What are the important events that happened on January 25? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
January 25: Facts & Myths About This Day
January 25 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 12, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 482,712 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘icosipentagon’ day.
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Aquarius is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,418 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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January 25 Historical Events
- 1787 –American Daniel Shays leads a rebellion to seize Federal arsenal to protest debtor’s prisons.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1994 –The Clementine space probe launches.
- 2004 –Opportunity rover (MER-B) lands on surface of Mars.
Who were born on January 25?
- 1755 –Paolo Mascagni, Anatomist (d. 1815)
- 1917 –Ilya Prigogine, Russian scientist Nobel Laureate (d. 2003)
- 1949 –Paul Nurse, English biochemist, Nobel Laureate
- 1957 –Jenifer Lewis, American actress
- 1962 –Chris Chelios, American ice hockey player
- 1966 –Chet Culver, American politician
- 1973 –Geoff Johns, American comic book writer
- 1985 –Acie Law IV, American basketball player
- 1985 –Brent Celek, American football player
- 1987 –Maria Kirilenko, Russian tennis player
Who died on January 25?
- 389 –Gregory Nazianzus, theologian and Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 329)
- 1431 –Charles II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1364)
- 1494 –King Ferdinand I of Naples (b. 1423)
- 1733 –Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet (b. 1652)
- 1908 –Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (b. 1850)
- 1925 –Ivan Vucetic, Croatian anthropologist (b. 1858)
- 1990 –Ava Gardner, American actress (b. 1922)
- 1994 –Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician (b. 1909)
- 1996 –Jonathan Larson, American composer (b. 1960)
- 2005 –Manuel Lopes, Cape Verdean writer and poet (b. 1907)
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