Madrid, Jan 24 (EFE) .- Santoral for Monday, January 25, 2021: The Conversion of Saint Paul; Saints Elvira, Juventino, Donato and Sabino.
The Sun rises tomorrow at 08:32 and sets at 18:22 (GMT time).
The Moon rises tomorrow at 15.15 and sets at 05.51 (GMT time).
1533.- King Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn.
1915.- Alexander Graham Bell makes the first transcontinental telephone call, between New York and San Francisco.
1919.- The Paris Peace Conference accepts the proposal of the American president, Woodrow Wilson, to create a General Association of Nations.
1948.- The poet and essayist Dámaso Alonso enters the Royal Spanish Academy.
1971.- The head of the Ugandan Armed Forces, Idi Amin, assumes power after a bloody coup.
1993.- Slobodan Milosevic is sworn in as president of Serbia, after his victory in the elections.
1999.- In Colombia, an earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale kills more than 1,100 people and devastates the city of Armenia.
2001.- The First World Social Forum is inaugurated in Porto Alegre (Brazil) as a space for reflection against economic liberalism.
2006.- The fundamentalist group Hamas wins the legislative elections in the Palestinian National Authority by an absolute majority.
2010.- Ali ‘the chemist’, cousin of Saddam Hussein, executed in Iraq.
2011.- The Revolution of January 25 begins when thousands of people demonstrate in Tahrir Square in Cairo and in other Egyptian cities to demand political reforms from the president, Hosni Mubarak. On February 11, after 18 days of protests, Mubarak stepped down from power.
2015.- The leftist Syriza coalition, led by Alexis Tsipras, wins the general elections in Greece.
2016.- A 6.3-magnitude earthquake in the Alboran Sea causes 26 minor injuries in Melilla.
2017.- Trump signs the executive order to build a wall with Mexico.
2019.- More than 250 people die as a result of the rupture of a mineral waste dam of the Vale company – the world’s largest iron producer – in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais.
BIRTHS
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1627.- Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish scientist.
1882.- Virginia Woolf, British writer.
1894.- Antonio Martínez del Castillo, Florian Rey, Spanish filmmaker.
1928.- Adolfo Marsillach, Spanish actor, writer and theater director.
.- Eduard Shevardnadze, former president of Georgia.
1933.- Corazón Aquino, former president of the Philippines.
1935.- Antonio Ramalho Eanes, former president of Portugal.
1942.- Eusebio da Silva Ferreira, Portuguese soccer player.
1943.- Fernando Pérez Royo, Spanish politician and professor.
1947.- Angel Nieto, Spanish motorcycling pilot.
.- Staffan de Mistura, Italian-Swedish diplomat and politician.
1953.- Diego Valderas, Spanish politician.
1977.- Marta Rovira, Spanish politician, general secretary of Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC).
1978.- Vladimir Zelensky, President of Ukraine.
.- Charlene de Monaco (Charlene Wittstock), former South African swimmer and princess consort of Monaco by her marriage to Prince Albert II.
1980.- Xavi Hernández, former soccer player and Spanish coach.
1981.- Alicia Keys, American singer, pianist and composer.
1984.- Robson da Souza, Robinh, Brazilian soccer player.
1996.- Adama Traoré, Spanish footballer of Malian descent.
DEATHS
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1990.- Dámaso Alonso, Spanish poet and academic.
.- Ava Gardner, American actress.
1997.- Manuel Tuñón de Lara, Spanish historian.
2005.- Philip Johnson, American architect.
.- Juan Bustos, Spanish journalist, official chronicler of Granada.
2013.- Jaime Salom, Spanish playwright.
2015.- Demis Roussos, Greek singer.
2016.- Denise Duval, soprano francesa.
2017.- Mary Tyler Moore, American actress.
.- John Hurt, British actor.
.- Federico Sopeña, Spanish Jesuit missionary.
2018.- Claribel Alegría, Nicaraguan poet.
2019.- Dusan Makavejev, Serbian film director and screenwriter.
.- Roberto Livi, Argentine singer-songwriter and producer. EFE
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