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Sunday, 25 January 2026

2010

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after take-off from Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport, killing all 90 people on-board.

2006

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.

2005

A stampede at the Mandher Devi temple in Mandhradevi in India kills at least 258.

2004

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

2002

Wikipedia switches to the new version of its software ("Phase II"), aka Magnus Manske Day.

2001

A 50-year-old Douglas DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela killing 24.

1999

A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.

1998

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

A suicide attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth kills 8 people and injures 25 others.

1996

Billy Bailey became the last person to be hanged in the United States of America.

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