Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 25
This is a list of selected January 25 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1573 – Sengoku period: The forces of Takeda Shingen defeated those of Tokugawa Ieyasu at the Battle of Mikatagahara in Mikatagahara, north of Hamamatsu, Mikawa Province. | {{no footnotes}}, {{single source}} |
| 1755 – Russian Empress Elizabeth issued a decree ordering the establishment of what is now Moscow State University, today the largest university in Russia. | refimprove |
| 1924 – The first Winter Olympic Games opened at the foot of Mont Blanc in Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, France, attracting more than 200 athletes from 16 nations. | needs more footnotes |
| 1937 – The Guiding Light, the longest-running program in broadcast history, is first aired on the NBC Red radio network. | Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
Eligible
- 1533 – Anne Boleyn, already pregnant with future queen Elizabeth, secretly married Henry VIII of England, the second of his six marriages.
- 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.
- 2004 – Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity landed on Mars and rolled into Eagle crater, a small crater on the Meridiani Planum.
- 2006 – Three independent observing campaigns announced the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb (artist impression pictured), a super-Earth extrasolar planet 21,500 ± 3,300 light years away from Earth near the center of the Milky Way.
- 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.
Notes
- Cairo Fire appears on January 26 so Egyptian revolution should not be used in the same year.
January 25: Feast Day of Gregory of Nazianzus (Eastern Orthodox Church); Burns Night (Scots culture)
- 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.
- 1890 – American journalist Nellie Bly completed a circumnavigation of the globe, inspired by Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days, 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.
- 1993 – Five people were shot outside the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia, resulting in two deaths.
- 2011 – The first wave of the Egyptian revolution began (protests pictured), eventually leading to the removal of Hosni Mubarak after nearly 30 years of rule.