WillDekkard
01-25-2010, 05:02 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- January 25th
* 41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate.
* 1327 – Edward III becomes King of England.
* 1494 – Alfonso II becomes King of Naples.
* 1533 – Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.
* 1554 – Founding of São Paulo city, Brazil.
* 1573 – Battle of Mikatagahara, in Japan; Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu.
* 1755 – Moscow University established on Tatiana Day.
* 1787 – American Daniel Shays leads rebellion to seize Federal arsenal to protest debtor's prisons.
* 1791 – The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.
* 1792 – The London Corresponding Society is founded.
* 1858 – The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional after it is played on this day at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia.
* 1879 – The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.
* 1881 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
* 1890 – Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
* 1909 – Richard Strauss' opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
* 1915 – Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
* 1918 – The Ukrainian people declare independence from Bolshevik Russia.
* 1919 – The League of Nations is founded.
* 1924 – The 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, France (in the French Alps), inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
* 1937 – The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television.
* 1941 – Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese. It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.
* 1942 – World War II: Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.
* 1945 – World War II: Battle of the Bulge ends.
* 1946 – The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
* 1949 – At the Hollywood Athletic Club the first Emmy Awards are presented.
* 1955 – Soviet Union ends state of war with Germany.
* 1959 – Pope John XXIII proclaims upcoming Second Vatican Council.
* 1960 – The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the Payola scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accepted money for playing particular records.
* 1961 – In Washington, D.C. John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
* 1971 – Charles Manson and three female "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders.
* 1971 – Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.
* 1971 – Himachal Pradesh becomes the 18th Indian state.
* 1981 – Jiang Qing, the widow of Mao Zedong, is sentenced to death.
* 1986 – The National Resistance Movement topple the government of Tito Okello in Uganda.
* 1990 – The Burns' Day storm hits northwestern Europe.
* 1990 – Honduras becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
* 1990 – The 5th Congress of the Communist Youth of Greece starts.
* 1993 – Five people are shot outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia resulting in two murders.
* 1994 – The Clementine space probe launches.
* 1995 – The Norwegian Rocket Incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.
* 1996 – Billy Bailey became the last person to be hanged in the United States of America.
* 1998 – During a historic visit to Cuba Pope John Paul II demands the release of political prisoners and political reforms while condemning US attempts to isolate the country.
* 1998 – Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suicide attack on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth, killing 8 people injuring 25 others.
* 1999 – A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.
* 2001 – A 50-year-old Douglas DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela killing 24.
* 2002 – Wikipedia switches to the new version of its software ("Phase II") aka Magnus Manske Day.
* 2004 – Opportunity rover (MER-B) lands on surface of Mars.
* 2005 – A stampede at the Mandher Devi temple in Mandhradevi in India kills at least 258.
* 2006 – Three independent observing campaigns announce the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb through gravitational microlensing, the first cool rocky/icy extrasolar planet around a main-sequence star.
- January 25th
* 41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate.
* 1327 – Edward III becomes King of England.
* 1494 – Alfonso II becomes King of Naples.
* 1533 – Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.
* 1554 – Founding of São Paulo city, Brazil.
* 1573 – Battle of Mikatagahara, in Japan; Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu.
* 1755 – Moscow University established on Tatiana Day.
* 1787 – American Daniel Shays leads rebellion to seize Federal arsenal to protest debtor's prisons.
* 1791 – The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.
* 1792 – The London Corresponding Society is founded.
* 1858 – The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional after it is played on this day at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia.
* 1879 – The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.
* 1881 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
* 1890 – Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
* 1909 – Richard Strauss' opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
* 1915 – Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
* 1918 – The Ukrainian people declare independence from Bolshevik Russia.
* 1919 – The League of Nations is founded.
* 1924 – The 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, France (in the French Alps), inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
* 1937 – The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television.
* 1941 – Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese. It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.
* 1942 – World War II: Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.
* 1945 – World War II: Battle of the Bulge ends.
* 1946 – The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
* 1949 – At the Hollywood Athletic Club the first Emmy Awards are presented.
* 1955 – Soviet Union ends state of war with Germany.
* 1959 – Pope John XXIII proclaims upcoming Second Vatican Council.
* 1960 – The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the Payola scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accepted money for playing particular records.
* 1961 – In Washington, D.C. John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
* 1971 – Charles Manson and three female "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders.
* 1971 – Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.
* 1971 – Himachal Pradesh becomes the 18th Indian state.
* 1981 – Jiang Qing, the widow of Mao Zedong, is sentenced to death.
* 1986 – The National Resistance Movement topple the government of Tito Okello in Uganda.
* 1990 – The Burns' Day storm hits northwestern Europe.
* 1990 – Honduras becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
* 1990 – The 5th Congress of the Communist Youth of Greece starts.
* 1993 – Five people are shot outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia resulting in two murders.
* 1994 – The Clementine space probe launches.
* 1995 – The Norwegian Rocket Incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.
* 1996 – Billy Bailey became the last person to be hanged in the United States of America.
* 1998 – During a historic visit to Cuba Pope John Paul II demands the release of political prisoners and political reforms while condemning US attempts to isolate the country.
* 1998 – Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suicide attack on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth, killing 8 people injuring 25 others.
* 1999 – A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.
* 2001 – A 50-year-old Douglas DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela killing 24.
* 2002 – Wikipedia switches to the new version of its software ("Phase II") aka Magnus Manske Day.
* 2004 – Opportunity rover (MER-B) lands on surface of Mars.
* 2005 – A stampede at the Mandher Devi temple in Mandhradevi in India kills at least 258.
* 2006 – Three independent observing campaigns announce the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb through gravitational microlensing, the first cool rocky/icy extrasolar planet around a main-sequence star.