Day of the week in surrounding years:
. . . .,1982,1988,1993,1999—MON—. . . .
1977,1983,. . . .,1994,2000—TUE—2005
1978,1984,1989,1995,. . . .—WED—2006
1979,. . . .,1990,1996,2001—THU—2007
1980,1985,1991,. . . .,2002—FRI—2008
. . . .,1986,1992,1997,2003—SAT—. . . .
1981,1987,. . . .,1998,2004—SUN—2009
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On the Bible "While reading the Ten Commandments is great, living them is even better—particularly the biblical admonition about tending to the least among us." — Arianna Huffington
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Down & Dirty "That's not policy, that's bullshit." — Steve Largent, former Congressman and gubernatorial candidate (R-OK), during a televised interview on Oklahoma City's Fox affiliate, KOKH. Largent objected to news anchor Andrew Speno's questions about his whereabouts during George W. Bush's first State-of-the-Union address. Largent claimed to have been in Washington when in fact he had been filming a commercial for the NRA in New Mexico. Chuck Ervin, "Largent foe takes aim at remark," Tulsa World, 10-16-02.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "I'd say he's done more than that."—when asked whether infielder Don Mattingly exceeded expectations — Few sports figures—and indeed, few figures of any endeavor—have achieved the verbal notoriety of Lawrence "Yogi" Berra, former catcher of the New York Yankees. This is one of the indescribable utterances of Hall of Shame member #6.
{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}
MOON PHASE
Berkeley, California—Times are Pacific Standard Time (PST)
Jan 25, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 91% Age: 60% Rise: 9:07 PM Set: 9:05 AM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Jan 25, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 91% Age: 60% Rise: 9:27 PM Set: 9:23 AM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Jan 25, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 91% Age: 60% Rise: 8:58 PM Set: 9:03 AM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Jan 25, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 91% Age: 60% Rise: 8:32 PM Set: 8:40 AM
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
Winter Night at Pic du Midi
Credit & Copyright: Alain Sallez (picdumidi.org), David Romeuf (Université Lyon 1)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 41 - After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate.
● 1327 - Edward III becomes King of England.
● 1494 - Alfonso II becomes King of Naples.
● 1533 - Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.
● 1554 - Founding of São Paulo city, Brazil.
● 1573 - Battle of Mikatagahara, in Japan; Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu.
● 1755 - Moscow University established on Tatiana Day.
● 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.
● 1819 - Birth of Ernest Charles Jones, English Chartist leader.
● 1832 - Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society founded.
● 1851 - Sojourner Truth addresses first Black Women's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio.
● 1871 - Birth of Emile Roger, France. Ardennes anarchist, died in 1917 during the war.
● 1882 - Birth of writer and eventual feminist icon Virginia Dorn Woolf, London, England.
● 1890 - Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
● 1890 - United Mine Workers formed.
● 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."
● 1917 - The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million.
● 1919 - The League of Nations is founded.
● 1926 - Sixteen thousand textile workers strike in Passaic, N.J.
● 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.
● 1945 - Battle of the Bulge ends.
● 1946 - The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
● 1949 - The first Israeli election -- David Ben-Gurion becomes Prime Minister.
● 1955 - Soviet Union ends state of war with Germany.
● 1959 - Pope John XXIII proclaims upcoming Second Vatican Council.
● 1961 - In Washington, D.C. John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
● 1961 - Military coup deposes leadership in El Salvador.
● 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.
● 1971 - Charles Manson and three female "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders.
● 1971 - Himachal Pradesh becomes the 18th Indian state.
● 1971 - Insane Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.
● 1981 - China - Mao's widow Jiang Qing sentenced to death.
● 1981 - Jiang Qing, the widow of Mao Zedong, is sentenced to death.
● 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.
● 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.
● 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.
● 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.
● 1988 - An electrical short-circuit sparks an explosion and fire in a coal mine near Las Esperanzas, Mexico, killing 41 miners.
● 1990 - Avianca Flight 52 crashes, killing 73 passengers.
● 1990 - Honduras becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
● 1990 - The Burns' Day storm hits northwestern Europe.
● 1993 - Five people were shot outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia resulting in two murders.
● 1994 - The Clementine space probe launches.
● 1995 - Soldiers' Mothers Committee begins 56 mile march between Nazran and Grozny, Chechnya.
● 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.
● 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.
● 1999 - A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.
● 2001 - A 50-year-old Douglas DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela killing 24.
● 2002 - Wikipedia switches to the new version of its software ("Phase II") aka Magnus Manske Day.
● 2004 - Opportunity rover (MER-B) lands on surface of Mars.
● 2005 - A stampede at the Mandher Devi temple in Mandhradevi in India kills at least 258.
● 2006 - Three independent observing campaigns announce the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb through gravitational microlensing, the first confirmed 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)
● 1688 - Juraj Jánošík, famous Slovak outlaw (d. 1713)
● 1736 - Joseph Louis Lagrange, Italian-born mathematician (d. 1813)
● 1739 - Charles François Dumouriez, French general (d. 1823)
● 1759 - Robert Burns, Scottish poet (d. 1796)
● 1794 - François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (d. 1878)
● 1796 - William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (d. 1852)
● 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)
● 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)
● 1885 - Kitahara Hakushū, Japanese poets and children's writers (d. 1942)
● 1886 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (d. 1954)
● 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)
● 1901 - Martin De Alzaga, Argentine racing driver (d. 1982)
● 1905 - Maurice Roy, French Canadian Roman Catholic cardinal, archbishop of Quebec (d. 1985)
● 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 scientist Nobel Laureate (d. 2003)
● 1917 - Jânio Quadros, Brazilian politician (d. 1992)
● 1918 - Ernie Harwell, American baseball sportscaster
● 1919 - Edwin Newman, American journalist and writer
● 1923 - Shirley Mason, American psychiatric patient (Commonly known as "Sybil") (d. 1998)
● 1924 - Lou Groza, American football player (d. 2000)
● 1925 - Giorgos Zampetas, Greek musician and songwriter (d. 1992)
● 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
● 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 - Leiji Matsumoto, Japanese creator of anime.
● 1938 - Etta James, American singer
● 1938 - Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian poet (d. 1980)
● 1939 - Gabriel Romanus, Swedish politician
● 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
● 1945 - Leigh Taylor-Young, American actress
● 1947 - Tostão, Brazilian footballer
● 1947 - Ángel Nieto, Spanish motorcycle racer
● 1949 - John Cooper Clarke, English punk-poet
● 1949 - Paul Nurse, English biochemist, Nobel Laureate
● 1951 - Steve Prefontaine, American runner (d. 1975)
● 1952 - Timothy White, American journalist (d. 2002)
● 1953 - The Honky Tonk Man, American professional wrestler
● 1953 - Mark Weil, Uzbek theatre director (d. 2007)
● 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
● 1957 - Eskil Erlandsson, Swedish politician
● 1957 - Andrew P. Harris, American politician
● 1958 - Dinah Manoff, American actress
● 1961 - Vivian Balakrishnan, Singaporean politician
● 1961 - Willie Revillame, Filipino game show host and comedian
● 1962 - Chris Chelios, American ice hockey player
● 1965 - Esa Tikkanen, Finnish ice hockey player
● 1967 - Randy McKay, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1969 - Kina, American singer
● 1971 - Luca Badoer, Italian race car driver
● 1971 - China Kantner, American actress
● 1971 - Ana Ortiz, American actress and singer
● 1973 - Geoff Johns, American comic book writer
● 1973 - Chris Guy, American professional wrestler
● 1975 - Mia Kirshner, Canadian actress
● 1975 - Tim Montgomery, American athlete
● 1975 - Dat Phan, Stand up comedian
● 1976 - Mario Haberfeld, Brazilian racing car driver
● 1978 - Denis Menchov, Russian cyclist
● 1978 - Jason Roberts, English-born footballer
● 1978 - Derrick Turnbow, American baseball player
● 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
● 1980 - Efstathios Tavlaridis, Greek footballer
● 1981 - Francis Jeffers, English footballer
● 1981 - Alicia Keys, American singer
● 1982 - Sho Sakurai, Japanese singer and actor
● 1982 - The-Dream, singer
● 1983 - Andrée Watters, Canadian singer
● 1984 - Robinho, Brazilian footballer
● 1985 - Tina Karol, Ukrainian singer
● 1986 - Chris O'Grady, English footballer
● 1986 - Shahriar Nafees, Bangladeshi cricketer
● 1987 - Maria Kirilenko, Russian tennis player
● 1988 - Tatiana Golovin, French tennis player
● 1998 - Marlene Lawston, American actress
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)
● 1573 - Hirate Hirohide, Japanese samurai (b. 1553)
● 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 (b. 1652)
● 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)
● 1949 - Makino Nobuaki, Japanese statesman (b. 1861)
● 1957 - Kiyoshi Shiga, Japanese physician and bacteriologist (b. 1871)
● 1957 - Ichizo Kobayashi, Japanese industrialist and Minister of Commerce and Industry (b. 1873)
● 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)
● 1980 - Queenie Watts, English actress (b. 1926)
● 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 - Ted Mallie, American radio and television announcer (b. 1924)
● 1999 - Robert Shaw, American conductor (b. 1916)
● 2003 - Samuel Weems, Arkansas judge (b. 1936)
● 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:
● 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 (Byzantine) Catholic Church:
● St. Gregory the Theologian, Archbishop of Constantinople
● Christian ecumenism — Week of Prayer for Christian Unity ends.
● Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul celebrated by the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran churches, which concludes the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity,
● St. Dwynwen's Day - Welsh celebration of love Diwrnod Santes Dwynwen.
● Roman Empire - second day of the Sementivae in honour of Ceres and Terra
● 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.
● Tatiana Day, celebrated as the Day of Russian students since 1755, when the Moscow University was founded.
● Opposite Day, although opposite day can be declared on any day, January 25th is the most widely accepted day.
● Note: The date "Jan/25/1994" is "commemorated" as a font-character in the (MS Win98) "HM Phonetic" font (@1994) -- possibly its "birthday". (See keymap-code "ctrl-2")
THIS IS AN ABBREVIATED POST FOR THIS DATE USING ONLY THE FOLLOWING SEVEN SOURCES. A COMPLETE POST IS PLANNED AS SOON AS TIME ALLOWS.
Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.
Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.
Roman Catholic Saint of the Day
Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar
Liberal Quotes of the Day taken from The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why the Left Is Right Compiled by William P. Martin ©2004
Quotes from the Right of the Day taken from Take Them at Their Words: Startling, Amusing and Baffling Quotations from the GOP and Their Friends, 1994-2004 Compiled by Bruce J. Miller with Diana Maio ©2004
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day taken from 1001 Dumbest Things Ever Said Edited by Steven D. Price ©2004
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