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Today in History ~ January 25
Events1327 - King Edward III inherits British throne
1533 - England's King Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn
1721 - Czar Peter the Great ends Russian orthodox patriarchy
1775 - Americans drag cannon up hill to fight British (Gun Hill Road, Bronx)
1787 - Shays' Rebellion suffers a setback when debt-ridden farmers, led by Capt Daniel Shays, fail to capture an arsenal at Springfield, Mass [H]
1799 - 1st US patent for a seeding machine, Eliakim Spooner, Vermont
1802 - Napoleon elected president of Italian (Cisalpine) Republic
1817 - Rossini's opera "La Cenerentola" premieres in Rome
1835 - Vincenzo Bellini's opera "I Puritani," premieres in Paris
1851 - Sojourner Truth addresses 1st Black Women's Rights Convention (Akron)
1858 - Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" 1st played, at wedding of Queen Victoria's daughter Princess Victoria, to crown prince of Prussia
1863 - Battle of Kingston, NC
1863 - General Joseph Hooker replaces Burnside as head of Army of Potomac
1870 - Soda fountain patented by Gustavus Dows
1877 - Congress determines presidential election between Hayes-Tilden
1890 - Reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) of the New York World beats Phileas Fogg's time around world by 8 days (72 days, six hours and 11 minutes)
1890 - The United Mine Workers of America was founded.
1904 - J M Synge's "Riders to the Sea," premieres in Dublin
1904 - 179 die in coal mine explosion at Cheswick, Pennsylvania
1905 - Largest diamond, Cullinan (3106 carets), found in South Africa
1915 - Transcontinental telephone service inaugurated. Alexander Graham Bell in New York calls Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
1915 - Giordano, Sardou & Moreau's opera "Madame Sans Gene" premieres in NYC
1921 - Karel Capek's "RUR," premieres in Prague
1924 - 1st Winter Olympic games open in Chamonix, France [H]
1939 - Earthquake hits Chile, 10,000 killed
1940 - Nazis establish Jewish ghetto in Lodz, Poland
1946 - The United Mine Workers rejoined the American Federation of Labor.
1951 - UN begins counter offensive in Korea
1955 - Columbia Univ scientists develop an atomic clock accurate to within one second in 300 years
1959 - American Airlines opened the jet age in the United States with the first scheduled commuter jet flight transcontinental flight of a Boeing 707. (LA to NY for $301)
1959 - Pope John XXIII proclaims 2nd Vatican council
1961 - Newly inaugurated President Kennedy held the first live, nationally televised presidential news conference.
1961 - Walt Disney's "101 Dalmations" released
1964 - Beatles 1st US #1, "I Want to Hold your Hand"
1969 - US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris
1970 - Robert Altman's "M*A*S*H," premieres
1971 - Charles Manson & 3 women followers convicted of Tate-LaBianca murders [H]
1971 - Military coup in Uganda under Gen Idi Amin Dada
1971 - Phil mint's 1st trial strike of Eisenhower dollar
1974 - Ray Kroc, CEO (McDonald's), buys SD Padres for $12 million
1980 - Highest speed attained by a warship, 167 kph, USN hovercraft
1980 - Paul McCartney is released from Tokyo jail & deported
1981 - 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived back in US
1981 - Mao's widow Jiang Qing sentenced to death
1983 - China's supreme court commutes Mao's widow Jiang Qing's death sentence to life
1984 - Apple’s Macintosh computer went on sale. Price tag: $2,495.
1985 - "We are the World" is recorded
1988 - President Reagan's last State of the Union address called for approval of the INF Treaty by Congress and renewal of aid for the Nicaraguan Contras.
1989 - Michael Jordan scores his 10,000th NBA point in his 5th season
1990 - Colombian jetliner Avianca Flight 52, runs out of fuel & crashes in Cove Neck NY, after missing its first
approach to Kennedy Airport. 73 die
1990 - Kidnapped former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is transferred to a Miami federal jail
1990 - The Senate failed by four votes to override President Bush's veto of a statutory guarantee of asylum for Chinese students in United States.
1991 - A huge Persian Gulf oil slick began to form as Iraqi forces sabotaged Kuwaiti oil terminals.
1991 - Utah Gov. Norman Bangerter signed into law the strictest anti-abortion measure in the nation.
1992 - Finance ministers from the Group of Seven nations met in Garden City, N.Y., agreeing to intensify their cooperation to stimulate the world's sluggish economy, while leaving it to each country to decide how.
1993 - A man with a rifle opened fire near the main CIA gate in Langley, Va., killing two agency employees and wounding three others. He escaped, but was later captured.
1993 - President Clinton put his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, in charge of a health care task force with a mandate
to produce a plan for universal coverage in 100 days.
1993 - Sears announces it is closing its catalog sales dept after 97 years
1994 - Accused of molesting a 13-year-old boy, Michael Jackson settles a civil lawsuit out of court
1994 - President Clinton delivered his first State of the Union address.
1997 - Responding to recent cases of deadly food poisoning, President Clinton said in his weekly radio address that he would seek $43 million to implement a state-of-the-art early warning system for food contamination.
1998 - John Elway led the Denver Broncos to an upset 31-24 victory over the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl XXXII.
1998 - "Grease" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 1,503 performances
2001 - A jury in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., found 13-year-old Lionel Tate guilty of first-degree murder in the death of a 6-year-old family friend (Tate had said he accidentally killed the girl while imitating moves by pro wrestlers).
Birthdays Today
1509 - Giovanni Morone, Italian theologist/diplomat/cardinal/"heretic"
1540 - Edmund Campion, London, saint/Jesuit martyr (Decem Rationes)
1627 - Irish natural philosopher Robert Boyle, a founder of modern chemistry
1741 - Benedict Arnold, general/traitor (American Revolution)
1759 - Robert Burns (poet: "Oh wad some power the giftie gie us / To see oursels as others see us!", Auld Lang Syne)
1783 - Soapmaker and philanthropist William Colgate
1860 - Charles Curtis (31st U.S. Vice President under Herbert Hoover [1929-1933])
1874 - W. (William) Somerset Maugham (author: Of Human Bondage, The Razor's Edge)
1882 - Novelist Virginia Woolf
1886 - Wilhelm Furtwangler, Berlin, Germany, conductor/composer
1919 - Edwin Newman (journalist: NBC News, PBS; author: Comet, A Civil Tongue)
1923 - Former Philippine President Corazon Aquino
1924 - Lou Groza (sports broadcaster: ABC Radio)
1925 - Barbara Carroll (pianist)
1926 - Dick McGuire (Basketball Hall of Famer: 'Tricky Dick', NY Knicks player and coach, Detroit Pistons player and coach)
1928 - Eduard Shevardnadze, Soviet Georgia, foreign minister of USSR
1930 - Dean Jones (actor: The Love Bug, Tea and Sympathy, Beethoven)
1933 - Corazon Aquino, president of Philippines (1986-92)
1936 - Diana Hyland (Gentner) (actress: One Man's Way, The Boy in the Plastic Bubble)
1937 - Don Maynard (football: New York Jets WR: Super Bowl III)
1941 - Buddy Baker (auto racer: fastest win ever in the Daytona 500: 177.602mph [1980])
1942 - Carl Eller (football: Minnesota Vikings DE: Super Bowl IV, VIII, IX, XI; one of the 'Purple People Eaters')
1944 - Bob Dickson (golfer)
1944 - Eugene Washington (football: Minnesota Vikings WR: Super Bowl IV)
1944 - Leigh Taylor-Young (actress: I Love You Alice B. Toklas, Soylent Green, Can't Stop the Music, Honeymoon Academy)
1945 - Wally Bunker (baseball)
1951 - Vern Ruhle (baseball)
1952 - John James (football)
1952 - Ken Grandberry (football)
Famous deaths
1138 - Anacletus II, [Pietro Pierleone], Jewish anti-pope (1130-38), dies
1494 - Ferdinand I, cruel king of Naples, dies
1586 - Lucas Cranach "the Young", German painter, dies at 70
1640 - Robert Burton, author (Anatomy of Melancholy), dies
1726 - Guillaume Delisle, French geographer (Atlas geographique), dies at 50
1920 - Amadeo Modigliani, Italian sculptor/painter, dies at 35
1906 - Joseph Wheeler II, Confederate/US General, dies at 70
1947 - Al Capone, Chicago gangster, dies of syphilis at 48
1963 - Wilson Kettle, Nfld, dies at 102, leaving 582 living descendents
1990 - Ava Gardner, actress (Barefoot Contessa), dies of pneumonia at 67
1992 - Mahmoud Riad, sec-gen of Arab League (1972-79), dies
1997 - Herbert Eugene Caen, columnist, dies at 80
1997 - Astrologer Jeane Dixon died in Washington, D.C., at age 79.
1998 - Shinichi Suzuki, music teacher, dies at 99
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