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Birthday January 25, 0749 Leo IV (the Khazar), Byzantine emperor (775-80) |
Birthday January 25, 1627 Robert Boyle, Irish physicist and chemist and author |
Birthday January 25, 1736 Joseph-Louis, comte de Lagrange and mathematician |
Birthday January 25, 1759 Robert Burns, Scottish poet |
Birthday January 25, 1860 Charles Curtis, (R) 31st US vice-president (1929-33) |
Birthday January 25, 1874 Somerset Maugham, novelist and poet (Of Human Bondage and Cakes & Ale) |
Birthday January 25, 1882 Virginia Woolf, author (Jacob's Room and To the Lighthouse) |
Birthday January 25, 1899 Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian statesman and leader in European integration |
Birthday January 25, 1919 Edwin Newman, newscaster |
Birthday January 25, 1924 Lou (the Toe) Groza, AAFC and NFL tackle and kicker (Cleveland Browns) |
Birthday January 25, 1933 Corazon Aquino, president of Philippines (1986-, ) |
Birthday January 25, 1934 Elizabeth Allen, in New Jersey |
Birthday January 25, 1935 Dean Jones, Actor (Love Bug and That Darn Cat) |
Birthday January 25, 1945 Leigh Taylor Young, in Washington DC |
History January 25, 1759 Robert Burns' birthday |
History January 25, 1776 First national memorial is ordered by Congress |
History January 25, 1863 Burnside relieved of command |
History January 25, 1869 Pat Garrett leaves Louisiana |
History January 25, 1875 Anti-slavery society formed in NY |
History January 25, 1915 Alexander Bell in NY calls Thomas Watson in SF |
History January 25, 1919 Formal commission is established on the League of Nations |
History January 25, 1924 First Winter Olympics begin in Chamonix, France |
History January 25, 1924 First Winter Olympics |
History January 25, 1925 Largest diamond Cullinan (3106 carets) found in South Africa |
History January 25, 1942 Thailand declares war on the United States and England |
History January 25, 1945 Topping Webb & MacPhail purchase Yanks for $28 million |
History January 25, 1949 Inaugural Emmy awards ceremony |
History January 25, 1949 1st Emmy Awards |
History January 25, 1949 1st Israeli election |
History January 25, 1956 Khrushchev declares that Eisenhower is striving for peace |
History January 25, 1959 1st transcontinental commercial jet flight (LA to NY for $301) |
History January 25, 1961 Walt Disney's "101 Dalmations" is released |
History January 25, 1961 1st live nationally televised Presidential news conference (JFK) |
History January 25, 1961 Kennedy holds first live television news conference |
History January 25, 1964 Echo 2 US communications satellite launched |
History January 25, 1968 Israeli sub vanishes |
History January 25, 1969 First plenary session of the formal Paris Peace talks is held |
History January 25, 1971 Manson and followers convicted |
History January 25, 1972 Nixon reveals information about secret negotiations |
History January 25, 1975 10th hat trick in Islander history - Denis Potvin's 1st |
History January 25, 1980 Paul McCartney is released from a Tokyo jail and deported from Japan |
History January 25, 1981 Mao's widow sentenced to death |
History January 25, 1995 Near launching of Russian nukes |
History January 25, 2003 Italian auto baron Gianni Agnelli dies |
History January 25, 2005 BTK killer sends message |