah Louise "Sadie" Delany, American author (b. 1889)
- 1999 – Ted Mallie, American radio and television announcer (b. 1924)
- 1999 – Robert Shaw, American conductor (b. 1916)
- 2003 –Sheldon Reynolds, American television producer (b. 1923)
- 2003 – Samuel Weems, American jurist (b. 1936)
- 2004 – Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (b. 1918)
- 2004 – Miklós Fehér, Hungarian footballer (b. 1979)
- 2005 – Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (b. 1923)
- 2005 – William Augustus Bootle, American judge (b. 1902)
- 2005 – Philip Johnson, American architect (b. 1906)
- 2005 – Manuel Lopes, Cape Verdean writer and poet (b. 1907)
- 2005 – Ray Peterson, American singer (b. 1935)
- 2005 – Nettie Witziers-Timmer, Dutch athlete (b. 1923)
- 2006 – Anna Malle, adult film star (b. 1967)
- 2008 – Christopher Allport, American actor (b. 1947)
- 2008 – Evelyn Barbirolli, English musician (b. 1911)
- 2009 – Kim Manners, American television producer and director (b. 1951)
- 2010 – Ali Hassan al-Majid, Iraqi defense minister and military commander (b. 1941)
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