During this timeline, many people participate in festivals and events. For example, the Sundance film festival, which is held each year in Utah. January 25th is a day like any other yet holds many events that made it to the books of history.
Here, read on to find out!
- 1924 – The first Winter Olympics games took place in the French Alps on this day.
- 1933 -Many state emergency work relief bureaus were cutting the hourly rate for laborers from 40 cents per hour to 35 cents per hour and implementing a five-day week.
- 1942 – During World War II, Thailand declared war on the United States and the United Kingdom.
- 1947 – The first arcade game was patented.
- 1949 – The first Emmy Awards were presented at the Hollywood Athletic Club.
- 1955 – The Soviet Union ends the state of war with Germany.
- 1959 – The first Boeing 707 Internal US Flight.
- 1961 – 1st live, nationally televised presidential news conference with JFK.
- 1980 – Mother Teresa was honored with the Indian highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna.
- 1987 – Neil Diamond performed the US National Anthem for Superbowl XXI in Pasadena, CA.
- 1989 – Michael Jordan scored his 10,000th NBA point in his 5th season.
- 1999 – Six members of the International Olympic Committee face expulsion following an inquiry into corruption during the awarding of the 2002 Winter Games to Salt Lake City, in Utah.
- 1999 – An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale killed more than 1,000 people in Colombia.
- 2005 – The BTK killer sends a postcard to a Wichita, Kansas TV Station that led to police discovering a Post Toasties cereal box that had been altered to contain the letters BTK.
- 2008 – President Bush and House leaders agreed to a $150 billion stimulus package.
- 2010 – Arnold Schwarzenegger suggested that he will send California prison inmates to Mexican jails.
- 2011 – Noshir Gowadia, an Indian-born engineer in the United States, was sentenced to thirty-two years in prison for selling the United States military secrets to China.
- 2012 – Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords officially resigned from the US House of Representatives in order to complete her recovery after being shot.
- 2013 – A 4.8 magnitude earthquake struck near the city of Lucca, Italy.
- 2014 – Unrest continued in Ukraine as protesters and police clashed in the capital Kiev.