About January 25
January 25, 2024 is the 25th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 341 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 16 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1932 –Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese National Revolutionary Army begins its defense of Harbin.
- 1942 –World War II: Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.
- 1946 –The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
- 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 –Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda’s president.
- 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.
- 1993 –Five people are shot outside the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia resulting in two murders.
- 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.
- 1999 –A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2020 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rat in Chinese astrology.
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