January 25

On This Day In History
	41: Claudius affirmed as Roman emperor On this day in AD 41, Claudius I, who extended Roman rule in North Africa and made Britain a province of Rome, was affirmed as emperor, ascending to the post one day after the murder of his nephew, Gaius Caesar (Caligula).
Claudius I, detail of a bust found near Priverno; in the Vatican Museums.
Biography Of The Day
	Corazon Aquino Three years after her husband's assassination, Corazon Aquino, born this day in 1933, was elected president of the Philippines in February 1986, restoring democracy after the long dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos.
Corazon Aquino
More Events On This Day In History
	1882 British writer Virginia Woolf, who made an original contribution to the form of the novel and was one of the most distinguished critics of her time, was born in London.
	1874 English author W. Somerset Maugham, best known for the novels Of Human Bondage (1915), The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Cakes and Ale (1930), and The Razor's Edge (1944), was born.
	1759 Robert Burns, national poet of Scotland, was born in Alloway in Ayrshire.
	1554 Jesuit missionaries founded the city of São Paulo (now in Brazil) on the anniversary of the conversion of St. Paul.
	1533 Henry VIII, king of England, married his second wife, Anne Boleyn, in a secret ceremony.
844	844 A Roman archdeacon named John was elected antipope against the nobility's candidate, Pope Sergius II.