January 25 in History: Historical Events, Birthdays, Deaths & Holidays

1973  On the British Columbia coast the Freighter Irish Stardust grounds north of Vancouver Island., spilling 378000 litres of fuel oil, spill spreads 320 km south   

1974  Christian Barnard transplants inaugural human heart without removal of old.   

1974  Dr Christian Barnard performs a heart transplant, leaving the original heart in place.   

1974  Start of major flooding in Brisbane in which 13 die   

1975  Vivien Kellems, TV hostess (The Power of Women), dies at 78   

1976  Surinder Amarnath scores 124 on Test debut India vs New Zealand Auckland   

1977  In New York Rene Levesque 1922-1987 tells Wall Street audience at the Economic Club of New York that 'separation is inevitable'   

1977  Donald Kerr, actor (Devil Bat, Killer Bats), dies at 85   

1978  Muriel Humphrey (D-MN) appointed to fill late husband's Senate seat   

1978  Tango Duke, dies in Australia at 42; oldest known thoroughbred horse.   

1979  22.2-km Oshimizu railroad tunnel holed through, central Honshu, Japan   

1979  Jean-Luc Pepin and John Robarts release the Report of the Task Force on Canadian Unity; recommend that Quebec should have the power to maintain its language and culture, and that federal powers be reduce.   

1979  Pope John Paul II's inaugural overseas trip as supreme pontiff   

1979  J Robertson Hare, actor (Fighting Stock), dies at 87.   

1980  Bani Sadr elected President of Iran   

1980  In this year, Dutch Government formally claims boycott of Olympics.   

1980  Finance Minister Abolhassan Bani-Sadr is elected president of Iran   

1980  Highest speed attained by a warship, 167 kph, USN hovercraft.   

1980  Paul McCartney is released from Tokyo jail and deported.   

1980  David Newell, actor (Dangerous Curves, White Heat), dies at 75.   

1981  Mao's widow Jiang Qing sentenced to death.   

1981  The 52 American hostages held by Iran for 444 days arrive back in the U.S   

1981  Adele Marie Astaire, sister of Fred Astaire, dies at 82   

1982  9th American Music Award Kenny Rogers win   

1982  Mihail A Suslov, Soviet party ideologist, dies at 79.   

1983  China's supreme court commutes Chiang Ch'ing's death sentence to life.   

1983  Infrared telescope satellite launched into polar orbit.   

1983  Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie arrested in Bolivia   

1985  "We are the World" is recorded   

1985  Test debut of Wasim Akram, vs New Zealand at Auckland (2-105)   

1986  General Tito Okello's government flees Kampala Uganda   

1986  Ernst Schnabel, writer, dies at 72.   

1987  Emil Hlobil, composer, dies at 85   

1988  15th American Music Award Anita Baker, Paul Simon and Whitney Houston.   

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1037  Su tung-p'o: [j sotoba], china, layman/poet/administrator [or dec 19]   

1477  Anna de bretagne: Wife of maximilian of austria & louis xii   

1509  Giovanni morone: Italian theologist/diplomat/cardinal/"heretic"   

1540  Edmund campion: London, saint/jesuit martyr (decem rationes)   

1615  Govert flinck: Dutch painter (isaac blesses jacob)   

1626  John van de cappelle: Amsterdam, landscape painter   

1627  Robert boyle: Ireld, physicist/chemist/author (experiments with color)   

1634  Gaspar fagel: Lawyer/pension advisor of holland (1672-88)   

0477  Death of Geiseric: King of the vandals and alans   

0844  Pope gregory iv: Pope gregory iv   

1067  Emperor yingzong of china: Emperor yingzong of china (b. 1032)   

1138  Anacletus ii: [pietro pierleone], jewish anti-pope (1130-38),   

1139  Death of Godfried i: With the beard, duke of brabant/earl of leuven,   

1366  Death of Henry suso: German mystic   

1431  Death of Charles ii: Duke of lorraine (b. 1364)   

1494  Death of Ferdinand i: Cruel king of naples,