About January 25

January 25, 2024 is the 25th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 341 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

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Aquarius is the sun 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 16 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On January 25

  • 1533 –
    Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.
  • 1573 –
    Battle of Mikatagahara, in Japan; Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu.
  • 1575 –
    Luanda, the capital of Angola is founded by the Portuguese navigator Paulo Dias de Novais.
  • 1787 –
    American Daniel Shays leads a rebellion to seize Federal arsenal to protest debtor’s prisons.
  • 1791 –
    The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.
  • 1881 –
    Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
  • 1915 –
    Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
  • 1932 –
    Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese National Revolutionary Army begins its defense of Harbin.
  • 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.
  • 1949 –
    At the Hollywood Athletic Club the first Emmy Awards are presented.
  • 1963 –
    New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
  • 1971 –
    Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda’s president.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 2006 –
    Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza is arrested in conjunction with the serial killing of at least 10 elderly women.

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