25 Dey 1387

Events

• 1761 (265 years ago) The Third Battle of Panipat, the largest battle of the 18th century, is fought in India between the Afghan Durrani Empire under Ahmad Shah Durrani, and the Maratha Empire under Sadashivrao Bhau.
• 1797 (229 years ago) The Battle of Rivoli is fought with a decisive French victory by Napoleon Bonaparte, marking the beginning of the end of the War of the First Coalition and the start of French hegemony over Italy for two decades.
• 1814 (212 years ago) Treaty of Kiel: Frederick VI of Denmark cedes the Kingdom of Norway to Charles XIII of Sweden in return for Pomerania.
• 1943 (83 years ago) World War II: Japan begins Operation Ke, the successful operation to evacuate its forces from Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal campaign.
• 1943 (83 years ago) World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin the Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war.
• 1967 (59 years ago) Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love.
• 1973 (53 years ago) Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.
• 2016 (10 years ago) Multiple explosions reported near the Sarinah Building, Jakarta, followed by shootout between perpetrators and the police, killing seven people. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed responsibility.

Births

• 83 BC Mark Antony, Roman general and politician (died 30 BC)
• 1861 (165 years ago) Mehmed VI, Ottoman sultan (died 1926)
• 1875 (151 years ago) Albert Schweitzer, French-German physician and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1965)
• 1919 (107 years ago) Giulio Andreotti, Italian journalist and politician, 41st Prime Minister of Italy (died 2013)
• 1925 (101 years ago) Yukio Mishima, Japanese author, poet, and playwright (died 1970)
• 1963 (63 years ago) Steven Soderbergh, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1969 (57 years ago) Jason Bateman, American actor, director, and producer
• 1969 (57 years ago) Dave Grohl, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and drummer

Deaths

• 1753 (273 years ago) George Berkeley, Anglo-Irish philosopher and author (born 1685)
• 1867 (159 years ago) Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter and illustrator (born 1780)
• 1898 (128 years ago) Lewis Carroll, English novelist, poet, and mathematician (born 1832)
• 1957 (69 years ago) Humphrey Bogart, American actor (born 1899)
• 1977 (49 years ago) Anthony Eden, English soldier and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1897)
• 1977 (49 years ago) Anaïs Nin, French-American essayist and memoirist (born 1903)
• 1978 (48 years ago) Kurt Gödel, Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher (born 1906)
• 2016 (10 years ago) Alan Rickman, English actor (born 1946)

All 403 events, births and deaths of January 14