January 25
1533 - England's King Henry VIII secretly married his second wife, Anne Boleyn, who later gave birth to Elizabeth I.
1890 - The United Mine Workers of America was founded.
1915 - America's first official transcontinental telephone call took place as Alexander Graham Bell, who was in New York, spoke to his former assistant, Thomas Watson, who was in San Francisco, over a line set up by American Telephone & Telegraph.
1945 - Grand Rapids, Michigan, became the first community to add fluoride to its public water supply.
1961 - President John F. Kennedy held the first presidential news conference carried live on radio and television.
1971 - Charles Manson and three of his followers were found guilty of murdering Sharon Tate and six others.
1981 - The 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived in the United States.
1993 - Sears announced that it would no longer publish its famous century-old catalog.
1994 - Maintaining his innocence, singer Michael Jackson settled a child molestation lawsuit against him; terms were confidential, although the monetary figure was reportedly $22 million.
2004 - NASA's Opportunity rover zipped its first pictures of Mars to Earth, showing a surface smooth and dark red in some places, and strewn with fragmented slabs of light bedrock in others.
2017 - Mary Tyler Moore, who created one of TV's first career-woman sitcom heroines in "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," died at the age of 80. Actor John Hurt died at 77.
2020 - President Donald Trump's defense team opened its arguments at his first Senate impeachment trial, casting the effort to remove him from office as a politically motivated attempt to subvert the 2016 election and the upcoming 2020 contest.
2021 - President Joe Biden signed an order reversing a Pentagon policy that largely barred transgender people from military service.
2022 - The Navy said it had discharged 23 active-duty sailors for refusing the coronavirus vaccine; it marked the first time the Navy had thrown currently-serving sailors out of the military over the mandatory shots.
Birthdays
25 - Maria Ysabel Ortega (actress)
28 - Tati Gabrielle (actress)
32 - Pauline Chalamet (actress)
33 - Ariana DeBose (actress)
39 - Michael Trevino (actor)
44 - Alicia Keys (singer)
44 - Michelle McCool (professional wrestler)
45 - Christine Lakin (actress)
49 - Mia Kirshner (actress)
53 - China Kantner (actress)
54 - Ana Ortiz (actress)
67 - Jenifer Lewis (actress)
80 - Leigh Taylor-Young (actress)
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Today in Sports History - January 25
1924 - The first Winter Olympic Games opened at Chamonix, France.
1960 - Wilt Chamberlain sets an NBA rookie scoring record with 58 points for the Philadelphia Warriors in a 127-117 win over the Detroit Pistons.
1981 - The Oakland Raiders defeated the Philadelphia Eagles 27-10 to win Super Bowl XV.
1987 - The New York Giants defeated the Denver Broncos 39-20 to win Super Bowl XXI.
1998 - The Denver Broncos defeated the Green Bay Packers 31-24 to win Super Bowl XXXII.
2022 - Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Keith Yandle becomes NHL's new "Iron Man" with his 965th consecutive regular-season game, breaking Doug Jarvis's all-time record, in a 4-3 loss at the New York Islanders.
2022 - The USFL announced that the league headquarters would be in Birmingham, AL, and all games for the 2022 season would be played there.
1533 - England's King Henry VIII secretly married his second wife, Anne Boleyn, who later gave birth to Elizabeth I.
1890 - The United Mine Workers of America was founded.
1915 - America's first official transcontinental telephone call took place as Alexander Graham Bell, who was in New York, spoke to his former assistant, Thomas Watson, who was in San Francisco, over a line set up by American Telephone & Telegraph.
1945 - Grand Rapids, Michigan, became the first community to add fluoride to its public water supply.
1961 - President John F. Kennedy held the first presidential news conference carried live on radio and television.
1971 - Charles Manson and three of his followers were found guilty of murdering Sharon Tate and six others.
1981 - The 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived in the United States.
1993 - Sears announced that it would no longer publish its famous century-old catalog.
1994 - Maintaining his innocence, singer Michael Jackson settled a child molestation lawsuit against him; terms were confidential, although the monetary figure was reportedly $22 million.
2004 - NASA's Opportunity rover zipped its first pictures of Mars to Earth, showing a surface smooth and dark red in some places, and strewn with fragmented slabs of light bedrock in others.
2017 - Mary Tyler Moore, who created one of TV's first career-woman sitcom heroines in "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," died at the age of 80. Actor John Hurt died at 77.
2020 - President Donald Trump's defense team opened its arguments at his first Senate impeachment trial, casting the effort to remove him from office as a politically motivated attempt to subvert the 2016 election and the upcoming 2020 contest.
2021 - President Joe Biden signed an order reversing a Pentagon policy that largely barred transgender people from military service.
2022 - The Navy said it had discharged 23 active-duty sailors for refusing the coronavirus vaccine; it marked the first time the Navy had thrown currently-serving sailors out of the military over the mandatory shots.
Birthdays
25 - Maria Ysabel Ortega (actress)
28 - Tati Gabrielle (actress)
32 - Pauline Chalamet (actress)
33 - Ariana DeBose (actress)
39 - Michael Trevino (actor)
44 - Alicia Keys (singer)
44 - Michelle McCool (professional wrestler)
45 - Christine Lakin (actress)
49 - Mia Kirshner (actress)
53 - China Kantner (actress)
54 - Ana Ortiz (actress)
67 - Jenifer Lewis (actress)
80 - Leigh Taylor-Young (actress)
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Today in Sports History - January 25
1924 - The first Winter Olympic Games opened at Chamonix, France.
1960 - Wilt Chamberlain sets an NBA rookie scoring record with 58 points for the Philadelphia Warriors in a 127-117 win over the Detroit Pistons.
1981 - The Oakland Raiders defeated the Philadelphia Eagles 27-10 to win Super Bowl XV.
1987 - The New York Giants defeated the Denver Broncos 39-20 to win Super Bowl XXI.
1998 - The Denver Broncos defeated the Green Bay Packers 31-24 to win Super Bowl XXXII.
2022 - Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Keith Yandle becomes NHL's new "Iron Man" with his 965th consecutive regular-season game, breaking Doug Jarvis's all-time record, in a 4-3 loss at the New York Islanders.
2022 - The USFL announced that the league headquarters would be in Birmingham, AL, and all games for the 2022 season would be played there.
