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
- 1792 –The London Corresponding Society is founded.
- 1879 –The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.
- 1909 –Richard Strauss’ opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
- 1919 –The League of Nations is founded.
- 1924 –The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, France (in the French Alps), inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
- 1932 –Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese National Revolutionary Army begins its defense of Harbin.
- 1944 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Monkey in Chinese astrology.
- 1946 –The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
- 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.
- 1990 –The Burns’ Day storm hits northwestern Europe.
- 1993 –Five people are shot outside the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia resulting in two murders.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2004 –Opportunity rover (MER-B) lands on surface of Mars.
- 2006 –Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza is arrested in conjunction with the serial killing of at least 10 elderly women.
- 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.
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