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100 years anniversary | ||||
25 Jan 1924 | Lou "The Toe" Groza: AAFC, NFL tackle, kicker (Cleveland Browns) | |||
25 Jan 1924 | 1st Winter Olympic games open in Chamonix, France | |||
25 Jan 1924 | Husein Mehmedov, Bulgarian-Turkish wrestler (d. 2014) | |||
25 Jan 1924 | Lou Groza, American football player and coach (d. 2000) | |||
25 Jan 1924 | Lou "The Toe" Groza AAFC, NFL tackle, kicker (Cleveland Browns) | |||
25 Jan 1924 | 1st Winter Olympic games open in Chamonix, France | |||
75 years anniversary | ||||
25 Jan 1949 | Emil Axman: Composer, dies at 61 | |||
25 Jan 1949 | 1st Emmy Awards: Shirley Dinsdale and Pantomime Quiz (KTLA) win | |||
25 Jan 1949 | Makino Nobuaki, Japanese politician; 15th Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1861) | |||
25 Jan 1949 | Paul Nurse, English geneticist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate | |||
25 Jan 1949 | John Cooper Clarke, English poet and critic | |||
25 Jan 1949 | birth John Cooper Clarke, 'Bard of Salford', Manchester, poet laureate. Well known for 'Kung Fu International', 'I Married A Monster From Outer Space', 'The Day My Pad Went Mad'. | |||
25 Jan 1949 | Emil Axman composer, dies at 61 | |||
25 Jan 1949 | 1st Emmy Awards NBC's "The Necklace", Shirley Dinsdale & Pantomime Quiz (KTLA) win | |||
25 Jan 1949 | 1st Israeli election - Ben-Gurion's Mapai party wins | |||
25 Jan 1949
Paul Nurse |
birth Paul Nurse Paul Nurse, English cell biologist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. |
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50 years anniversary | ||||
25 Jan 1974 | Adam Meadows: Offensive tackle (Indianapolis Colts) | |||
25 Jan 1974 | Daniel Sproule: Australian field hockey halfback (1996 Olympics) | |||
25 Jan 1974 | Jonathan Bryan Colling: Boston, Massachusetts -- Rocker (4 Fun-Unbelievable Fun Boys) | |||
25 Jan 1974 | Christian Barnard transplants 1st human heart without removal of old | |||
25 Jan 1974 | Attilio Nicodemo, Italian footballer | |||
25 Jan 1974 | Emily Haines, Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboard player | |||
25 Jan 1974 | Robert Budreau, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter | |||
25 Jan 1974 | Led Zeppelin appeared at the Market Square Arena, Indianapolis, Indiana to over 17,000 fans. The set list included: 'Rock And Roll', 'Over The Hills And Far Away', 'The Song Remains The Same', 'The Rain Song', 'Kashmir', 'The Wanton Song', 'No Quarter', 'Trampled Under Foot', 'Moby Dick', 'How Many More Times', 'Stairway To Heaven,' 'Whole Lotta Love' and 'Black Dog'. Tickets cost $8.50. | |||
25 Jan 1974 | Jonathan Bryan Colling Boston MA, rocker (4 Fun-Unbelievable Fun Boys) | |||
25 Jan 1974 | Adam Meadows offensive tackle (Indianapolis Colts) | |||
25 Jan 1974 | Daniel Sproule Australian field hockey halfback (Olympics-96) | |||
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25 Jan 1974 | Ray Kroc, CEO (McDonald's), buys San Diego Padres for $12 million | |||
25 Jan 1974 | South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard transplanted the first human heart without removal of the old one | |||
25 Jan 1974 |
Heart transplant In 1974, Dr. Christian Barnard transplanted the first human heart without the removal of the old one. |
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25 years anniversary | ||||
25 Jan 1999 | Robert Shaw, American conductor (b. 1916) | |||
25 Jan 1999
Richter scale |
Richter scale (geology) A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia, killing at least 1,000. |
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20 years anniversary | ||||
25 Jan 2004 | Zurab Sakandelidze, Georgian basketball player (b. 1945) | |||
25 Jan 2004 | Miklós Fehér, Hungarian footballer (b. 1979) | |||
25 Jan 2004 | Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch runner and hurdler (b. 1918) | |||
25 Jan 2004 | Bob Dylan was paid by ladies underwear company Victorias Secret to fly to Venice in Northern Italy, to film a TV advertisement in an ancient palazzo with a scantily dressed model. Some fans were upset while others empathized with Dylan. | |||
25 Jan 2004
Mars Exploration Rover |
Mars Exploration Rover (space exploration) NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Mission Opportunity (MER-B), the second Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars in the Meridiani Planum at 05:05 SCET. |
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15 years anniversary | ||||
25 Jan 2009 | Kim Manners, American director and producer (b. 1951) | |||
25 Jan 2009 | Ewald Kooiman, Dutch organist and educator (b. 1938) | |||
25 Jan 2009 | Eleanor F. Helin, American astronomer (b. 1932) | |||
10 years anniversary | ||||
25 Jan 2014 | Gyula Sax, Hungarian chess player (b. 1951) | |||
25 Jan 2014 | Susan Boyle applied for a minimum wage, £6-an-hour cashier's job after spotting a job advert in the window of her local bookmakers, Ladbrokes, in Blackburn, west Lothian. Upon reading the advert the singer who is said to worth over £20m entered the premises and spent around five minutes talking to the shop's deputy manager David Corr about the role. | |||
25 Jan 2014 | A US jury decided that a tweet posted by Courtney Love about a lawyer she hired was not defamatory. The case against Love claimed she had committed libel by falsely suggesting in a 2010 tweet that Rhonda Holmes had been "bought off". Jurors found that Love's tweet included false information, but the singer did not know it was not true. |