January 25
1533 - England's King Henry VIII secretly married his second wife, Anne Boleyn, who later gave birth to Elizabeth I.
1787 - Shays' Rebellion suffered a setback when debt-ridden farmers led by Capt. Daniel Shays failed to capture an arsenal at Springfield, Massachusetts.
1890 - The United Mine Workers of America was founded in Columbus, Ohio.
1915 - Alexander Graham Bell inaugurated transcontinental telephone service as he placed a call from New York to his former assistant Thomas Watson in San Francisco over a line set up by American Telephone & Telegraph.
1945 - The World War II Battle of the Bulge ended as German forces were pushed back to their original positions.
1945 - Grand Rapids, Michigan, became the first community to add fluoride to its public water supply.
1947 - Gangster Al Capone died in Miami Beach, Florida at age 48.
1949 - The first Emmy Awards, honoring local Los Angeles TV programs and talent, were presented at the Hollywood Athletic Club.
1959 - American Airlines opened the jet age in the United States with the first scheduled transcontinental flight of a Boeing 707.
1961 - President John F. Kennedy held the first presidential news conference carried live on radio and television.
1971 - Charles Manson and three of his female followers were found guilty of murdering actress Sharon Tate and six others.
1981 - The 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived in the United States.
1988 - Vice President George Bush and Dan Rather clashed on "The CBS Evening News" as the anchorman attempted to question the Republican presidential candidate about his role in the Iran-Contra affair.
1993 - A gunman shot and killed two CIA employees outside agency headquarters in Virginia. (A Pakistani national was later convicted and was executed in 2002.)
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.
2006 - The Islamic militant group Hamas won a large majority of seats in Palestinian parliamentary elections.
2011 - Egypt's revolution began as thousands of anti-government protesters clashed with police during a Tunisia-inspired demonstration to demand the end of President Hosni Mubarak's rule.
2011 - Pleading for unity in a newly divided government, President Barack Obama used his State of the Union address to implore Democrats and Republicans to rally behind his vision of economic revival, declaring: “We will move forward together or not at all.”
2017 - President Donald Trump moved aggressively to tighten the nation’s immigration controls, signing executive actions to jumpstart construction of his promised U.S.-Mexico border wall and cut federal grants for immigrant-protecting “sanctuary cities.”
2019 - President Donald Trump’s confidant Roger Stone was arrested by the FBI in a pre-dawn raid at his Florida home and charged with lying about his pursuit of Russian-hacked emails damaging to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 election bid. (Stone was convicted in November 2019 on charges including lying to Congress and witness tampering; Trump commuted his 40-month prison sentence just days before Stone was due to report to prison in July 2020 and issued Stone a pardon in December of that year.)
2020 - President Donald Trump’s defense team opened its arguments at his 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.
Birthdays
28 - Kylie Padilla (actress)
29 - Pauline Chalamet (actress)
30 - Ariana DeBose (actress)
36 - Michael Trevino (actor)
41 - Alicia Keys (singer)
41 - Michelle McCool (professional wrestler)
42 - Christine Lakin (actress)
46 - Mia Kirshner (actress)
50 - Ana Ortiz (actress)
64 - Jenifer Lewis (actress)
77 - Leigh Taylor-Young (actress)
89 - Claude Gray (country singer)
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Today in Sports History - January 25
1924 - The first Winter Olympic Games opened in Chamonix, France. Sixteen countries sent 294 athletes to compete in five sports and thirteen events.
1960 - Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors set an NBA scoring record for a rookie with 58 points in a 127-117 win over the Detroit Pistons.
1981 - The Oakland Raiders defeated the Philadelphia Eagles 27-10 in New Orleans to win Super Bowl XV. Oakland quarterback Jim Plunkett is named MVP.
1987 - The New York Giants defeated the Denver Broncos 39-20 to win Super Bowl XXI in Pasadena. Giants quarterback Phil Simms is named MVP.
1991 - Brett Hull of the St. Louis Blues becomes the third player in NHL history to score 50 goals in less than 50 games of a season.
1998 - The Denver Broncos defeated the Green Bay Packers 31-24 to win Super Bowl XXXII in San Diego, breaking a 13-game Super Bowl win streak for the NFC. Denver running back Terrell Davis is named MVP.
2020 - LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers moved past Kobe Bryant into third place on the NBA's all-time scoring list with 33,655 points. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is in first with 38,387 and Karl Malone is second with 36,928.)
1533 - England's King Henry VIII secretly married his second wife, Anne Boleyn, who later gave birth to Elizabeth I.
1787 - Shays' Rebellion suffered a setback when debt-ridden farmers led by Capt. Daniel Shays failed to capture an arsenal at Springfield, Massachusetts.
1890 - The United Mine Workers of America was founded in Columbus, Ohio.
1915 - Alexander Graham Bell inaugurated transcontinental telephone service as he placed a call from New York to his former assistant Thomas Watson in San Francisco over a line set up by American Telephone & Telegraph.
1945 - The World War II Battle of the Bulge ended as German forces were pushed back to their original positions.
1945 - Grand Rapids, Michigan, became the first community to add fluoride to its public water supply.
1947 - Gangster Al Capone died in Miami Beach, Florida at age 48.
1949 - The first Emmy Awards, honoring local Los Angeles TV programs and talent, were presented at the Hollywood Athletic Club.
1959 - American Airlines opened the jet age in the United States with the first scheduled transcontinental flight of a Boeing 707.
1961 - President John F. Kennedy held the first presidential news conference carried live on radio and television.
1971 - Charles Manson and three of his female followers were found guilty of murdering actress Sharon Tate and six others.
1981 - The 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived in the United States.
1988 - Vice President George Bush and Dan Rather clashed on "The CBS Evening News" as the anchorman attempted to question the Republican presidential candidate about his role in the Iran-Contra affair.
1993 - A gunman shot and killed two CIA employees outside agency headquarters in Virginia. (A Pakistani national was later convicted and was executed in 2002.)
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.
2006 - The Islamic militant group Hamas won a large majority of seats in Palestinian parliamentary elections.
2011 - Egypt's revolution began as thousands of anti-government protesters clashed with police during a Tunisia-inspired demonstration to demand the end of President Hosni Mubarak's rule.
2011 - Pleading for unity in a newly divided government, President Barack Obama used his State of the Union address to implore Democrats and Republicans to rally behind his vision of economic revival, declaring: “We will move forward together or not at all.”
2017 - President Donald Trump moved aggressively to tighten the nation’s immigration controls, signing executive actions to jumpstart construction of his promised U.S.-Mexico border wall and cut federal grants for immigrant-protecting “sanctuary cities.”
2019 - President Donald Trump’s confidant Roger Stone was arrested by the FBI in a pre-dawn raid at his Florida home and charged with lying about his pursuit of Russian-hacked emails damaging to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 election bid. (Stone was convicted in November 2019 on charges including lying to Congress and witness tampering; Trump commuted his 40-month prison sentence just days before Stone was due to report to prison in July 2020 and issued Stone a pardon in December of that year.)
2020 - President Donald Trump’s defense team opened its arguments at his 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.
Birthdays
28 - Kylie Padilla (actress)
29 - Pauline Chalamet (actress)
30 - Ariana DeBose (actress)
36 - Michael Trevino (actor)
41 - Alicia Keys (singer)
41 - Michelle McCool (professional wrestler)
42 - Christine Lakin (actress)
46 - Mia Kirshner (actress)
50 - Ana Ortiz (actress)
64 - Jenifer Lewis (actress)
77 - Leigh Taylor-Young (actress)
89 - Claude Gray (country singer)
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Today in Sports History - January 25
1924 - The first Winter Olympic Games opened in Chamonix, France. Sixteen countries sent 294 athletes to compete in five sports and thirteen events.
1960 - Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors set an NBA scoring record for a rookie with 58 points in a 127-117 win over the Detroit Pistons.
1981 - The Oakland Raiders defeated the Philadelphia Eagles 27-10 in New Orleans to win Super Bowl XV. Oakland quarterback Jim Plunkett is named MVP.
1987 - The New York Giants defeated the Denver Broncos 39-20 to win Super Bowl XXI in Pasadena. Giants quarterback Phil Simms is named MVP.
1991 - Brett Hull of the St. Louis Blues becomes the third player in NHL history to score 50 goals in less than 50 games of a season.
1998 - The Denver Broncos defeated the Green Bay Packers 31-24 to win Super Bowl XXXII in San Diego, breaking a 13-game Super Bowl win streak for the NFC. Denver running back Terrell Davis is named MVP.
2020 - LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers moved past Kobe Bryant into third place on the NBA's all-time scoring list with 33,655 points. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is in first with 38,387 and Karl Malone is second with 36,928.)
