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  • 25th January, 1533
    Henry VIII of England secretly marries Anne Boleyn, his second wife.
  • 25th January, 1759
    Scottish poet Robert Burns is born, later becoming a national icon.
  • 25th January, 1858
    The "Wedding March" by Felix Mendelssohn is played at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Princess Victoria, and becomes a popular wedding processional.
  • 25th January, 1924
    The first Winter Olympics take place in Chamonix, France.
  • 25th January, 1947
    Al Capone, infamous American gangster, dies of cardiac arrest after suffering a stroke.
  • 25th January, 1959
    American Airlines inaugurates its first transcontinental jet service with the Boeing 707.
  • 25th January, 1961
    U.S. President John F. Kennedy holds the first live televised presidential news conference.
  • 25th January, 1971
    Charles Manson and three female "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate–LaBianca murders.
  • 25th January, 1980
    Paul McCartney is released from a Tokyo jail and deported from Japan after his marijuana possession arrest.
  • 25th January, 1981
    The 38th Golden Globes: "Ordinary People", Robert De Niro, & Mary Tyler Moore win.
  • 25th January, 1990
    Avianca Flight 52 crashes into a residential area in Cove Neck, New York due to fuel exhaustion; 73 people die and 85 are injured.
  • 25th January, 1993
    Five people are shot outside the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia; two are killed.
  • 25th January, 1995
    Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a U.S. Trident missile.
  • 25th January, 1996
    Billy Bailey becomes the last person to be hanged in the USA.
  • 25th January, 1998
    During Super Bowl XXXII, the Denver Broncos defeat the Green Bay Packers.
  • 25th January, 2004
    The Opportunity rover (MER-B) lands on the surface of Mars.
  • 25th January, 2011
    The Egyptian Revolution begins with protests in Cairo and other cities.
  • 25th January, 2013
    At least 50 people are killed and 120 injured in a prison riot in Barquisimeto, Venezuela.
  • 25th January, 2014
    Li Na wins the Australian Open, becoming the first Asian Australian Open champion.
  • 25th January, 2020
    The first cases of COVID-19 are reported in Australia and Malaysia.

NOTE: WHILE THE EVENTS LISTED ABOVE ARE FACTUAL, SOME SPECIFICS ARE ADDED BASED ON GENERALIZED KNOWLEDGE AND MAY NOT HAVE OCCURRED EXACTLY ON THAT DATE.
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