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Events

• 1348 (678 years ago) A strong earthquake strikes the South Alpine region of Friuli in modern Italy, causing considerable damage to buildings as far away as Rome.
• 1575 (451 years ago) Luanda, the capital of Angola, is founded by the Portuguese navigator Paulo Dias de Novais.
• 1918 (108 years ago) The Finnish Defence Forces (The White Guards) are established as the official army of independent Finland, and Baron C. G. E. Mannerheim is appointed its Commander-in-Chief.
• 1971 (55 years ago) Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.
• 1979 (47 years ago) Pope John Paul II starts his first official papal visits outside Italy to The Bahamas, Dominican Republic, and Mexico.
• 1986 (40 years ago) The National Resistance Movement topples the government of Tito Okello in Uganda.
• 1995 (31 years ago) The Norwegian rocket incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.
• 1999 (27 years ago) A 6.0 magnitude earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.

Births

• 1627 (399 years ago) Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish chemist and physicist (died 1691)
• 1736 (290 years ago) Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian-French mathematician and astronomer (died 1813)
• 1759 (267 years ago) Robert Burns, Scottish poet and songwriter (died 1796)
• 1874 (152 years ago) W. Somerset Maugham, British playwright, novelist, and short story writer (died 1965)
• 1882 (144 years ago) Virginia Woolf, English novelist, essayist, short story writer, and critic (died 1941)
• 1933 (93 years ago) Corazon Aquino, Filipino politician, 11th President of the Philippines (died 2009)
• 1938 (88 years ago) Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian singer-songwriter, actor, and poet (died 1980)
• 1978 (48 years ago) Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainian actor, comedian, and politician, 6th President of Ukraine

Deaths

• 390 (1636 years ago) Gregory Nazianzus, theologian and Patriarch of Constantinople (born 329)
• 844 (1182 years ago) Pope Gregory IV,
• 1742 (284 years ago) Edmond Halley, English astronomer (born 1656)
• 1947 (79 years ago) Al Capone, American gangster and mob boss (born 1899)
• 1990 (36 years ago) Ava Gardner, American actress (born 1922)
• 2005 (21 years ago) Philip Johnson, American architect, designed the PPG Place and Crystal Cathedral (born 1906)
• 2017 (9 years ago) John Hurt, English actor (born 1940)
• 2017 (9 years ago) Mary Tyler Moore, American actress and producer (born 1936)

All 360 events, births and deaths of January 25