Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 25
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January 25: Feast Day of Gregory of Nazianzus (Eastern Orthodox Church)
- 1533 – Anne Boleyn, already pregnant with future queen Elizabeth, secretly married Henry VIII of England, the second of his six marriages.
- 1755 – Russian Empress Elizabeth issued a decree ordering the establishment of what is now Moscow State University, today the largest university in Russia.
- 1890 – Inspired by Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days, American journalist Nellie Bly (pictured) completed a circumnavigation of the globe in a then-record 72 days.
- 1971 – Idi Amin Dada seized power in a military coup d'état from President Milton Obote, beginning eight years of military rule in Uganda.
- 2006 – Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza was arrested in conjunction with the serial killing of at least ten elderly women.
- 2010 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409, en route to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, crashed into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after takeoff from Beirut, Lebanon, killing all 90 people aboard.