Historical Events on January 25

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• 1139 Godfried II the Young becomes Duke of Brabant

• 1348 Friuli Earthquake in |European southern Alps measuring approximately 6.9, largely destroys Villach, killing 5,000
• 1494 Alfonso II succeeds his father as king of Naples
• 1554 Sir Thomas Wyatt gathers an army in Kent, rebels against Queen Mary
• 1554 Founding of the city of São Paulo in Brazil
• 1565 Battle at Talikota India: Deccan sultanate destroy Vijayanagar's army and the last Hindu kingdom of Southern India

• 1579 Treaty of Utrecht signed, marks beginning of Dutch Republic

• 1775 Americans drag cannon up hill to fight British (Gun Hill Road, Bronx)
• 1787 Shays' Rebellion suffers a setback when debt-ridden farmers, led by Capt Daniel Shays, fail to capture an arsenal at Springfield, Massachusetts
• 1792 The London Corresponding Society is founded.
• 1799 1st US patent for a seeding machine, Eliakim Spooner, Vermont

• 1817 Gioacchino Rossini's opera "La Cenerentola" (Cinderella) premieres in Rome

• 1825 1st US engineering college opens, Rensselaer Polytechnic, Troy, NY
• 1835 Vincenzo Bellini's opera "I Puritani" premieres in Paris

• 1844 Recontre between Reps Weller & Shriver, US House of Representative
• 1854 Aleksandr Ostrovsky's play "Bednost ne Porok" premieres in Moscow
• 1856 Battle of Seattle; skirmish between settlers & Indians

• 1861 Arsenal Augustaseized by Confederacy in Georgia (US Civil War)
• 1863 General Joseph Hooker replaces Burnside as head of Army of Potomac
• 1865 CSS Shenandoah arrives in Melbourne, Australia
• 1870 Soda fountain patented by Gustavus Dows
• 1875 Anti-slavery society forms in New York

• 1879 The Bulgarian National Bank is founded

• 1882 Bilu, a Russian Zionist organization, forms


• 1885 Vincent d'Indy's "Saugefleurie" premieres

• 1890 Nellie Bly beats Phileas Fogg's time around world by 8 days (72 days)
• 1890 United Mine Workers of America forms
• 1894 James J Corbett KOs Charley Mitchell in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1895 New Haven Symphony Orchestra of Connecticut performs its first concert
• 1902 Aleksandr Skriabin's 2nd Symphony in C premieres in St Petersburg
• 1904 179 die in coal mine explosion at Cheswick, Pennsylvania
• 1904 John Millington Synge's play "Riders to the Sea" premieres in Dublin
• 1906 Del Valle Inclans "El Marqués de Bradomin" premieres in Madrid
• 1907 Julia Ward Howe is first woman elected to National Institute of Arts & Letters (USA)
• 1908 John Blockx's opera "Baldie" premieres in Antwerp
• 1909 Richard Strauss' premier of "Elektra" in Dresden
• 1910 1st stumping by a 12th man in Tests (N C Tufnell, SAf v Eng)
• 1910 Children initiate idea of planting trees in Jerusalem

• 1915 Alexander Graham Bell in NY calls Thomas Watson in San Francisco
• 1915 Giordano, Sardou & Moreau's opera "Madame Sans Gêne" premieres in NYC
• 1915 Transcontinental telephone service inaugurated (NY to San Francisco)
• 1916 Montenegro surrenders to Austria-Hungary
• 1918 Russia declared a republic of Soviets
• 1919 Founding of League of Nations, 1st meeting 1 year later
• 1919 The Hotel Pennsylvania, at the time the world's largest, opens in Manhattan
• 1921 Karel Capék's play "R.U.R." premieres in Prague, introduces the word "robot"
• 1923 NVV donates 100,000 guilders to mine workers of Ruhrgebied
• 1924 I Winter Olympic Games open in Chamonix, France

• 1930 Australian Championships Women's Tennis, Melbourne: Daphne Akhurst Cozens wins 3rd straight Australian singles title; beats Sylvia Lance Harper 10-8, 2-6, 7-5
• 1930 Australian Championships Men's Tennis: Edgar Moon wins his first and only Grand Slam singles title; beats fellow Australian Harry Hopman 6-3, 6-1, 6-3
• 1932 1st commencement exercises at Hebrew U in Jerusalem
• 1937 1st broadcast of "Guiding Light" on NBC radio
• 1937 Miami-to-Tampa bus overturned in a canal, kills 13
• 1938 Ian Hay's "Bachelor Born" premieres in NYC
• 1939 Earthquake hits Chillan Chile, 10,000 killed

• 1940 Nazi decrees establishment of Jewish ghetto in Lodz Poland
• 1941 Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese. It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.

• 1945 Grand Rapids, Michigan, becomes 1st US city to fluoridate its water
• 1945 Japanese occupiers of Batavia arrest Indo-European youths
• 1945 NY Yankees sold by Ruppert estate to construction magnate Del Webb and partners Dan Topping and Larry MacPhail for $2.8 million
• 1945 West Africa 82nd division occupies Myohaung, Burma
• 1946 Richard Strauss' "Metamorphosis" premieres in Zurich
• 1946 United Mine Workers union rejoins American Federation of Labor
• 1949 1st Emmy Awards: Shirley Dinsdale & Pantomime Quiz (KTLA) win

• 1950 73°F (23°C) highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in January

• 1953 WABI TV channel 5 in Bangor, ME (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1953 Yuri Sergejev skates world record 500m in 40.9 sec
• 1955 Jill Kinmont hits a tree & breaks her back in Snow Cup Ski Race
• 1955 Russia ends state of war with Germany
• 1955 US & Panama sign canal treaty
• 1955 Columbia University scientists develope an atomic clock accurate to within one second in 300 years


• 1956 96.5 cm (38.0") of rainfall, Kilauea Plantation, Hawaii (state record)
• 1957 FBI arrests Jack & Myra Sobel, charged with spying for USSR
• 1959 1st transcontinental commercial jet flight (American) (LA to NY for $301)

• 1961 Military coup in El Salvador

• 1964 The Beatles get their first US #1, "I Want to Hold your Hand" (Cashbox)
• 1964 Echo 2, US communications satellite launched
• 1966 WCMC (now WMGM) TV channel 40 in Wildwood, NJ (NBC) 1st broadcast
• 1968 Risse St in Bronx named
• 1968 Robert Anderson's "I Never Sang for My Father" premieres in NYC
• 1969 US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris

• 1971 Himachal Pradesh becomes 18th Indian state

• 1971 WHMB TV channel 40 in Indianapolis, IN (IND) begins broadcasting
• 1971 The 170 delegates of the Ulster Unionist Council (UUC) call for the resignation of Northern Ireland Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark
• 1972 25th NHL All-Star Game, Metropolitan Sports Centre, Bloomington, IN: East beats West, 3-2; MVP: Bobby Orr, Boston, D
• 1972 7' Ohio State center Luke Witte is stomped in face during a brawl in a game with Minnesota
• 1974 Dr Christiaan Barnard transplants 1st heterotopic heart transplant (adding donor heart without removal of old)

• 1976 Surinder Amarnath scores 124 on Test debut Ind v NZ Auckland


• 1977 30th NHL All-Star Game, Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver, BC: Wales beats Campbell, 4-3; MVP: Rick Martin, Buffalo Sabres, LW
• 1978 Muriel Humphrey (D-Mn) appointed to fill late husband's Senate seat
• 1978 Padres trade pitcher Dave Tomlin & $125,000 to Rangers for Gaylord Perry (He wins 1978 Cy Young Award)
• 1979 22.2-km Oshimizu railroad tunnel holed through, central Honshu, Japan

• 1979 1st documented case of a robot killing a human in US
• 1980 Bani Sadr elected president of Iran
• 1980 Dutch government demands boycott of Olympics
• 1980 Highest speed attained by a warship, 167 kph, USN hovercraft

• 1981 Super Bowl XV, Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans, LA: Oakland Raiders beat Philadelphia Eagles, 27-10; MVP: Jim Plunkett, Oakland, QB

• 1983 China's supreme court commutes Chiang Ch'ing's death sentence to life
• 1983 Infrared telescope satellite launched into polar orbit
• 1983 Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie arrested in Bolivia
• 1985 "Black & Blue" premieres in Paris
• 1985 Test debut of Wasim Akram, v New Zealand at Auckland (2-105)
• 1986 General Tito Okello's government flees Kampala, Uganda

• 1987 3rd Sundance Film Festival: "Waiting for the Moon" and "The Trouble with Dick" (tie) win Grand Jury Prize Dramatic

• 1988 Longest winless streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (15 games)
• 1988 Ramsewak Shankar sworn in as President of Suriname

• 1989 Augusto Alcalde, 1st South American Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission

• 1990 Avianca Flight 52, runs out of fuel & crashes in Cove Neck NY, 73 die

• 1990 The Burns' Day windstorm storm hits northwestern Europe
• 1990 Honduras becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty

• 1991 Manuel Noriega is given access to assets frozen by US government
• 1991 Mark Waugh scores ton in 1st Test Cricket innings, v England Adelaide
• 1991 Soap opera "Generation's" last episode after a 2½ year run
• 1992 Dan Jansen skates world record 500m in 36.41"
• 1992 Hubble space telescope optics finds NGC3862/3C264

• 1993 Puerto Rico adds English as its 2nd official language
• 1993 Sears announces it is closing its catalog sales department after 97 years
• 1993 Five people were shot outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia resulting in two murders.
• 1994 Australia beat South Africa 2-1 to win cricket's World Series Cup
• 1994 Mine fire at Asansol, India, kills 55
• 1994 US space probe Clementine launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California
• 1994 Accused of molesting a 13-year-old boy, Michael Jackson settles a civil lawsuit out of court

• 1995 Jacques Santer succeeds Jacques Delors as chairman of Euro Committee
• 1995 Chicago Blackhawks beat Edmonton Oilers, 5-1 in the first NHL game in their new home, the United Center; defenseman Chris Chelios leads scoring with a goal and 2 assists
• 1996 Ottawa Senators set an NHL record with 16th consecutive home game without a win (0-15-1) in a 4-2 loss to Detroit at the Palladium; old record (15) shared by 1928 Black Hawks & 1939 Canadiens
• 1997 In a high profile NHL trade, San Jose obtain future Hockey Hall of Fame goaltender Ed Belfour from Chicago in exchange for goaltender Chris Terreri, Ulf Dahlen, Michal Sykora and a conditional pick in 1998 Entry Draft
• 1998 Musical "Grease" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 1,503 performance
• 1998 "Patti LaBelle On Broadway" closes at St James Theater NYC

• 1998 Super Bowl XXXII, Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego, CA: Denver Broncos beat Green Bay Packers, 31-24; MVP: Terrell Davis, Denver RB
• 1998 Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suicide attack on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth, killing 8 people injuring 25 others.
• 1998 Pope John Paul II visits Cuba and demands the release of political prisoners; he also condemns US moves to isolate the country
• 1998 14th Sundance Film Festival: "Slam" wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
• 1999 Earthquake hits Colombia, South America, killing around 300 and injuring 1000
• 1999 After an inquiry into a corruption scandal, 6 International Olympic Committee members are expelled
• 1999 Supernatural horror film "The Blair Witch Project" premieres at the Sundance Film festival
• 2001 A 50-year-old Douglas DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela killing 24
• 2002 Wikipedia switches to the new version of its software ("Phase II") aka Magnus Manske Day.
• 2003 Australian Open Women's Tennis: Serena Williams wins 5th Grand Slam singles title and 4th straight; beats older sister Venus Williams 7-6, 3-6, 6-4 for her first Australian title
• 2004 Opportunity rover (MER-B) lands on surface of Mars.

• 2004 20th Sundance Film Festival: "Primer", directed by Shane Carruth, wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
• 2005 A stampede at the Mandher Devi temple in Mandhradevi in India kills at least 258
• 2006 Three independent observing campaigns announce the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb through gravitational microlensing, the first cool rocky/icy extrasolar planet around a main-sequence star.
• 2009 57th NHL All-Star Game, Bell Centre, Montreal, Quebec: East beats West, 12-11, SO; MVP: Alexei Kovalev, Montreal Canadiens, RW
• 2009 25th Sundance Film Festival: "Precious" based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire" wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
• 2010 Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after take-off from Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport, killing all 90 people on-board.

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