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
- 1348 –A strong earthquake strikes the South Alpine region of Friuli in modern Italy, causing considerable damage to buildings as far away as Rome.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1879 –The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.
- 1909 –Richard Strauss’ opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
- 1924 –The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, France (in the French Alps), inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
- 1937 –The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until Sept. 18, 2009.
- 1946 –The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
- 1949 –At the Hollywood Athletic Club the first Emmy Awards are presented.
- 1955 –The Soviet Union ends state of war with Germany.
- 1961 –In Washington, D.C. John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
- 1971 –Charles Manson and three female “Family” members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders.
- 1971 –Himachal Pradesh becomes the 18th Indian state.
- 1982 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Dog in Chinese astrology.
- 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.
- 2005 –A stampede at the Mandher Devi temple in Mandhradevi in India kills at least 258.
- 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.
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