January 25

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January 25 is the 25th (twenty-fifth) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 340 days left to end the year and 341 in leap years.

Events

41: In Rome, after a night of negotiation, Claudio is accepted as emperor.
817: In Rome, Pascual I is elected Pope.
1232: in Cáceres, Spain, an army formed by forces of the Military Orders and of the Bishop of Plasencia reconquers the city of Trujillo.
1327: Edward III of England becomes king of England.
1494: Alfonso II of Naples becomes king of Naples.
1516: When Fernando the Catholic died, his daughter Juana de Castilla inherited the Crown of Aragon.
1533: Henry VIII of England is secretly married to his second wife, Ana Bolena.
1538: Diego Huallpa discovers in the hill Sumaj Orko of Potosí silver veins.
1553: The Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico is inaugurated in Mexico.
1554: Jesuit Father José de Anchieta founded the city of St.Paul, which today is the largest city in Brazil and one of the largest in the world.
1569: from Madrid, Spain, King Philip II establishes the Court of Inquisition in the American colonies.
1573: In Japan, Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu in the battle of Mikatagahara.
1755: The University of Moscow is established on the day of Tatiana.
1787: Daniel Shays leads a rebellion to seize weapons in the federal arsenal in protest against prisoners of debt.
1791: The UK Parliament agrees to incorporate the former province of Quebec in Upper Canada.
1822: the Argentine provinces of Buenos Aires, Corrientes, Entre Ríos and Santa Fe sign the Treaty of the Quadrilátero.
1858: Victoria, daughter of Victoria of England, married Frederick III of Germany. The notoriety of the event turned Nupcial March by Felix Mendelssohn—interpreted during the ceremony—in one of the most popular marriage melodies.
1859: In San Salvador, the capital city of El Salvador, the legislative decree proclaiming El Salvador as a sovereign and independent republic is issued.
1860: in Guayaquil (Ecuador) the Mapsingue Treaty was signed, a treaty of limits between Ecuador and Peru.
1879: the National Bank of Bulgaria is founded.
1881: Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell create the Oriental Telephone Company.
1890: Nellie Bly complete turns to the world in 72 days.
1890: in the city of Seville is founded the Seville Football Club, second oldest club in Spain. His first president was Edward Farquharson Johnston, his first captain Hugo MacColl. The registration process was completed on 14 October 1905.
1905: the famous "Cullinan" diamond is found in a Transvaal mine (South Africa).
1909: The opera Richard Strauss "Elektra" is premiered at Dresden State Opera.
1912: The German Social-Democratic Party wins the Reichstag elections but does not get the absolute majority, so it had to rely on the liberals.
1915: Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates the transcontinental service in the United States.
1919: the League of Nations is founded.
1924: In Chamonix (in the French Alps) the first Winter Olympics are opened.
1937: the soap opera Guiding Light, created by Irna Phillips and the longest one after 72 years in the air, is released.
1941: Pope Pius XII elevates the apostolic vicary of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of dioceses, calling it the Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.
1942: In World War II, Thailand declared war on the United States and the United Kingdom.
1945: In the Second World War, the Battle of the Ardennes ends.
1946: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1 is adopted.
1947: The first video game is created in the United States.
1949: The first Emmy Awards are awarded in the United States.
1949: First Israeli elections. David Ben-Gurion becomes Israel's prime minister.
1955: The Soviet Union ends its state of war against Germany.
1955: Spain is invited to send an observer to the UN.
1959: Pope John XXIII proclaims the creation of the Second Vatican Council.
1960: Professor Jacques Piccard, with the batiscafo, reaches the record depth of 10 916 meters, in the Marian Islands.
1961: John F. Kennedy becomes the first president to hold a live televised press conference.
1961: In El Salvador, the Board of Government that perpetrated a coup against the constitutional president José María Lemus, is overthrown by a coup d'etat and replaced by a Civic-Militar Directory.
1964: NASA orbits the second balloon satellite, Echo 2.
1971: Charles Manson and three members of the family are guilty of the deaths of Sharon Tate-LaBianca of 1969.
1971: Idi Amin leads the coup deposing Milton Obote as president of Uganda.
1976: municipal elections are held in Spain after 40 years.
1979: begins the first trip of John Paul II in his pontificate, which will have scales in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and finally in Mexico.
1981: Jiang Qing, the widow of Mao Zedong, is sentenced to death.
1983: The National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Informatics is established by Presidential Decree.
1983: John Paul II promulgates the new Code of Canon Law.
1984: the city of Tosagua is founded in Ecuador.
1986: The Ugandan Resistance Movement defeats the government of Tito Okello in Uganda.
1987: in Germany, federal elections are held.
1988: in El Retiro, municipality near Medellin (Colombia), prosecutor Carlos Mauro Hoyos Jiménez is murdered.
1990: Spanish television network Antenna 3 begins to broadcast regularly.
1990: in Cove Neck (United States) a Boeing 707 (Avianca flight 52) is crashed due to lack of fuel. 73 people die and survive 85.
1990: Honduras signs the Berne Convention on Copyright.
1991: Colombian journalist Diana Turbay dies in a rescue operation.
1993: In Langley, United States, around the headquarters, two CIA employees are killed by a Pakistani citizen. The murderer managed to flee, was captured in his homeland in 1997, extradited to the United States, tried, sentenced to death and executed.
1994: United States launches lunar probe Clementine.
1995: An equivocal puts Russia in general pre-altitude by detecting a Norwegian rocket launched in evidence.
1998: historic visit of Pope John Paul II to Cuba.
1998: the Monumental Stadium of Guayaquil reaches a historic capacity of 91 283 people at the end of the 1997-1998 Ecuadorian Football Championship.
1999: an earthquake of magnitude 6.4 on the Richter scale destroys the Colombian cities of Armenia and Pereira, leaving more than 1500 dead.
1999: In the village of Shankar Bigha, the terrorist group Ranvir Sena (formed by right-wing Hindu landowners) kill 22 men, women and Dalits (low caste people). A year earlier (on 1 December 1997), Ranvir Sena killed 74 dalits in the nearby village of Laksmanpur Bathe.
2001: near Bolivar City (Venezuela) crashes a Douglas DC-3 with 50 years of service. 24 people die.
2004: U.S. Robotic Vehicle Opportunity (MER-B) land on the surface of Mars.
2005: In the Hindu temple Mandher Devi (India), 258 people die in a pilgrim stamp.
2006: Hamas achieved victory in the Palestinian legislative elections by obtaining 76 of the 132 seats in parliament.
2011: In the Arab Republic of Egypt, a series of protests (Youth Revolution) are initiated for poor living conditions.
2012: Mexico, the Congregation for Catholic Education grants the Pontifical University of Mexico the recognition of being the same institution as the Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico.
2015: In Doral, United States, 22-year-old Paulina Vega is crowned Miss Universe 2014, by Venezuelan Maria Gabriela Isler, the second time a Colombian wins the crown.
2015: In Greece, the parliamentary elections are held.
2016: In the Alboran Sea an earthquake of 6.3 on the Richter scale affected the city of Melilla leaving 26 minor injuries. The earthquake also felt in other Andalusian provinces of the south, especially in Malaga, with no major consequences.

Births

Lion IV, the Jazar.

750: Lion IV, Byzantine emperor between 775 and 780 (f. 780).
1477: Anna of Brittany, queen consort french (f. 1514).
1477: Luisa de Médici, Italian nobleman (f. 1488).
1493: Maximilian Sforza, aristocrat milanes (f. 1530).
1526: Adolfo de Holstein-Gottorp, German aristocrat (f. 1586).
1597: John Philip of Saxony-Altenbourg, a noble German (f. 1639).
1618: Nicolaes Visscher, Dutch engraver and cartographer (f. 1679).
1627: Robert Boyle, an Anglo-Irish physicist, philosopher and chemist (f. 1691).
1630: Louis VI, landgrave de Hesse-Darmstadt, a German nobleman (f. 1678).
1640: William Cavendish, British noble and military (f. 1707).
1661: Antonio I of Monaco, aristocrat Monegasque (f. 1731).
1725: Pablo de Olavide, Spanish writer and politician (f. 1803).
1736: Joseph-Louis de Lagrange, mathematician and French astronomer (f. 1813).
1739: Charles François Dumouriez, French general (f. 1823).
1759: Robert Burns, British poet (f. 1796).
1829: Carlos de Haes, a Spanish painter of Belgian origin (f. 1898).
1849: Juvencio Robles, Mexican military and political (f. 1917).
1860: Charles Curtis, American politician (f. 1936).
1868: Juventino Rosas, Mexican composer (f. 1894).
1874: William Somerset Maugham, British writer (f. 1965).
1879: Rupert Julian, American filmmaker
1879: Gabriel Maura and Gamazo, a Spanish writer and politician (f. 1963).

Virginia Woolf.

1882: Virginia Woolf, British writer (f. 1941).
1884: Artemio de Valle Arizpe, lawyer, politician, diplomat, writer and Mexican historian (f. 1961).
1886: Wilhelm Furtwängler, director of German orchestra and composer (f. 1954).
1890: Manuel Cabré, a Venezuelan painter (f. 1984).
1894: Florián Rey, actor and Spanish filmmaker (f. 1962).
1897: Fernando Márquez Miranda, Argentinian archaeologist (f. 1961).
1898: Jacobo Fijman, Argentinian poet (f. 1970).
1898: Oscar Murúa, Guatemalan painter (f. 1980).
1899: Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian politician (f. 1972).
1900: Theodosius Dobzhansky, Soviet geneticist (f. 1975).
1901: Itzhak Stern, German industrial accountant (f. 1969).
1901: Mildred Dunnock, American actress (f. 1991).
1901 Vasili Riazánov, Soviet military aviator and Hero of the Soviet Union (f. 1951).
1902: Fumiko Kaneko, Japanese anarchist (f. 1926).
1903: Pablo Quiroga Treviño, a Mexican lawyer and politician (f. 1987).
1911: Lorenzo Goñi, Spanish painter and painter (f. 1992).
1912: Lucho Bermúdez, composer and Colombian interpreter (f. 1994).
1912: Federico Heinlein, a Chilean musician and journalist (f. 1999).
1913: Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer (f. 1994).
1913: Luis Marden, American photojournalist (f. 2003).
1914: Antonio Bertola, Italian cyclist (f. 1967).
1915: Nina Rusakova, Soviet military aircraft (f. 1997)

Adalberto Martinez.

1916: Adalberto Martínez, Mexican actor and comedian (f. 2003).
1916: Sixto Marco, a Spanish painter and painter (f. 2002).
1917: Jânio Quadros, Brazilian president (f. 1992).
1917: Ilya Prigogine, a Belgian scientist of Russian origin, a nobel chemistry award in 1977 (f. 2003).
1917: Federico Sopeña, Spanish musicologist (f. 1991).
1918: Tranquil Cappozzo, Argentinian Remero of American Origin (f. 2003).
1919: Hugo Pimentel, Argentine actor (f. 1984).
1920: Miguel Díaz Negrete, Spanish architect (f. 2011).
1920: Alicia Montoya, Mexican actress (f. 2002).
1920: Tatiana Marinenko, Soviet partisan and Heroin of the Soviet Union (f. 1942).
1921: Samuel Cohen, American physicist (f. 2010).
1921: Alfred Reed, American composer (f. 2005).
1923: Arvid Carlsson, Swedish pharmacologist, nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 2000 (f. 2018).
1923: Emilio Ogñénovich, Argentinian Archbishop (f. 2011).
1924: Joxe Ulibarrena, Spanish sculptor and ethnographer (f. 2020).
1926: Youssef Chahine, Egyptian filmmaker (f. 2008).
1927: Tom Jobim, Brazilian composer (f. 1994).

Gregg Palmer.

Eduard Shevardnadze.

1927: Gregg Palmer, American actor (f. 2015).
1928: Eduard Shevardnadze, Georgian politician, President of Georgia between 1995 and 2003 (f. 2014).
1928: Adolfo Marsillach, a Spanish actor (f. 2002).
1929: Rafael Pi Belda, Spanish sculptor (f. 2012).
1930: Alberto Gil Novales, Spanish historian (f. 2016).
1930: Karina Laverde, Chilean actress based in Colombia (f. 2012)
1930: Tatiana Sávicheva, Russian personality (f. 1944).
1930: Marta Traba, art historian and Argentine-Colombian writer (f. 1983).
1931: Federico Edwards, Argentine footballer (f. 2016).
1931: Dean Jones, American actor (f. 2015).
1933: Aquinas, Filipino politics (f. 2009).
1934: Alberto Chissano, Mozambican sculptor (f. 1999)
1935: Antonio dos Santos Ramalho Eanes, Portuguese politician.
1937: Ange-Félix Patassé, Central African politician, President of the Central African Republic from 1993 to 2003 (f. 2011).
1938: Shōtarō Ishinomori, Japanese-sleeved drawer (f. 1998).
1938: Etta James, American singer.
1938: Leiji Matsumoto, Japanese-sleeved drawer.
1938: Vladimir Vysotski, Russian poet (f. 1980).
1940: Gonzalo Aguirre, Uruguayan politician.

Gregory Sierra.

1941: Gregory Sierra, an American actor (f. 2021).
1942: Perla Caron, an Argentine actress.
1942: Eusébio, Portuguese footballer.
1943: Fred Friedrich, German sculptor.
1943: Tobe Hooper, American filmmaker (f. 2017).
1943: Fernando Pérez Royo, Spanish politician.
1944: Fernando Bonilla, obstetrician and Spanish gynecologist.
1944: Zully Montero, Cuban film, theatre and television actress.
1944: Anita Pallenberg, Italian model (f. 2017).
1944: Tōru Emori, Japanese actor.
1946: Carlos Javier Beltrán, Argentine singer (f. 2012).
1947: Angel Nieto, Spanish motorcyclist (f. 2017).
1947: Tostão, Brazilian footballer.
1948: Jalifa bin Zayed Al Nahayan, Emirati politician, President of the United Arab Emirates between 2004-2022 (f. 2022)
1948: Rodolfo Nin Novoa, Uruguayan politician.

Paul Nurse.

1949: Paul Nurse, British biochemist, nobel medical prize in 2001.
1950: Eduardo Anzarda, Argentine footballer.
1950: Jean-Marc Ayrault, Prime Minister of France.
1950: Yoshimitsu Morita, Japanese filmmaker (f. 2011).
1951: Steve Prefontaine, American athlete (f. 1975).
1953: The Honky Tonk Man, American professional fighter.
1954: Ricardo Bochini, Argentine footballer.
1955: Tōru Iwatani, Japanese video game designer.
1958: Gustavo Cárdenas Gutiérrez, exalcalde de Ciudad Victoria
1958: Antonio Jesús López Nieto, Spanish referee.
1963: Marcello Giordani, Italian tenor.
1963: Don Mancini, director and film producer.
1967: Alfonso Ortega Lozano, Spanish composer.
1967: David Ginola, French footballer.
1967: Pablo Ramón Ayala, singer and composer of tropical Argentine cumbia (f.2005).
1968: Santiago Mesón, Argentine rugby player.
1971: Luca Badoer, Italian Formula 1 pilot.
1973: Geoff Johns, American cartoonist.
1975: Ruth Díaz, Spanish actress.
1975: Tim Montgomery, American athlete.
1975: Mia Kirshner, Canadian actress.
1977: José Luis Useche, actor, producer, playwright and director of Venezuelan theatre.
1977: Hatem Trabelsi, Tunisian footballer.
1978: Volodimir Zelenski, Ukrainian actor, producer and politician, president of Ukraine since 2019.
1978: Charlene de Monaco, Princess of Monaco.
1979: Roberto Fernández Alvarellos, Spanish footballer.
1979: Christine Lakin, American actress.
1980: Xavi Hernández, footballer and Spanish coach.
1980: Michelle McCool, American professional fighter.
1981: Toše Proeski, Macedonian singer.
1981: Sebastián Grazzini, Argentine footballer.
1981: Alicia Keys, American singer.
1982: Shō Sakurai, Japanese actor and singer.
1982: Noemi, Italian singer.
1982: Patrik Ingelsten, Swedish footballer.
1984: Robinho, Brazilian footballer.
1985: Alexander Acha, Mexican singer.
1987: Maria Kirilenko, Russian tennis player.
1988: Tatiana Golovin, French tennis player.
1988: Iago Herrerín, Spanish footballer.
1988: Paenda, Austrian singer.
1990: Lee Jun-ho, South Korean singer and actor.
1991: Chuli, Spanish footballer.
1991: Ramón Arcas, Spanish footballer.
1998: Fabian Piriz, Uruguayan footballer.
1998: Viktor Boone, Belgian footballer.
1999: Lucas (rapero), Chinese rapper, member of the NCT group.
1999: Ariel Fantoni, Argentine footballer.
1999: Darko Nejašmić, Croatian footballer.
1999: Mario Hernández Fernández, Spanish footballer.
1999: Kevin Kouassivi-Benissan, Finnish footballer.
1999: Kacper Sztuba, Polish penguinist.
1999: Zuhair Snisla, soccer player 5 Moroccan adapted.
1999: Jai Waetford, Australian singer and actor.
1999: Renan Torres, Brazilian yudoca.
1999: Santiago Echavarría, Colombian footballer.
1999: Adrian Goransch, Mexican footballer.
2000: Remco Evenepoel, Belgian cyclist.
2000: Saraí Meza, Mexican actress.
2000: Romário Baró, a British footballer.
2000: Rhyan White, American swimmer.
2000: Marie Le Net, French cyclist.
2000: Suzuka Hasegawa, Japanese swimmer.
2000: Eva Santidrián, a Spanish athlete.
2001: Michela Pace, Maltese singer.
2003: Daniel Owusu, Ghanaian footballer.
2003: Julian Halwachs, Austrian footballer.

Deaths

1067: Yingzong, Chinese emperor (n. 1032).
1494: Fernando I, Neapolitan king (n. 1423).
1640: Robert Burton, British writer and clergyman (n. 1577).
1744: Domenico Natale Sarro, Italian composer (n. 1679).
1747: Juan Antonio Vizarrón and Eguiarreta, Spanish religious and political (n. 1682).
1852: Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian explorer (n. 1778).
1857: Abraham Collingwood, noble, monarch and British military (n. 1824).
1871: Jeanne Villepreux-Power, French marine biologist (n. 1794).
1886: Benjamin Vicuña Mackenna, Chilean historian (n. 1831).
1892: Ludovica de Baviera, Monarch Bavarian (n. 1808).
1896: Vicente Palmaroli, a Spanish painter (n. 1834).
1899: Viscount of Taunay, noble, writer, military engineer, politician, sociologist, historian, musician and Brazilian plastic artist (n. 1843).
1900: Piotr Lavrov, Russian mathematician and political (n. 1823).
1907: Rene Pottier, French cyclist (n. 1879).
1925: Juan Vucetich, Argentine criminalist (n. 1858).
1925: José María Valle Riestra, Peruvian musician and composer (n. 1858).
1929: Franz Xaver Kugler, German scholar (n. 1862).
1947: Al Capone, Godfather of the Italian-American mafia (n. 1899).
1952: Sveinn Björnsson, Icelandic politician (n. 1881).
1954: M. N. Roy, revolutionary, activist and Bengali theorist (n. 1993).
1957: Kiyoshi Shiga, Japanese physicist and bacteriological (n. 1871).
1960: Diana Barrymore, American actress (n. 1921).
1960: Rutland Boughton, British composer (n. 1878).
1960: Mercedes Gaibrois de Ballesteros, Spanish historian (n. 1891).
1962: Josep Sebastià Pons, French poet in Catalan language (n. 1886).
1967: Ettore Bastianini, Italian baritone (n. 1922).
1970: Jane Bathori, French mezzosoprano (n. 1877).
1972: Erhard Milch, German military (n. 1892).
1973: Cirilo Cánovas García, Spanish politician (n. 1899).
1976: Ana María Lynch, an Argentine actress (n. 1918).
1982: Mikhail Súslov, Soviet ideologist (n. 1902).
1987: Nahuel Moreno, an Argentine politician (n. 1924).
1988: Carlos Mauro Hoyos, was a Colombian jurist and politician (n. 1939).
1990: Damaso Alonso, Spanish poet and academic (n. 1898).
1990: Ava Gardner, American actress (n. 1922).
1990: Luis Moya Blanco, Spanish architect (n. 1904).
1991: Diana Turbay, a Colombian lawyer and journalist. (n. 1950).
1992: Manuel Hernández Mompó, a Spanish painter (n. 1927).
1994: Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician (n. 1909).
1996: Jonathan Larson (35), American composer and lyricist, musical creator Rent (n. 1960).
1997: José Luis Cabezas, Argentine graphic reporter and photographer (n. 1962).
1997: Manuel Tuñón de Lara, Spanish historian (n. 1923).
1999: Robert Shaw (director), American choir director (n. 1916).
2003: Lobito Martínez, Paraguayan musician and composer (n. 1952).
2004: Miklós Fehér, Hungarian footballer (n. 1979).
2004: Fanny Blankers-Koen, a Dutch athlete (n. 1918).
2005: Philip Johnson, American architect (n. 1906).
2006: Anna Malle, American porn actress (n. 1967).
2006: Kim Manners, director and producer of American television (n. 1951).
2010: Ali Hassan al-Mayid, Iraqi general (n. 1941).
2010: Emilio Vieyra, Argentine filmmaker (n. 1920).
2012: Fernando Vidal, Spanish judge, President of the High Court of Justice of Asturias (n. 1924)
2012: Mabel Manzotti, Argentinean actress and politics (n. 1938).
2012: Carlos Escarrá, Venezuelan politician (n. 1954).
2012: Julio Cicero, Jesuit and Mexican biologist (n. 1921).
2013: Jaime Salom, playwright and Spanish doctor (n. 1925).
2015: Demis Roussos, Greek singer (n. 1946).
2016: Marina de Navasal, Chilean journalist (n. 1922).
2016: Denise Duval, French soprano (n. 1921).
2017: John Hurt, British actor (n. 1940).
2017: Mary Tyler Moore, American actress (n. 1936).
2018: Claribel Alegría, a Nicaraguan-Savadoreña poet (n. 1924).

Celebrations

SpainSpain
- Publicity Day (last Friday of January).
- Yesterday: Saint Paul's Feast. The pilgrimage is done on the last Sunday of January.
ScotlandScotland Burns Dinner in honor of the poet Robert Burns: they eat haggis and sing traditional Scottish ballads.
HondurasHonduras: Honduran Women's Day.
Mexico Mexico: Biologist's Day.
Argentina: National Story Reporter Day.