January 25 Historical Events

The following events took place on January 25. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 59 events. Showing 31 - 59.

• 1947
  Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a “Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device”, the first ever electronic game.
• 1949
  At the Hollywood Athletic Club the first Emmy Awards are presented.
• 1955
  The Soviet Union ends the state of war with Germany.
• 1960
  The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the “payola” scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accept money for playing particular records.
• 1961
  In Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
• 1969
  Brazilian Army captain Carlos Lamarca deserts in order to fight against the military dictatorship, taking with him ten machine guns and 63 rifles.
• 1971
  Charles Manson and three female “Family” members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate–LaBianca murders.
• 1971
  Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda’s president.
• 1979
  Pope John Paul II starts his first official papal visits outside Italy to The Bahamas, Dominican Republic and Mexico.
• 1980
  Mother Teresa is honored with India’s highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna
• 1981
  Jiang Qing, the widow of Mao Zedong, is sentenced to death.
• 1986
  The National Resistance Movement topples the government of Tito Okello in Uganda.
• 1990
  Avianca Flight 52 crashes into Cove Neck, New York due to fuel exhaustion.
• 1993
  Five people are shot outside the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Two are killed and three wounded.

• 1994
  The Clementine space probe launches.
• 1995
  The Norwegian rocket incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.
• 1996
  Billy Bailey becomes the last person to be hanged in the USA.
• 1998
  During a historic visit to Cuba, Pope John Paul II demands political reforms and the release of political prisoners while condemning US attempts to isolate the country.
• 1998
  A suicide attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Sri Lanka’s Temple of the Tooth kills eight and injures 25 others.
• 1999
  A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.
• 2003
  Invasion of Iraq: A group of people leave London, England, for Baghdad, Iraq, to serve as human shields, intending to prevent the U.S.-led coalition troops from bombing certain locations.
• 2004
  Opportunity rover (MER-B) lands on surface of Mars.
• 2005
  A stampede at the Mandhradevi temple in Maharashtra, 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.
• 2006
  Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza is arrested in connection with the serial killing of at least ten elderly women.
• 2010
  Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashes into the Mediterranean. All 90 passengers and crew were killed.
• 2011
  The first wave of the Egyptian revolution begins in Egypt, with a series of street demonstrations, marches, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes in Cairo, Alexandria, and throughout other cities in Egypt.
• 2013
  At least 50 people are killed and 120 people are injured in a prison riot in Barquisimeto, Venezuela.
• 2015
  A clash in Mamasapano, Maguindanao in the Philippines killing 44 members of Special Action Force (SAF), at least 18 from Moro Islamic Liberation Front and five from Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters.