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 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 12, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,706,140,800 seconds 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.
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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 16 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 4,052 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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January 25 Historical Events
- 1554 –Founding of São Paulo city, Brazil.
- 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.
- 1755 –Moscow University is established on Tatiana Day.
- 1792 –The London Corresponding Society is founded.
- 1918 –Ukraine declares independence from Bolshevik Russia.
- 1924 –The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, France (in the French Alps), inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
- 1982 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Dog in Chinese astrology.
- 1993 –Five people are shot outside the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia resulting in two murders.
- 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.
Who were born on January 25?
- 1743 –Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, German philosopher (d. 1819)
- 1796 –William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (d. 1852)
- 1813 –James Marion Sims, American physician (d. 1883)
- 1824 –Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Bengali author. (d. 1873)
- 1874 –W. Somerset Maugham, English writer (d. 1965)
- 1886 –Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (d. 1954)
- 1952 –Peter Tatchell, Australian-born British LGBT activist
- 1957 –Jenifer Lewis, American actress
- 1975 –Dat Phan, Vietnamese stand-up comedian
- 1979 –Christine Lakin, American actress
Who died on January 25?
- 967 –Sayf al-Daula, Hamdanid Emir of Aleppo (b. 916)
- 1881 –Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (b. 1794)
- 1949 –Makino Nobuaki, Japanese statesmanӌ8;(b. 1861)
- 1954 –Manabendra Nath Roy, Indian political activist (b. 1887)
- 1969 –Irene Castle, English dancer (b. 1887)
- 1990 –Ava Gardner, American actress (b. 1922)
- 1996 –Jonathan Larson, American composer (b. 1960)
- 2005 –Nettie Witziers-Timmer, Dutch athlete (b. 1923)
- 2005 –Ray Peterson, American singer (b. 1935)
- 2009 –Kim Manners, American television producer and director (b. 1951)
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