On this day: January 25

January 25: Feast Day of Gregory of Nazianzus (Eastern Orthodox Church); Tu Bishvat (Judaism, 2016); Burns Night (Scots culture); Dydd Santes Dwynwen in Wales

Nellie Bly

• 1554 – Jesuit missionaries José de Anchieta and Manoel da Nóbrega established a mission at São Paulo dos Campos de Piratininga, which grew to become São Paulo, Brazil.
• 1890 – American journalist Nellie Bly (pictured) completed a circumnavigation of the globe, inspired by Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days, in a then-record 72 days.
• 1949 – The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences presented the first Emmy Awards to honor excellence in the American television industry.
• 1995 – A team of Norwegian and American scientists launched a Black Brant XII sounding rocket, which was mistaken for a Trident missile by Russian forces.
• 2006 – Three independent observing campaigns announced the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb, a super-Earth extrasolar planet 21,500 ±3,300 light years away from Earth near the center of the Milky Way.

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