About January 25
January 25, 2025 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.
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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 4 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 25
- 41 –After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate.
- 1792 –The London Corresponding Society is founded.
- 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.
- 1881 –Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
- 1890 –Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
- 1909 –Richard Strauss’ opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
- 1915 –Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
- 1918 –Ukraine declares independence from Bolshevik Russia.
- 1932 –Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese National Revolutionary Army begins its defense of Harbin.
- 1955 –The Soviet Union ends state of war with Germany.
- 1971 –Charles Manson and three female “Family” members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders.
- 1982 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Dog in Chinese astrology.
- 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.
- 1996 –Billy Bailey became the last person to be hanged in the United States of America.
- 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.
- 2001 –A 50-year-old Douglas DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela killing 24.
- 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.
- 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.
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