January 25

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

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

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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 disc 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.
1986 - The National Resistance Movement topple the government of Tito Okello in Uganda
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 switches to the new version of its software ("Phase II") aka Magnus Manske Day
2004 - Opportunity (MER-B) lands on surface of Mars.
2005 - A stampede during a pilgrimage in India kills at least 215.

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Births

1477 - Anna, Duchess of Brittany, queen 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)
1640 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman (d. 1707)
1736 - Joseph Louis Lagrange, Italian-born mathematician (d. 1813)
1739 - Charles François Dumouriez, French general (d. 1823)
1759 - Robert Burns, Scottish poet (d. 1796)
1796 - William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (d. 1852)
1825 - George Pickett, American Confederate General (d. 1875)
1841 - Jackie Fisher, British First Sea Lord (d. 1920)
1858 - Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese 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, Swedish-born television pioneer (d. 1975)
1882 - Virginia Woolf, English writer (d. 1941)
1886 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (d. 1954)
1900 - Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian-American geneticist and biologist (d. 1975)
1900 - Yojiro Ishizaka, Japanese writer (d. 1986)
1913 - Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer (d. 1994)
1917 - Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2003)
1918 - Ernie Harwell, baseball sportscaster
1919 - Edwin Newman, American journalist and writer
1923 - Arvid Carlsson, Swedish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1927 - Antonio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian musician (d. 1994)
1928 - Eduard Shevardnadze, President of Georgia
1931 - Dean Jones, American actor
1933 - Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines
1936 - Diana Hyland, American actress (d. 1977)
1938 - Etta James, American singer
1938 - Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian poet, singer, and actor (d. 1980)
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, American film 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, American singer and musician
1984 - Robinho, Brazilian footballer

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Deaths

477 - Geiseric, King of the Vandals and Alans
844 - Pope Gregory IV
1067 - Emperor Yingzong of China (b. 1032)
1366 - Henry Suso, German mystic
1431 - Charles I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1364)
1494 - King Ferdinand I of Naples (b. 1423)
1559 - King Christian II of Denmark, Sweden and Norway (b. 1481)
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. 1726)
1733 - Gilbert Heathcote, Mayor of London
1751 - Paul Dudley, Attorney-General of Massachusetts (b. 1675)
1881 - Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (b. 1794)
1908 - Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (b. 1850)
1908 - Ouida, English writer (b. 1839)
1925 - Ivan Vucetic, Croatian anthropologist (b. 1858)
1947 - Al Capone, American gangster (b. 1899)
1969 - Irene Castle, English dancer (b. 1887)
1970 - Jane Bathori, French mezzo-soprano (b. 1877)
1981 - Adele Astaire, American dancer (b. 1897)
1982 - Mikhail Suslov, Soviet politician (b. 1902)
1990 - Ava Gardner, American actress (b. 1922)
1994 - Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician (b. 1909)
1995 - Cal Jammer, American actor (b. 1960)
1996 - Jonathan Larson, American composer (b. 1960)
1999 - Robert Shaw, American conductor (b. 1916)
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 - Ray Peterson, American singer (b. 1935)
2005 - Nettie Witziers-Timmer, Dutch athlete (b. 1923)

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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")