January 25......

January 25 is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 340 (341 in leap years) days remaining in the year on this date.

EVENTS

● 41 - After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate.

● 844 - Gregory IV begins and ends his reign as Catholic Pope.

● 1139 - Godfried II the Young becomes duke of Brabant

● 1327 - Edward III becomes King of England.

● 1348 - Earthquake destroys Villach, killing 5,000

● 1494 - Alfonso II becomes King of Naples.

● 1504 - The English Parliament passed statutes against retainers and liveries, to curb private warfare.

● 1533 - England's King Henry VIII secretly married his second wife Anne Boleyn. Boleyn later gave birth to Elizabeth I.

● 1534 - German Reformer Martin Luther gave his understanding of "conversion" in a sermon: 'To be converted to God means to believe in Christ, to believe that He is our Mediator and that we have eternal life through Him.'

● 1554 - Founding of São Paulo city, Brazil.

● 1554 - Sir Thomas Wyatt gathers an army in Kent, rebels against Queen Mary

● 1565 - Battle at Talikota India Moslems destroy Vijayanagar's army

● 1579 - Treaty of Utrecht signed, marks beginning of Dutch Republic.

● 1721 - Czar Peter the Great ends Russian-orthodox patriarchy

● 1755 - Moscow University established on Tatiana Day.

● 1775 - Americans drag cannon up hill to fight British (Gun Hill Road, Bronx)

● 1787 - Shay's Rebellion breaks out against imprisonment of Massachusetts farmers for debts. Daniel Shays and 800 followers march to Springfield to seize the Federal arsenal, but were repulsed by the Massachusetts State militia.

● 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.

● 1799 - 1st US patent for a seeding machine, Eliakim Spooner, Vermont

● 1802 - Napoleon elected President of the Italian (Cisalpine) Republic

● 1819 - Birth of Ernest Charles Jones, English Chartist leader.

● 1825 - 1st US engineering college opens, Rensselaer Polytechnic, Troy NY

● 1832 - Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society founded.

● 1841 - The Oxford Movement in England reached its apex with the appearance of John Henry Newman's Tract No. 90. The storm of controversy which ensued brought the series (begun in 1833) to an end. Later, Newman resigned his Anglican parish and in 1845 converted to Roman Catholicism.

● 1844 - Recontre between Representatives Weller & Shriver, US House of Representatives

● 1851 - Sojourner Truth addresses first Black Women's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio.

● 1856 - Battle of Seattle; skirmish between settlers & Indians

● 1858 - The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional after it is played on this day at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia.

● 1861 - Missouri Synod Lutheran founder C.F.W. Walther wrote in a letter: 'The church, as a fellowship...of those who are born again... corresponds to the nature of living Christianity, whereas...the church as a fellowship of the orthodox, whether converted or unconverted, will necessarily lead to a dead Christianity.'

● 1863 - Battle of Kinston NC

● 1863 - General Joseph Hooker replaces Burnside as head of Army of Potomac

● 1865 - The CSS Shenandoah arrives in Melbourne, Australia

● 1870 - Soda fountain patented by Gustavus Dows

● 1871 - Birth of Emile Roger, France. Ardennes anarchist, died in 1917 during the war.

● 1877 - Congress determines presidential election between Hayes-Tilden

● 1879 - The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.

● 1881 - Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.

● 1882 - Birth of writer and eventual feminist icon Virginia Dorn Woolf, London, England.

● 1882 - Bilu, a Russian Zionist organization, forms

● 1890 - National Afro-American League forms in Chicago

● 1890 - The United Mine Workers of America is founded.

● 1890 - Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.

● 1901 - Hyppolyte Prosper Olivier Lissagaray (1838-1901) dies. A socialist who sided with no party, whose sympathies lay with Blanquistes anticlericals, to the anarchists, and his friend Amilcare Cipriani. Joined the Paris Commune in 1871, and fought on the barricades during the "Bloody Week."

● 1904 - 179 die in coal mine explosion at Cheswick PA

● 1907 - Julia Ward Howe is 1st woman elected to National Institute of Arts & Letters

● 1910 - Children initiate idea of planting trees in Jerusalem

● 1915 - Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service.

● 1916 - Montenegro surrenders to Austria-Hungary

● 1917 - The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million.

● 1918 - Russia declared a republic of Soviets.

● 1919 - The League of Nations is founded.

● 1923 - NVV donates ƒ100,000 to mine workers of Ruhrgebied

● 1924 - The 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, France (in the French Alps), inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.

● 1926 - Sixteen thousand textile workers strike in Passaic, N.J.

● 1932 - 1st commencement exercises at Hebrew University in Jerusalem

● 1937 - Miami-to-Tampa bus overturned in a canal, kills 13

● 1937 - The Guiding Light airs on radio for the first time. Also went to television making this show the longest running broadcast program in United States radio and television history.

● 1939 - Earthquake hits Chillán Chile, 10,000 killed

● 1940 - Nazi decrees the establishment of Jewish ghetto in Lodz Poland

● 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 - Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.

● 1944 - In the Anglican Diocese of Hong Kong and South China, Florence Tim-Oi Lee of Macao was ordained a priest in Kwangtung Province, China. Although considered an emergency wartime measure (owing to the lack of male priests in Macao), it nevertheless made Florence Tim-Oi Lee the first-ever ordained female Anglican clergyperson.

● 1945 - Battle of the Bulge ends.

● 1945 - Grand Rapids MI becomes 1st US city to fluoridate its water

● 1945 - Japanese occupiers of Batavia arrest Indo-European youths

● 1945 - West Africa 82nd division occupies Myohaung, Burma

● 1946 - The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.

● 1947 – Gangster Al Capone died at age 48.

● 1949 - At the Hollywood Athletic Club the first Emmy Awards are presented.

● 1949 - The first Israeli election -- David Ben-Gurion becomes Prime Minister.

● 1950 - 73ºF (23ºC) highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in January

● 1951 - UN begins counter offensive in Korea

● 1955 - Columbia University scientists develop an atomic clock accurate to within one second in 300 years

● 1955 - US & Panamá sign canal treaty

● 1955 - Russia ends state of war with Germany.

● 1956 - 96.5 cm (38.0") of rainfall, Kilauea Plantation, HI (state record)

● 1957 - FBI arrests Jack & Myra Sobel, charged with spying for the USSR

● 1959 - 1st transcontinental commercial jet flight (American) (Los Angeles to New York for $301)

● 1959 - Pope John XXIII, 90 days after his election, announced his intention to hold an ecumenical church council. (The Vatican II Council officially opened October 11, 1962 and closed December 8, 1965.)

● 1960 - The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the Payola scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accepted money for playing particular records.

● 1961 - In Washington, D.C. John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.

● 1961 - Military coup deposes leadership in El Salvador.

● 1964 - Echo 2, US communications satellite launched

● 1968 - Alexander Dubcek ascends to power in Czechoslovakia and launches the "Prague Spring" of liberalization.

● 1969 - Five hundred thousand attend funeral of Jan Palach, Prague, Czechoslovakia.

● 1969 - US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris.

● 1971 - Charles Manson and three female "family members" are found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.

● 1971 - General Idi Amin Dada leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.

● 1971 - Himachal Pradesh becomes the 18th Indian state.

● 1971 - Philadelphia mint's 1st trial strike of the Eisenhower dollar

● 1974 - Bülent Ecevit forms government in Turkey

● 1974 - South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard transplanted the first human heart without removal of the old one

● 1975 - Parliament disposes of premier sheik Mujib ur-Rahman

● 1978 - Muriel Humphrey (D-MN) appointed to fill late husband's Senate seat

● 1979 - 22.2-km Oshimizu railroad tunnel holed through, central Honshu, Japan

● 1979 - Pope John Paul II's 1st overseas trip as supreme pontiff

● 1980 - Highest speed attained by a warship, 167 kph, USN hovercraft

● 1980 - Paul McCartney is released from Tokyo jail & deported

● 1980 - Bani Sadr elected President of Iran

● 1980 - Dutch Government demands boycott of Olympics

● 1981 - Dissident Labour MPs plan new party; Four former Labour cabinet ministers signal their intention to breakaway from the opposition and set up their own political party.

● 1981 - 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived back in US

● 1981 - China - Mao's widow Jiang Qing sentenced to death.

● 1982 - Steam-generator pipe breaks at Rochester Gas & Electric Company's Ginnanuclear plant near Rochester, New York. Small amounts of radioactive steam escaped into the air.

● 1982 - Berlin Appeal for European-wide nuclear-free zone.

● 1982 - Development of nuclear reactors stopped by unresolved nuclear waste problem, North Rhine Westphalia, West Germany.

● 1983 - U.S. Court of Appeals affirms rights of six Chippewa bands to hunt, fish and cut timber on lands ceded to the U.S.

● 1983 - China's supreme court commutes Chiang Ch'ing's death sentence to life

● 1983 - Infrared telescope satellite launched into polar orbit

● 1983 - Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie arrested in Bolivia

● 1984 - INFACT (Infant Formula Action Coalition) wins settlement with Nestle Corporation after seven year boycott.

● 1986 - The National Resistance Movement topple the government of Tito Okello in Uganda.

● 1986 - General Tito Okello's government flees Kampala Uganda

● 1988 - Vice President Bush & Dan Rather clash on "CBS Evening News" as Rather attempts to question Bush about his role in the Iran-Contra affair

● 1988 - Ramsewak Shankar sworn in as President of Suriname

● 1988 - An electrical short-circuit sparks an explosion and fire in a coal mine near Las Esperanzas, Mexico, killing 41 miners.

● 1990 - Children killed in devastating storm; At least 39 people, some of them children, die in the worst weather to hit England and Wales since the 1987 hurricane.

● 1990 - The Burns' Day storm hits Northwestern Europe.

● 1990 - Honduras becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

● 1990 - Avianca Flight 52 crashes, killing 73 passengers.

● 1990 - Former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is transferred to a Miami jail

● 1991 - Manuel Noriega is given access to assets frozen by US government

● 1992 - Hubble space telescope optics finds NGC3862/3C264

● 1993 - Mir Amir Kansi kills two employees outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

● 1993 - Puerto Rico adds English as its 2nd official language

● 1993 - Sears announces it is closing its catalog sales department after 97 years

● 1994 - Singer Michael Jackson settled a child molestation lawsuit against him; terms were confidential, although one source put the monetary figure at at least $10 million.

● 1994 - Mine fire at Asansol India, kills 55

● 1994 - US space probe Clementine launched

● 1995 - Soldiers' Mothers Committee begins 56 mile march between Nazran and Grozny, Chechnya.

● 1995 - The defense gave its opening statement in the O.J. Simpson trial in Los Angeles, saying Simpson was the victim of a ''rush to judgment'' by authorities who had mishandled evidence and ignored witnesses.{The lying scum.}

● 1995 - The Norwegian Rocket Incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, is mistaken for a US Trident missile by the Olenegorsk early-warning radar station.

● 1998 - During a historic visit to Cuba Pope John Paul II demands the release of political prisoners and political reforms while condemning US attempts to isolate the country.

● 1998 - Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suicide attack on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth, killing 8 people injuring 25 others.

● 1998 - Britain's Queen Mother, 97, gets an emergency hip replacement

● 1999 - Olympic officials face bribery charges; Six members of the International Olympic Committee face expulsion following an inquiry into a corruption scandal.

● 1999 - A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.

● 1999 - In Louisville, KY, man received the first hand transplant in the United States.

● 2001 - A minor earthquake hit northeastern Ohio. The quake measured only 4.2 on the Richter Scale.

● 2002 - Wikipedia switches to the new version of its software ("Phase II") aka Magnus Manske Day.

● 2004 - Opportunity (MER-B) lands on surface of Mars.

● 2005 - A stampede during a pilgrimage in India kills at least 258.

● 2006 - The Islamic militant group Hamas won a large majority of seats in Palestinian parliamentary elections.

● 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.

BIRTHS

● 750 - Leo IV the Khazar, Byzantine Emperor

● 1477 - Anna, Duchess of Brittany, wife of Charles VIII of France (d. 1514)

● 1509 - Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (d. 1580)

● 1615 - Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (d. 1660)

● 1627 - Robert Boyle, Irish chemist (d. 1691)

● 1634 - Gaspar Fagel, Dutch statesman (d. 1688)

● 1640 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman (d. 1707)

● 1736 - Joseph Louis Lagrange, Italian-born mathematician (d. 1813)

● 1739 - Charles François Dumouriez, French general (d. 1823)

● 1759 - Robert Burns, Scottish poet (d. 1796)

● 1786 - Benjamin Robert Haydon, English historical painter/writer (d. 1846)

● 1794 - François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (d. 1878)

● 1796 - William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (d. 1852)

● 1823 - Dan Rice, American clown (d. 1900)

● 1825 - George Pickett, American Confederate General (d. 1875)

● 1841 - Jackie Fisher, British First Sea Lord (d. 1920)

● 1858 - Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese pearl farm pioneer (d. 1954)

● 1860 - Charles Curtis, 31st Vice President of the United States (d. 1936)

● 1863 - Rufus Matthew Jones, American Quaker and author (d. 1948)

● 1864 - Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and writer (d. 1934)

● 1874 - W. Somerset Maugham, English writer (d. 1965)

● 1878 - Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-born television pioneer (d. 1975)

● 1882 - Virginia Woolf, English writer (d. 1941)

● 1886 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (d. 1954)

● 1891 - William C. Bullitt, U.S. diplomat (d. 1967)

● 1899 - Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian politician (d. 1972)

● 1900 - Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian-American geneticist and biologist (d. 1975)

● 1900 - Yojiro Ishizaka, Japanese writer (d. 1986)

● 1905 - Maurice Roy, French Canadian Roman Catholic cardinal, archbishop of Quebec (d. 1985)

● 1910 - Viljo Revell, Finnish architect (d. 1964)

● 1913 - Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer (d. 1994)

● 1913 - Luis Marden, American photojournalist (d. 2003)

● 1916 - Frank "Pop" Ivy, American and Canadian football coach (d. 2003)

● 1917 - Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 2003)

● 1917 - Jânio Quadros, Brazilian politician (d. 1992)

● 1918 - Ernie Harwell, American baseball sportscaster

● 1919 - Edwin Newman, American journalist and writer

● 1924 - Lou Groza, American football player (d. 2000)

● 1927 - Antonio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian musician (d. 1994)

● 1928 - Eduard Shevardnadze, President of Georgia

● 1928 - Jérôme Choquette, Quebec lawyer and politician

● 1929 - Benny Golson, American jazz musician

● 1930 - Tanya Savicheva, Russian diarist (d. 1944)

● 1931 - Dean Jones, American actor

● 1933 - Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines

● 1935 - Conrad Burns, Former U.S. senator, R-Mont.

● 1936 - Diana Hyland, American actress (d. 1977)

● 1937 - Ange-Félix Patassé, President of the Central African Republic

● 1938 - Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese manga author (d. 1998)

● 1938 - Etta James, American singer

● 1938 - Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian poet (d. 1980)

● 1941 - Buddy Baker, American race car driver

● 1941 - Gregory Sierra, American actor

● 1942 - Carl Eller, American football player

● 1942 - Eusébio, Portuguese footballer

● 1943 - Tobe Hooper, American film director

● 1944 - Anita Pallenberg, Italian model

● 1944 - Leigh Taylor-Young, American actress

● 1947 - Tostão, Brazilian footballer

● 1949 - Paul Nurse, English biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate

● 1949 - John Cooper Clarke, English punk-poet

● 1951 - Steve Prefontaine, American runner (d. 1975)

● 1952 - Timothy White, American journalist (d. 2002)

● 1953 - Wayne Ferris, American professional wrestler

● 1954 - Ricardo Bochini, Argentinian footballer

● 1954 - Kim Gandy, American feminist

● 1955 - Terry Chimes, English musician (The Clash)

● 1956 - Andy Cox, English musician (The Beat, Fine Young Cannibals)

● 1957 - Jenifer Lewis, American actress

● 1958 - Dinah Manoff, American actress

● 1962 - Chris Chelios, American ice hockey player

● 1965 - Esa Tikkanen, Finnish ice hockey player

● 1966 - Mike Burch, Country musician (River Road)

● 1966 - Chet Culver, Governor of Iowa

● 1967 - Randy McKay, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1969 - Kina, American singer

● 1971 - Luca Badoer, Italian race car driver

● 1971 - China Kantner, Actress

● 1973 - Geoff Johns, American comic book writer

● 1973 - Chris Guy, American professional wrestler

● 1974 - Matt Odmark, Rock musician (Jars of Clay)

● 1975 - Mia Kirshner, Canadian actress

● 1975 - Tim Montgomery, American athlete

● 1976 - Mario Haberfeld, Brazilian racing car driver

● 1978 - Denis Menchov, Russian cyclist

● 1979 - Pi Hongyan, French badminton player

● 1979 - Gabe Jennings, American distance runner

● 1979 - Rodrigo Ribeiro, Brazilian racing driver

● 1980 - Michelle McCool, American professional wrestler

● 1980 - Xavi, Catalan Spanish footballer

● 1981 - Alicia Keys, American singer

● 1981 - Francis Jeffers, English footballer

● 1982 - Sho Sakurai, Japanese singer and actor

● 1984 - Ines Cudna, Polish model

● 1984 - Robinho, Brazilian footballer

● 1985 - Tina Karol, Ukrainian singer

● 1986 - Chris O'Grady, English footballer

● 1987 - Maria Kirilenko, Russian tennis player

● 1988 - Tatiana Golovin, French tennis player

DEATHS

● 389 - Gregory Nazianzus, theologian and Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 329)

● 477 - Geiseric, King of the Vandals and Alans

● 844 - Pope Gregory IV

● 1067 - Emperor Yingzong of China (b. 1032)

● 1366 - Henry Suso, German mystic

● 1431 - Charles II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1364)

● 1494 - King Ferdinand I of Naples (b. 1423)

● 1559 - King Christian II of Denmark, Sweden and Norway (b. 1481)

● 1586 - Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (b. 1515)

● 1640 - Robert Burton, English scholar (b. 1577)

● 1670 - Nicholas II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1612)

● 1726 - Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (b. 1675)

● 1733 - Gilbert Heathcote, Mayor of London

● 1751 - Paul Dudley, Attorney-General of Massachusetts (b. 1675)

● 1881 - Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (b. 1794)

● 1907 - René Pottier, French cyclist (b. 1879)

● 1908 - Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (b. 1850)

● 1908 - Ouida, English writer (b. 1839)

● 1912 - Dmitry Milyutin, Russian Field Marshal (b. 1816)

● 1925 - Ivan Vucetic, Croatian anthropologist (b. 1858)

● 1940 - Elias Simojoki, Finnish clergyman and politician (b. 1899)

● 1947 - Al Capone, American gangster (b. 1899)

● 1963 - Wilson Kettle, Guinness World Record holder for most living descendants (b. 1860)

● 1969 - Irene Castle, English dancer (b. 1887)

● 1970 - Jane Bathori, French mezzo-soprano (b. 1877)

● 1970 - Eiji Tsuburaya, Founder of Tsuburaya Productions, creator of Ultraman (b. 1901)

● 1972 - Erhard Milch, German field marshal (b. 1892)

● 1975 - Charlotte Whitton, Canadian politician, mayor of Ottawa (b. 1896)

● 1981 - Adele Astaire, American dancer (b. 1897)

● 1982 - Mikhail Suslov, Soviet politician (b. 1902)

● 1990 - Ava Gardner, American actress (b. 1922)

● 1994 - Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician (b. 1909)

● 1995 - Cal Jammer, American actor (b. 1960)

● 1996 - Jonathan Larson, American composer (b. 1960)

● 1999 - Sarah "Sadie" Delany, American author (b. 1889)

● 1999 - Robert Shaw, American conductor (b. 1916)

● 2003 - Samuel Weems, Arkansas judge

● 2004 - Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (b. 1918)

● 2004 - Miklós Fehér, Hungarian footballer (b. 1979)

● 2005 - Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (b. 1923)

● 2005 - William Augustus Bootle, American judge (b. 1902)

● 2005 - Philip Johnson, American architect (b. 1906)

● 2005 - Ray Peterson, American singer (b. 1935)

● 2005 - Nettie Witziers-Timmer, Dutch athlete (b. 1923)

● 2006 - Anna Malle, Adult film star (b. 1967)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● Conversion of St. Paul
● St. Amarinus
● St. Apollo
● St. Artemas
● St. Bretannion
● St. Donatus
● St. Dwynwen
● St. Eochod
● Sts. Juventius & Maximus
● St. Maurus
● St. Peter Thomas
● St. Racho

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 13 (Civil Date: January 25)
● Afterfeast of the Theophany.
● Martyrs Hermylus and Stratonicus at Belgrade.
● Martyr Peter of Anium, at Hierapolis.
● St. James, Bishop of Nisibis.
● Martyr Athanasius.
● Martyrs Pachomius and Papyrinus in Greece.
● St. Maximus of Kavsokalyvia Skete on Mt. Athos.
● St. Irinarch of Rostov.
● St. Eleazar of Anzersk Island at Solovki.
● St. Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers.

● Eastern Orthodox:
● Conversion of St. Paul

● Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic:
● St. Gregory the Theologian, Archbishop of Constantinople

● Oriental Orthodox, Anglican and Lutheran:
● Conversion of St. Paul

● Christian:
● St. Ananias of Damascus

● Roman Empire - second day of the Sementivae in honour of Ceres and Terra

● Christian ecumenism — Week of Prayer for Christian Unity ends.

● Burns Night - Burns suppers are held in many parts of the world around this date. (Originated in Scotland)

● Criminon Day - Commemorates the 1970 founding of Criminon, a program which seeks to rehabilitate prisoners by disseminating free copies of Scientology-related materials such as The Way to Happiness.

● St. Dwynwen's Day - Welsh celebration of love Diwrnod Santes Dwynwen.

● Tatiana Day, celebrated as the Day of Russian students since 1755, when the Moscow University was founded.

● Uganda : 2nd Republic Day

● Opposite Day


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

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