25 Januar

The **25t o Januar** is the 25t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 340 days ti come (341 in lowp years).

## Events

* 1515 - Coronation o Francis I o Fraunce.
* 1554 - The ceety o Sao Paulo in present-day Brazil is foondit.
* 1576 - The ceety o Luanda in present-day Angolae is foondit.
* 1817 - Scots newspaper The Scotsman publishes its first edeetion.
* 1915 − The U.S. transcontinental telephone service is stairtit bi Alexander Graham Bell.
* 1918 - Ukraine declares unthirldom frae Soviet Roushie.
* 1924 - The first Winter Olympic Gemmes tak place in Chamonix, Fraunce.
* 1942 - Warld War II: Thailand declares war o the Unitit Kinrick an Unitit States.
* 1971 - Himachal Pradesh became a state o Indie.
* 1990 - The Burns Nicht storm hits Wastren Europe.
* 1999 - A yirdquauk in Wastren Colombie kills 1,000 fowk.
* 2004 - The Opportunity rover lands on Mars.
* 2004 - Mikheil Saakashvili becomes Preses o Georgie.
* 2005 - A stampede at Mandhradevi temple in Maharashtra, Indie, kills 259 fowk.
* 2010 - Ethiopie Airlines Flicht 409 crashes intae the Mediterranean Sea aff Lebanon, killin 90 fowk.
* 2011 - Protests begin in Egyp against Hosni Mubarak.
* 2015 - Greek Election: The SYRIZA movement under Alexis Tsipras is electit.
* 2019 - The Brumadinho dam collapse in Brazil kills ower 200 fowk.
* 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: Australie, Canadae an Malaysie confirm their first COVID-19 cases.
* 2021 - COVID-19 pandemic: The nummer o recordit COVID-19 cases warldwide gets tae 100,000,000.
* 2021 - US Preses Joe Biden reverses Donald Trump's ban on Transgender fowk servin in the Unitit States Militar.

## Births

* 1477 - Anne o Brittany (d. 1514)
* 1627 - Robert Boyle, Erse scientist (d. 1691)
* 1736 - Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian-French mathemateecian (d. 1813)
* 1759 - Robert Burns, Scots poet (d. 1796)
* 1796 - William MacGillivray, Scots naituralist an ornithologist (d. 1852)
* 1874 - W. Somerset Maugham, Inglis playwricht, novelist an short story writer (d. 1965)
* 1880 - Francis George Scott, Scots componer (d. 1958)
* 1881 - Virginia Woolf, Inglis writer (d. 1942)
* 1915 - Ewan MacColl, Inglis sangster, sangwriter an componer (d. 1989)
* 1927 - Antonio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian sangster an componer (d. 1994)
* 1928 - Eduard Shevardnadze, Preses o Georgie (d. 2014)
* 1933 - Corazon Aquino, Preses o the Philippines (d. 2009)
* 1938 - Etta James, American sangster (d. 2012)
* 1938 - Vladimir Vysotsky, Roushie sangster-sangwriter, poet, an actor (d. 1980)
* 1942 - Eusébio, Portuguese fitbawer (d. 2014)
* 1948 - Niwatthamrong Boonsongpaisan, Thai businessman an politeecian
* 1950 - Jean-Marc Ayrault, umwhile Prime meenister o Fraunce
* 1963 - Fernando Haddad, Brazilian politeecian
* 1978 - Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukrainian actor, comedian an politeecian, Preses o Ukraine
* 1980 - Xavi, Spaingie fitbawer
* 1981 - Alicia Keys, American sangster
* 1982 - Noemi, Italian sangster
* 1984 - Robinho, Brazilian fitbawer
* 1987 - Maria Kirilenko, Roushie tennis player
* 1988 - Tatiana Golovin, French tennis player
* 1993 - Kevin Holt, Scots fitbawer

## Daiths
* 844 - Pape Gregory IV (b. 827)
* 1559 - Keeng Christian II o Denmark (b. 1481)
* 1742 - Edmond Halley, Inglis astronomer (b. 1656)
* 1784 - Alexander Webster, Scots writer an meenister (b. 1708)
* 1852 - Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Baltic-German admiral an splorer (b. 1778)
* 1916 - Sandy McMahon, Scots fitbawer (b. 1870)
* 1932 - James Paterson, Scots penter (b. 1854)
* 1947 - Al Capone, American gangster (b. 1899)
* 1952 - Sveinn Björnsson, 1st Preses o Iceland (b. 1881)
* 1966 - Alexander Ireland, Scots boxer (b. 1901)
* 2015 - Demis Roussos, Greek sangster (b. 1946)
* 2017 - Sir John Hurt, Inglis actor (b. 1940)
* 2017 - Mary Tyler Moore, American actress (b. 1936)

## Halidays

* Burns supper (Scotland an Scots communities)
* Dydd Santes Dwynwen (Wales)
* Naitional Polis Day (Egyp)
* Naitional Voters' Day (Indie)