What happened on 25 January?

11 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 750 Abbasid Caliphate founded The Abbasid revolt overthrows the Umayyad Caliphate; the new dynasty founds Baghdad as its capital in 762, opening the Islamic Golden Age.
2. 1989 Straight Outta Compton N.W.A's incendiary debut, officially released on 25 January 1989, announces gangsta rap and West Coast hip-hop.
3. 2011 Egyptian Revolution of 2011 Eighteen days of Cairo protests force Hosni Mubarak's resignation after 30 years; brief democratic opening before counter-coup.
4. 1077 Walk to Canossa Emperor Henry IV stands barefoot in the snow at Canossa to beg Pope Gregory VII's absolution; emblem of the Investiture struggle.
5. 1533 Henry secretly marries Anne Boleyn With Anne pregnant and Rome still stalling, Henry marries her in a dawn ceremony so secret the officiating chaplain's identity is still disputed — months before any court has annul
6. 1882 Born: Virginia Woolf English Modernist novelist of Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse; founding figure of feminist criticism.
7. 1954 Under Milk Wood Dylan Thomas's 'play for voices' follows the dreams and gossip of one spring day in the Welsh seaside town of Llareggub; broadcast by the BBC two months after his death, with Richa
8. 1999 My Name Is (Eminem) Dr. Dre-produced breakthrough introducing Slim Shady.
9. 1971 Idi Amin seizes power in Uganda A military coup brings Idi Amin to power; his eight-year dictatorship kills hundreds of thousands.
10. 1819 University of Virginia founded Jefferson designs the buildings, the curriculum and the first secular American university; he lists it on his tombstone above the presidency, which he omits.
11. 1554 Wyatt's rebellion Kentish gentry led by Thomas Wyatt the Younger rise against Mary's Spanish marriage and march on London; the queen rallies the city at the Guildhall and the rising collapses at Lud