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January 1, 2025 New Year's Day

January 1, 2025, was a Wednesday. It was 20 days ago. The zodiac star sign for this date is Capricorn.

On This Day

On this day

What happened on January 1, 2025?

  • 15 people are killed after a pickup truck is driven into a large crowd in New Orleans, Louisiana.
  • A Tesla Cybertruck explodes outside Trump International Hotel Las Vegas in Paradise, Nevada.

Facts

New Year's Day 2025 occurred 20 days ago. It was the 1st day of 2025, in week 01. The decade was the 2020s. A baby that was born on this day is now 2 weeks old.

Comments

Discussion about this date:

fan

This is the golden year will we finally get our hands on the newest GTA 6 in the year of "2025". It's been a long 12 years.
Posted on Dec 5, 2023 18:18

Ojabyemil

Jan 1 2025 will mark the beginning of generation beta.
Posted on Dec 25, 2024 18:14

Matías Lipovec

Happy 2025 to everybody!!!
Posted on Jan 1, 2025 02:45

Yelnoc

Absolutely horrific events that occurred in the early morning hours in New Orleans today.
Posted on Jan 1, 2025 17:39

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Zodiac info

Zodiac

Zodiac, birthstone, and birth flower information.

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  • Zodiac Sign (Astrology): Anyone born on January 1, 2025, will have the star sign Capricorn.
  • Zodiac Element: Earth.
  • Chinese Zodiac Animal: In the Chinese Zodiac, 2025 is the year of the Snake (Yin Earth).
  • The Life Path Number for this date is 11.
  • Native American Zodiac: January 1, 2025 falls under the Goose.
  • Birthstone: A person during the month of January will have the birthstone Garnet.
  • Birth flower (January): The Carnation and the Snowdrop.

Personality traits

Check out our personality summary for people who were born on January 1, 2025.

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Events

What happened around this time?

News stories, pop culture trends, and other events that happened around January 1, 2025.

  • December 3, 2024: South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol declares martial law.
  • December 4, 2024:
    • UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is shot dead by a hooded gunman in Manhattan.
    • The French government is toppled in a historic no-confidence vote.
  • December 7, 2024: Syrian opposition forces capture the capital city of Damascus.
  • December 8, 2024:
    • Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is overthrown by Islamist-led insurgents.
    • Rapper Jay-Z is accused in a civil lawsuit of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000.
  • December 9, 2024: A 26-year-old named Luigi Mangione is arrested in connection with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
  • December 16, 2024: Three people are killed in a school shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin.
  • December 19, 2024: Luigi Mangione is extradited to New York for the murder of healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
  • December 20, 2024:
    • The film "Sonic the Hedgehog 3" is released.
    • Five people are killed after an SUV is driven into a crowd at the Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany.
  • December 21, 2024: Boxing: Oleksandr Usyk defeats Tyson Fury in a rematch.
  • December 23, 2024:
    • Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty to murdering healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
    • Swiss snowboarder Sophie Hediger dies in an avalanche at the age of 26.
  • December 25, 2024: 38 people are killed after Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 crashes near Aktau International Airport in Kazakhstan.
  • December 27, 2024: It is reported that homelessness in the United States has risen to 18%.
  • December 29, 2024:
    • Former US president Jimmy Carter dies aged 100.
    • 179 people are killed after Jeju Air Flight 2216 crashes into a wall after "belly landing" in Muan International Airport in South Korea.
  • This date: January 1, 2025
  • January 3, 2025: Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigns over the newspaper's refusal to publish a cartoon critical of Jeff Bezos.
  • January 6, 2025: Justin Trudeau announces that he will be resigning as the prime minister of Canada.
  • January 7, 2025:
    • Mark Zuckerberg announces that Meta will be ending its third party fact-checking program.
    • President-elect Donald Trump refuses to rule out the use of military force to seize control of the Panama Canal and Greenland.
    • Donald Trump says that he will rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
    • A series of wildfires begin to affect the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
    • The documentary "Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action" is released on Netflix.
  • January 14, 2025: TikTok ban: TikTok users begin signing up to the Chinese app "RedNote".
  • January 15, 2025: Filmmaker David Lynch dies aged 78.
  • January 17, 2025: The US Supreme Court upholds a federal law banning TikTok.
  • January 18, 2025: TikTok makes its app unavailable to American users ahead of its scheduled ban.
  • January 19, 2025:
    • Israel and Hamas begin a three-stage ceasefire.
    • TikTok restores its services in the US after Donald Trump promises to delay a ban.
  • January 20, 2025: Donald Trump is inaugerated as the 47th president of the United States.
Celebrity birthdays

Celebrity birthdays

Celebrities, historical figures, and other notable people who were born on January 1.

J. Edgar Hoover

J. Edgar Hoover

The first Director of the FBI Deceased
Born on January 1, 1895
He was not alive on this date.

Grandmaster Flash

Grandmaster Flash

Hip Hop DJ
Born on January 1, 1958
He turned 67 on this day in 2025.

Verne Troyer

Verne Troyer

Actor Deceased
Born on January 1, 1969
He was not alive on this date.

Ice Spice

Ice Spice

Rapper
Born on January 1, 2000
She turned 25 on this day in 2025.

Holidays

Holidays

National holidays and famous events that fall on January 1:

USA

US President

Joe Biden was the President of the United States on January 1, 2025.

UK

UK Prime Minister

Keir Starmer was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Ireland

Irish Taoiseach

Simon Harris was the Taoiseach of Ireland.

Conception

Conception dates

Conception estimates for this date.

  • A baby that was born on January 1, 2025 was most likely conceived around April 10, 2024.
  • The due date for a baby that was conceived on January 1, 2025 is close to September 24, 2025.

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Stats for January 1, 2025

Statistics

Here are some interesting statistics about January 1, 2025:

  • 20 days have passed since this date.
  • 2 weeks have passed.
  • 1,728,000 seconds have passed since January 1, 2025.
  • If you were born on this day, your heart has beat approximately 2,016,000 times.
  • Since then, the Earth has traveled approximately 891,648,000 miles through space.
  • If you were born on this day, your eyes have blinked approximately 288,000 times.
  • You have taken approximately 148,608 steps. That's roughly 66 miles.
  • 20,736 meteors have entered the Earth's atmosphere.
  • How long ago was January 1st?
  • How old is a baby born in January 2025?

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