Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 25

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  José de Anchieta
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  Tahrir Square – February 9, 2011
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  Opportunity is approaching Mars [too 'dynamic' for MainPage?]
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  Artist's concept of rover on Mars
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  Paulo Dias de Novais
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  Flag of Georgia
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  Nellie Bly
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  Battle of Mikatagahara
• Idi Amin
  Idi Amin
• SS Laurentic
  SS Laurentic
• Director James Cameron
  Director James Cameron
• Protester during the 2011 Egyptian revolution
  Protester during the 2011 Egyptian revolution

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Blurb	Reason
; Burns Night (Scottish culture)	refimprove section
; Tatiana Day in Russia & Ukraine	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
1573 – Sengoku period: Takeda Shingen's forces defeated those of Tokugawa Ieyasu at the Battle of Mikatagahara, north of Hamamatsu in present-day Japan's Mikawa Province.	Orange "citations needed" banner
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
1918 – At its Fourth Universal, the Ukrainian Central Council declared the independence of the Ukrainian People's Republic.	dates in each article are contradictory; Republic: 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
1949 – The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences presented the first Emmy Awards to honor excellence in the American television industry.	tagged with {primary sources}
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
Ma Xiguang |d|951|	Lede too short
Virginia Woolf |b|1882|	Too detailed banner, too much uncited.
Witold Lutosławski |b|1913|	Birthday not cited
Syster Sol |b|1983|	Birthday not cited

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• 1533 – Anne Boleyn, already pregnant with the future Elizabeth I, secretly married Henry VIII of England in the second of his six marriages.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1967 – South Vietnamese junta leader Nguyễn Cao Kỳ fired his rival Nguyễn Hữu Có while the latter was overseas on a diplomatic visit.
• 1971 – Idi Amin seized power from Ugandan president Milton Obote in a coup d'état, beginning eight years of military rule.
• 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.
• 1993 – Pakistani national Mir Aimal Kansi shot five people outside the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia, killing two.
• 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.
• 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., 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|Ethiopian Airlines Template:Nowrap]], en route to Addis Ababa, crashed into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after takeoff from Beirut, Lebanon, killing all 90 people on board.
• 2010 – Avatar, a science-fiction film directed by James Cameron, became the highest-grossing film of all time.
• 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.

• Born/died this day: | J. Marion Sims |b|1813| Leo IV the Khazar |b|750| Robert Burton |d|1640| John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher |b|1841| John Doubleday |d|1856| Ernst Alexanderson |b|1878| Geoff Johns |b|1973| Volodymyr Zelenskyy |b|1978| Xavi |b|1980| Adele Astaire |d|1981| Mikhail Suslov |d|1982| Rio Waida |b|2000| Ali Hassan al-Majid |d|2010| Sanath Nishantha |d|2024

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 Saint Gregory of Nazianzus in Eastern Christianity and of Dwynwen in Wales; Tatiana Day in Russia Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1515 – Francis I, a great-great-grandson of Charles V, was crowned king of France in the Reims Cathedral.
• 1725 – Privateer Amaro Pargo was declared a hidalgo, a member of the Spanish nobility.
• 1765 – Port Egmont, the first British colony in the Falkland Islands, was founded.
• 1890 – American journalist Nellie Bly (pictured) completed a circumnavigation of the globe by land and sea in a then-record-breaking 72 days.
• 1998 – The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam detonated a truck bomb at the sacred Buddhist Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, killing 17 people.