January 25
January 25 is the
25th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar. There are 340 days remaining (341 in
leap years).
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41 - After a night of negotiation,
Claudius is accepted as
Roman Emperor by the Senate.
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844 -
Gregory IV begins and ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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1327 -
Edward III becomes King of
England.
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1494 -
Alfonso II becomes King of
Naples.
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1533 -
Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife
Anne Boleyn.
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1554 - Founding of
São Paulo city,
Brazil.
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1579 -
Treaty of Utrecht signed, marks beginning of Dutch Republic.
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1755 -
Moscow University established on
Tatiana Day.
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1787 - American
Daniel Shays leads rebellion to seize Federal arsenal to protest
debtor prisons.
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1791 - The
British Parliament passes the
Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old province of
Quebec into
Upper and
Lower Canada.
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1792 -
The London Corresponding Society is founded.
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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.
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1879 - The
Bulgarian National Bank is founded.
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1881 -
Thomas Edison and
Alexander Graham Bell form the
Oriental Telephone Company.
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1890 - The
United Mine Workers of America is founded.
* 1890 -
Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
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1915 -
Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service.
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1917 - The
Danish West Indies is sold to the
United States for $25 million.
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1918 - Russia declared a republic of Soviets.
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1919 - The
League of Nations is founded.
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1924 - The
1924 Winter Olympics open in
Chamonix, France (in the
French Alps), inaugurating the
Winter Olympic Games.
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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.
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1942 -
Thailand declares war on the
United States and
United Kingdom.
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1946 - The
United Mine Workers rejoins the
American Federation of Labor.
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1949 - At the
Hollywood Athletic Club the first
Emmy Awards are presented.
* 1949 - The first
Israeli election --
David Ben-Gurion becomes
Prime Minister.
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1955 - Russia ends state of war with Germany.
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1959 -
Pope John XXIII proclaims
Second Vatican Council.
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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.
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1961 - In
Washington, D.C. John F. Kennedy delivers the first live
presidential television
news conference.
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1969 - US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in
Paris.
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1971 -
Charles Manson and three female "family members" are found guilty of
murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.
* 1971 -
Idi Amin leads a coup deposing
Milton Obote and becomes
Uganda's president.
* 1971 -
Himachal Pradesh becomes the 18th
Indian state.
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1981 - Mao's widow
Jiang Qing sentenced to death.
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1986 - The
National Resistance Movement topple the government of
Tito Okello in
Uganda.
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1990 - The
Burns' Day storm hits
Northwestern Europe.
* 1990 -
Honduras becomes a member of the
Berne Convention copyright treaty.
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1993 -
Mir Amir Kansi kills two employees outside
CIA headquarters in
Langley, Virginia.
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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.
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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.
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1999 - A 6.0
Richter scale earthquake hits western
Colombia killing at least 1,000.
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2002 - Wikipedia switches to the new version of its software ("Phase II") aka
Magnus Manske Day.
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2004 -
Opportunity (
MER-B) lands on surface of
Mars.
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2005 - A
stampede during a
pilgrimage in
India kills at least 258.
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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.
* 2006 - The
Council of Europe passes a draft resolution that emphatically condemns the atrocities and
human rights violations of
totalitarian communist regimes.
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750 -
Leo IV the Khazar,
Byzantine Emperor*
1477 -
Anna, Duchess of Brittany, wife of
Charles VIII of France (d.
1514)
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1509 -
Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (d.
1580)
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1615 -
Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (d.
1660)
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1627 -
Robert Boyle, Irish chemist (d.
1691)
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1634 -
Gaspar Fagel, Dutch statesman (d.
1688)
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1640 -
William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman (d.
1707)
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1736 -
Joseph Louis Lagrange, Italian-born mathematician (d.
1813)
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1739 -
Charles François Dumouriez, French general (d.
1823)
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1759 -
Robert Burns, Scottish poet (d.
1796)
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1794 -
François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (d.
1878)
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1796 -
William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (d.
1852)
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1825 -
George Pickett, American Confederate General (d.
1875)
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1841 -
Jackie Fisher, British First Sea Lord (d.
1920)
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1858 -
Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese pearl farm pioneer (d.
1954)
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1860 -
Charles Curtis, 31st
Vice President of the United States (d.
1936)
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1864 -
Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and writer (d.
1934)
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1874 -
William Somerset Maugham, English writer (d.
1965)
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1878 -
Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-born television pioneer (d.
1975)
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1882 -
Virginia Woolf, English writer (d.
1941)
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1886 -
Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (d.
1954)
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1900 -
Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian-American geneticist and biologist (d.
1975)
* 1900 -
Yojiro Ishizaka, Japanese writer (d.
1986)
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1913 -
Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer (d.
1994)
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1916 -
Frank "Pop" Ivy, American and Canadian Football coach (d.
2003)
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1917 -
Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born physicist and chemist,
Nobel Prize Laureate (d.
2003)
* 1917 -
Jânio Quadros, Brazilian politician (d.
1992)
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1918 -
Ernie Harwell, baseball sportscaster
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1919 -
Edwin Newman, American journalist and writer
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1927 -
Antonio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian musician (d.
1994)
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1928 -
Eduard Shevardnadze,
President of Georgia*
1929 -
Benny Golson, Jazz Musician
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1931 -
Dean Jones, American actor
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1933 -
Corazon Aquino,
President of the Philippines*
1936 -
Diana Hyland, American actress (d.
1977)
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1937 -
Ange-Félix Patassé,
President of the Central African Republic*
1938 -
Shotaro Ishinomori, Manga and
tokusatsu (Japan superhero) creater (d.
1998)
* 1938 -
Etta James, American singer
* 1938 -
Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian poet, singer, and actor (d.
1980)
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1941 -
Buddy Baker, American race car driver
* 1941 -
Gregory Sierra, American actor
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1942 -
Carl Eller, American football player
* 1942 -
Eusébio, Portuguese footballer
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1943 -
Tobe Hooper, American film director
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1944 -
Anita Pallenberg, Italian model and actress
* 1944 -
Leigh Taylor-Young, American actress
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1947 -
Tostão, Brazilian footballer
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1949 -
Paul Nurse, British biochemist,
Nobel Prize Laureate*
1951 -
Steve Prefontaine, American runner (d.
1975)
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1952 -
Timothy White, American journalist (d.
2002)
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1953 -
Wayne Ferris, American Professional Wrestler
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1954 -
Ricardo Bochini, Argentinian footballer
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1955 -
Terry Chimes, co-founder and drummer of the British punk rock band
The Clash*
1956 -
Andy Cox, British musician (
The Beat (band),
Fine Young Cannibals)
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1958 -
Dinah Manoff, American actress
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1969 -
Kina, American singer
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1971 -
Luca Badoer, Italian race-car driver
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1973 -
Geoff Johns, American comic book writer
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1975 -
Tim Montgomery, American athlete
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1976 -
Mia Kirshner, Canadian actress
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1978 -
Denis Menchov, Russian cyclist
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1979 -
Pi Hongyan, French badminton player
* 1979 -
Gabe Jennings, American distance runner
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1980 -
Michelle McCool, American professional wrestler
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1981 -
Alicia Keys, American singer and musician
* 1981 -
Francis Jeffers, English footballer
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1982 -
Sho Sakurai, Japanese Singer and actor
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1984 -
Robinho, Brazilian footballer
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1985 -
Tina Karol, Ukraninan singer
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1986 -
Chris O'Grady, English footballer
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389 -
Gregory Nazianzus, theologian and
Patriarch of Constantinople (b.
329)
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477 -
Geiseric, King of the
Vandals and
Alans*
844 -
Pope Gregory IV*
1067 -
Emperor Yingzong of China (b.
1032)
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1366 -
Henry Suso, German mystic
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1431 -
Charles II, Duke of Lorraine (b.
1364)
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1494 - King
Ferdinand I of Naples (b.
1423)
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1559 - King
Christian II of Denmark, Sweden and Norway (b.
1481)
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1586 -
Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (b.
1515)
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1640 -
Robert Burton, English scholar (b.
1577)
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1670 -
Nicholas II, Duke of Lorraine (b.
1612)
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1726 -
Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (b.
1675)
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1733 -
Gilbert Heathcote, Mayor of London
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1751 -
Paul Dudley, Attorney-General of Massachusetts (b.
1675)
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1881 -
Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (b.
1794)
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1907 -
René Pottier, French cyclist (b.
1879)
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1908 -
Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (b.
1850)
* 1908 -
Ouida, English writer (b.
1839)
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1912 -
Dmitry Milyutin, Russian Field Marshal (b.
1816)
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1925 -
Ivan Vucetic, Croatian anthropologist (b.
1858)
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1947 -
Al Capone, American gangster (b.
1899)
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1963 -
Wilson Kettle,
Guinness World Record holder for most living descendants (b.
1860)
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1969 -
Irene Castle, English dancer (b.
1887)
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1970 -
Jane Bathori, French mezzo-soprano (b.
1877)
* 1970 -
Eiji Tsuburaya, Founder of
Tsuburaya Productions, creator of Ultraman (b.
1901)
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1972 -
Erhard Milch, German field marshal (b.
1892)
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1981 -
Adele Astaire, American dancer (b.
1897)
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1982 -
Mikhail Suslov, Soviet politician (b.
1902)
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1990 -
Ava Gardner, American actress (b.
1922)
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1994 -
Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician (b.
1909)
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1995 -
Cal Jammer, American actor (b.
1960)
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1996 -
Jonathan Larson, American composer (b.
1960)
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1999 -
Robert Shaw, American conductor (b.
1916)
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2004 -
Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (b.
1918)
* 2004 -
Miklós Fehér, Hungarian footballer (b.
1979)
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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)
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2006 -
Anna Malle, Adult film star (b.
1967)
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Catholicism and
Anglicanism - Conversion of Saint
Paul.
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Christian ecumenism —
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity ends.
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Burns Night - Burns suppers are held in many parts of the world around this date. (Originated in
Scotland)
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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.
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Roman Empire - second day of the
Sementivae in honour of
Ceres and
Terra*
St. Dwynwen's Day and
Patron Saint of Lovers - Welsh celebration of love
Dirwnod Santes Dwynwen.
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Tatiana Day, celebrated as the Day of Russian students since
1755, when the
Moscow University was founded.
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Winter-Een-Mas - celebration of videogames and the people that play them. Winter-een-mas lasts for a whole week, which is always the very last week in January, the 25th through the 31st.
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On this day in Canada*
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