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
- 1533 –Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.
- 1787 –American Daniel Shays leads a rebellion to seize Federal arsenal to protest debtor’s prisons.
- 1906 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Horse in Chinese astrology.
- 1937 –The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until Sept. 18, 2009.
- 1945 –World War II: The Battle of the Bulge ends.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2006 –Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza is arrested in conjunction with the serial killing of at least 10 elderly women.
Who were born on January 25?
- 1640 –William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman (d. 1707)
- 1755 –Paolo Mascagni, Anatomist (d. 1815)
- 1796 –William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (d. 1852)
- 1901 –Martin De Alzaga, Argentine racing driver (d. 1982)
- 1943 –Tobe Hooper, American film director
- 1948 –Gueorgui Chichkine, Russian painter
- 1978 –Derrick Turnbow, American baseball player
- 1981 –Alicia Keys, American singer
- 1985 –Patrick Willis, American football player
- 1988 –Tatiana Golovin, French tennis player
Who died on January 25?
- 1670 –Nicholas II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1612)
- 1908 –Ouida, English writer (b. 1839)
- 1957 –Ichizo Kobayashi, Japanese industrialist (b. 1873)
- 1957 –Kiyoshi Shiga, Japanese physician and bacteriologist (b. 1871)
- 1970 –Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese television writer and producer (b. 1901)
- 1975 –Charlotte Whitton, Canadian politician (b. 1896)
- 1994 –Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician (b. 1909)
- 1999 –Robert Shaw, American conductor (b. 1916)
- 2005 –Ray Peterson, American singer (b. 1935)
- 2009 –Kim Manners, American television producer and director (b. 1951)
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