25 January

Notable Births

Lil Mosey

b. 2002

American rapper (born 2002)

Elisabetta Cocciaretto

b. 2001

Italian tennis player (born 2001)

Noah Hanifin

b. 1997

American ice hockey player (born 1997)

Mohamed Hany

b. 1996

Egyptian footballer (born 1996)

Seunghee

b. 1996

South Korean singer (born 1996)

Adama Traoré (footballer, born 1996)

b. 1996

Spanish footballer

Ariana DeBose

b. 1991

American actress (born 1991)

Ahmed Hegazi

b. 1991

Egyptian footballer (born 1991)

Apostolos Giannou

b. 1990

Professional footballer

Lee Jun-ho

b. 1990

South Korean singer and actor (born 1990)

Tatiana Golovin

b. 1988

French tennis player (born 1988)

Ryota Ozawa

b. 1988

Japanese actor

Maria Kirilenko

b. 1987

Russian tennis player (born 1987)

Chris O'Grady

b. 1986

English footballer (born 1986)

Brent Celek

b. 1985

American football player and executive (born 1985)

Hwang Jung-eum

b. 1985

South Korean actress and singer (born 1984)

Tina Karol

b. 1985

Ukrainian singer (born 1985)

Acie Law

b. 1985

American basketball player (born 1985)

Hartley Sawyer

b. 1985

American actor

Michael Trevino

b. 1985

American actor (born 1985)

Notable Deaths

Gloria Romero

d. 2025

Filipino actress and model (1933–2025)

Sanath Nishantha

d. 2024

Sri Lankan politician (1975–2024)

Neagu Djuvara

d. 2018

Romanian historian (1916–2018)

Robert Garcia (New York politician)

d. 2017

American politician (1933-2017)

John Hurt

d. 2017

English actor (1940–2017)

Harry Mathews

d. 2017

American author

Marcel Prud'homme

d. 2017

Canadian politician

Mary Tyler Moore

d. 2017

American actress and television producer (1936–2017)

Richard McBrien

d. 2015

American Catholic priest (1936–2015)

Bill Monbouquette

d. 2015

American baseball player (1936–2015)

Demis Roussos

d. 2015

Greek musician (1946–2015)

Arthur Doyle

d. 2014

American musician

Dave Strack

d. 2014

American college sports coach and administrator (1923–2014)

Morrie Turner

d. 2014

American cartoonist

Martial Asselin

d. 2013

Canadian politician

Aase Nordmo Løvberg

d. 2013

Musical artist

Paavo Berglund

d. 2012

Finnish conductor and violinist

Jacques Maisonrouge

d. 2012

Franco Pacini

d. 2012

Italian astrophysicist

Robert Sheran

d. 2012

American judge

On This Day in History

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2019

A mining company's dam collapses in Brumadinho, Brazil, a south-eastern city, killing 270 people.

Brumadinho dam disaster

2018

An Ariane 5 rocket is launched carrying SES-14, Al Yah 3, and NASA's Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, but the satellites end up in the wrong orbit.

Ariane 5

2015

A clash in Mamasapano, Maguindanao in the Philippines kills 44 members of Special Action Force (SAF), at least 18 from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and five from the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters.

Mamasapano clash

2013

At least 50 people are killed and 120 people are injured in a prison riot in Barquisimeto, Venezuela.

2013 Uribana prison riot

2011

The first wave of the Egyptian revolution begins throughout the country, marked by street demonstrations, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes.

Timeline of the Egyptian revolution of 2011

2010

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Na'ameh, Lebanon, killing 90.

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409

2006

Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza is arrested in connection with the serial killing of at least ten elderly women.

Lucha libre

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2005

A stampede at the Mandhradevi temple in Maharashtra, India kills at least 258.

Mandher Devi temple stampede

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.

2003 invasion of Iraq

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1999

A 6.0 magnitude earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.

Moment magnitude scale

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.

Pope John Paul II

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.

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

1996

Billy Bailey becomes the last person to be hanged in the United States.

Billy Bailey

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.

Norwegian rocket incident