Historical Events and Current Affairs on January 25

1139: Godfried II the Young becomes duke of Brabant
1327: King Edward III accedes to British throne
1348: Earthquake destroys Villach, killing 5,000
1494: Alfonso II replaces his father as king of Naples
1533: England's King Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn (approximate date)
1554: Sir Thomas Wyatt gathers an army in Kent, rebels against Queen Mary
1565: Battle at Talikota India: Moslems destroy Vijayanagar's army
1579: Treaty of Utrecht signed, marks beginning of Dutch Republic
1721: Czar Peter the Great ends Russian-orthodox patriarchy
1775: Americans drag cannon up hill to fight British (Gun Hill Road, Bronx)
1787: Capt Daniel Shays, fail to capture an arsenal at Springfield, Mass
1787: Shays' Rebellion suffers a setback when debt-ridden farmers, led by
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
1825: 1st US engineering college opens, Rensselaer Polytechnic, Troy, NY
1835: Opera "I Puritani," premieres in Paris
1835: Vincenzo Bellini's opera "I Puritani," premieres in Paris
1844: Recontre between Reps Weller & Shriver, US House of Representative
1851: Sojourner Truth addresses 1st Black Women's Rights Convention (Akron)
1854: Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Bednost ne Porok," premieres in Moscow
1856: Battle of Seattle; skirmish between settlers & Indians
1858: Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" 1st played, at wedding of Queen
1858: Victoria's daughter Princess Victoria, to crown prince of Prussia
1863: Battle of Kinston, NC
1863: General Joseph Hooker replaces Burnside as head of Army of Potomac
1865: CSS Shenandoah arrives in Melbourne, Australia
1870: Soda fountain patented by Gustavus Dows
1875: Anti-slavery society forms (NY)
1877: Congress determines presidential election between Hayes-Tilden
1882: Bilu, a Russian Zionist organization, forms
1885: Vincent d'Indy's "Saugefleurie," premieres
1890: National Afro-American League forms in Chicago
1890: Nellie Bly beats Phileas Fogg's time around world by 8 days (72 days)
1890: United Mine Workers of America forms
1894: James J Corbett KOs Charley Mitchell in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
1902: Aleksandr Skriabin's 2nd Symphony in C premieres in St Petersburg
1904: 179 die in coal mine explosion at Cheswick, Pennsylvania
1904: J M Synge's "Ruders to the Sea," premieres in Dublin
1905: Largest diamond, Cullinan (3106 carets), found in South Africa
1906: Del Valle Inclans "El Marqu‚s de Bradomin," premieres in Madrid
1907: Julia Ward Howe is 1st woman elected to Natl Inst of Arts & Letters
1908: John Blockx' opera "Baldie" premieres in Antwerp
1909: Richard Strauss' premier of "Electricity" in Dresden
1910: 1st stumping by a 12th man in Tests (N C Tufnell, SAf v Eng)
1910: Children initiate idea of planting trees in Jerusalem
1915: Alexander Graham Bell in NY calls Thomas Watson in SF
1915: Giordano, Sardou & Moreau's opera "Madame Sans Gˆne" premieres in NYC
1915: Transcontinental telephone service inaugurated (NY to SF)
1916: Montenegro surrenders to Austria-Hungary
1918: Russia declared a republic of Soviets
1919: Founding of League of Nations, 1st meeting 1 year later
1921: Karel Cap‚k's "RUR," premieres in Prague
1923: NVV donates Ÿ100,000 to mine workers of Ruhrgebied
1929: Bradman scores 340* for NSW v Victoria, 488 mins, 38 fours
1932: 1st commencement exercises at Hebrew U in Jerusalem
1932: Bradman scores 167 NSW v Victoria, 224 mins, 22 fours
1937: 1st broadcast of "Guiding Light" on NBC radio
1937: Miami-to-Tampa bus overturned in a canal, kills 13
1937: Soap Opera "Guiding Light" premieres on radio
1938: Ian Hay's "Bachelor Born," premieres in NYC
1939: Earthquake hits Chill n Chile, 10,000 killed
1939: Joe Louis KOs John Henry Lewis in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1940: Nazi decrees establishment of Jewish ghetto in Lodz Poland
1942: Lt General Rommels African corps reaches Msus
1945: Dan Topping, Del Webb & Larry MacPhail purchase NY Yanks for $2.8 mil
1945: Del Webb for $2.8 million
1945: Grand Rapids, Michigan becomes 1st US city to fluoridate its water
1945: Japanese occupiers of Batavia arrest Indo-European youths
1945: NY Yankees sold by Ruppert estate to Larry MacPhail, Dan Topping, &
1945: West Africa 82nd division occupies Myohaung, Burma
1946: Richard Strauss' "Metamorphosis," premieres in Zurich
1946: United Mine Workers union rejoins American Federation of Labor
1949: 1st Emmy Awards: Shirley Dinsdale & Pantomime Quiz (KTLA) win
1949: 1st Israeli election - Ben-Gurion's Mapai party wins
1951: UN begins counter offensive in Korea
1952: Test debut of Richie Benaud, v West Indies at the SCG
1953: WABI TV channel 5 in Bangor, ME (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955: Columbia U scientists develope an atomic clock accurate to within
1955: Jill Kinmont hits a tree & breaks her back in Snow Cup Ski Race
1955: one second in 300 years
1955: Russia ends state of war with Germany
1955: US & Panama sign canal treaty
1956: 96.5 cm (38.0") of rainfall, Kilauea Plantation, HI (state record)
1957: FBI arrests Jack & Myra Sobel, charged with spying for USSR
1959: 1st transcontinental coml jet flight (American) (LA to NY for $301)
1959: Pope John XXIII proclaims 2nd Vatican council
1961: 1st live, nationally televised presidential news conference (JFK)
1961: Military coup in El Salvador
1961: Walt Disney's "101 Dalmations" released
1964: Beatles 1st US #1, "I Want to Hold your Hand" (Cashbox)
1964: Echo 2, US communications satellite launched
1966: WCMC (now WMGM) TV channel 40 in Wildwood, NJ (NBC) 1st broadcast
1968: Risse St in Bronx named
1968: Robert Anderson's "I Never Sang for My Father," premieres in NYC
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
1971: Himachal Pradesh becomes 18th Indian state
1971: Military coup in Uganda under Gen Idi Amin Dada
1971: Phila mint's 1st trial strike of Eisenhower dollar
1971: WHMB TV channel 40 in Indianapolis, IN (IND) begins broadcasting
1972: 7' Ohio State center Luke Witte is stomped in face during a brawl
1972: in a game with Minnesota
1974: Blent Ecevit forms govt in Turkey
1974: Christian Barnard transplants 1st human heart without removal of old
1974: Ray Kroc, CEO (McDonald's), buys SD Padres for $12 million
1975: 10th hat trick in Islander history-Denis Potvin's 1st
1975: Parliament disposes of premier sheik Mujib ur-Rahman
1976: Surinder Amarnath scores 124 on Test debut Ind v NZ Auckland
1978: Muriel Humphrey (D-Mn) appointed to fill late husband's Senate seat
1978: Padres trade pitcher Dave Tomlin & $125,000 to Rangers for Gaylord
1978: Perry (He wins 1978 Cy Young Award)
1979: 22.2-km Oshimizu railroad tunnel holed through, central Honshu, Japan
1979: Pope John Paul II's 1st overseas trip as supreme pontiff
1980: Bani Sadr elected president of Iran
1980: Dutch Govt demands boycott of Olympics
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
1981: Superbowl MVP: Jim Plunkett, Oakland, QB
1981: Superbowl XV: Oakland Raiders beat Phila Eagles, 27-10 in New Orleans
1982: 9th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers win
1983: China's supreme court commutes Chiang Ch'ing's death sentence to life
1983: Infrared telescope satellite launched into polar orbit
1983: Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie arrested in Bolivia
1985: "Black & Blue," premieres in Paris
1985: "We are the World" is recorded
1985: Test debut of Wasim Akram, v New Zealand at Auckland (2-105)
1986: General Tito Okello's govt flees Kampala Uganda
1987: 75th Australian Mens Tennis: S Edberg beats Pat Cash (63 64 36 57 63)
1987: Superbowl MVP: Phil Simms, NY Giants, QB
1987: Superbowl XXI: NY Giants beat Denver Broncos, 39-20 in Pasadena
1988: 15th American Music Award: Anita Baker, Paul Simon & Whitney Houston
1988: George Harrison releases "When We Was Fab"
1988: Longest winless streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (15 games)
1988: Ramsewak Shankar sworn in as pres of Suriname
1988: to question Bush about his role in Iran-Contra affair
1988: VP Bush & Dan Rather clash on "CBS Evening News" as Rather attempts
1989: Augusto Alcalde, 1st S Amer Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission
1989: Michael Jordan scores his 10,000th NBA point in his 5th season
1989: Yank owner George Steinbrenner meets with Pope John Paul II
1990: Avianca Flight 52, runs out of fuel & crashes in Cove Neck NY, 73 die
1990: Former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is transferred to a Miami jail
1990: West-Europe's strongest hurricane
1991: Brett Hull is 3rd NHLer to score 50 goals in less than 50 games (49)
1991: Manuel Noriega is given access to assets frozen by US govt
1991: Mark Waugh scores ton in 1st Test Cricket innings, v England Adelaide
1991: Soap opera "Generation's" last episode after a 2« year run
1992: 66th Australian Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats M Fernandez (62 63)
1992: Hubble space telescope optics finds NGC3862/3C264
1993: 20th American Music Award: Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey win
1993: Puerto Rico adds English as its 2nd official language
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
1994: Australia beat South Africa 2-1 to win the World Series Cup
1994: civil lawsuit out of court
1994: Mine fire at Asansol India, kills 55
1994: US space probe Clementine launched
1995: Jacques Santer succeeds Jacques Delors as chairman of Euro Committee
1997: 71st Australian Womens Tennis: Martina Hingis beat Mary Pierce (62 62)
1998: "Grease," closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 1,503 performance
1998: "Patti LaBelle On Broadway," closes at St James Theater NYC
1998: Britain's Queen Mother, 97, gets an emergency hip replacement
1998: Superbowl XXXII: Denver Broncos beat Green Bay Packers 31-24

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