About January 25
January 25, 2023 is the 25th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 340 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 381 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 25
- 1494 –Alfonso II becomes King of Naples.
- 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.
- 1792 –The London Corresponding Society is founded.
- 1890 –Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
- 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.
- 1945 –World War II: The Battle of the Bulge ends.
- 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.
- 1969 –Brazilian Army captain Carlos Lamarca deserts in order to fight against the military dictatorship, taking with him 10 machine guns and 63 rifles.
- 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.
- 1993 –Five people are shot outside the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia resulting in two murders.
- 1996 –Billy Bailey became the last person to be hanged in the United States of America.
- 1998 –A suicide attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Sri Lanka’s Temple of the Tooth kills 8 people and injures 25 others.
- 1999 –A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.
- 2004 –Opportunity rover (MER-B) lands on surface of Mars.
- 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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