Historical events on January 25

JANUARY 25, 1704

English colonists from the Province of Carolina and their native allies began a series of raids against the largely peaceful population of Apalachee in Spanish Florida.

The Province of Carolina was a province of the Kingdom of England (1663–1707) and later the Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1712) that Read More

JANUARY 25, 1725

Privateer Amaro Pargo was declared a hidalgo, a member of the Spanish nobility.

Amaro Rodríguez-Felipe y Tejera Machado, also known as Amaro Pargo, was a Spanish privateer and slave trader. He was one of the Read More

JANUARY 25, 1890

American journalist Nellie Bly (pictured) completed a circumnavigation of the globe by land and sea in a then-record-breaking 72 days.

Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman, better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was an American journalist who was widely known for her record-breaking Read More

JANUARY 25, 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.

Thomas Hardy was a British shoemaker who was an early Radical, and the founder, first Secretary, and Treasurer of the London Corresponding Society. (Image Credits)

JANUARY 25, 1917

Serving as a British armed merchant cruiser, Laurentic (pictured) was sunk by German naval mines off the northern coast of Ireland, resulting in 354 deaths.

An armed merchantman is a merchant ship equipped with guns, usually for defensive purposes, either by design or after the fact. In Read More

JANUARY 25, 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.

OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb is a super-Earth ice exoplanet orbiting OGLE-2005-BLG-390L, a star 21,500 ± 3,300 light-years from Earth near the center of the Milky Way, making Read More

JANUARY 25, 1993

Pakistani national Mir Aimal Kansi shot five people outside the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia, killing two.

Aimal Kansi was a Pakistani national who was convicted of the 1993 shootings at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. In the incident, Read More

JANUARY 25, 1765

Port Egmont, the first British colony in the Falkland Islands, was founded.

Port Egmont was the first British settlement in the Falkland Islands, on Saunders Island off West Falkland, and is named after John Read More

JANUARY 25, 2011

The Egyptian revolution began with protests (protester pictured) on the "Day of Anger", eventually leading to the removal of President Hosni Mubarak after nearly 30 years of rule.

The 2011 Egyptian revolution, also known as the 25 January Revolution, began on 25 January 2011 and spread across Egypt. The date Read More

JANUARY 25, 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.

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 was an international commercial flight scheduled from Beirut to Addis Ababa that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea shortly Read More

JANUARY 25, 1944

Representatives of the Chetnik movement began a four-day congress to organise political opposition to the Allied support of the communist-led Yugoslav Partisans in Yugoslavia.

The Chetniks, formally the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army, and also the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland and informally colloquially the Read More

JANUARY 25, 1995

A team of Norwegian and American scientists launched a Black Brant XII sounding rocket, which was mistaken by Russian forces for a Trident missile.

The Black Brant is a family of Canadian-designed sounding rockets originally built by Bristol Aerospace, since absorbed by Magellan Aerospace in Winnipeg, Read More

JANUARY 25, 2006

Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza was arrested in conjunction with the serial killing of at least ten elderly women.

Lucha libre is the term for the style of professional wrestling originating in Mexico. Since its introduction to Mexico in the early Read More

JANUARY 25, 1967

South Vietnamese junta leader Nguyễn Cao Kỳ fired his rival Nguyễn Hữu Có while the latter was overseas on a diplomatic visit.

South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam, was a country in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975. It first garnered Read More

JANUARY 25, 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.

Avianca Flight 052 was a regularly scheduled flight from Bogotá, Colombia, to New York City, United States, via Medellín, Colombia, that crashed Read More

JANUARY 25, 1533

Anne Boleyn, already pregnant with the future Elizabeth I, secretly married Henry VIII of England in the second of his six marriages.

Anne Boleyn was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536, as the second wife of King Henry VIII. The circumstances of her Read More

JANUARY 25, 2004

Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity landed on Mars and rolled into Eagle crater, a small crater on the Meridiani Planum.

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission was a robotic space mission involving two Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, exploring the planet Mars. Read More

JANUARY 25, 1971

Idi Amin seized power from Ugandan president Milton Obote in a coup d'état, beginning eight years of military rule.

Idi Amin Dada Oumee was a Ugandan military officer and politician who served as the third president of Uganda from 1971 until Read More

JANUARY 25, 1515

Francis I, a great-great-grandson of Charles V, was crowned king of France in the Reims Cathedral.

Francis I was King of France from 1515 until his death in 1547. He was the son of Charles, Count of Angoulême, Read More

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