January 25th Events |
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| January 25th, 2041 (January 25 2041) | Event | After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate. | |
| January 25th, 2006 (January 25 2006) | Event | 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. | |
| January 25th, 2005 (January 25 2005) | Event | A stampede at the Mandher Devi temple in Mandhradevi in India kills at least 258. | |
| January 25th, 2004 (January 25 2004) | Event | Opportunity rover (MER-B) lands on surface of Mars. | |
| January 25th, 2002 (January 25 2002) | Event | Wikipedia switches to the new version of its software ("Phase II") aka Magnus Manske Day. | |
| January 25th, 2001 (January 25 2001) | Event | A 50-year-old Douglas DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela killing 24. | |
| January 25th, 1999 (January 25 1999) | Event | A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000. | |
| January 25th, 1998 (January 25 1998) | Event | 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. | |
| January 25th, 1998 (January 25 1998) | Event | Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suicide attack on Sri Lanka s Temple of the Tooth, killing 8 people injuring 25 others. | |
| January 25th, 1995 (January 25 1995) | Event | 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. | |
| January 25th, 1994 (January 25 1994) | Event | The Clementine space probe launches. | |
| January 25th, 1993 (January 25 1993) | Event | Five people were shot outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia resulting in two murders. | |
| January 25th, 1990 (January 25 1990) | Event | The Burns Day storm hits northwestern Europe. | |
| January 25th, 1990 (January 25 1990) | Event | Honduras becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. | |
| January 25th, 1990 (January 25 1990) | Event | Avianca Flight 52 crashes, killing 73 passengers. | |
| January 25th, 1986 (January 25 1986) | Event | The National Resistance Movement topple the government of Tito Okello in Uganda. | |
| January 25th, 1981 (January 25 1981) | Event | Jiang Qing, the widow of Mao Zedong, is sentenced to death. | Mao Zedong Quotes |
| January 25th, 1971 (January 25 1971) | Event | Charles Manson and three female "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders. | Charles Manson Quotes |
| January 25th, 1971 (January 25 1971) | Event | Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda s president. | Idi Amin Quotes |
| January 25th, 1971 (January 25 1971) | Event | Himachal Pradesh becomes the 18th Indian state. | |
| January 25th, 1961 (January 25 1961) | Event | In Washington, D.C. John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference. | John F. Kennedy Quotes |
| January 25th, 1960 (January 25 1960) | Event | The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the Payola scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accepted money for playing particular records. | |
| January 25th, 1959 (January 25 1959) | Event | Pope John XXIII proclaims upcoming Second Vatican Council. | |
| January 25th, 1955 (January 25 1955) | Event | Soviet Union ends state of war with Germany. | |
| January 25th, 1949 (January 25 1949) | Event | At the Hollywood Athletic Club the first Emmy Awards are presented. | |
| January 25th, 1949 (January 25 1949) | Event | The first Israeli election -- David Ben-Gurion becomes Prime Minister. | |
| January 25th, 1946 (January 25 1946) | Event | The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor. | |
| January 25th, 1945 (January 25 1945) | Event | World War II: Battle of the Bulge ends. | |
| January 25th, 1942 (January 25 1942) | Event | World War II: Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom. | |
| January 25th, 1941 (January 25 1941) | Event | 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. | |
| January 25th, 1937 (January 25 1937) | Event | The Guiding Light airs on radio for the first time. Also went to television making this show the longest running broadcast program in United States radio and television history. | |
| January 25th, 1924 (January 25 1924) | Event | The 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, France (in the French Alps), inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games. | |
| January 25th, 1919 (January 25 1919) | Event | The League of Nations is founded. | |
| January 25th, 1917 (January 25 1917) | Event | The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million. | |
| January 25th, 1915 (January 25 1915) | Event | Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service. | Alexander Graham Bell Quotes |
| January 25th, 1909 (January 25 1909) | Event | Richard Strauss opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera. | Richard Strauss Quotes |
| January 25th, 1890 (January 25 1890) | Event | Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days. | |
| January 25th, 1881 (January 25 1881) | Event | Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company. | Alexander Graham Bell Quotes |
| January 25th, 1879 (January 25 1879) | Event | The Bulgarian National Bank is founded. | |
| January 25th, 1858 (January 25 1858) | Event | 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. | |
| January 25th, 1792 (January 25 1792) | Event | The London Corresponding Society is founded. | |
| January 25th, 1791 (January 25 1791) | Event | The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada. | |
| January 25th, 1787 (January 25 1787) | Event | American Daniel Shays leads rebellion to seize Federal arsenal to protest debtor s prisons. | |
| January 25th, 1755 (January 25 1755) | Event | Moscow University established on Tatiana Day. | |
| January 25th, 1592 (January 25 1592) | Event | Presumed date of victory of Siamese King Naresuan over Burmese Crown Prince Minchit Sra in a duel on elephant back; commemorated as Royal Thai Armed Forces Day. | |
| January 25th, 1573 (January 25 1573) | Event | Battle of Mikatagahara, in Japan; Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu. | |
| January 25th, 1554 (January 25 1554) | Event | Founding of Sao Paulo city, Brazil. | |
| January 25th, 1533 (January 25 1533) | Event | Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn. | Anne Boleyn Quotes |
| January 25th, 1494 (January 25 1494) | Event | Alfonso II becomes King of Naples. | |
| January 25th, 1327 (January 25 1327) | Event | Edward III becomes King of England. | |
