January 25

Events41 - After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate.844 - Gregory IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope. 1327 - Edward III becomes King of England.1494 - Alfonso II  becomes King of Naples.1533 - Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.1554 - Founding of São Paulo city, Brazil.1755 - Moscow University established on Tatiana Day.1787 - American Daniel Shays leads 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.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.1879 - The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.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.1917 - The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million.1919 - The League of Nations is founded.1924 - The 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, France (in the French Alps), inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.1937 - The Guiding Light airs on radio for the first time. Also went to television making this show the longest running broadcast program in United States radio and television history.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 - Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.1945 - Battle of the Bulge ends.1946 - The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.1949 - At the Hollywood Athletic Club the first Emmy Awards are presented.1949 - The first Israeli election -- David Ben-Gurion becomes Prime Minister.1955 - Soviet Union ends state of war with Germany. 1959 - Pope John XXIII proclaims upcoming Second Vatican Council.1960 - The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the Payola scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accepted money for playing particular records.1961 - In Washington, D.C. John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.1971 - Charles Manson and three female "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders.1971 - Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.1971 - Himachal Pradesh becomes the 18th Indian state.1981 - Jiang Qing, the widow of Mao Zedong, is sentenced to death.1981 - Tose Proeski, Macedonian Mega Star was born in Prilep,Macedonia1986 - The National Resistance Movement topple the government of Tito Okello in Uganda.1990 - The Burns' Day storm hits northwestern Europe.1990 - Honduras becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.1990 - Avianca Flight 52 crashes, killing 73 passengers. 1993 - Mir Amir Kansi kills two employees outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.1994 - The Clementine space probe launches.1994 - Australia beats South-Africa in World Series Cup.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. 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.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.
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