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 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 340 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 12, 2023 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 27,910,080 minutes 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 381 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 3,687 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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January 25 Historical Events
- 41 –After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate.
- 1533 –Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.
- 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.
- 1906 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Horse in Chinese astrology.
- 1919 –The League of Nations is founded.
- 1960 –The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the Payola scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accept money for playing particular records.
- 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.
- 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.
Who were born on January 25?
- 1902 –Pablo Antonio, Filipino modernist architect (d. 1975)
- 1913 –Luis Marden, American photojournalist (d. 2003)
- 1924 –Lou Groza, American football player (d. 2000)
- 1938 –Etta James, American singer
- 1947 –Tostão, Brazilian footballer
- 1954 –Kim Gandy, American feminist activist
- 1954 –Richard Finch, American bass player (KC and the Sunshine Band)
- 1979 –Pi Hongyan, French badminton player
- 1982 –Sho Sakurai, Japanese singer and actor
- 1986 –Chris O'Grady, English footballer
Who died on January 25?
- 1578 –Mihrimah Sultana, Ottoman princess (b. 1522)
- 1726 –Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (b. 1675)
- 1908 –Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (b. 1850)
- 1947 –Al Capone, American organized crime figure (b. 1899)
- 1970 –Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese television writer and producer (b. 1901)
- 1970 –Jane Bathori, French mezzo-soprano (b. 1877)
- 1999 –Robert Shaw, American conductor (b. 1916)
- 2005 –Ray Peterson, American singer (b. 1935)
- 2005 –Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (b. 1923)
- 2006 –Anna Malle, adult film star (b. 1967)
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