About January 25
January 25, 2025 is the 25th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 340 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 4 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 25
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1924 –The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, France (in the French Alps), inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
- 1945 –World War II: The Battle of the Bulge ends.
- 1946 –The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
- 1961 –In Washington, D.C. John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
- 1990 –The Burns’ Day storm hits northwestern Europe.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2006 –Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza is arrested in conjunction with the serial killing of at least 10 elderly women.
- 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.
- 2020 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rat in Chinese astrology.
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