📜 This Day in History

January 25

• 1515Francis I, a great-great-grandson of Charles V, was crowned king of France in the Reims Cathedral.
• 1765Port Egmont, the first British colony in the Falkland Islands, was founded.
• 1932The Alt Llobregat insurrection was suppressed in central Catalonia, and over 100 Catalan anarchist activists were arrested and deported.
• 1990Avianca Flight 52 ran out of fuel on approach to John F. Kennedy International Airport and crashed into the village of Cove Neck, New York, resulting in the deaths of 73 people.
• 2004Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity landed on Mars and rolled into Eagle crater, a small crater on the Meridiani Planum.
• 2011Arab Spring: The Egyptian revolution began with protests on the "Day of Anger", eventually leading to the removal of President Hosni Mubarak after nearly 30 years of rule.

Born on this day

• 1759Robert Burns, Scottish poet and songwriter (died 1796)
• 1882Virginia Woolf, English novelist, essayist, short story writer, and critic (died 1941)
• 1938Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian singer-songwriter, actor, and poet (died 1980)
• 1978Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainian actor, comedian, and politician, 6th President of Ukraine