Events
Pre-1600
*
138 138 may refer to:
*138 (number)
*138 BC
*AD 138
Year 138 ( CXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Niger and Camer ...
–
Roman emperor Hadrian
Hadrian (; la, Caesar Trâiānus Hadriānus ; 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. He was born in Italica (close to modern Santiponce in Spain), a Roman ''municipium'' founded by Italic settlers in Hispania ...
adopts
Antoninus Pius as his son, effectively making him his successor.
*
628
__NOTOC__
Year 628 ( DCXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 628 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era ...
–
Khosrow II
Khosrow II (spelled Chosroes II in classical sources; pal, 𐭧𐭥𐭮𐭫𐭥𐭣𐭩, Husrō), also known as Khosrow Parviz (New Persian: , "Khosrow the Victorious"), is considered to be the last great Sasanian king (shah) of Iran, ruling fr ...
, the last great Shah of the
Sasanian Empire (Iran), is overthrown by his son
Kavadh II.
*
1336 – Four thousand defenders of
Pilenai commit
mass suicide rather than be taken captive by the
Teutonic Knights
The Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem, commonly known as the Teutonic Order, is a Catholic religious institution founded as a military society in Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem. It was formed to aid Christians o ...
.
1601–1900
*
1705 –
George Frideric Handel
George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (; baptised , ; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque music, Baroque composer well known for his opera#Baroque era, operas, oratorios, anthems, concerto grosso, concerti grossi, ...
's opera ''
Nero
Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ( ; born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus; 15 December AD 37 – 9 June AD 68), was the fifth Roman emperor and final emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, reigning from AD 54 un ...
'' premiered in
Hamburg
Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...
.
*
1836 –
Samuel Colt
Samuel Colt (; July 19, 1814 – January 10, 1862) was an American inventor, industrialist, and businessman who established Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company (now Colt's Manufacturing Company) and made the mass production of ...
is granted a United States
patent
A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention."A ...
for his
revolver firearm.
*
1843
Events January–March
* January
** Serial publication of Charles Dickens's novel ''Martin Chuzzlewit'' begins in London; in the July chapters, he lands his hero in the United States.
** Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart ...
–
Lord George Paulet occupies the
Kingdom of Hawaii in the name of Great Britain in the
Paulet Affair (1843).
*
1870
Events
January–March
* January 1
** The first edition of ''The Northern Echo'' newspaper is published in Priestgate, Darlington, England.
** Plans for the Brooklyn Bridge are completed.
* January 3 – Construction of the Br ...
–
Hiram Rhodes Revels
Hiram Rhodes Revels (September 27, 1827Different sources list his birth year as either 1827 or 1822. – January 16, 1901) was an American Republican politician, minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and a college administrator. ...
, a
Republican from
Mississippi
Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; to the southwest by Louisiana; and to the northwest by Arkansas. Miss ...
, is sworn into the
United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States.
The composition and po ...
, becoming the first
African American
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of ens ...
ever to sit in
Congress
A congress is a formal meeting of the representatives of different countries, constituent states, organizations, trade unions, political parties, or other groups. The term originated in Late Middle English to denote an encounter (meeting of ...
.
*
1875
Events
January–March
* January 1 – The Midland Railway of England abolishes the Second Class passenger category, leaving First Class and Third Class. Other British railway companies follow Midland's lead during the rest of th ...
–
Guangxu Emperor of
Qing dynasty
The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speak ...
China begins his reign, under
Empress Dowager Cixi's regency.
1901–present
*
1912
Events January
* January 1 – The Republic of China is established.
* January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens.
* January 6
** German geophysicist Alfred ...
–
Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of
Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning
Grand Duchess of
Luxembourg
Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan ...
.
*
1916 – In the
Battle of Verdun, a German unit captures
Fort Douaumont, keystone of the French defences, without a fight.
*
1918
This year is noted for the end of the First World War, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, as well as for the Spanish flu pandemic that killed 50–100 million people worldwide.
Events
Below, the events ...
– German forces capture
Tallinn to virtually complete the
occupation of Estonia.
*
1921
Events
January
* January 2
** The Association football club Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, from Belo Horizonte, is founded as the multi-sports club Palestra Italia by Italian expatriates in Brazil.
** The Spanish liner ''Santa Isabel'' bre ...
–
Georgian capital
Tbilisi
Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of approximately 1.5 million pe ...
falls to the
invading Russian forces after heavy fighting and the Russians declare the
Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.
*
1932
Events January
* January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel.
* January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort to assassinate Emperor Hir ...
–
Hitler
Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Nazi Germany, Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his death in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the le ...
, having been
stateless for seven years, obtains German citizenship when he is appointed a
Brunswick state official by
Dietrich Klagges
Dietrich Klagges () (1 February 1891 – 12 November 1971) was a Nazi Party politician and from 1933 to 1945 the appointed premier ('' Ministerpräsident'') of the now abolished Free State of Brunswick. He also went by the pseudonym Rudolf Berg. ...
, a fellow Nazi. As a result, Hitler is able to run for
Reichspräsident in the 1932 election.
*
1933
Events
January
* January 11 – Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand.
* January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wis ...
– Launch of the at
Newport News, Virginia
Newport News () is an independent city in the U.S. state of Virginia. At the 2020 census, the population was 186,247. Located in the Hampton Roads region, it is the 5th most populous city in Virginia and 140th most populous city in the U ...
. It is the first purpose-built
aircraft carrier to be commissioned by the
US Navy
The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage ...
.
*
1939 – As part of
British air raid precautions, the first of 2 million
Anderson shelters is constructed in a garden in
Islington, north London.
*
1941 – The outlawed
Communist Party of the Netherlands organises a
general strike in German-occupied
Amsterdam
Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population of 907,976 within the city proper, 1,558,755 in the urban ar ...
to protest against Nazi persecution of
Dutch Jews.
*
1947 – The formal
abolition of Prussia is proclaimed by the
Allied Control Council, the Prussian government having already been abolished by the ''
Preußenschlag'' of 1932.
* 1947 – Soviet
NKVD
The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (russian: Наро́дный комиссариа́т вну́тренних дел, Naródnyy komissariát vnútrennikh del, ), abbreviated NKVD ( ), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union.
...
forces in
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Cr ...
abduct
Béla Kovács—secretary-general of the majority
Independent Smallholders' Party—and deport him to the USSR in defiance of Parliament. His arrest is an important turning point in the
Communist
Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, ...
takeover of Hungary.
*
1948 – In a
coup d'état
A coup d'état (; French for 'stroke of state'), also known as a coup or overthrow, is a seizure and removal of a government and its powers. Typically, it is an illegal seizure of power by a political faction, politician, cult, rebel group, m ...
led by
Klement Gottwald, the
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia takes control of government in
Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...
to end the
Third Czechoslovak Republic.
*
1951 – The first
Pan American Games are officially opened in
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ...
by Argentine President
Juan Perón.
*
1956
Events
January
* January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan.
* January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, are kille ...
– In his speech ''
On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences'',
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (– 11 September 1971) was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and chairman of the country's Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. During his rule, Khrushchev s ...
, leader of the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...
, denounces
Stalin.
*
1980
Events January
* January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
* January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC.
* January 9 – In ...
– The government of
Suriname
Suriname (; srn, Sranankondre or ), officially the Republic of Suriname ( nl, Republiek Suriname , srn, Ripolik fu Sranan), is a country on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the nor ...
is
overthrown by a military coup led by
Dési Bouterse
Desiré Delano "Dési" Bouterse (; born 13 October 1945) is a Surinamese military officer, politician, convicted murderer and drug trafficker who served as President of Suriname from 2010 to 2020. From 1980 to 1987, he was Suriname's ''de facto ...
.
*
1986
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations.
Events January
* January 1
** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles.
**Spain and Portugal en ...
–
People Power Revolution
The People Power Revolution, also known as the EDSA Revolution or the February Revolution, was a series of popular demonstrations in the Philippines, mostly in Metro Manila, from February 22 to 25, 1986. There was a sustained campaign of c ...
: President of the Philippines
Ferdinand Marcos
Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. ( , , ; September 11, 1917 – September 28, 1989) was a Filipino politician, lawyer, dictator, and kleptocrat who was the 10th president of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He ruled under martial ...
flees the nation after 20 years of rule;
Corazon Aquino becomes the
Philippines
The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no),
* bik, Republika kan Filipinas
* ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas
* cbk, República de Filipinas
* hil, Republ ...
' first woman president.
*
1991 – Disbandment of the
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact (WP) or Treaty of Warsaw, formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republi ...
at a meeting of its members in
Budapest
Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population o ...
.
Births
Pre-1600
*
1259 –
Infanta Branca of Portugal, daughter of King
Afonso III of Portugal and
Urraca of Castile (d. 1321)
*
1337
Year 1337 ( MCCCXXXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* March 16 – Edward, the Black Prince establishes the Duchy of Cornwall, beco ...
–
Wenceslaus I, Duke of Luxembourg (d. 1383)
*
1475 –
Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick, last male member of the House of York (d. 1499)
*
1540
Year 1540 ( MDXL) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* January 6 – King Henry VIII marries Anne of Cleves, his fourth Queen consort; the m ...
–
Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton, English aristocrat and courtier (d. 1614)
*
1543 –
Sharaf Khan Bidlisi, Emir of Bitlis (d. 1603)
*
1591 –
Friedrich Spee, German poet and author (d. 1635)
1601–1900
*
1643 –
Ahmed II, Ottoman sultan (d. 1695)
*
1663 –
Peter Anthony Motteux, French-English author, playwright and translator (d. 1718)
*
1670 –
Maria Margarethe Kirch, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1720)
*
1682 –
Giovanni Battista Morgagni
Giovanni Battista Morgagni (25 February 1682 – 6 December 1771) was an Italian anatomist, generally regarded as the father of modern anatomical pathology, who taught thousands of medical students from many countries during his 56 years as Prof ...
, Italian anatomist and pathologist (d. 1771)
*
1707 –
Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright and composer (d. 1793)
*
1714 –
René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, French lawyer and politician,
Lord Chancellor of France
In France, under the ''Ancien Régime'', the officer of state responsible for the judiciary was the Chancellor of Francesometimes called Grand Chancellor or Lord Chancellor (french: Chancelier de France). The Chancellor was responsible for see ...
(d. 1792)
*
1728 –
John Wood, the Younger, English architect, designed the
Royal Crescent (d. 1782)
*
1752 –
John Graves Simcoe
John Graves Simcoe (25 February 1752 – 26 October 1806) was a British Army general and the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada from 1791 until 1796 in southern Ontario and the watersheds of Georgian Bay and Lake Superior. He founded Yor ...
, English-Canadian general and politician, 1st
Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada (d. 1806)
*
1755 –
François René Mallarmé, French lawyer and politician (d. 1835)
*
1778 –
José de San Martín, Argentinian general and politician, 1st
President of Peru (d. 1850)
*
1806
Events
January–March
* January 1
** The French Republican Calendar is abolished.
** The Kingdom of Bavaria is established by Napoleon.
* January 5 – The body of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, lies in state in the Painted Hall ...
–
Emma Catherine Embury
Emma Catherine Embury (née Manley; February 25, 1806 – February 10, 1863) was an American author and poet. Under the pen name of "Ianthe", she contributed to the periodicals of the day, and may be considered among the pioneers of female lite ...
, American author and poet (d. 1863)
*
1809 –
John Hart, English-Australian politician, 10th
Premier of South Australia (d. 1873)
*
1812 –
Carl Christian Hall
Carl Christian Hall (25 February 1812 – 14 August 1888) was a Danish statesman. Hall served as the Council President of Denmark (Prime Minister), first from 1857 to 1859 and again from 1860 to 1863.
Early life
Hall was the son of the highly re ...
, Danish lawyer and politician, 6th
Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1888)
*
1816 –
Giovanni Morelli, Italian historian and critic (d. 1891)
*
1833
Events January–March
* January 3 – Reassertion of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
* February 6 – His Royal Highness Prince Otto Friedrich Ludwig of Bavaria assumes the title His Majesty Othon the ...
–
John St. John, American lawyer and politician, 8th
Governor of Kansas (d. 1916)
*
1841 –
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionism, Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially femininity, feminine sensuality ...
, French painter and sculptor (d. 1919)
*
1842 –
Karl May, German author, poet, and playwright (d. 1912)
*
1845 –
George Reid, Scottish-Australian lawyer and politician, 4th
Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1918)
*
1855 –
Cesário Verde, Portuguese poet and author (d. 1886)
*
1856
Events
January–March
* January 8 – Borax deposits are discovered in large quantities by John Veatch in California.
* January 23 – American paddle steamer SS ''Pacific'' leaves Liverpool (England) for a transatlantic voya ...
–
Karl Gotthard Lamprecht, German historian and academic (d. 1915)
* 1856 –
Mathias Zdarsky, Czech-Austrian skier, painter, and sculptor (d. 1940)
*
1857
Events January–March
* January 1 – The biggest Estonian newspaper, ''Postimees'', is established by Johann Voldemar Jannsen.
* January 7 – The partly French-owned London General Omnibus Company begins operating.
* Jan ...
–
Robert Bond
Sir Robert Bond (25 February 1857 – 16 March 1927) was the last Premier of Newfoundland Colony from 1900 to 1907 and the first prime minister of the Dominion of Newfoundland from 1907 to 1909 after the 1907 Imperial Conference conferred ...
, Canadian politician; first
Prime Minister of Newfoundland
The premier of Newfoundland and Labrador is current title of the first minister for the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, which was at certain points in its history a colony, dominion, and province. The province had a system of resp ...
(d. 1927)
*
1860
Events
January–March
* January 2 – The discovery of a hypothetical planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, France.
* January 10 – The Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts ...
–
William Ashley, English historian and academic (d. 1927)
*
1865
Events
January–March
* January 4 – The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad near Wall Street, in New York City.
* January 13 – American Civil War : Second Battle of Fort Fisher ...
–
Andranik, Armenian general (d. 1927)
*
1866 –
Benedetto Croce, Italian philosopher and politician (d. 1952)
*
1869 –
Phoebus Levene, Russian-American biochemist and physician (d. 1940)
*
1873 –
Enrico Caruso
Enrico Caruso (, , ; 25 February 1873 – 2 August 1921) was an Italian operatic first lyrical tenor then dramatic tenor. He sang to great acclaim at the major opera houses of Europe and the Americas, appearing in a wide variety of roles (74) ...
, Italian-American tenor; the most popular operatic tenor of the early 20th century and the first great recording star. (d. 1921)
*
1877
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Queen Victoria is proclaimed ''Empress of India'' by the ''Royal Titles Act 1876'', introduced by Benjamin Disraeli, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom .
* January 8 – Great ...
–
Erich von Hornbostel, Austrian musicologist and scholar (d. 1935)
*
1881 –
William Z. Foster, American union leader and politician (d. 1961)
* 1881 –
Alexei Rykov, Russian politician,
Premier of Russia
The chairman of the government of the Russian Federation, also informally known as the prime minister, is the nominal head of government of Russia. Although the post dates back to 1905, its current form was established on 12 December 1993 fo ...
(d. 1938)
*
1883
Events
January–March
* January 4 – ''Life'' magazine is founded in Los Angeles, California, United States.
* January 10 – A fire at the Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, kills 73 people.
* Janua ...
–
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (Alice Mary Victoria Augusta Pauline; 25 February 1883 – 3 January 1981) was a member of the British royal family. She is the longest-lived British princess of royal blood, and was the last surviving grand ...
(d. 1981)
*
1885
Events
January–March
* January 3– 4 – Sino-French War – Battle of Núi Bop: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing Chinese force, in northern Vietnam.
* January 4 &n ...
–
Princess Alice of Battenberg, mother of
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, later Philip Mountbatten; 10 June 1921 – 9 April 2021) was the husband of Queen Elizabeth II. As such, he served as the consort of the British monarch from E ...
(d. 1969)
*
1888 –
John Foster Dulles, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 52nd
United States Secretary of State (d. 1959)
*
1890 –
Myra Hess, English pianist and educator (d. 1965)
*
1894 –
Meher Baba, Indian spiritual master (d. 1969)
*
1898 –
William Astbury, physicist and molecular biologist (d. 1961)
1901–present
*
1901 –
Vince Gair
Vincent Clair Gair (25 February 190111 November 1980) was an Australian politician. He served as Premier of Queensland from 1952 until 1957, when his stormy relations with the trade union movement saw him expelled from the Labor Party. He was e ...
, Australian politician, 27th
Premier of Queensland (d. 1980)
* 1901 –
Zeppo Marx, American comedian (the youngest of the
Marx Brothers
The Marx Brothers were an American family comedy act that was successful in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in motion pictures from 1905 to 1949. Five of the Marx Brothers' thirteen feature films were selected by the American Film Institute (AFI) ...
) and theatrical agent (d. 1979)
*
1903 –
King Clancy, Canadian ice hockey player, referee, and coach; rated one of the 100 greatest
NHL players (d. 1986)
*
1905 –
Perry Miller, American historian, author, and academic (d. 1963)
*
1906 –
Mary Coyle Chase, American journalist and playwright; author of ''
Harvey'' (d. 1981)
*
1907 –
Sabahattin Ali, Turkish journalist, author, and poet (d. 1948)
*
1908 –
Mary Locke Petermann
Mary Locke Petermann (February 25, 1908 – December 13, 1975) was an American cellular biochemist known for her key role in the discovery and characterization of animal ribosomes, the molecular complexes that carry out protein synthesis. She w ...
, cellular
biochemist (d. 1975)
* 1908 –
Frank G. Slaughter, American physician and author (d. 2001)
*
1910 –
Millicent Fenwick, American journalist and politician (d. 1992)
*
1913 –
Jim Backus, American actor and screenwriter; the voice of ''
Mr. Magoo'' (d. 1989)
* 1913 –
Gert Fröbe, German actor; title role in ''
Goldfinger'' (d. 1988)
*
1915 –
S. Rajaratnam
Sinnathamby Rajaratnam ( ta, சின்னத்தம்பி ராஜரத்னம்; 25 February 1915 – 22 February 2006), better known as S. Rajaratnam, was a Singaporean politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Singapo ...
, 1st Senior Minister of Singapore (d. 2006)
*
1917 –
Anthony Burgess, English author, playwright, and critic (d. 1993)
*
1918
This year is noted for the end of the First World War, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, as well as for the Spanish flu pandemic that killed 50–100 million people worldwide.
Events
Below, the events ...
–
Bobby Riggs
Robert Larimore Riggs (February 25, 1918 – October 25, 1995) was an American tennis champion who was the World No. 1 amateur in 1939 and World No. 1 professional in 1946 and 1947. He played his first professional tennis match on December ...
, American tennis player; winner of three major titles, 1939–1941 (d. 1995)
*
1919 –
Monte Irvin
Monford Merrill "Monte" Irvin (February 25, 1919 – January 11, 2016) was an American left fielder and right fielder in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball (MLB) who played with the Newark Eagles (1938–1942, 1946–1948), New York Giant ...
, American baseball player and executive (d. 2016)
*
1920
Events January
* January 1
** Polish–Soviet War in 1920: The Russian Red Army increases its troops along the Polish border from 4 divisions to 20.
** Kauniainen, completely surrounded by the city of Espoo, secedes from Espoo as its own ma ...
–
Philip Habib, American academic and diplomat,
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (d. 1992)
*
1921
Events
January
* January 2
** The Association football club Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, from Belo Horizonte, is founded as the multi-sports club Palestra Italia by Italian expatriates in Brazil.
** The Spanish liner ''Santa Isabel'' bre ...
–
Pierre Laporte, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician,
Deputy Premier of Quebec (d. 1970)
* 1921 –
Andy Pafko, American baseball player and manager (d. 2013)
*
1922
Events
January
* January 7 – Dáil Éireann (Irish Republic), Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64–57 votes.
* January 10 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éirean ...
–
Molly Reilly, Canadian aviator (d. 1980)
*
1924
Events
January
* January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after.
* January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China hold ...
–
Hugh Huxley, English-American biologist and academic (d. 2013)
*
1925 –
Shehu Shagari
Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari (25 February 1925 – 28 December 2018), titled Turakin Sokoto from 1962, was the first democratically elected President of Nigeria, after the transfer of power by military head of state General Olusegun Obasanjo in ...
, former President of Nigeria (d. 2019)
* 1925 –
Lisa Kirk
Lisa Kirk (born Elsie Kirk, February 25, 1925 – November 11, 1990) was an American actress and singer noted for her comic talents and rich contralto (her voice was called a husky alto).
Career
Born in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, she was raise ...
, American actress and singer (d. 1990)
*
1926 –
Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda, Japanese-Turkish mathematician and academic; developed
algebraic number theory (d. 2003)
*
1927 –
Ralph Stanley, American
bluegrass singer and
banjo
The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and usually made of plastic, or occasionally animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashi ...
player; member of
International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame (d. 2016)
*
1928
Events January
* January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA.
* January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhano ...
–
Paul Elvstrøm, Danish
yachtsman; winner of four Olympic gold medals, 1948–1960 (d. 2016)
* 1928 –
A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., prominent
African-American
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of ensl ...
civil rights advocate, author, and
federal court judge (d. 1998)
* 1928 –
Larry Gelbart, American author and screenwriter; creator and producer of ''
M*A*S*H
''M*A*S*H'' (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) is an American media franchise consisting of a series of novels, a film, several television series, plays, and other properties, and based on the semi-autobiographical fiction of Richard Hooker.
T ...
'' TV series (d. 2009)
* 1928 –
Richard G. Stern, American author and academic (d. 2013)
* 1930 –
Wendy Beckett, British nun and art critic for BBC TV with great success in the 1990s (d. 2018)
*
1932
Events January
* January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel.
* January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort to assassinate Emperor Hir ...
–
Tony Brooks, English racing driver; six
Formula One
Formula One (also known as Formula 1 or F1) is the highest class of international racing for open-wheel single-seater formula racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The World Drivers' Championship, ...
victories, second in 1959 World Championship (d. 2022)
* 1932 –
Faron Young, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist; member of
Country Music Hall of Fame
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, is one of the world's largest museums and research centers dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of American vernacular music. Chartered in 1964, the museum has ama ...
(d. 1996)
*
1934 –
Tony Lema, American golfer; winner of the
1964 Open Championship
The 1964 Open Championship was the 93rd Open Championship, played 8–10 July at the Old Course in St Andrews, Scotland. Tony Lema won his only major championship, five strokes ahead of runner-up Jack Nicklaus. He led by seven strokes after ...
(d. 1966)
* 1935 –
Oktay Sinanoglu
Oktay is a Turkish masculine given name. It is also used as a surname. Notable people with the name are as follows:
First name
* Oktay Afandiyev (1926–2013), Azerbaijani historian
* Oktay Delibalta (born 1985), Turkish football player
*Oktay Der ...
,
Turkish physical chemist and
molecular biophysicist; two-time nominee for the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
)
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, alt = A golden medallion with an embossed image of a bearded man facing left in profile. To the left of the man is the text "ALFR•" then "NOBEL", and on the right, the text (smaller) "NAT•" then "M ...
(d. 2015)
*
1937 –
Tom Courtenay, award-winning English actor
* 1937 –
Bob Schieffer
Bob Lloyd Schieffer (born February 25, 1937) is an American television journalist. He is known for his moderation of presidential debates, where he has been praised for his capability. Schieffer is one of the few journalists to have covered all f ...
, American political author, journalist and TV interviewer
*
1938 –
Herb Elliott, Australian
1500 metres
The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run (typically pronounced 'fifteen-hundred metres') is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athle ...
runner; 1960 Olympic champion and world record holder
* 1938 –
Farokh Engineer
Farokh Maneksha Engineer (born 25 February 1938) is an Indian former cricketer. He played 46 Test matches for India, played first-class cricket for Bombay in India from 1959 to 1975 and for Lancashire County Cricket Club in England from 196 ...
, Indian international cricketer; successful as batsman and wicketkeeper
*
1940 –
Ron Santo, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2010)
*
1941 –
David Puttnam
David Terence Puttnam, Baron Puttnam, CBE, HonFRSA, HonFRPS, MRIA (born 25 February 1941) is a British film producer, educator, environmentalist and former member of the House of Lords. His productions include ''Chariots of Fire'', which w ...
, English film producer and academic
*
1943 –
George Harrison
George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. Sometimes called "the quiet Beatle", Harrison embraced Indian c ...
, English singer-songwriter, guitarist and film producer; lead guitarist of
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English Rock music, rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960, that comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They are regarded as the Cultural impact of the Beatles, most influential band of al ...
(d. 2001)
*
1944
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 2 – WWII:
** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in ...
–
François Cevert, French racing driver (d. 1973)
*
1946 –
Jean Todt, French racing driver and team manager;
FIA President, 2009–2021
*
1947 –
Lee Evans, American sprinter and athletics coach; two gold medals and world
400m record at 1968 Olympics (d. 2021)
*
1949 –
, Lebanese-French journalist and author
*
1950 –
Francisco Fernández Ochoa
Francisco "Paquito" Fernández Ochoa (25 February 1950 – 6 November 2006) was a World Cup alpine ski racer from Spain. Born in Madrid and raised north of the city in Cercedilla, he was the eldest of eight children whose father ran a ski schoo ...
, Spanish skier; 1972 Olympic slalom champion (d. 2006)
* 1950 –
Neil Jordan
Neil Patrick Jordan (born 25 February 1950) is an Irish film director, screenwriter, novelist and short-story writer. His first book, '' Night in Tunisia'', won a Somerset Maugham Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979. He won an Academ ...
, Irish film director, screenwriter and author
* 1950 –
Néstor Kirchner, Argentinian politician; 51st
President of Argentina, 2003–2007 (d. 2010)
*
1951 –
Don Quarrie, Jamaican sprinter and coach; four Olympic medals and two world records
*
1952 –
Joey Dunlop
William Joseph "Joey" Dunlop (25 February 1952 – 2 July 2000) was a Northern Irish motorcyclist from Ballymoney.
Career
He won his third hat trick at the Isle of Man TT in 2000 and set his fastest lap on the course of 123.87 mph in the ...
, Northern Irish motorcycle road racing champion; holds record for most wins (26) at the
Isle of Man TT (d. 2000)
*
1953
Events
January
* January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
* January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo.
* January 14
** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yugosl ...
–
José María Aznar
José María Alfredo Aznar López (; born 25 February 1953) is a Spanish politician who was the prime minister of Spain from 1996 to 2004. He led the People's Party (PP), the dominant centre-right political party in Spain.
A member of the Fre ...
, Spanish politician;
Prime Minister of Spain
The prime minister of Spain, officially president of the Government ( es, link=no, Presidente del Gobierno), is the head of government of Spain. The office was established in its current form by the Constitution of 1978 and it was first regul ...
, 1996–2004
*
1957 –
Raymond McCreesh
Raymond McCreesh ( ga, Réamonn Mac Raois, 25 February 1957 – 21 May 1981) was an Irish volunteer in the South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). In 1976, he and two other IRA volunteers were captured while attemp ...
,
Irish Republican, hunger striker (d. 1981)
*
1957 –
Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Singapore politician; 5th
Senior Minister of Singapore
*
1958
Events
January
* January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being.
* January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
* January 4
** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...
–
Kurt Rambis, American basketball player and coach; four-time
NBA Finals champion
*
1962 –
Birgit Fischer, German kayaker; winner of eight Olympic gold medals
*
1963 –
Paul O'Neill, American baseball player and sportscaster; five-time
World Series
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada, contested since 1903 between the champion teams of the American League (AL) and the National League (NL). The winner of the Worl ...
champion
*
1967 –
Ed Balls, British politician;
Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
*
1968
The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide.
Events January–February
* January 5 – " Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
* J ...
–
Oumou Sangaré
Oumou Sangaré ( bm, Umu Sangare; born 25 February 1968 in Bamako) is a Grammy Award-winning Malian Wassoulou musician, sometimes referred to as "The Songbird of Wassoulou". Wassoulou is a historical region south of the Niger River, where the m ...
, Grammy Award-winning
Mali
Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, جمهورية مالي, Jumhūriyyāt Mālī is a landlocked country in West Africa. Ma ...
an
Wassoulou musician
*
1971 *
The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses ( February 10, and August 6).
The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history.
Events
J ...
–
Sean Astin, American actor, director and producer
*
1974
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; ...
–
Dominic Raab
Dominic Rennie Raab (; born 25 February 1974) is a British politician who has served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Secretary of State for Justice, and Lord Chancellor since October 2022, having previously served from 2021 t ...
, British politician;
First Secretary of State and
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
*
1981 –
Park Ji-sung
Park Ji-sung (; ; born 30 March 1981) is a South Korean former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Born in the South Korean capital Seoul, Park is the most successful Asian player in football history, having won 19 trophies i ...
, South Korean footballer; the most successful Asian player with 19 career trophies
*
1982 –
Flavia Pennetta, Italian tennis player; winner of the
2015 US Open
*
1988 –
Tom Marshall, British photo colouriser and artist
*
1989
File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxo ...
–
Kana Hanazawa, Japanese voice actress and singer
*
1992 –
Jorge Soler
Jorge Carlos Soler Castillo (born February 25, 1992) is a Cuban professional baseball outfielder for the Miami Marlins of Major League Baseball (MLB). Soler has previously played in MLB for the Chicago Cubs, Kansas City Royals, and Atlant ...
, Cuban baseball player
*
1995 –
Viktoriya Tomova, Bulgarian tennis player
*
1999
File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...
–
Gianluigi Donnarumma, Italian international footballer; youngest goalkeeper to play for
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...
* 1999 –
Rocky
''Rocky'' is a 1976 American sports drama film directed by John G. Avildsen and written by and starring Sylvester Stallone. It is the first installment in the ''Rocky'' franchise and stars Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, and Burges ...
, South Korean singer, dancer and songwriter
Deaths
Pre-1600
*
806 –
Tarasios,
patriarch of Constantinople
*
891
Year 891 ( DCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* February 21 – Guy III, duke of Spoleto, is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Ste ...
–
Fujiwara no Mototsune, Japanese
regent
A regent (from Latin : ruling, governing) is a person appointed to govern a state '' pro tempore'' (Latin: 'for the time being') because the monarch is a minor, absent, incapacitated or unable to discharge the powers and duties of the monarchy ...
(b. 836)
*
1522 –
William Lily, English scholar and educator (b. 1468)
*
1536 –
Berchtold Haller, German-Swiss theologian and reformer (b. 1492)
*
1547 –
Vittoria Colonna
Vittoria Colonna (April 149225 February 1547), marchioness of Pescara, was an Italian noblewoman and poet. As an educated, married noblewoman whose husband was in captivity, Colonna was able to develop relationships within the intellectual cir ...
, marchioness of Pescara (b. 1490)
1601–1900
*
1601
This epoch is the beginning of the 400-year Gregorian leap-year cycle within which digital files first existed; the last year of any such cycle is the only leap year whose year number is divisible by 100.
January 1 of this year (1601-01-01) ...
–
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English general and politician,
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1566)
*
1634 –
Albrecht von Wallenstein, Austrian general and politician (b. 1583)
*
1655 –
Daniël Heinsius, Flemish poet and scholar (b. 1580)
*
1682 –
Alessandro Stradella
Antonio Alessandro Boncompagno Stradella ( Bologna, 3 July 1643 – Genoa, 25 February 1682) was an Italian composer of the middle Baroque period. He enjoyed a dazzling career as a freelance composer, writing on commission, and collaborating wi ...
, Italian composer (b. 1639)
*
1710
In the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Saturday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.
Events
January–March
* January 1 – In Prussia, Cölln is merged with Alt-Berlin by ...
–
Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut, French soldier and explorer (b. 1639)
*
1713 –
Frederick I of Prussia (b. 1657)
*
1723 –
Christopher Wren, English architect, designed
St Paul's Cathedral
St Paul's Cathedral is an Anglicanism, Anglican cathedral in London and is the seat of the Bishop of London. The cathedral serves as the mother church of the Diocese of London. It is on Ludgate Hill at the highest point of the City of London ...
(b. 1632)
*
1756
Events
January–March
* January 16 – The Treaty of Westminster is signed between Great Britain and Prussia, guaranteeing the neutrality of the Kingdom of Hanover, controlled by King George II of Great Britain.
* February ...
–
Eliza Haywood
Eliza Haywood (c. 1693 – 25 February 1756), born Elizabeth Fowler, was an English writer, actress and publisher. An increase in interest and recognition of Haywood's literary works began in the 1980s. Described as "prolific even by the standar ...
, English actress and poet (b. 1693)
*
1796
Events
January–March
* January 16 – The first Dutch (and general) elections are held for the National Assembly of the Batavian Republic. (The next Dutch general elections are held in 1888.)
* February 1 – The capital ...
–
Samuel Seabury
Samuel Seabury (November 30, 1729February 25, 1796) was the first American Episcopal bishop, the second Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, and the first Bishop of Connecticut. He was a leading Loyalist ...
, American bishop (b. 1729)
*
1805
After thirteen years the First French Empire abolished the French Republican Calendar in favour of the Gregorian calendar.
Events
January–March
* January 11 – The Michigan Territory is created.
* February 7 – King Anouvong become ...
–
Thomas Pownall
Thomas Pownall (bapt. 4 September 1722 N.S. – 25 February 1805) was a British colonial official and politician. He was governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1757 to 1760, and afterwards sat in the House of Commons from 1767 ...
, English politician,
Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (b. 1722)
*
1819 –
Francisco Manoel de Nascimento, Portuguese-French poet and educator (b. 1734)
*
1822 –
William Pinkney
William Pinkney (March 17, 1764February 25, 1822) was an American statesman and diplomat, and was appointed the seventh U.S. Attorney General by President James Madison.
Biography
William Pinkney was born in 1764 in Annapolis in the Province ...
, American politician and diplomat, 7th
United States Attorney General
The United States attorney general (AG) is the head of the United States Department of Justice, and is the chief law enforcement officer of the federal government of the United States. The attorney general serves as the principal advisor to the p ...
(b. 1764)
*
1841 –
Philip P. Barbour
Philip Pendleton Barbour (May 25, 1783 – February 25, 1841) was the tenth speaker of the United States House of Representatives and an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He is the only individual to serve in bot ...
, American lawyer, judge, and politician, 12th
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1783)
*
1850
Events
January–June
* April
** Pope Pius IX returns from exile to Rome.
** Stephen Foster's parlor ballad " Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway" is published in the United States.
* April 4 – Los Angeles is incorporated as a city ...
–
Daoguang Emperor of China (b. 1782)
*
1852 –
Thomas Moore, Irish poet and lyricist (b. 1779)
*
1865
Events
January–March
* January 4 – The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad near Wall Street, in New York City.
* January 13 – American Civil War : Second Battle of Fort Fisher ...
–
Otto Ludwig, German author, playwright, and critic (b. 1813)
*
1870
Events
January–March
* January 1
** The first edition of ''The Northern Echo'' newspaper is published in Priestgate, Darlington, England.
** Plans for the Brooklyn Bridge are completed.
* January 3 – Construction of the Br ...
–
Henrik Hertz, Danish poet and playwright (b. 1797)
*
1877
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Queen Victoria is proclaimed ''Empress of India'' by the ''Royal Titles Act 1876'', introduced by Benjamin Disraeli, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom .
* January 8 – Great ...
–
Jung Bahadur Rana, Nepalese ruler (b. 1816)
*
1878 –
Townsend Harris, American merchant, politician, and diplomat,
United States Ambassador to Japan (b. 1804)
*
1899 –
Paul Reuter
Paul Julius Reuter (born Israel Beer Josaphat; 21 July 1816 – 25 February 1899), later ennobled as Freiherr von Reuter (Baron von Reuter), was a German-born British entrepreneur who was a pioneer of telegraphy and news reporting.[Reuters
Reuters ( ) is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters Corporation. It employs around 2,500 journalists and 600 photojournalists in about 200 locations worldwide. Reuters is one of the largest news agencies in the world.
The agency was est ...]
(b. 1816)
1901–present
*
1906 –
Anton Arensky
Anton Stepanovich Arensky (russian: Анто́н Степа́нович Аре́нский; – ) was a Russian composer of Romantic classical music, a pianist and a professor of music.
Biography
Arensky was born into an affluent, music-loving ...
, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1861)
*
1910 –
Worthington Whittredge, American painter and educator (b. 1820)
*
1911
A notable ongoing event was the race for the South Pole.
Events January
* January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia.
* ...
–
Friedrich Spielhagen, German author, theorist, and translator (b. 1829)
*
1912
Events January
* January 1 – The Republic of China is established.
* January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens.
* January 6
** German geophysicist Alfred ...
–
William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1852)
*
1914 –
John Tenniel, English illustrator (b. 1820)
*
1915 –
Charles Edwin Bessey, American botanist, author, and academic (b. 1845)
*
1920
Events January
* January 1
** Polish–Soviet War in 1920: The Russian Red Army increases its troops along the Polish border from 4 divisions to 20.
** Kauniainen, completely surrounded by the city of Espoo, secedes from Espoo as its own ma ...
–
Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy, French archaeologist and engineer (b. 1844)
*
1928
Events January
* January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA.
* January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhano ...
–
William O'Brien
William O'Brien (2 October 1852 – 25 February 1928) was an Irish nationalist, journalist, agrarian agitator, social revolutionary, politician, party leader, newspaper publisher, author and Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons ...
, Irish journalist and politician (b. 1852)
*
1934 –
Elizabeth Gertrude Britton, American botanist and academic (b. 1857)
* 1934 –
John McGraw
John Joseph McGraw (April 7, 1873 – February 25, 1934) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) player and manager who was for almost thirty years manager of the New York Giants. He was also the third baseman of the pennant-winning 189 ...
, American baseball player and manager (b. 1873)
*
1945 –
Mário de Andrade, Brazilian author, poet, and photographer (b. 1893)
*
1950 –
George Minot, American physician and academic,
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
laureate (b. 1885)
*
1953
Events
January
* January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
* January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo.
* January 14
** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yugosl ...
–
Sergei Winogradsky, Ukrainian-Russian microbiologist and ecologist (b. 1856)
*
1957 –
Mark Aldanov, Russian author and critic (b. 1888)
* 1957 –
Bugs Moran, American mob boss (b. 1893)
*
1963 –
Melville J. Herskovits
Melville Jean Herskovits (September 10, 1895 – February 25, 1963) was an American anthropologist who helped to first establish African and African Diaspora studies in American academia. He is known for exploring the cultural continuity from Af ...
, American anthropologist and academic (b. 1895)
*
1964 –
Alexander Archipenko, Ukrainian sculptor and illustrator (b. 1887)
* 1964 –
Grace Metalious, American author (b. 1924)
*
1970 –
Mark Rothko, Latvian-American painter and academic (b. 1903)
*
1971 *
The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses ( February 10, and August 6).
The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history.
Events
J ...
–
Theodor Svedberg
Theodor Svedberg (30 August 1884 – 25 February 1971) was a Swedish chemist and Nobel laureate for his research on colloids and proteins using the ultracentrifuge. Svedberg was active at Uppsala University from the mid 1900s to late 1940s. ...
, Swedish chemist and academic,
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
laureate (b. 1884)
*
1972 –
Gottfried Fuchs, German-Canadian Olympic soccer player (b. 1889)
*
1975
It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe.
Events
January
* January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...
–
Elijah Muhammad
Elijah Muhammad (born Elijah Robert Poole; October 7, 1897 – February 25, 1975) was an African American religious leader, black separatist, and self-proclaimed Messenger of Allah, who led the Nation of Islam (NOI) from 1934 until his dea ...
, American religious leader (b. 1897)
*
1978 –
Daniel James, Jr.
Daniel "Chappie" James Jr. (February 11, 1920 – February 25, 1978) was a fighter pilot in the United States Air Force who, in 1975, became the first African American to reach the rank of four-star General (United States), general in the United ...
, American general and pilot (b. 1920)
*
1980
Events January
* January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
* January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC.
* January 9 – In ...
–
Robert Hayden, American poet and academic (b. 1913)
*
1983 –
Tennessee Williams, American playwright, and poet (b. 1911)
*
1996 –
Haing S. Ngor
Haing Somnang Ngor ( Khmer: ហាំង សំណាង ង៉ោ; ; March 22, 1940 – February 25, 1996) was a Cambodian American gynecologist, obstetrician, actor and author. He is best remembered for winning the Academy Award for Best Suppo ...
, Cambodian-American physician and author (b. 1940)
*
1997
File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...
–
Andrei Sinyavsky, Russian journalist and publisher (b. 1925)
*
1998 –
W. O. Mitchell
William Ormond Mitchell, (March 13, 1914 – February 25, 1998) was a Canadian writer and broadcaster. His "best-loved" novel is '' Who Has Seen the Wind'' (1947), which portrays life on the Canadian Prairies from the point of view of a smal ...
, Canadian author and playwright (b. 1914)
*
1999
File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...
–
Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist and academic,
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
laureate (b. 1912)
*
2001 –
A. R. Ammons, American poet and critic (b. 1926)
* 2001 –
Don Bradman
Sir Donald George Bradman, (27 August 1908 – 25 February 2001), nicknamed "The Don", was an Australian international cricketer, widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time. Bradman's career Test batting average of 99.94 has b ...
, Australian international cricketer; holder of world record batting average (b. 1908)
*
2005 –
Peter Benenson, English lawyer, founded
Amnesty International
Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says it has more than ten million members and s ...
(b. 1921)
*
2008
File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...
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Hans Raj Khanna
Hans Raj Khanna (3 July 1912 – 25 February 2008) was an Indian judge, jurist and advocate who propounded the basic structure doctrine in 1973 and attempted to uphold civil liberties during the time of Emergency in India in a lone dissenting ju ...
, Indian judge and advocate; upholder of civil liberties (b. 1912)
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2010 –
Ihsan Dogramaci, Turkish pediatrician and academic (b. 1915)
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2012 –
Louisiana Red, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1932)
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2015 –
Harve Bennett, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1930)
* 2015 –
Eugenie Clark, American biologist and academic; noted ichthyologist (b. 1922)
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2017 –
Bill Paxton, American actor and filmmaker (b. 1955)
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2020 –
Dmitry Yazov, last
Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1924)
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2022 –
Farrah Forke
Farrah Rachael Forke (January 12, 1968 – February 25, 2022) was an American actress known for her roles as Alex Lambert on the NBC sitcom ''Wings'', and Mayson Drake on '' Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman''. She also voiced the ...
, American actress (b. 1968)
* 2022 –
Shirley Hughes, English author and illustrator (b. 1927)
Holidays and observances
*Christian feast days:
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Æthelberht of Kent
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Blessed
Blessed may refer to:
* The state of having received a blessing
* Blessed, a title assigned by the Roman Catholic Church to someone who has been beatified
Film and television
* ''Blessed'' (2004 film), a 2004 motion picture about a supernatural ...
Ciriaco María Sancha y Hervás
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Gerland of Agrigento
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John Roberts, writer and missionary (
Anglican Communion
The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion after the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. Founded in 1867 in London, the communion has more than 85 million members within the Church of England and other ...
)
**Blessed
Maria Adeodata Pisani
**
Saint Walpurga (she was canonised on 1 May c. 870 and
Walpurgis Night
Walpurgis Night (), an abbreviation of Saint Walpurgis Night (from the German ), also known as Saint Walpurga's Eve (alternatively spelled Saint Walburga's Eve), is the eve of the Christian feast day of Saint Walpurga, an 8th-century abbess ...
is celebrated 30 April)
**
February 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
*''
Kitano Baika-sai'' or "Plum Blossom Festival" (
Kitano Tenman-gu Shrine,
Kyoto
Kyoto (; Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. Located in the Kansai region on the island of Honshu, Kyoto forms a part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kobe. , the c ...
, Japan)
*
Memorial Day for the Victims of the Communist Dictatorships
A number of public holidays and special events take place each year in Hungary.
Fixed public holidays
Article J of the Constitution of Hungary on national holidays
(1) The national holidays of Hungary shall be:
a) the 15th day of March, in mem ...
(
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Cr ...
)
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National Day (Kuwait)
:This is a list of holidays in Kuwait. Some dates given are according to the solar Gregorian calendar widely used internationally and some dates are according to the lunar Islamic calendar.
References
Kuwaiti culture
Society of Ku ...
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People Power Day (
Philippines
The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no),
* bik, Republika kan Filipinas
* ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas
* cbk, República de Filipinas
* hil, Republ ...
)
*
Revolution Day in Suriname
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Soviet Occupation Day (Georgia)
Soviet Occupation Day ( ka, საბჭოთა ოკუპაციის დღე, ''sabch'ot'a okupats'iis dge'') is a Memorial Day in the country of Georgia. It is observed annually on 25 February
References
External links
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Days of the year
February