Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 25

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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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José de Anchieta
Tahrir Square – February 9, 2011
Opportunity is approaching Mars [too 'dynamic' for MainPage?]
Artist's concept of rover on Mars
Paulo Dias de Novais
OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb
Egyptian protester during the 2011 Egyptian revolution holding the Egyptian flag
Flag of Georgia
Nellie Bly

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
; Burns Night (Scottish culture)	refimprove section
; Dydd Santes Dwynwen in Wales	refimprove
1348 – A massive earthquake struck the Friuli region of Italy and was felt across Europe.	refimprove section
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.	refimprove section
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.	refimprove section
1755 – Russian Empress Elizabeth issued a decree ordering the establishment of what is now Moscow State University, today the largest university in Russia.	refimprove section
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.	trivial pop culture references
1918 – The Ukrainian People's Republic, the short-lived predecessor to modern Ukraine, proclaimed its independence.	refimprove section
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, was first aired on the NBC Red radio network.	refimprove section
2004 – The Five Cross Flag was restored to official use as the national flag of Georgia after a hiatus of some 500 years.	refimprove section

Eligible

1533 – Anne Boleyn, already pregnant with future queen Elizabeth, secretly married Henry VIII of England, the second of his six marriages.
1704 – English colonists from the Province of Carolina and their native allies began a series of raids against a largely peaceful population of Apalachee in Spanish Florida.
1949 – The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences presented the first Emmy Awards to honor excellence in the American television industry.
1990 – Avianca Flight 52 ran out of fuel on approach to John F. Kennedy International Airport and crashed into the village of Cove Neck, New York, resulting in the deaths of 73 people.
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.
2004 – Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity landed on Mars and rolled into Eagle crater, a small crater on the Meridiani Planum.
2006 – Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza was arrested in conjunction with the serial killing of at least ten elderly women.
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.
2011 – The Day of Anger during the Egyptian revolution began, eventually leading to the removal of Hosni Mubarak after nearly 30 years of rule.
Born/died this day: Leo IV the Khazar (b. 750) · J. Marion Sims (b. 1813) · Virginia Woolf (b. 1882) · Mikhail Suslov (d. 1982) · Ali Hassan al-Majid (d. 2010)

Notes

Spirit (rover) appears on January 4, so Opportunity should not be used in the same year.
Anne of Cleves appears on January 6, so Anne Boleyn should not be used in the same year.
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 Orthodoxy); Tatiana Day in Russia

Battle of Mikatagahara

1573 – Sengoku period: Takeda Shingen's forces defeated those of Tokugawa Ieyasu at the Battle of Mikatagahara (depicted), north of Hamamatsu in present-day Japan's Mikawa Province.
1792 – Thomas Hardy founded the London Corresponding Society to seek a "radical reform of parliament", later influencing the reform movements of early 19th-century England.
1971 – Idi Amin seized power from Ugandan president Milton Obote in a coup d'état, beginning eight years of military rule.
1993 – Five people were shot by Pakistani national Mir Aimal Kansi outside the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia, resulting in two deaths.
2010 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409, en route to Addis Ababa, crashed into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after takeoff from Beirut, Lebanon, killing all 90 people on board.

Ma Xiguang (d. 951) · Anna Gardner (b. 1816) · Xavi (b. 1980)

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