Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 25

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This is a list of selected January 25 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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José de Anchieta
Tahrir Square – February 9, 2011
Opportunity is approaching Mars [too 'dynamic' for MainPage?]
Artist's concept of rover on Mars
Paulo Dias de Novais
OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb
Flag of Georgia
Nellie Bly
Battle of Mikatagahara
Idi Amin
SS Laurentic
Director James Cameron

Ineligible

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

Eligible

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.
1890 – American journalist Nellie Bly completed a circumnavigation of the globe by land and sea in a then-record 72 days.
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.
1967 – South Vietnamese junta leader Nguyễn Cao Kỳ fired his rival Nguyễn Hữu Có while the latter was overseas on a diplomatic visit.
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.
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.
1998 – The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam detonated a truck bomb at the sacred Buddhist Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, killing 17.
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, 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, becomes the highest-grossing film of all time.

Born/died this day: | Leo IV the Khazar |b|750| Mihrimah Sultan |d|1578| Robert Burton |d|1640| Anna Gardner |b|1816| John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher |b|1841| John Doubleday |d|1856| Jane Bathori |d|1970| Xavi |b|1980| Mikhail Suslov |d|1982| Ali Hassan al-Majid |d|2010

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 (Eastern Christianity) and Dwynwen

Protester during the 2011 Egyptian revolution

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.
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.
1971 – Idi Amin seized power from Ugandan president Milton Obote in a coup d'état, beginning eight years of military rule.
1993 – Pakistani national Mir Aimal Kansi shot five people outside the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia, killing two.
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.

J. Marion Sims (b. 1813)
Ernst Alexanderson (b. 1878)
Volodymyr Zelenskyy (b. 1978)
Adele Astaire (d. 1981)

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