Notable Historical Events on January 25th
January 25th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
41 |
After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate. |
1139 |
Godfried II the Young becomes duke of Brabant |
1327 |
King Edward III accedes to the English throne |
1348 |
Earthquake destroys Villach, killing 5,000 |
1494 |
Alfonso II replaces his father as king of Naples |
1554 |
Sir Thomas Wyatt gathers an army in Kent, rebels against Queen Mary |
1554 |
Founding of São Paulo city, Brazil. |
1565 |
Battle at Talikota India: the Deccan sultanate destroy Vijayanagar's army and the last Hindu kingdom of Southern India |
1573 |
Battle of Mikatagahara, in Japan; Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu. |
1579 |
Treaty of Utrecht signed, marks beginning of Dutch Republic |
1721 |
Tsar Peter the Great ends Russian-orthodox patriarchy |
1755 |
Moscow University established on Tatiana Day. |
1775 |
Americans drag cannon up hill to fight British (Gun Hill Road, Bronx) |
1787 |
Shays' Rebellion suffers a setback when debt-ridden farmers, led by Capt Daniel Shays, fail to capture an arsenal at Springfield, Mass |
1792 |
The London Corresponding Society is founded. |
1799 |
1st US patent for a seeding machine, Eliakim Spooner, Vermont |
1802 |
Napoleon Bonaparte elected president of Italian (Cisalpine) Republic |
1817 |
Rossini's opera "La Cenerentola" premieres in Rome |
1825 |
1st US engineering college opens, Rensselaer Polytechnic, Troy, NY |
1835 |
Vincenzo Bellini's opera "I Puritani," premieres in Paris |
1840 |
American naval expedition under Charles Wilkes first to identify Antarctica as a new continent |
1844 |
Recontre between Reps Weller & Shriver, US House of Representative |
1854 |
Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Bednost ne Porok," premieres in Moscow |
1856 |
Battle of Seattle; skirmish between settlers & Indians |
1858 |
Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" 1st played, at wedding of Queen Victoria's daughter Princess Victoria, to crown prince of Prussia |
1863 |
Battle of Kinston, NC |
1863 |
General Joseph Hooker replaces Burnside as head of Army of Potomac |
1865 |
CSS Shenandoah arrives in Melbourne, Australia |
1870 |
Soda fountain patented by Gustavus Dows |
1875 |
Anti-slavery society forms (NY) |
1877 |
Congress determines presidential election between Hayes-Tilden |
1879 |
The Bulgarian National Bank is founded. |
1881 |
Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company. |
1882 |
Bilu, a Russian Zionist organization, forms |
1885 |
Vincent d'Indy's "Saugefleurie," premieres |
1890 |
National Afro-American League forms in Chicago |
1890 |
Nellie Bly beats Phileas Fogg's time around world by 8 days (72 days) |
1890 |
United Mine Workers of America forms |
1894 |
James J Corbett KOs Charley Mitchell in 3 for heavyweight boxing title |
1902 |
Aleksandr Skriabin's 2nd Symphony in C premieres in St Petersburg |
1904 |
179 die in coal mine explosion at Cheswick, Pennsylvania |
1904 |
J M Synge's "Ruders to the Sea," premieres in Dublin |
1906 |
Del Valle Inclans "El Marqués de Bradomin," premieres in Madrid |
1907 |
Julia Ward Howe is 1st woman elected to Natl Inst of Arts & Letters |
1908 |
John Blockx' opera "Baldie" premieres in Antwerp |
1909 |
Richard Strauss' premier of "Elektra" in Dresden |
1910 |
1st stumping by a 12th man in Tests (N C Tufnell, SAf v Eng) |
1910 |
Children initiate idea of planting trees in Jerusalem |
1914 |
An Indian mass meeting in Durban unanimously endorse the agreement between General J.C. Smuts and Mahatma Gandhi regarding voluntary registration, poll tax, recognition of Indian marriages and other matters |
1915 |
Alexander Graham Bell in NY calls Thomas Watson in SF |
1915 |
Giordano, Sardou & Moreau's opera "Madame Sans Gêne" premieres in NYC |
1915 |
Transcontinental telephone service inaugurated (NY to SF) |
1916 |
Montenegro surrenders to Austria-Hungary |
1918 |
Russia declared a republic of Soviets |
1919 |
Founding of League of Nations, 1st meeting 1 year later |
1921 |
Karel Capék's "RUR," premieres in Prague |
1923 |
NVV donates 100,000 gulden to mine workers of Ruhrgebied |
1924 |
1st Winter Olympic games open in Chamonix, France |
1929 |
Bradman scores 340* for NSW v Victoria, 488 mins, 38 fours |
1932 |
1st commencement exercises at Hebrew U in Jerusalem |
1932 |
Bradman scores 167 NSW v Victoria, 224 mins, 22 fours |
1937 |
1st broadcast of "Guiding Light" on NBC radio |
1937 |
Miami-to-Tampa bus overturned in a canal, kills 13 |
1937 |
Soap Opera "Guiding Light" premieres on radio |
1938 |
Ian Hay's "Bachelor Born," premieres in NYC |
1939 |
Earthquake hits Chillan Chile, 10,000 killed |
1939 |
Joe Louis KOs John Henry Lewis in 1 for heavyweight boxing title |
1940 |
Nazi decrees establishment of Jewish ghetto in Lodz Poland |
1941 |
Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese. It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu. |
1942 |
Lt General Rommels African corps reaches Msus |
1945 |
Dan Topping, Del Webb & Larry MacPhail purchase NY Yanks for $2.8 mil |
1945 |
Grand Rapids, Michigan becomes 1st US city to fluoridate its water |
1945 |
Japanese occupiers of Batavia arrest Indo-European youths |
1945 |
NY Yankees sold by Ruppert estate to construction magnate Del Webb and partners Dan Topping and Larry MacPhail for $2.8 million |
1945 |
West Africa 82nd division occupies Myohaung, Burma |
1946 |
Richard Strauss' "Metamorphosis," premieres in Zurich |
1946 |
United Mine Workers union rejoins American Federation of Labor |
1949 |
1st Emmy Awards: Shirley Dinsdale & Pantomime Quiz (KTLA) win |
1949 |
1st Israeli election - Ben-Gurion's Mapai party wins |
1950 |
73°F (23°C) highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in January |
1951 |
UN begins counter offensive in Korea |
1952 |
Test debut of Richie Benaud, v West Indies at the SCG |
1953 |
WABI TV channel 5 in Bangor, ME (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
Yuri Sergejev skates world record 500m in 40.9 sec |
1955 |
Jill Kinmont hits a tree & breaks her back in Snow Cup Ski Race |
1955 |
Russia ends state of war with Germany |
1955 |
US & Panama sign canal treaty |
1955 |
Columbia University scientists develope an atomic clock accurate to within one second in 300 years |
1956 |
96.5 cm (38.0") of rainfall, Kilauea Plantation, HI (state record) |
1957 |
FBI arrests Jack & Myra Sobel, charged with spying for USSR |
1959 |
1st transcontinental coml jet flight (American) (LA to NY for $301) |
1959 |
Pope John XXIII proclaims 2nd Vatican council |
1961 |
1st live, nationally televised presidential news conference (JFK) |
1961 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Naples Pro-Am Golf Tournament |
1961 |
Military coup in El Salvador |
1961 |
Walt Disney's "101 Dalmations" released |
1964 |
Beatles 1st US #1, "I Want to Hold your Hand" (Cashbox) |
1964 |
Echo 2, US communications satellite launched |
1966 |
WCMC (now WMGM) TV channel 40 in Wildwood, NJ (NBC) 1st broadcast |
1968 |
Risse St in Bronx named |
1968 |
Robert Anderson's "I Never Sang for My Father," premieres in NYC |
1969 |
US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris |
1970 |
Robert Altman's M*A*S*H premieres |
1971 |
Charles Manson & 3 women followers convicted of Tate-LaBianca murders |
1971 |
Himachal Pradesh becomes 18th Indian state |
1971 |
Military coup in Uganda under Gen Idi Amin Dada |
1971 |
Phila mint's 1st trial strike of Eisenhower dollar |
1971 |
WHMB TV channel 40 in Indianapolis, IN (IND) begins broadcasting |
1971 |
The 170 delegates of the Ulster Unionist Council (UUC) call for the resignation of Northern Ireland Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark |
1972 |
25th NHL All-Star Game: East beats West 3-2 at Minnesota |
1972 |
7' Ohio State center Luke Witte is stomped in face during a brawl in a game with Minnesota |
1974 |
Bulent Ecevit forms government in Turkey |
1974 |
Christian Barnard transplants 1st human heart without removal of old |
1974 |
Ray Kroc, CEO (McDonald's), buys SD Padres for $12 million |
1975 |
10th hat trick in Islander history-Denis Potvin's 1st |
1975 |
Bangladeshi parliament disposes of premier sheik Mujib ur-Rahman |
1976 |
Surinder Amarnath scores 124 on Test debut Ind v NZ Auckland |
1978 |
Muriel Humphrey (D-Mn) appointed to fill late husband's Senate seat |
1978 |
Padres trade pitcher Dave Tomlin & $125,000 to Rangers for Gaylord Perry (He wins 1978 Cy Young Award) |
1979 |
22.2-km Oshimizu railroad tunnel holed through, central Honshu, Japan |
1979 |
Pope John Paul II's 1st overseas trip as supreme pontiff |
1979 |
1st documented case of a robot killing a human in US |
1980 |
Bani Sadr elected president of Iran |
1980 |
Dutch government demands boycott of Olympics |
1980 |
Highest speed attained by a warship, 167 kph, USN hovercraft |
1980 |
Paul McCartney is released from Tokyo jail & deported |
1981 |
52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived back in US |
1981 |
Mao's widow Jiang Qing sentenced to death |
1981 |
Super Bowl XV: Oakland Raiders beat Philadelphia Eagles, 27-10 in New Orleans Super Bowl MVP: Jim Plunkett, Oakland, QB |
1982 |
9th American Music Award: Pat Benatar & Kenny Rogers win |
1983 |
China's supreme court commutes Chiang Ch'ing's death sentence to life |
1983 |
Infrared telescope satellite launched into polar orbit |
1983 |
Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie arrested in Bolivia |
1985 |
"Black & Blue," premieres in Paris |
1985 |
Test debut of Wasim Akram, v New Zealand at Auckland (2-105) |
1986 |
General Tito Okello's government flees Kampala Uganda |
1987 |
75th Australian Mens Tennis: S Edberg beats Pat Cash (63 64 36 57 63) |
1987 |
Super Bowl XXI: NY Giants beat Denver Broncos, 39-20 in Pasadena Super Bowl MVP: Phil Simms, NY Giants, QB |
1988 |
15th American Music Award: Anita Baker, Paul Simon & Whitney Houston |
1988 |
George Harrison releases "When We Was Fab" |
1988 |
Longest winless streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (15 games) |
1988 |
Ramsewak Shankar sworn in as pres of Suriname |
1988 |
VP George Bush & Dan Rather clash on "CBS Evening News" as Rather attempts to question Bush about his role in Iran-Contra affair |
1989 |
Augusto Alcalde, 1st South American Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission |
1989 |
Michael Jordan scores his 10,000th NBA point in his 5th season |
1989 |
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1990 |
Avianca Flight 52, runs out of fuel & crashes in Cove Neck NY, 73 die |
1990 |
Former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is transferred to a Miami jail |
1990 |
The Burns' Day windstorm storm hits northwestern Europe. |
1990 |
Honduras becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. |
1991 |
Brett Hull is 3rd NHLer to score 50 goals in less than 50 games (49) |
1991 |
Manuel Noriega is given access to assets frozen by US government |
1991 |
Mark Waugh scores ton in 1st Test Cricket innings, v England Adelaide |
1991 |
Soap opera "Generation's" last episode after a 2½ year run |
1992 |
66th Australian Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats M Fernandez (62 63) |
1992 |
Dan Jansen skates world record 500m in 36.41" |
1992 |
Hubble space telescope optics finds NGC3862/3C264 |
1993 |
20th American Music Award: Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey win |
1993 |
Puerto Rico adds English as its 2nd official language |
1993 |
Sears announces it is closing its catalog sales dept after 97 years |
1993 |
Five people were shot outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia resulting in two murders. |
1994 |
Australia beat South Africa 2-1 to win the World Series Cup |
1994 |
Mine fire at Asansol, India, kills 55 |
1994 |
US space probe Clementine launched |
1994 |
Accused of molesting a 13-year-old boy, Michael Jackson settles a civil lawsuit out of court |
1995 |
Jacques Santer succeeds Jacques Delors as chairman of Euro Committee |
1997 |
71st Australian Womens Tennis: Martina Hingis beat Mary Pierce (6-2 6-2) |
1998 |
"Grease," closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 1,503 performance |
1998 |
"Patti LaBelle On Broadway," closes at St James Theater NYC |
1998 |
Britain's Queen Mother, 97, gets an emergency hip replacement |
1998 |
Helen Alfredsson wins Office Depot LPGA tournament |
1998 |
Spice Girl Victoria Adams (Posh) and soccer player David Beckham get engaged |
1998 |
Super Bowl XXXII: Denver Broncos beat Green Bay Packers 31-24 |
1998 |
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suicide attack on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth, killing 8 people injuring 25 others. |
1999 |
A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000. |
2001 |
A 50-year-old Douglas DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela killing 24 |
2002 |
Wikipedia switches to the new version of its software ("Phase II") aka Magnus Manske Day. |
2004 |
Opportunity rover (MER-B) lands on surface of Mars. |
2005 |
A stampede at the Mandher Devi temple in Mandhradevi in India kills at least 258. |
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. |
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. |
2011 |
Egyptian Revolution of 2011 begins in Egypt, with a series of street demonstrations, marches, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes in Cairo, Alexandria, and throughout other cities in Egypt. |
2011 |
It is announced today that the UK economy suffered a shock contraction of 0.5% in the fourth quarter of 2010, which has been widely blamed on the severe winter weather in December and austere budget cuts implemented by the coalition government increasing fears that the UK is heading for a double-dip recession |
2013 |
Tropical cyclone Oswald makes landfall in Queensland, Australia, causing mass flooding |
2013 |
6 civilians and 1 police officer are shot dead and 456 people are injured during a nationwide protest against Egypt's 2011 revolution |
2013 |
Islamist forces are driven out of Hombori by the Malian army |
2013 |
8 people are killed by 2 car bombs in Golan Heights, Syria |
2013 |
50 people are killed and 90 are injured in a prison riot in Barquisimeto, Venezuela |
2013 |
Initial GDP figures for the fourth quarter of 2012 show the UK economy shrank by 0.3% raising fears of a triple dip recession |
2014 |
Li Na defeats Dominika Cibulková to win the Australian tennis open |
2017 |
Helicopter Carrying Injured Skier Crashes in Italy, Killing 6 |
2017 |
White House says Trump stands by voter fraud belief, offers no evidence |
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