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Events on January 25

• 1077 The Roman-German King Henry IV arrives during the Investiture Controversy on his walk to Canossa at the castle of Matilda of Tuscany to ask Pope Gregory VII to lift the excommunication.
• 1890 The German Reichstag rejects by 167 to 98 votes a government bill by Otto von Bismarck to extend the Socialist Law indefinitely.
• 1915 During World War I, bread supply in Germany is rationed. The bread card is the first of further subsequent food stamps.
• 1924 In Chamonix-Mont-Blanc (France), the "International Winter Sports Week" organized by the International Olympic Committee begins, which is only retrospectively given the title I Olympic Winter Games. The competitions last until February 5.
• 1955 The USSR ends the state of war with Germany by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
• 1964 ARD broadcasts the first episode of the game show Einer wird gewinnen (EWG) by Hessischer Rundfunk with Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff. Producer Martin Jente already makes his first final appearance as "Butler" here.
• 1982 Robert Havemann and Pastor Rainer Eppelmann publish the Berlin Appeal – Creating Peace without Weapons in the GDR, with which they demand an all-German peace movement and call for disarmament in East and West.
• 1987 In the federal election in Germany, the FDP and the Greens gain votes and seats, while especially the CDU under Chancellor Helmut Kohl suffers massive losses. However, the government coalition of CDU/CSU and FDP still retains a majority in the German Bundestag.
• 1990 Hurricane Daria sweeps across Northern and Central Europe, claiming at least 94 lives and causing billions in damages.
• 2004 The NASA space probe Opportunity lands on the planet Mars 20 days after its sister probe Spirit in a small crater on the Meridiani Planum plateau.
• 2011 In Egypt, mass protests against President Hosni Mubarak begin in the Arab Spring.
• 2023 UNESCO decides to include the historic old town of the Ukrainian port city of Odesa in the World Heritage List.

Born on January 25

• 1874 W. Somerset Maugham, British playwright, writer, physician, and secret agent
• 1881 Elly Heuss-Knapp, German advertising expert, politician, social reformer, and foundation founder
• 1882 Virginia Woolf, British writer and publisher
• 1911 Kurt Maetzig, German director
• 1950 Jean-Marc Ayrault, French politician
• 1951 Hans-Jürgen Dörner, German footballer and coach
• 1980 Xavi, Spanish footballer
• 1991 Ariana DeBose, American film actress and musical performer
• 1991 Svenja Huth, German footballer
• 2000 Remco Evenepoel, Belgian cyclist

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „25. Januar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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