Brumadinho dam disaster
A mining company's dam collapses in Brumadinho, Brazil, a south-eastern city, killing 270 people.
January
25
Sunday
2026
Daily dose
January 25 Time Capsule
Lil Mosey
Lil Mosey, American rapper
On January 25, 2006, the social media platform Facebook was launched from a Harvard dorm room, eventually transforming the way people...
"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."
Dalai Lama
Ariane 5
An Ariane 5 rocket is launched carrying SES-14, Al Yah 3, and NASA's Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, but the satellites end up in...
Birthday lens
What happened on your birthday?
Personalized feed
Choose your daily lanes
Year lens
All years
Now
Quote of the Day
Dalai Lama
"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."
Holiday
January 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Christian feast day:
January 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Holiday
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
Christian feast day:
The last day of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (Christian ecumenism)
Holiday
Gregory of Nazianzus
Christian feast day:
Gregory the Theologian (Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic Church)
Holiday
Conversion of Paul the Apostle
Christian feast day:
Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul (Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran churches, which concludes the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity)
2025
1 yrs ago
2024
2 yrs ago
2019
7 yrs ago
On This Day
2019
Brumadinho dam disaster
A mining company's dam collapses in Brumadinho, Brazil, a south-eastern city, killing 270 people.
