January 25
1533 - England's King Henry VIII secretly married his second wife, Anne Boleyn, who later gave birth to future queen Elizabeth I.
1890 - The United Mine Workers of America was founded.
1915 - Alexander Graham Bell inaugurated transcontinental telephone service while in New York, speaking to his former assistant, Thomas Watson, who was in San Francisco, over a line built 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 American 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 the murders of Sharon Tate and six others.
1981 - The 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days arrived back to the United States.
1993 - Sears announced 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 reported to be $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.
2012 - The U.S. Department of Education declared that students with disabilities had to be given a fair shot to play on a traditional sports team or have their own leagues.
2017 - President Donald Trump arrived at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland; after meeting there with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump threatened to cut off U.S. aid to the Palestinians unless they negotiated peace with Israel.
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 - 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
24 - Maria Ysabel Ortega (actress)
27 - Tati Gabrielle (actress)
30 - Kylie Padilla (actress)
31 - Pauline Chalamet (actress)
32 - Ariana DeBose (actress)
38 - Michael Trevino (actor)
42 - Alicia Keys (singer)
43 - Michelle McCool (professional wrestler)
44 - Christine Lakin (actress)
48 - Mia Kirshner (actress)
53 - Ana Ortiz (actress)
66 - Jenifer Lewis (actress)
78 - Leigh Taylor-Young (actress)
91 - Claude Gray (singer)
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Today in Sports History - January 25
1924 - The first Winter Olympic Games opened at Chamonix, France with 16 countries sending 294 athletes to compete in five sports and 13 events.
1960 - Wilt Chamberlain sets an NBA rookie 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, snapping a 13-year winning streak for the NFC.
2003 - Serena Williams defeats her sister Venus to win her first Australian Open title.
2021 - David Ortiz was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first turn on the ballot, while steroid-tainted stars Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens were denied entry to Cooperstown in their final year under consideration by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America.
2022 - The USFL announced that the league headquarters would be in Birmingham, AL, and all games for the 2022 season would be played there.
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.
1533 - England's King Henry VIII secretly married his second wife, Anne Boleyn, who later gave birth to future queen Elizabeth I.
1890 - The United Mine Workers of America was founded.
1915 - Alexander Graham Bell inaugurated transcontinental telephone service while in New York, speaking to his former assistant, Thomas Watson, who was in San Francisco, over a line built 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 American 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 the murders of Sharon Tate and six others.
1981 - The 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days arrived back to the United States.
1993 - Sears announced 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 reported to be $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.
2012 - The U.S. Department of Education declared that students with disabilities had to be given a fair shot to play on a traditional sports team or have their own leagues.
2017 - President Donald Trump arrived at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland; after meeting there with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump threatened to cut off U.S. aid to the Palestinians unless they negotiated peace with Israel.
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 - 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
24 - Maria Ysabel Ortega (actress)
27 - Tati Gabrielle (actress)
30 - Kylie Padilla (actress)
31 - Pauline Chalamet (actress)
32 - Ariana DeBose (actress)
38 - Michael Trevino (actor)
42 - Alicia Keys (singer)
43 - Michelle McCool (professional wrestler)
44 - Christine Lakin (actress)
48 - Mia Kirshner (actress)
53 - Ana Ortiz (actress)
66 - Jenifer Lewis (actress)
78 - Leigh Taylor-Young (actress)
91 - Claude Gray (singer)
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Today in Sports History - January 25
1924 - The first Winter Olympic Games opened at Chamonix, France with 16 countries sending 294 athletes to compete in five sports and 13 events.
1960 - Wilt Chamberlain sets an NBA rookie 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, snapping a 13-year winning streak for the NFC.
2003 - Serena Williams defeats her sister Venus to win her first Australian Open title.
2021 - David Ortiz was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first turn on the ballot, while steroid-tainted stars Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens were denied entry to Cooperstown in their final year under consideration by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America.
2022 - The USFL announced that the league headquarters would be in Birmingham, AL, and all games for the 2022 season would be played there.
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.
