January 25

Today in History
• 41 - After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor
• 844 - Gregory IV begins and ends his reign as Catholic Pope
• 1327 - King Edward III accedes to the English throne aged 14
• 1348 - Earthquake destroys Villach, killing 5,000
• 1579 - Treaty of Utrecht signed, marks beginning of Dutch Republic
• 1721 - Tsar Peter the Great ends Russian-orthodox patriarchy
• 1799 - 1st U.S. patent for a seeding machine, Eliakim Spooner, Vermont
• 1851 - Sojourner Truth addresses 1st Black Women's Rights Convention


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Library Shelfie Day
• National Fish Taco Day
• National Florida Day
• Observe the Weather Day
• Opposite Day
• St. Dwynwen's Day
• Tatiana Day
• Vasant Panchami

Birthdays
• 749 - Leo IV the Khazar, Byzantine emperor
• 1540 - Edmund Campion, English Catholic Jesuit priest and martyr
• 1741 - Benedict Arnold, general and traitor, U.S. revolution
• 1759 - Robert Burns, Scottish poet, considered the national poet of Scotland
• 1839 - Seldon Connor, American banker, 35th Governor of Maine
• 1841 - John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, British admiral
• 1860 - Charles Curtis, American Senator and 31st U.S VP
• 1878 - Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-American television pioneer