WHAT HAPPENED ON 25. JANUARY
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Jiang Qing, the widow of Mao Zedong, is sentenced to death. (25. January 1981)

The National Resistance Movement topples the government of Tito Okello in Uganda. (25. January 1986)

Five people are shot outside the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Two are killed and three wounded. (25. January 1993)

The Clementine space probe launches. (25. January 1994)

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. (25. January 1995)

Billy Bailey becomes the last person to be hanged in the USA. (25. January 1996)

During a historic visit to Cuba, Pope John Paul II demands political reforms and the release of political prisoners while condemning US attempts to isolate the country. (25. January 1998)

A suicide attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth kills eight and injures 25 others. (25. January 1998)

A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000. (25. January 1999)

2003 Invasion of Iraq: A group of people leave London, England, for Baghdad, Iraq, to serve as human shields, intending to prevent the U.S.-led coalition troops from bombing certain locations. (25. January 2003)

Opportunity rover (MER-B) lands on surface of Mars. (25. January 2004)

A stampede at the Mandhradevi temple in Maharashtra, India kills at least 258. (25. January 2005)

Three independent observing campaigns announce the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb through gravitational microlensing, the first cool rocky/icy extrasolar planet around a main-sequence star. (25. January 2006)

Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza is arrested in connection with the serial killing of at least 10 elderly women. (25. January 2006)

The first wave of the Egyptian revolution begins in Egypt, with a series of street demonstrations, marches, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes in Cairo, Alexandria, and throughout other cities in Egypt. (25. January 2011)

At least 50 people are killed and 120 people are injured in a prison riot in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. (25. January 2013)