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Events
41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate.
750 – In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to overthrow of the dynasty.
1348 – A strong earthquake strikes the South Alpine region of Friuli in modern Italy, causing considerable damage to buildings as far away as Rome.
1494 – Alfonso II becomes King of Naples.
1515 – Coronation of Francis I of France.
1533 – Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.
1554 – Founding of São Paulo city, Brazil.
1573 – Battle of Mikatagahara: In Japan, Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu.
1575 – Luanda, the capital of Angola, is founded by the Portuguese navigator Paulo Dias de Novais.
1704 – The Battle of Ayubale results in the destruction of most of the Spanish missions in Florida.
1755 – Moscow University is established on Tatiana Day.
1765 – Port Egmont, the first British settlement in the Falkland Islands at the southern tip of South America, is founded.
1777 – Gun Hill Road in the Bronx gets its name after Americans drag a cannon up the hill of what was Kingsbridge Road to fight the British.
1787 – Shays's Rebellion: The rebellion's largest confrontation, outside the Springfield Armory, results in the killing of four rebels and the wounding of twenty.
1791 – The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.
1792 – The London Corresponding Society is founded.
1840 – An American naval expedition, under leadership of Charles Wilkes, is the first to identify the new continent of Antarctica.
1858 – The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn is played at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia, and becomes a popular wedding recessional.
1863 – General Ambrose Burnside was relieved from command of the Union’s Army of the Potomac after serving just two months.
1879 – The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.
1881 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
1890 – Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
1909 – Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
1915 – Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
1918 – Ukraine declares independence from Bolshevik Russia.
1932 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese National Revolutionary Army begins its defense of Harbin.
1937 – The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until September 18, 2009.
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.
1942 – World War II: Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.
1944 – Florence Li Tim-Oi is ordained in China, becoming the first woman Anglican priest.
1945 – World War II: The Battle of the Bulge ends.
1946 – The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
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 convicted in Los Angeles of murder and conspiracy in the 1969 Tate–LaBianca murders.
1971 – Idi Amin seizes power in Uganda and becomes Uganda's president by ousting President Milton Obote in a military coup.
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.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Conversion of St. Paul. Greater Double.
Commemoration of St. Peter.
Contemporary Western
Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul (Eastern Orthodox, Oriental
Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran churches,
which concludes the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity)
Dydd Santes Dwynwen, Welsh Valentine's Day (Wales)
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
January 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Venerable Castinus of Byzantium, Bishop of Byzantium (240)
Martyr Medula and her entourage
Venerable Apollo of the Thebaid, ascetic and wonderworker, reposed in peace
(ca. 361-363)
Saint Bretanion (Vetranion), Bishop of Tomis in Moesia, Confessor (ca. 380)
Venerable Publius of Syria, ascetic of Euphratensis in Syria (380)
Venerable Theodotos, Igumen of the "Monastery of St. Publius"
Saint Gregory the Theologian, Archbishop of Constantinople (390)
Venerable Mares the Singer, of Omeros near Cyrrhus (430)
Venerable Demetrius the Skevophylax ("Keeper of the Sacred Vessels")
of Constantinople (8th c.)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Martyrs Felicitas of Rome and seven sons (ca. 164):
Januarius, Felix, Philip, Silvanus, Alexander, Vitalis, and Martial
Saint Artemas, a child martyr in Pozzuoli (Puteoli) in Italy
Saint Dwynwen (ca. 460)
Saint Eochod of Galloway, Apostle of the Picts of Galloway (597)
Saint Maurus (584) and Saint Placidus (6th century), early disciples
of St Benedict
Saint Sigeberht of East Anglia (Sigebert), the first Christian King of East
Anglia in England (634)
Saint Racho of Autun (Ragnobert), Bishop of Autun in France (ca. 660)
Hieromartyr Praejectus (Priest, Prest, Preils, Prix), Bishop of Clermont (676)
Saint Amarinus, Abbot of a monastery in the Vosges in France, and companion
in martyrdom of St Praejectus (St Priest) (676)
Saint Thorgyth (Tortgith), nun at the convent of Barking in England with
St Ethelburgh (ca. 700
Saint Poppo of Stavelot, Abbot of Stavelot-Malmédy in Belgium,
renowned for miracles (1048)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Moses of Novgorod, Archbishop of Novgorod (1362)
Saint Gregory of Golutvin (15th century)
Saint Basian, Archbishop of Rostov (1516)
New Martyr Auxentius of Constantinople (1720)
Saint Anatole I (Zertsalov) of Optina Monastery, Elder of Optina (1894)
Saint Gabriel, Bishop of Imereti (Georgia) (1896)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Vladimir (Bogoyavlensky), Metropolitan of Kiev,
Protomartyr of the Communist yoke in Russia (1918)
Venerable New Martyr St. Elizabeth Romanova (Princess Elisabeth of Hesse
and by Rhine (1864–1918)) (1918)
Venerable New Martyr Abbess Margaret (Gunaronulo) of Menzelino (1918)
New Hieromartyr Peter (Zverev), Archbishop of Voronezh (1929)
New Hieromartyr Basil (Zelentsov), Bishop of Priluki (1930)
New Martyr Athanasia (Lepeshkin), Abbess of the Smolensk Hodigitria
Convent, near Moscow (1931)
New Hieromartyr Stephen Grachev, Priest (1938)
New Martyr Boris Zavarin (1938)
Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia (celebrated on the Sunday
nearest to January 25)
Other commemorations
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Assuage My Sorrow" (1640)
Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos "Unexpected Joy"
Repose of Archpriest Sergius Orlov of Akulovo (1975)
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