25 January In History - What Happened On This Day

According to Gregory calendar, January 25 is the day number 25 in a given year. January 25 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.

Event Year	Incident/Event
1533	Anne Boleyn, already pregnant with future queen Elizabeth,secretly married Henry VIII of England, the second of his six marriages.
1554	The city of São Paulo was established in Brazil.
1554	Jesuit missionaries José de Anchieta and Manoel da Nóbrega established a mission at São Paulo dos Campos de Piratininga, which grew to become São Paulo, Brazil.
1576	Portuguese explorer Paulo Dias de Novais founded the settlement of São Paulo da Assumpção de Loanda on the western coast of Africa,now known as Luanda.
1704	English colonists from the Province of Carolina and their native allies began a series of brutal raids against a largely pacific population of Apalachee in Spanish Florida.
1755	Moscow University was established.
1791	The British Parliament passed the Constitutional Act 1791, dividing the old province of Quebec into upper and lower Canada.
1824	Famous Bengali poet Michael Madhusudan Dutt was born.
1871	Caucasian struggler Dharmaguru Shaikh Shamil died in Madina Nagar.
1881	Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell founded the Oriental Telephone Company.
1881	Thomas Alva Edison and Alexander Graham Bell formed the Oriental Telephone Company.
1890	American journalist Nellie Bly completed a circumnavigation of the globe, inspired by Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days, ina then-record 72 days.
1904	The coal mine explosion in Cheswick, Pennsylvania killed 179 people.
1924	The first Winter Olympic Games were held in Chamonix, France.
1939	10 thousand people died in Chile's Chilean earthquake.
1947	Famous gangster Al Capone died.
1949	The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences presented the first Emmy Awards to honor excellence in the American television industry.
1952	The first International Film Festival was held in Bombay.
1955	The United States and Panama signed the Canal Treaty.
1971	Idi Amin Dada seized power in a military coup d'état from President Milton Obote, beginning eight years of military rule in Uganda.
1980	The famous philanthropist Mother Teresa was awarded the Bharat Ratna.
1983	Acharya Vinoba Bhave was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian honor.
1990	Avianca Flight 52 ran out of fuel on approach to New York'sJohn F. Kennedy International Airport and crashed into the village ofCove Neck, resulting in the deaths of 73 people.
1993	Five people were shot outside the Central Intelligence Agency Headquarters in Langley, Virginia, resulting in two deaths.
1995	A team of Norwegian and American scientists launched a Black Brant XII sounding rocket, which was mistaken for a Trident missile by Russian forces.
1998	“Grease,” closed at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City. It closed after 1,503 performances.
1998	Office Depot LPGA tournament is won by Helen Alfredsson.
1998	Superbowl XXXII: Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego, Denvor Broncos beat Green Bay Packers by 31-24.
1999	An earthquake in Colombia in the last 16 years killed 300 people and injured a thousand people.
1999	Colombia is hit by Earthquake. It has been reported that 1,185 were killed in Armenia.
2004	Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity landed on Mars and rolled into Eagle crater, a small crater onthe Meridiani Planum.
2006	Three independent observing campaigns announced the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb, a super-Earth extrasolar planet 21, 500 ±3, 300 light years away from Earth near the center of the Milky Way.
2010	China has discovered new traces of melamine in milk products. Thousands of children became ill from melamine in milk in China.
2010	Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409, en route to Addis Ababa,Ethiopia, crashed into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after takeoff fromBeirut, Lebanon, killing all 90 people aboard.
2011	Tens of thousands of people participated in a ‘day of revolt' to protest against the government in Egypt.
2011	Australia and Japan will play the AFC Asian Cup Final.
2011	The first wave of the Egyptian revolution began, eventually leading to the removal of Hosni Mubarak after nearly 30 years of rule.
2012	Iran President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the country is ready to discuss about its nuclear program with other countries.
2013	UEFA announced plans for EURO 2020. The football championship will be held in 13 different countries.
2014	National 9/11 Memorial officials have announced that the 9/11 Museum will be opened Mid May - in memory of the victims of the terrorists attack.
2015	Miss Colombia Polina Vega became Miss Universe 2014.

Event Year	Incident/Event
1880	Renowned social reformer Keshav Chandra Sen started the New Vidyavan or Indian Brahmo Samaj by embracing Christian and Vaishnavi devotion in Brahmo Samaj.
1930	Three people were killed by a bomb thrown on the road from a bus in Pune, India.
1971	Himachal Pradesh became the 18th state of India.

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