Replaying Sunday, January 25, 2004

The January 25, 2004 was a Sunday under the star sign of . It was the 24 day of the year. President of the United States was George W. Bush.

If you were born on this day, you are 22 years old. Your last birthday was on the Sunday, January 25, 2026, 161 days ago. Your next birthday is on Monday, January 25, 2027, in 203 days. You have lived for 8,197 days, or about 196,733 hours, or about 11,803,996 minutes, or about 708,239,760 seconds.

Some people who share this birthday:

  • Xavi (association football manager, association football player, born January 25, 1980)
  • Virginia Woolf (author, autobiographer, diarist, essayist, feminist, literary critic, novelist, publisher, short story writer, writer, born January 25, 1882)
  • Alicia Keys (actor, art collector, composer, musician, pianist, poet, presenter, record producer, recording artist, singer, born January 25, 1981)
  • Volodymyr Zelenskyy (KVN actor, actor, comedian, entertainer, film producer, filmmaker, humorist, impressionist, jurist, politician, presenter, screenwriter, showman, singer, television presenter, television producer, born January 25, 1978)
  • David Ginola (actor, association football player, model, television presenter, born January 25, 1967)
  • Nuno Espírito Santo (association football manager, association football player, born January 25, 1974)
  • Charlene, Princess of Monaco (model, swimmer, born January 25, 1978)
  • Adama Traoré (association football player, born January 25, 1996)
  • Robinho (association football player, futsal player, born January 25, 1984)
  • Vladimir Vysotsky (actor, author, composer, film actor, guitarist, lyricist, poet, prosaist, screenwriter, singer, singer-songwriter, songwriter, stage actor, writer, born January 25, 1938)
  • Lee Jun-ho (film actor, recording artist, singer, television actor, born January 25, 1990)
  • Luis Garavito (serial killer, serial rapist, born January 25, 1957)
  • Eusébio (association football player, born January 25, 1942)
  • Etta James (jazz musician, musician, recording artist, singer, singer-songwriter, born January 25, 1938)
  • Corazon Aquino (human rights activist, politician, born January 25, 1933)
  • Mikako Tabe (actor, born January 25, 1989)
  • Sho Sakurai (film actor, singer, singer-songwriter, stage actor, television actor, born January 25, 1982)
  • Hiroki Moriuchi (singer, songwriter, tarento, born January 25, 1994)
  • Robert Burns (farmer, musicologist, poet, songwriter, writer, born January 25, 1759)
  • Mia Kirshner (actor, film actor, television actor, born January 25, 1975)
  • Tina Karol (actor, composer, pianist, presenter, record producer, recording artist, singer, singer-songwriter, television presenter, born January 25, 1985)
  • Cheteshwar Pujara (cricketer, born January 25, 1988)
  • Michelle McCool (model, professional wrestler, teacher, born January 25, 1980)
  • Kenichi Shinoda (criminal, born January 25, 1942)
  • William Somerset Maugham (army scout, literary critic, novelist, physician writer, playwright, prosaist, screenwriter, writer, born January 25, 1874)
  • Charles Curtis (lawyer, politician, prosecutor, born January 25, 1860)
  • Claudia Kim (actor, film actor, model, born January 25, 1985)
  • Shōtarō Ishinomori (animator, lyricist, mangaka, born January 25, 1938)
  • Diana Hyland (film actor, stage actor, television actor, born January 25, 1936)
  • Vogue Williams (actor, television presenter, born January 25, 1986)
  • Robert Boyle (chemist, philosopher, physicist, born January 25, 1627)
  • Clara Morgane (Playboy Playmate, autobiographer, film actor, model, pornographic actor, recording artist, singer, singer-songwriter, television presenter, writer, born January 25, 1981)
  • Roy Black (actor, film actor, singer, born January 25, 1943)
  • Antônio Carlos Jobim (composer, guitarist, jazz guitarist, jazz musician, music arranger, pianist, record producer, recording artist, singer, songwriter, born January 25, 1927)
  • Takuya Hirai (politician, born January 25, 1958)
  • Mandy Sekiguchi (dancer, born January 25, 1991)
  • Noemi (music video director, recording artist, screenwriter, singer, singer-songwriter, born January 25, 1982)
  • Toni Servillo (actor, film actor, screenwriter, born January 25, 1959)
  • Maeda Toshiie (samurai, born January 15, 1539)
  • Steve Prefontaine (athletics competitor, long-distance runner, born January 25, 1951)
  • Jang Ja-yeon (actor, film actor, born January 25, 1980)
  • Joseph-Louis Lagrange (astronomer, mathematician, physicist, politician, writer, born January 25, 1736)
  • Jenifer Lewis (actor, film actor, singer, television actor, voice actor, born January 25, 1957)
  • Itzhak Stern (accountant, born January 25, 1901)
  • Eduard Shevardnadze (diplomat, politician, born January 25, 1928)
  • Michael Trevino (actor, film actor, television actor, born January 25, 1985)
  • Petra Gerster (journalist, news presenter, television presenter, born January 25, 1955)
  • Gregory Sierra (actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, born January 25, 1937)
  • Leiji Matsumoto (animator, film director, mangaka, screenwriter, born January 25, 1938)
  • Tobe Hooper (actor, composer, director, film director, film producer, manufacturer, screenwriter, born January 25, 1943)

25th of January 2004 News

News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on January 25, 2004

Pakistan TV: A New Look At the News

Date: 25 January 2004

By Amy Waldman

Amy Waldman

Geo TV, Pakistani cable station transmitting from Dubai, is example of private television stations that are gaining favor over state-run media across South Asia; Pakistani Pres Pervez Musharraf reversed ban on private television stations in 2002, in part because many Pakistanis turned to Indian cable stations for news rather than state-run Pakistan Television; ban on Indian programming remains in place; private media ownership allows greater freedom in material transmitted; photos (M)

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Page Two; Only the Foggiest Idea

Date: 25 January 2004

By Kari Haskell

Kari Haskell

Sampling of how phrase 'fog of war' has been adapted in newspaper headlines since Afghanistan war in 2002 (S)

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Italian Leader And His Party Face Questions At Anniversary

Date: 25 January 2004

By Frank Bruni

Frank Bruni

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party celebrates its 10th anniversary; news media's focus on Berlusconi amid rumors that he has undergone cosmetic surgery highlights political analysts' doubts about whether party has its own identity and future or is entirely dependent on Berlusconi for its face, voice and vigor; Forza Italia holds more seats in parliament than any other party, but some analysts say it has no ideological underpinning or direction (M)

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Sports of The Times; Armstrong Is Soaking Up the Sun, the Doughnuts and the Endless Scrutiny

Date: 25 January 2004

By George Vecsey

George Vecsey

George Vecsey Sports of The Times column discusses media cause celebre over Lance Armstrong's relatively laid back behavior months before Tour de France; photo (M)

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Source for USA Today Reporter Disputes Details of Kosovo Article

Date: 26 January 2004

By Jacques Steinberg

Jacques Steinberg

Natasa Kandic, human rights advocate identified by Jack Kelley, USA Today correspondent who recently resigned under pressure, as source for 1999 article about ethnic cleansing in Kosovo village, disputes many of article's details, phone interview; she told USA Today about disagreements at Oct meeting; his editors began questioning article, and several others he wrote over years, last May; at issue is his claim that he saw typed order to 'cleanse' village in Yugoslav Army notebook; photo (M)

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 26 January 2004

INTERNATIONAL A3-11 Plans for Iraqi Sovereignty Are Hitting New Obstacles The plans for a gradual political transition in Iraq have been further undermined by a delay in the drafting of an interim constitution and a serious new split in the Iraqi Governing Council. Many of the Shiite members now support immediate direct elections. A1 David A. Kay, who led the effort to find evidence of Iraq's illicit weapons until he resigned Friday, said American intelligence agencies wrongly gauged the unconventional weapons programs before the invasion and gave policy makers in Washington an exaggerated picture of the Iraqi threat. A1

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 25 January 2004

INTERNATIONAL 3-13 Cheney Calls for Solidarity At Forum in Switzerland Vice President Dick Cheney, speaking at the World Economic Forum, called for allies to bridge their differences over Iraq and redouble their efforts to fight terrorism. He also asked allies to halt the spread of illicit weapons and promote democratic trends in the Middle East. 10 About 1,200 antiglobalization demonstrators marched in Chur, Switzerland, some smashing shop windows and hurling paint bombs, to protest the World Economic Forum. 4

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Amid News Of the Nets, Memories Of Moses

Date: 25 January 2004

By Anemona Hartocollis

Anemona Hartocollis

Anemona Hartocollis Coping column on legacy of Robert Moses as New York City's parks commissioner; current Comr Adrian Benepe comments; drawing (M)

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Ideas & Trends -- Sp@m ShEn@nig@nS!!; That Gibberish in Your In-Box May Be Good News

Date: 25 January 2004

By George Johnson

George Johnson

Spammers trying to sneak their solicitations past ever wilier junk mail filters are using random mutations of words; volume of spam may not have diminished, but advanced filtering software, which learns to recognize mercurial traits of junk e-mail, is having an effect: spammers' messages are becoming harder and harder to decipher by their intended targets; at 2004 Spam Conference, Internet experts showed just how far science of spam fighting has come; most speakers at conference are putting their hopes in technological, not legal, solutions; federal government's new junk e-mail law barely rated a mention; photo (M)

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Barbara Walters to Leave '20/20'; After 25 Years, Show's Last Season of Emotion-Laden Interviews

Date: 26 January 2004

By Bill Carter

Bill Carter

Barbara Walters says she will leave as co-anchor of ABC newsmagazine 20/20 in Sept and plans to scale back her ABC workload, interview; says she is unhappy about changing nature of television news and newsmagazines; cites increasing pressure to find interviews that appeal to young viewers; graph of show's rankings; photos (M)

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