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

  • 1348 –
    A strong earthquake strikes the South Alpine region of Friuli in modern Italy, causing considerable damage to buildings as far away as Rome.
  • 1533 –
    Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.
  • 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.
  • 1881 –
    Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
  • 1937 –
    The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until Sept. 18, 2009.
  • 1942 –
    World War II: Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.
  • 1945 –
    World War II: The Battle of the Bulge ends.
  • 1946 –
    The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
  • 1949 –
    At the Hollywood Athletic Club the first Emmy Awards are presented.
  • 1961 –
    In Washington, D.C. John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
  • 1981 –
    Jiang Qing, the widow of Mao Zedong, is sentenced to death.
  • 1982 –
    New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Dog in Chinese astrology.
  • 1986 –
    The National Resistance Movement topples the government of Tito Okello in Uganda.
  • 1994 –
    The Clementine space probe launches.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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