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 25^th 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.

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.

January 25 Historical Events

• 1554 –
  Founding of São Paulo city, Brazil.
• 1890 –
  Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
• 1942 –
  World War II: Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.
• 1946 –
  The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
• 1969 –
  Brazilian Army captain Carlos Lamarca deserts in order to fight against the military dictatorship, taking with him 10 machine guns and 63 rifles.
• 1982 –
  New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Dog in Chinese astrology.
• 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.
• 1998 –
  During a historic visit to Cuba, Pope John Paul II demands the release of political prisoners and political reforms while condemning US attempts to isolate the country.
• 2003 –
  2003 Invasion of Iraq: A group of people left London, England, for Baghdad, Iraq, to serve as human shields to prevent the U.S.-led coalition troops from bombing certain locations.
• 2006 –
  Three independent observing campaigns announce the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb through gravitational microlensing, the first cool rocky/icy extrasolar planet around a main-sequence star.

Who were born on January 25?

• 1509 –
  Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (d. 1580)
• 1640 –
  William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman (d. 1707)
• 1858 –
  Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese pearl farmer (d. 1954)
• 1923 –
  Rusty Draper, American country and pop singer (d. 2003)
• 1937 –
  Ange-Félix Patassé, Central African Republican politician
• 1943 –
  Roy Black, German pop singer (d. 1991)
• 1954 –
  Kim Gandy, American feminist activist
• 1961 –
  Willie Revillame, Filipino game show host and comedian
• 1985 –
  Acie Law IV, American basketball player
• 1989 –
  Víctor Ruiz Torre, Spanish footballer

Who died on January 25?

• 1670 –
  Nicholas II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1612)
• 1726 –
  Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (b. 1675)
• 1940 –
  Elias Simojoki, Finnish clergyman and politician (b. 1899)
• 1972 –
  Erhard Milch, German field marshal (b. 1892)
• 1980 –
  Queenie Watts, English actress (b. 1926)
• 1982 –
  Mikhail Suslov, Soviet politician (b. 1902)
• 1987 –
  Frank J. Lynch, American jurist and state legislator (b. 1922)
• 1996 –
  Jonathan Larson, American composer (b. 1960)
• 2005 –
  Manuel Lopes, Cape Verdean writer and poet (b. 1907)
• 2009 –
  Kim Manners, American television producer and director (b. 1951)