January 25
1533 - England's King Henry VIII secretly married Anne Boleyn, his second wife, 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.
1863 - During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln accepted Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside’s resignation as commander of the Army of the Potomac and replaced him with Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker.
1890 - The United Mine Workers of America was founded in Columbus, Ohio.
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 - 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.
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 female followers were convicted in Los Angeles of murder and conspiracy in the 1969 slayings of seven people, including actress Sharon Tate.
1981 - The 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days arrived back in the United States.
1988 - Vice President George H.W. 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.)
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.
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.
2012 - U.S. military forces flew into Somalia in a nighttime helicopter raid, freeing an American and a Danish hostage and killing nine pirates.
2012 - U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona returned to Congress to officially tender her resignation a year after she was shot and severely wounded in her home district.
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.”
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 - House Democrats delivered the impeachment case against Donald Trump to the Senate for the start of his historic second impeachment trial even as Republican senators eased off of their criticism of the former president and shunned calls to convict him over the siege at the U.S. Capitol.
2021 - President Joe Biden signed an order reversing a Pentagon policy that largely barred transgender individuals from military service.
Birthdays
29 - Kylie Padilla (actress)
30 - Pauline Chalamet (actress)
31 - Ariana DeBose (actress)
37 - Michael Trevino (actor)
42 - Alicia Keys (singer)
42 - Michelle McCool (professional wrestler)
43 - Christine Lakin (actress)
47 - Mia Kirshner (actress)
51 - Ana Ortiz (actress)
53 - Kina (singer)
65 - Jenifer Lewis (actress)
78 - Leigh Taylor-Young (actress)
90 - Claude Gray (singer)
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Today in Sports History - January 25
1924 - The first Winter Olympic Games opened at Chamonix, France.
1960 - Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors sets an NBA rookie record with 58 points in a 127-117 win over the Detroit Pistons.
1981 - The Oakland Raiders defeated the Philadelphia Eagles 27-10 to win Super Bowl XV in New Orleans.
1987 - The New York Giants defeated the Denver Broncos 39-20 to win Super Bowl XXI in Pasadena, California.
1991 - Brett Hull of the St. Louis Blues becomes the third player in NHL history to score 50 goals in less than 50 games.
1996 - The Ottawa Senators set an NHL record by playing their 16th consecutive game without a win (0-15-1).
1998 - The Denver Broncos defeated the Green Bay Packers 31-24 to win Super Bowl XXXII in San Diego. The result snapped a 13-game Super Bowl winning streak for the NFC over the AFC.
1533 - England's King Henry VIII secretly married Anne Boleyn, his second wife, 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.
1863 - During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln accepted Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside’s resignation as commander of the Army of the Potomac and replaced him with Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker.
1890 - The United Mine Workers of America was founded in Columbus, Ohio.
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 - 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.
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 female followers were convicted in Los Angeles of murder and conspiracy in the 1969 slayings of seven people, including actress Sharon Tate.
1981 - The 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days arrived back in the United States.
1988 - Vice President George H.W. 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.)
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.
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.
2012 - U.S. military forces flew into Somalia in a nighttime helicopter raid, freeing an American and a Danish hostage and killing nine pirates.
2012 - U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona returned to Congress to officially tender her resignation a year after she was shot and severely wounded in her home district.
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.”
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 - House Democrats delivered the impeachment case against Donald Trump to the Senate for the start of his historic second impeachment trial even as Republican senators eased off of their criticism of the former president and shunned calls to convict him over the siege at the U.S. Capitol.
2021 - President Joe Biden signed an order reversing a Pentagon policy that largely barred transgender individuals from military service.
Birthdays
29 - Kylie Padilla (actress)
30 - Pauline Chalamet (actress)
31 - Ariana DeBose (actress)
37 - Michael Trevino (actor)
42 - Alicia Keys (singer)
42 - Michelle McCool (professional wrestler)
43 - Christine Lakin (actress)
47 - Mia Kirshner (actress)
51 - Ana Ortiz (actress)
53 - Kina (singer)
65 - Jenifer Lewis (actress)
78 - Leigh Taylor-Young (actress)
90 - Claude Gray (singer)
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Today in Sports History - January 25
1924 - The first Winter Olympic Games opened at Chamonix, France.
1960 - Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors sets an NBA rookie record with 58 points in a 127-117 win over the Detroit Pistons.
1981 - The Oakland Raiders defeated the Philadelphia Eagles 27-10 to win Super Bowl XV in New Orleans.
1987 - The New York Giants defeated the Denver Broncos 39-20 to win Super Bowl XXI in Pasadena, California.
1991 - Brett Hull of the St. Louis Blues becomes the third player in NHL history to score 50 goals in less than 50 games.
1996 - The Ottawa Senators set an NHL record by playing their 16th consecutive game without a win (0-15-1).
1998 - The Denver Broncos defeated the Green Bay Packers 31-24 to win Super Bowl XXXII in San Diego. The result snapped a 13-game Super Bowl winning streak for the NFC over the AFC.
