About January 25
January 25, 2022 is the 25th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 340 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 7 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 25
- 1494 –Alfonso II becomes King of Naples.
- 1792 –The London Corresponding Society is founded.
- 1879 –The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.
- 1881 –Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1955 –The Soviet Union ends state of war with Germany.
- 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.
- 1986 –The National Resistance Movement topples the government of Tito Okello in Uganda.
- 2001 –A 50-year-old Douglas DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela killing 24.
- 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 –Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza is arrested in conjunction with the serial killing of at least 10 elderly women.
- 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.
- 2020 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rat in Chinese astrology.
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