124 sourced historical events are currently published for January 25. Browse the chronology below or filter this date by place and event type. This collection is expanding, not an exhaustive account of the day.
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On 25 January AD 41, Claudius was formally invested with the powers of the Roman emperor after the Senate’s resistance collapsed. This was distinct from his protection and acclamation by the Praetorian Guard following Caligula’s assassination on January 24. The events took place in Rome, in present-day Italy.
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The Battle of the Zab (Arabic: معركة الزاب), also referred to in scholarly contexts as Battle of the Great Zāb River, took place on January 25, 750, on the banks of the Great Zab in what is now the modern country of Iraq. It spelled the end of the Umayyad Caliphate and the rise of the Abbasid Caliphate, which would last from 750 to 1258.
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On 25 January 1327, Edward III was proclaimed king of England in London, in present-day United Kingdom, following his father Edward II’s deposition. His coronation at Westminster Abbey took place on February 1.
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The 1348 Friuli earthquake, centered in the South Alpine region of Friuli, was felt across Europe on 25 January. The earthquake hit in the same year that the Great Plague ravaged Italy. According to contemporary sources, it caused considerable damage to structures; churches and houses collapsed and villages were destroyed.
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The Treaty of Constantinople was signed on 25 January 1479, which officially ended the sixteen-year-long war between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire. The Venetians were forced to hand over Scutari (which had been besieged by the Ottomans for many months) in Albania and the island of Lemnos and the Mani Peninsula in Greece; and acknowledge the loss of Negroponte (Euboea) and Croia.
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The First Ottoman–Venetian War was fought between the Republic of Venice with its allies and the Ottoman Empire from 1463 to 1479. Fought shortly after the capture of Constantinople and the remnants of the Byzantine Empire by the Ottomans, it resulted in the loss of several Venetian holdings in Albania and Greece, most importantly the island of Negroponte (Euboea), which had been a Venetian protectorate for centuries.
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Alfonso II (4 November 1448 – 18 December 1495) was Duke of Calabria and ruled as King of Naples from 25 January 1494 to 23 January 1495. He was a soldier and a patron of Renaissance architecture and the arts. Heir to his father Ferdinand I's Kingdom of Naples, Alfonso held the dukedom of Calabria for most of his life.
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On 25 January 1515, Francis I was crowned king of France at Reims Cathedral.
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On 25 January 1554, Jesuit priests founded the Colégio de São Paulo de Piratininga in what is now São Paulo, Brazil. The city traces its founding date to the college, which was established to evangelize Indigenous people.
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The Battle of Mikatagahara (三方ヶ原の戦い Mikatagahara no tatakai) (January 25, 1573; Tōtōmi Province, Japan) was one of the most famous battles of Takeda Shingen's campaigns, and one of the best demonstrations of his cavalry-based tactics. It was also one of Tokugawa Ieyasu's worst defeats, and complete disaster was only narrowly averted. According to the Japanese calendar, the battle was fought on the 22nd day, 12th month, the year Genki-3.
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Paulo Dias de Novais founded a Portuguese settlement on the Angolan coast. It grew into Luanda, the present-day capital of Angola.
January 25 is the conventional historical date used by the Angolan government.
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The Battle of Nantwich was fought during the First English Civil War, between the Parliamentarians and Royalists, northwest of the town of Nantwich in Cheshire on 25 January 1644. The Royalists under Lord Byron were besieging Nantwich, and Sir Thomas Fairfax led an army to relieve the town. As Fairfax approached, a sudden thaw caused the River Weaver to rise in spate, dividing Byron's cavalry from his infantry and artillery, who were overrun and destroyed by Fairfax. The Parliamentarian victory halted a run of Royalist successes in the area, and was a major setback to King Charles I's plan of campaign for the year.
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On 25 January 1650, Francisco Gómez de la Rocha was executed by garrote in Potosí, in present-day Bolivia, following the mint-fraud investigation. His body was publicly displayed in the main square the next day.
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The Apalachee massacre was a series of raids by English colonists from the Province of Carolina and their Muscogee allies against a largely peaceful Apalachee population in northern Spanish Florida which took place in January 1704 during Queen Anne's War. Against limited Spanish and Apalachee resistance, a network of Catholic missions was destroyed by the raiders; most of their population were either killed, captured, fled to larger Spanish and French outposts, or voluntarily joined the English.
The Apalachee massacre: A combined British and Muscogee force from the Province of Carolina destroys the main fortified mission of Ayubale, breaking Spain's hold on Spanish Florida.
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During the night of 25 January 1780, British forces staged simultaneous raids into Elizabethtown and Newark in New Jersey.
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On 25 January 1792, Thomas Hardy and seven friends held the first meeting of the London Corresponding Society in London, United Kingdom. The society campaigned for democratic parliamentary reform.
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The Action of 25 January 1797 was a minor naval battle of the French Revolutionary Wars, fought in the Gulf of Cádiz. The Spanish third-rate ship of the line San Francisco de Asís was attacked and pursued for several hours by a British squadron of three fifth-rates frigates and a sixth-rate corvette under George Stewart, 8th Earl of Galloway. After an intermittent but fierce exchange of fire, the British warships, badly damaged, were eventually forced to withdraw. The San Francisco de Asís, which suffered only minor damage, was able to return to Cádiz without difficulties.
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On 25 January 1800, Republican troops defeated Chouan forces at the Tombettes, between Le Châtellier and Parigné in France, during the Chouannerie.
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In the Battle of Mohrungen on 25 January 1807, most of a First French Empire corps under the leadership of Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte fought a strong Russian Empire advance guard led by Major General Yevgeni Ivanovich Markov. The French pushed back the main Russian force, but a cavalry raid on the French supply train caused Bernadotte to call off his attacks. After driving off the cavalry, Bernadotte withdrew and the town was occupied by the army of General Levin August, Count von Bennigsen. The fighting took place in and around Morąg in northern Poland, which in 1807 was the East Prussian town of Mohrungen.
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The Virginia General Assembly passed an act establishing the University of Virginia on the site of Central College in Albemarle County. The act placed the university under a seven-member Board of Visitors.
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A UK parliamentary by-election was held for one of the two seats in Birmingham on 23–25 January 1840. The Radical candidate George Muntz was returned, ahead of Conservative Charles Wetherell.
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The Battle of Cegléd was a battle in the Hungarian war of Independence of 1848-1849, fought on 25 January 1849 between the revolutionary Hungarian army led by General Mór Perczel against the cavalry brigade of the Austrian Empire led by General Ferenc Ottinger. After the First Battle of Szolnok Ottinger retreated to Cegléd and received some infantry reinforcements to his cavalry brigade.
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On 25 January 1871, the siege of Longwy in France ended during the Franco-Prussian War. The town’s defenders surrendered after Prussian artillery bombardment.
This records the siege’s end. The French departmental archives date the wider siege from August 1870, while the collected article described a January 1871 phase.
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On 25 January 1879, Prince Alexander Dondukov-Korsakov, the Russian imperial commissioner in Bulgaria, approved the charter of the Bulgarian National Bank. This was the charter’s approval, rather than the bank’s later opening for business.
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The Oriental Telephone Company was established on January 25, 1881, as the result of an agreement between Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, the Oriental Bell Telephone Company of New York and the Anglo-Indian Telephone Company, Ltd. The company was licensed to sell telephones in Greece, Turkey, South Africa, India, Japan, China, and other Asian countries.
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On January 25, 1887, Italian colonial troops repelled an Ethiopian attack at Saati, in present-day Eritrea. It was the first battle of the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1887–1889.
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Delegates from two miners' organizations joined forces at a convention in Columbus, Ohio, forming the United Mine Workers of America.
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The retained film infobox dates the release of the Lumière brothers’ The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat to 25 January 1896. Its narrative places the first public showing in Lyon, France, in January 1896 and distinguishes it from the Paris screening of December 28, 1895.
The precise day follows the retained film infobox; its narrative gives January 1896 for the first Lyon showing.
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On January 25, 1898, Maryland’s legislature elected Republican Louis E. McComas to the United States Senate, replacing Democrat Arthur P. Gorman. At the time, state legislatures elected US senators.
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The 1899 United States Senate election in Wisconsin was held in the 44th Wisconsin Legislature between January 25, 1899, and January 31, 1899. Incumbent Democratic U.S. senator John L. Mitchell did not run for a second term. Republican lawyer and former state legislator Joseph V. Quarles was elected to succeed him on the sixth ballot.
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The Battle of Middelfontein was a Boer War battle fought from 22 to 25 January 1901, near Rustenburg in the Northern Transvaal region. A column of British forces under General Cunningham were marching to Vlakfontein to cut off Boer forces under De la Rey when they were attacked by commandos near Middelfontein farm. The battle was small but significant, as it was the first battle fought under the reign of the new King Edward VII.
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The Ontario general election, 1905 was the 11th general election held in the Province of Ontario, Canada. It was held on January 25, 1905, to elect the 98 Members of the 11th Legislative Assembly of Ontario ("MLAs"). The Ontario Conservative Party, led by Sir James P. Whitney, defeated the Ontario Liberal Party, led by Sir George William Ross, bringing to an end the control of the government that the Liberal Party had exercised power for the previous 34 years.
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The 1905 United States Senate election in Wisconsin was held in the 47th Wisconsin Legislature on January 25, 1905. Incumbent Republican U.S. senator Joseph V. Quarles ran for a second term but lost re-nomination to the popular incumbent governor, Robert M. La Follette. After being elected U.S. senator, however, La Follette delayed taking office for an entire year, continuing to serve as governor through all of 1905.
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Federal elections were held in Germany on 25 January 1907. Despite the Social Democratic Party (SPD) receiving a clear plurality of votes, they were hampered by the unequal constituency sizes that favoured rural seats. As a result, the Centre Party remained the largest party in the Reichstag after winning 105 of the 397 seats, whilst the SPD won only 43. Voter turnout was 84.7%.
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The 1907 Korong state by-election was held on 25 January 1907 to elect the next member for Korong in the Victorian Legislative Assembly, following the resignation of incumbent United Liberal Party MP Thomas Langdon. As was required at the time, Langdon forfeited his seat after joining the Bent ministry to serve as Chief Secretary of Victoria and Minister for Labour. Langdon recontested the seat and was elected unopposed.
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Richard Strauss's opera Elektra received its world premiere at the Dresden Court Opera. Hugo von Hofmannsthal wrote the libretto.
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Alexander Graham Bell spoke by telephone from New York City to Thomas Watson in San Francisco at the ceremonial opening of AT&T’s coast-to-coast line.
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The British armed merchant cruiser Laurentic struck German mines near the mouth of Lough Swilly off northwest Ireland. More than 350 people died, many from exposure in the lifeboats. The ship had been carrying gold to finance wartime purchases.
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On 25 January 1918, Finland’s Civil Guards were proclaimed the government’s troops.
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On 25 January 1918, Su Chuntao, a composer, was born.
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The Southern Maori by-election of 1922 was a by-election during the 20th New Zealand Parliament. The election was held on 25 January 1922, i.e. before the 1922 general election, which was held on 7 December. The seat of Southern Maori became vacant following the death of the sitting member John Hopere Wharewiti Uru on 29 November 1921. Four candidates contested the seat, which was won by the younger brother of the deceased member, Henry Whakatau Uru, known as Harry. He was a native agent, 49 years old, and born in Kaiapoi.
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The 1924 Winter Olympics, officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games (French: Iers Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and commonly known as Chamonix 1924 (Arpitan: Chamôni 1924), were a winter multi-sport event which was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France. Organized by the French Olympic Committee and held as part of an "International Winter Sports Week", the competitions took place in Chamonix and Haute-Savoie, France, from 25 January to 5 February 1924.
The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
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On January 25, 1937, The Guiding Light debuted on NBC as a fifteen-minute radio serial. Created by Irna Phillips, it later moved to television, where its run began on June 30, 1952.
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Wenhui Bao began publishing at 436 Fuzhou Road in Shanghai. Its first issue carried national, international and local news alongside a literary supplement.
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President İsmet İnönü appointed physician and former health minister Refik Saydam as prime minister following Celâl Bayar’s resignation.
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On 25 January 1941, Japanese and collaborationist troops surrounded Panjiayu village in Hebei, China, and massacred villagers during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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Pope Pius XII established the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu on January 25, 1941. It succeeded the apostolic vicariate that had overseen the Catholic Church in the Hawaiian Islands.
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On 25 January 1942, Thailand declared war on the United Kingdom and the United States after entering an alliance with Japan in December 1941.
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The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Offensive and referred to by the Germans as Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein (transl. Operation Watch on the Rhine), was an offensive campaign on the Western Front during the Second World War, taking place from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945.
World War II: The Battle of the Bulge ends.
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United Nations Security Council Resolution 1, adopted without a vote on January 25, 1946, called for the Military Staff Committee to meet for the first time in London on February 1, 1946. The Committee was to be composed of the Chiefs of Staff of the military organizations of the five permanent members.
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The Lengkong incident was an incident that occurred on 25 January 1946, where cadets from the newly formed Indonesian Military Academy and Japanese soldiers unexpectedly engaged in combat.
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On January 25, 1947, Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann filed a patent application for a cathode-ray tube amusement device in the United States. The patent was issued on December 14, 1948.
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A Philippine Airlines Douglas C-47 cargo aircraft struck Mount Parker on approach to Kai Tak Airport after a flight from Manila. All four crew members died.
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Local elections were held in Liechtenstein on 25 January 1948 to elect the municipal councils and the mayors of the eleven municipalities.
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The Television Academy held the first Emmy ceremony at the Hollywood Athletic Club. The awards honoured local Los Angeles programming, and ventriloquist Shirley Dinsdale received the first award.
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The Battle of Ismailia was an armed confrontation which took place in the Egyptian city of Ismailia on 25 January 1952 between the British Army and Egyptian police. After British forces led by George Erskine tracked a group of fedayeen to a government building in Ismailia, the policemen inside refused to accede to British demands to come outside, surrender their weapons and evacuate the region.
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The 1952 Madras Legislative Assembly election was held for nine days from 2 January to 25 January 1952, and the votes were counted on 27 March 1952 to elect all 375 members of the Legislative Assembly of Madras State (present-day Tamil Nadu). They were the first elections held in the state following Indian independence. Although voting was held in 1952, the Election Commission of India officially designated it as taking place in 1951.
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The 1961 Salvadoran coup d'état was a successful countercoup in El Salvador led by Colonel Aníbal Portillo against the short-lived Junta of Government that had taken power in 1960, replacing the reformist military junta with an ardent anti-communist government named the Civic-Military Directory. By the end of that year, military governance had given way to democratic rule. Motives behind the military overthrow were reactionary in nature, driven by military fears of a Communist takeover within the country, due to the perceived sympathies of the reformist junta towards Communist and Cuban influence. These concerns were further exacerbated by the visit to Cuba by far-left Salvadoran extremists, spurring the disunited Armed Forces to unify in safeguarding the state from Communism. On 25 January 1961, the planned military coup, which had the backing of every top army official, was finally executed, ending in the successful deposing of the six-man civilian-military junta.
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Disney's animated film One Hundred and One Dalmatians opened in U.S. cinemas. It was based on the children's novel by Dodie Smith.
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President John F. Kennedy answered reporters’ questions in a news conference broadcast live on television. The event took place in the State Department Auditorium in Washington, D.C.
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Nike, Inc. is an American athletic footwear and apparel corporation headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon. It is the world's largest supplier of athletic shoes and apparel and a major manufacturer of sports equipment, with revenue in excess of US$46 billion in its fiscal year 2022. The company was founded on January 25, 1964, as "Blue Ribbon Sports", by Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight, and officially became Nike, Inc. on May 30, 1971.
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On 25 January 1970, Esther Eng, a director, died.
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The 1971 Ugandan coup d'état was a military coup d'état executed by the Ugandan military, led by general Idi Amin, against the government of President Milton Obote on January 25, 1971. The seizure of power took place while Obote was abroad attending the Commonwealth Heads of State conference in Singapore. Amin was afraid that Obote might dismiss him. The 1971 coup is often cited as an example of "class action by the military", wherein the Ugandan armed forces acted against "an increasingly socialist régime whose equalitarian domestic politics posed more and more of a threat to the military's economic privileges".
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Operation Cuu Long 44-02 was an operation during the Vietnam War conducted by South Vietnamese and Cambodian forces from 13-25 January 1971 to reopen Route 4 in Cambodia.
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Pope John Paul II left Rome on his first overseas trip as pope. The journey took him to the Dominican Republic, Mexico and the Bahamas.
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The First Iranian presidential election was held on 25 January 1980. It was held one year after the Iranian Revolution when the Council of Islamic Revolution was in power. The number of the eligible voters in the country was 20,993,643. However, the number of the actual voter was 14,152,887, leading to the voter turnout of 67.4%.
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On 25 January 1982, the Union of Iranian Communists (Sarbedaran), a Maoist organization, began an armed uprising against Iran’s government in Amol. The uprising failed, and government forces retook the town.
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Jardine Matheson sponsored a fireworks display over Victoria Harbour to begin its 150th anniversary celebrations. The show became an annual Lunar New Year tradition in Hong Kong.
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German federal elections took place on 25 January 1987, to elect members to the 11th Bundestag, the parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany. This was the last federal election held in West Germany prior to German reunification.
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Local elections were held in Liechtenstein on 25 January 1987 to elect the municipal councils and the mayors of the eleven municipalities. These were the first local elections where women were able to vote in all the municipalities.
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Avianca Flight 052 was a regularly scheduled flight from Bogotá, Colombia, to New York City, United States, via Medellín, Colombia, that crashed on January 25, 1990, at 21:34 (UTC−05:00). The Boeing 707 flying this route ran out of fuel after a failed attempt to land at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), causing the aircraft to crash onto a hillside in the small village of Cove Neck, New York, on the north shore of Long Island.
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On January 25, 1993, outside the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) headquarters campus in Langley, Virginia, a gunman killed two CIA employees and wounded three others. The perpetrator, later identified as Pakistani national Mir Qazi (also spelled as Kasi or Kansi), shot CIA employees in their cars as they were waiting at a stoplight.
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Clementine (officially called the Deep Space Program Science Experiment (DSPSE)) is a partially failed joint space project between the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (previously the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization) and NASA, launched on January 25, 1994. Its objective was to test sensors and spacecraft components in long-term exposure to space and to make scientific observations of both the Moon and the near-Earth asteroid 1620 Geographos.
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On January 25, 1995, Norwegian and American scientists launched a Black Brant XII research rocket from Andøya, Norway, to study the aurora. Russian warning systems treated its flight as a possible missile threat, triggering a nuclear alert. Russia did not launch a nuclear strike.
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Green Party Taiwan is a political party in Taiwan established on 25 January 1996. Although the party is sympathetic to Taiwanese nationalism and shares a number of centre-left positions with the Pan-Green Coalition, the party emphasizes campaigning primarily on social and environmental issues. Green Party Taiwan is a member of the Asia Pacific Greens Federation and participates in the Global Greens.
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Souled Out (1997) was the inaugural Souled Out professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). The event took place on January 25, 1997 from the Five Seasons Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The pay-per-view was presented by the nWo in storyline and the official title of the event was nWo Souled Out.
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The election for the President of the Provisional Legislative Council took place on 25 January 1997 for members of the Provisional Legislative Council of Hong Kong to among themselves elect the President for the duration of the council. Rita Fan from the pro-Beijing camp defeated President of the colonial Legislative Council Andrew Wong and was elected.
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The 1997 Heineken Cup Final was the final match of the 1996–97 Heineken Cup, the second season of Europe's top club rugby union competition. The match was played on 25 January 1997 at the Arms Park in Cardiff. The match was contested by Brive of France and Leicester of England.
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The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam detonated a truck bomb at the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, Sri Lanka. The bombing killed people and damaged one of the most important buildings in the UNESCO-listed Sacred City of Kandy.
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Pope John Paul II celebrated Mass in José Martí Plaza during his first pastoral visit to Cuba. He later met members of the Catholic community at Havana’s metropolitan cathedral.
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The 1999 Sri Lankan provincial council election was held on 25 January 1999, 6 April 1999 and 10 June 1999 to elect members to seven provincial councils in Sri Lanka. No election was held in the eighth province, North Eastern, which had been governed directly by the national government since March 1990. The People's Alliance, which was in power nationally, managed to win the majority of seats in two provinces (North Central and North Western). It was also able to form a majority administration in the other five provinces with the support of smaller parties such as the Ceylon Workers' Congress.
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The 1999 Colombia earthquake occurred on 25 January 1999 at 13:19 with an epicenter 40 kilometers (25 mi) west southwest of Ibagué, Colombia. The shock heavily affected the city of Armenia in the Quindío department, and about 18 other towns and 28 additional villages in the Colombian Coffee-Growers Axis region departments, and to a lesser degree, the cities of Pereira and Manizales.
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The January 1999 Likud leadership election was held on 25 January 1999 to elect the leader of the Likud party. Incumbent party leader and prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu handily defended a challenge by former minister of defense Moshe Arens. The election coincided with the primary to select the party's electoral list for the 1999 Israeli general election.
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In 2003, the New Democratic Party held a leadership election to replace retiring leader Alexa McDonough. It ended on January 25, 2003, with the first ballot victory of popular Toronto city councillor Jack Layton. The election was the first to be conducted under the NDP's new partial one member, one vote system, in which the popular vote of the members is weighted for 75% of the result.
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Royal Rumble (2004) was the seventeenth annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It was presented by Sony's PlayStation 2, took place on January 25, 2004, at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and featured talent from the Raw and SmackDown! brands. As has been customary since 1993, the Royal Rumble match winner received a match at that year's WrestleMania, in this instance WrestleMania XX. Beginning with this Royal Rumble, the winner could challenge at WrestleMania his choice of either the WWE Championship or the World Heavyweight Championship.
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2003 Empress's Cup Final was the 25th final of the Empress's Cup competition. The final was played at National Stadium in Tokyo on January 25, 2004. Tasaki Perule FC won the championship.
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Opportunity, also known as MER-B (Mars Exploration Rover – B) or MER-1, and nicknamed Oppy, is a robotic rover that was active on Mars from 2004 until 2018. Opportunity was operational on Mars for 5111 sols (14 years, 138 days on Earth). Launched on July 7, 2003, as part of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover program, it landed in Meridiani Planum on January 25, 2004, three weeks after its twin, Spirit (MER-A), touched down on the other side of the planet.
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A crowd crush at the Mandher Devi temple in Maharashtra’s Satara district killed hundreds of people.
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UFC Fight Night: Evans vs. Salmon (also known as UFC Fight Night 8) was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on January 25, 2007 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. It was broadcast live in the United States and Canada on Spike TV.
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On January 25, 2008, Elite Xtreme Combat held a ShoXC: Elite Challenger Series mixed martial arts event at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States.
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The Battle of Mullaitivu was a land battle fought between the Sri Lankan Military and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for the control of the town of Mullaitivu in the Northern Theater of Eelam War IV during the Sri Lankan civil war. The town of Mullaitivu was the last stronghold of the LTTE. The government declared on 25 January 2009 that its troops had entered the town and were consolidating their positions. The Sri Lanka Air Force had been attacking LTTE positions in and around Mullaitivu for several days before the government troops claimed to have entered it.
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Royal Rumble (2009) was the twenty-second annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It was presented by Castrol GTX and took place on January 25, 2009, at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan and featured talent from the Raw, SmackDown and ECW brands. As has been customary since 1993, the Royal Rumble match winner received a match at that year's WrestleMania, (in this instance: WrestleMania XXV) for his choice at either the WWE Championship, the World Heavyweight Championship or the ECW Championship. Five professional wrestling matches were featured on the event's supercard, a scheduling of more than one main event.
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WEC 38: Varner vs. Cerrone was a mixed martial arts event held by World Extreme Cagefighting on January 25, 2009. It aired live on the Versus Network. In the main event, WEC Lightweight Champion Jamie Varner defended his title against undefeated top contender Donald Cerrone.
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Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 was an international commercial flight scheduled from Beirut to Addis Ababa of a Boeing 737-800 that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after takeoff from Rafic Hariri International Airport on 25 January 2010, killing all 90 people on board. This was the first fatal crash for Ethiopian Airlines since the hijacking of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 in 1996.
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General elections were held in Saint Kitts and Nevis on 25 January 2010 for eleven of the fourteen or fifteen seats in the National Assembly.
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The 2011 Egyptian revolution, also known as the 25 January Revolution (Arabic: ثورة ٢٥ يناير, romanized: Thawrat khamsa wa-ʿišrūn yanāyir), began on 25 January 2011 and spread across Egypt. The date was set by various youth groups to coincide with National Police Day as a statement against increasing police brutality during the later years of Hosni Mubarak's presidency.
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The 2011 Omaha mayoral recall election was an unsuccessful special recall election to remove Omaha Mayor Jim Suttle from office. It was held on January 25, 2011. The recall effort was rejected with 51% of the vote.
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On January 25, 2012, 24 Navy SEALs from SEAL Team Six Blue squadron, raided a compound 12 miles (19 km) north of the Somali city of Adado, killing nine Somali pirates and freeing American Jessica Buchanan and Dane Poul Hagen Thisted, who had been kidnapped.
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On 25 January 2012, Libya’s defence minister Osama al-Juwaily visited Bani Walid for talks following the town’s uprising. He later recognized the newly formed local tribal council as the town’s authority.
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The 2013 Republican National Committee (RNC) chairmanship election was held on January 25, 2013. Then-incumbent RNC Chairman Reince Priebus won re-election with near unanimity in the party's 2013 meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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UFC on Fox: Henderson vs. Thomson (also known as UFC on Fox 10) was a mixed martial arts event held on January 25, 2014 at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois.
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The Green Party (SZ) leadership election of 2014 was held on 25 January 2014 after party's weak result in 2013 legislative election. Incumbent leader Ondřej Liška defeated Petr Štěpánek and won his fourth term.
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The 2014 Indian Federation Cup final was a football match between Churchill Brothers and Sporting Goa played on 25 January 2014 at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Kochi, Kerala. The match was the culmination of the 2013–14 Indian Federation Cup. This was the 35th edition of the Federation Cup, the national cup tournament of football in India which is administered by the All India Football Federation (AIFF).
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The 2014 Portuguese Social Democratic Party leadership election was held on 25 January 2014. Then PSD leader and Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho ran for a 3rd term as party leader and was the sole candidate in the race, thus winning with almost 90% of the votes.
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Royal Rumble (2015) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE. It took place on January 25, 2015 at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was the twenty-eighth annual Royal Rumble event and the first to air on the WWE Network. Six matches were contested at the event, with one being shown on the pre-show. In the main event, Roman Reigns won the traditional Royal Rumble match to receive a shot for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania 31.
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Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 25 January 2015 to elect all 300 members of the Hellenic Parliament in accordance with the constitution. The election was held earlier than scheduled due to the failure of the Greek parliament to elect a new president on 29 December 2014. Syriza won a parliamentary election for the first time, winning 36% of votes and 149 seats, just two short of an absolute majority.
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The Mamasapano clash was an incident that occurred during a police operation, codenamed Oplan Exodus, which took place on Sunday, January 25, 2015, at Tukanalipao, Mamasapano, Maguindanao, by Special Action Force (SAF) of the Philippine National Police (PNP) (allegedly joined by United States Army Special Forces) against the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
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On January 25, 2018, jihadists from Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin attacked the village of Youwarou in Mali, but the attack was repelled by Malian forces.
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On 25 January 2018, an Ariane 5 ECA rocket launched SES-14 and Al Yah 3 from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana. Both satellites separated and established contact, but their orbital inclinations were incorrect. They subsequently used their own propulsion to adjust their orbits.
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The Brumadinho dam disaster occurred on 25 January 2019 when a tailings dam at the Córrego do Feijão iron ore mine suffered a catastrophic failure. The dam, located 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) east of Brumadinho in Minas Gerais, Brazil, is owned by the mining company Vale, which was also involved in the Mariana dam disaster of 2015.
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The Green Party (SZ) leadership election of 2020 was held on 25 January 2020 when the Green Party elected its co-leaders. Petr Štěpánek, Michal Berg and Petr Globočník ran for the position of male co-leader while Magdalena Davis and Anna Gümplová ran for position of female co-leader. Michal Berg and Magdalena Davis received highest number of votes and were elected.
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A leadership election for KDU-ČSL was held on 25 January 2020 following the resignation of the incumbent leader of the party Marek Výborný. MP Jan Bartošek, MP Marian Jurečka and MEP Tomáš Zdechovský announced were running to replace Výborný. Zdechovský withdrew from the race, and Jurečka then beat Bartošek, receiving 205 votes.
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UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. dos Santos (also known as UFC Fight Night 166 and UFC on ESPN+ 24) was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on January 25, 2020, at PNC Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.
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The 2020 Worlds Collide was a professional wrestling livestreaming event produced by WWE, held for wrestlers from the promotion's NXT and NXT UK brand divisions. It was the second Worlds Collide and took place on January 25, 2020, at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, and it aired exclusively on the WWE Network. The event was based around direct competition between wrestlers from the two brands.
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The 2020 Taça da Liga final was the final match of the 2019–20 Taça da Liga, the thirteenth season of the Taça da Liga. It was played on 25 January 2020 at Estádio Municipal de Braga. The competition involved the 34 clubs playing in the top two tiers of the Portuguese football league system – 18 from Primeira Liga and 16 from LigaPro – during the 2019–20 season.
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On January 25, 2020, Bellator 238: Budd vs. Cyborg took place at The Forum in Inglewood, California, United States. The mixed martial arts event was broadcast live on DAZN.
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House of Assembly elections were held in Tobago on 25 January 2021 where 12 members were elected in the eleventh election since the Assembly was established in 1980. This election marked the first time in history that both parties elected, the People's National Movement (PNM) and Progressive Democratic Patriots (PDP) won an equal number seats of 6-6, despite the PNM winning the popular vote, resulting in a deadlock and a constitutional crisis with both political parties and Prime Minister Keith Rowley seeking senior counsel advice on the way forward.
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On 25 January 2023, the match for the 2022 Supercopa Paraguay took place at Estadio Defensores del Chaco in Asunción, Paraguay. It brought together Olimpia and Sportivo Ameliano and opened the 2023 season.
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National Assembly elections were held in Nepal on 25 January 2024 in order to elect 19 of the 20 retiring Class III members of the National Assembly, the upper house of the Federal Parliament of Nepal. Members of the National Assembly are elected through indirect ballot and serve six year terms with one third of the members retiring after every two years.
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The 53rd International Film Festival Rotterdam, is the 2024 edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, which began on 25 January 2024.
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PFL Champions Series 1: Nurmagomedov vs. Hughes (also known as PFL Champions Series - Road to Dubai) was a mixed martial arts event produced by Professional Fighters League that took place on January 25, 2025, at Coca-Cola Arena in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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On January 25, 2025, RISE held RISE 185, a kickboxing event, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.
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On January 25, 2025, the Wu Lin Feng 2025 Global Kung Fu Festival, also known as Wu Lin Feng 552, took place at Tangshan Sports Center in Tangshan, China.
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On January 25, 2025, KSW held KSW 102: Przybysz vs. Azevedo, a mixed martial arts event, at Radom Sports Center in Radom, Poland.
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