On This Day in History

January 25

Historical Events

1554 City of São Paulo founded in Brazil.

1565 Battle at Talikota, India: Deccan sultanate destroy Vijayanagar's army and the last Hindu kingdom of Southern India.

1840 American naval expedition under Charles Wilkes confirms the existence of a continent in the southern polar region, later known as Antarctica.

Einar Landvik, Nordic skier from Norway, competes in the first-ever Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France, 1924

1924 First Winter Olympic Games open in Chamonix, France

1949 First Israeli election won by David Ben-Gurion's Mapai party.

1971 Military coup in Uganda under Major General Idi Amin.

2011 Egyptian Revolution of 2011 begins with a series of street demonstrations, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, labor strikes and violent clashes in Cairo, Alexandria and other major cities.

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Famous Birthdays

Robert Burns 1759 - 1796 Charles Curtis 1860 - 1936

Virginia Woolf 1882 - 1941 Volodymyr Zelensky 46th Birthday

Also Messalina, Corazon Aquino and Alicia Keys (43).

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Famous Deaths

Christian II 1481 - 1559 Al Capone 1899 - 1947

Also Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Ava Gardner and Mary Tyler Moore.

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Al Capone, Public Enemy Number One

Al Capone forever associated with Prohibition and the St Valentine’s Day Massacre, has long been ranked as the most notorious gangster in American history.

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