ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY jan 25th 41 - After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate. 1139 - Godfried II the Young becomes duke of Brabant 1327 - King Edward III accedes to the English throne 1348 - Earthquake destroys Villach, killing 5,000 1494 - Alfonso II succeeds his father as king of Naples 1554 - Sir Thomas Wyatt gathers an army in Kent, rebels against Queen Mary King of England Edward IIIKing of England Edward III 1554 - Founding of São Paulo city, Brazil. 1565 - Battle at Talikota India: the Deccan sultanate destroy Vijayanagars army and the last Hindu kingdom of Southern India 1573 - Battle of Mikatagahara, in Japan; Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu. 1579 - Treaty of Utrecht signed, marks beginning of Dutch Republic 1721 - Tsar Peter the Great ends Russian-orthodox patriarchy 1755 - Moscow University established on Tatiana Day. 1775 - Americans drag cannon up hill to fight British (Gun Hill Road, Bronx) 1787 - Shays Rebellion suffers a setback when debt-ridden farmers, led by Capt Daniel Shays, fail to capture an arsenal at Springfield, Mass Russian Tsar Peter the GreatRussian Tsar Peter the Great 1792 - The London Corresponding Society is founded. 1799 - 1st US patent for a seeding machine, Eliakim Spooner, Vermont 1802 - Napoleon Bonaparte elected president of Italian (Cisalpine) Republic 1817 - Rossinis opera La Cenerentola premieres in Rome 1825 - 1st US engineering college opens, Rensselaer Polytechnic, Troy, NY 1835 - Vincenzo Bellinis opera I Puritani premieres in Paris 1840 - American naval expedition under Charles Wilkes first to identify Antarctica as a new continent 1844 - Recontre between Reps Weller & Shriver, US House of Representative French Emperor Napoléon BonaparteFrench Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte 1854 - Aleksandr Ostrovskys Bednost ne Porok premieres in Moscow 1856 - Battle of Seattle; skirmish between settlers & Indians 1858 - Mendelssohns Wedding March first played, at wedding of Queen Victorias daughter Princess Victoria, to crown prince of Prussia 1863 - Battle of Kinston, NC 1863 - General Joseph Hooker replaces Burnside as head of Army of Potomac 1865 - CSS Shenandoah arrives in Melbourne, Australia 1870 - Soda fountain patented by Gustavus Dows 1875 - Anti-slavery society forms (NY) 1877 - Congress determines presidential election between Hayes-Tilden 1879 - The Bulgarian National Bank is founded. Inventor Alexander Graham BellInventor Alexander Graham Bell 1881 - Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company. 1882 - Bilu, a Russian Zionist organization, forms 1885 - Vincent dIndys Saugefleurie premieres 1890 - National Afro-American League forms in Chicago 1890 - Nellie Bly beats Phileas Foggs time around world by 8 days (72 days) 1890 - United Mine Workers of America forms 1894 - James J Corbett KOs Charley Mitchell in 3 for heavyweight boxing title 1902 - Aleksandr Skriabins 2nd Symphony in C premieres in St Petersburg 1904 - 179 die in coal mine explosion at Cheswick, Pennsylvania 1904 - J M Synges Ruders to the Sea premieres in Dublin 1906 - Del Valle Inclans El Marqués de Bradomin premieres in Madrid 1907 - Julia Ward Howe is first woman elected to National Institute of Arts & Letters (USA) 1908 - John Blockxs opera Baldie premieres in Antwerp 1909 - Richard Strauss premier of Elektra in Dresden 1910 - 1st stumping by a 12th man in Tests (N C Tufnell, SAf v Eng) 1910 - Children initiate idea of planting trees in Jerusalem Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Mahatma GandhiPacifist and Spiritual Leader Mahatma Gandhi 1914 - An Indian mass meeting in Durban unanimously endorse the agreement between General J.C. Smuts and Mahatma Gandhi regarding voluntary registration, poll tax, recognition of Indian marriages and other matters 1915 - Alexander Graham Bell in NY calls Thomas Watson in SF 1915 - Giordano, Sardou & Moreaus opera Madame Sans Gêne premieres in NYC 1915 - Transcontinental telephone service inaugurated (NY to SF) 1916 - Montenegro surrenders to Austria-Hungary 1918 - Russia declared a republic of Soviets 1919 - Founding of League of Nations, 1st meeting 1 year later 1921 - Karel Capéks RUR premieres in Prague 1923 - NVV donates 100,000 guilders to mine workers of Ruhrgebied 1924 - 1st Winter Olympic games open in Chamonix, France Cricket Legend Donald BradmanCricket Legend Donald Bradman 1929 - Bradman scores 340* for NSW v Victoria, 488 mins, 38 fours 1932 - 1st commencement exercises at Hebrew U in Jerusalem 1932 - Bradman scores 167 NSW v Victoria, 224 mins, 22 fours 1937 - 1st broadcast of Guiding Light on NBC radio 1937 - Miami-to-Tampa bus overturned in a canal, kills 13 1937 - Soap Opera Guiding Light premieres on radio 1938 - Ian Hays Bachelor Born premieres in NYC 1939 - Earthquake hits Chillan Chile, 10,000 killed 1939 - Joe Louis KOs John Henry Lewis in 1 for heavyweight boxing title 1940 - Nazi decrees establishment of Jewish ghetto in Lodz Poland Boxer and World Heavyweight Champion Joe LouisBoxer and World Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis 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 - Lt General Rommels African corps reaches Msus 1945 - Dan Topping, Del Webb & Larry MacPhail purchase NY Yanks for $2.8 mil 1945 - Grand Rapids, Michigan, becomes 1st US city to fluoridate its water 1945 - Japanese occupiers of Batavia arrest Indo-European youths 1945 - NY Yankees sold by Ruppert estate to construction magnate Del Webb and partners Dan Topping and Larry MacPhail for $2.8 million 1945 - West Africa 82nd division occupies Myohaung, Burma German WWII Field Marshal Erwin RommelGerman WWII Field Marshal Erwin Rommel 1946 - Richard Strauss Metamorphosis premieres in Zurich 1946 - United Mine Workers union rejoins American Federation of Labor 1949 - 1st Emmy Awards: Shirley Dinsdale & Pantomime Quiz (KTLA) win 1949 - 1st Israeli election - Ben-Gurions Mapai party wins 1950 - 73°F (23°C) highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in January 1951 - UN begins counter offensive in Korea 1952 - Test debut of Richie Benaud, v West Indies at the SCG 1953 - WABI TV channel 5 in Bangor, ME (CBS) begins broadcasting 1953 - Yuri Sergejev skates world record 500m in 40.9 sec 1955 - Jill Kinmont hits a tree & breaks her back in Snow Cup Ski Race 1955 - Russia ends state of war with Germany 1955 - US & Panama sign canal treaty 1955 - Columbia University scientists develope an atomic clock accurate to within one second in 300 years 1956 - 96.5 cm (38.0) of rainfall, Kilauea Plantation, HI (state record) 1957 - FBI arrests Jack & Myra Sobel, charged with spying for USSR 1959 - 1st transcontinental coml jet flight (American) (LA to NY for $301) Pope John XXIIIPope John XXIII 1959 - Pope John XXIII proclaims 2nd Vatican council 1961 - 1st live, nationally televised presidential news conference (JFK) 1961 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Naples Pro-Am Golf Tournament 1961 - Military coup in El Salvador 1961 - Walt Disneys 101 Dalmations released 1964 - Beatles 1st US #1, I Want to Hold your Hand (Cashbox) 1964 - Echo 2, US communications satellite launched 1966 - WCMC (now WMGM) TV channel 40 in Wildwood, NJ (NBC) 1st broadcast 1968 - Risse St in Bronx named 1968 - Robert Andersons I Never Sang for My Father premieres in NYC Animator Walt DisneyAnimator Walt Disney 1969 - US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris 1970 - Robert Altmans M*A*S*H premieres 1971 - Charles Manson & 3 women followers convicted of Tate-LaBianca murders 1971 - Himachal Pradesh becomes 18th Indian state 1971 - Military coup in Uganda under Gen Idi Amin Dada 1971 - Phila mints 1st trial strike of Eisenhower dollar 1971 - WHMB TV channel 40 in Indianapolis, IN (IND) begins broadcasting 1971 - The 170 delegates of the Ulster Unionist Council (UUC) call for the resignation of Northern Ireland Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark 1972 - 25th NHL All-Star Game: East beats West 3-2 at Minnesota Murderer Charles MansonMurderer Charles Manson 1972 - 7 Ohio State center Luke Witte is stomped in face during a brawl in a game with Minnesota 1974 - Bulent Ecevit forms government in Turkey 1974 - Christian Barnard transplants 1st human heart without removal of old 1974 - Ray Kroc, CEO (McDonalds), buys SD Padres for $12 million 1975 - 10th hat trick in Islander history-Denis Potvins 1st 1975 - Bangladeshi parliament disposes of premier sheik Mujib ur-Rahman 1976 - Surinder Amarnath scores 124 on Test debut Ind v NZ Auckland 1978 - Muriel Humphrey (D-Mn) appointed to fill late husbands Senate seat NHL Defenseman Denis PotvinNHL Defenseman Denis Potvin 1978 - Padres trade pitcher Dave Tomlin & $125,000 to Rangers for Gaylord Perry (He wins 1978 Cy Young Award) 1979 - 22.2-km Oshimizu railroad tunnel holed through, central Honshu, Japan 1979 - Pope John Paul IIs 1st overseas trip as supreme pontiff 1979 - 1st documented case of a robot killing a human in US 1980 - Bani Sadr elected president of Iran 1980 - Dutch government demands boycott of Olympics 1980 - Highest speed attained by a warship, 167 kph, USN hovercraft 1980 - Paul McCartney is released from Tokyo jail & deported 1981 - 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived back in US Chinese Communist & Wife of Mao Zedong Jiang QingChinese Communist & Wife of Mao Zedong Jiang Qing 1981 - Maos widow Jiang Qing sentenced to death 1981 - Super Bowl XV: Oakland Raiders beat Philadelphia Eagles, 27-10 in New Orleans Super Bowl MVP: Jim Plunkett, Oakland, QB 1982 - 9th American Music Award: Pat Benatar & Kenny Rogers win 1983 - Chinas supreme court commutes Chiang Chings death sentence to life 1983 - Infrared telescope satellite launched into polar orbit 1983 - Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie arrested in Bolivia 1985 - Black & Blue premieres in Paris 1985 - Test debut of Wasim Akram, v New Zealand at Auckland (2-105) 1986 - General Tito Okellos government flees Kampala Uganda Tennis Player Wimbledon Champion Pat CashTennis Player Wimbledon Champion Pat Cash 1987 - 75th Australian Mens Tennis: S Edberg beats Pat Cash (63 64 36 57 63) 1987 - Super Bowl XXI: NY Giants beat Denver Broncos, 39-20 in Pasadena Super Bowl MVP: Phil Simms, NY Giants, QB 1988 - 15th American Music Award: Anita Baker, Paul Simon & Whitney Houston 1988 - George Harrison releases When We Was Fab 1988 - Longest winless streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (15 games) 1988 - Ramsewak Shankar sworn in as pres of Suriname 1988 - VP George Bush & Dan Rather clash on CBS Evening News as Rather attempts to question Bush about his role in Iran-Contra affair 1989 - Augusto Alcalde, 1st South American Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission Basketball Superstar Michael JordanBasketball Superstar Michael Jordan 1989 - Michael Jordan scores his 10,000th NBA point in his 5th season 1989 - Yank owner George Steinbrenner meets with Pope John Paul II 1990 - Avianca Flight 52, runs out of fuel & crashes in Cove Neck NY, 73 die 1990 - Former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is transferred to a Miami jail 1990 - The Burns Day windstorm storm hits northwestern Europe. 1990 - Honduras becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. 1990 - Around 39 people, among them children, as a storm hits England NHL Goal Scorer Brett HullNHL Goal Scorer Brett Hull 1991 - Brett Hull is 3rd NHLer to score 50 goals in less than 50 games (49) 1991 - Manuel Noriega is given access to assets frozen by US government 1991 - Mark Waugh scores ton in 1st Test Cricket innings, v England Adelaide 1991 - Soap opera Generations last episode after a 2½ year run 1992 - 66th Australian Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats M Fernandez (62 63) 1992 - Dan Jansen skates world record 500m in 36.41 1992 - Hubble space telescope optics finds NGC3862/3C264 1993 - 20th American Music Award: Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey win Singer Mariah CareySinger Mariah Carey 1993 - Puerto Rico adds English as its 2nd official language 1993 - Sears announces it is closing its catalog sales dept after 97 years 1993 - Five people were shot outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia resulting in two murders. 1994 - Australia beat South Africa 2-1 to win the World Series Cup 1994 - Mine fire at Asansol, India, kills 55 1994 - US space probe Clementine launched 1994 - Accused of molesting a 13-year-old boy, Michael Jackson settles a civil lawsuit out of court 1995 - Jacques Santer succeeds Jacques Delors as chairman of Euro Committee Tennis Player Martina HingisTennis Player Martina Hingis 1997 - 71st Australian Womens Tennis: Martina Hingis beat Mary Pierce (6-2 6-2) 1998 - Grease closes at Eugene ONeill Theater NYC after 1,503 performance 1998 - Patti LaBelle On Broadway closes at St James Theater NYC 1998 - Britains Queen Mother, 97, gets an emergency hip replacement 1998 - Helen Alfredsson wins Office Depot LPGA tournament 1998 - Spice Girl Victoria Adams (Posh) and soccer player David Beckham get engaged 1998 - Super Bowl XXXII: Denver Broncos beat Green Bay Packers 31-24 Singer Victoria BeckhamSinger Victoria Beckham 1998 - Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suicide attack on Sri Lankas Temple of the Tooth, killing 8 people injuring 25 others. 1998 - Pope John Paul II visits Cuba and demands the release of political prisoners; he also condemns US moves to isolate the country 1999 - After an inquiry into a corruption scandal, 6 International Olympic Committee members are expelled 1999 - Earthquake hits Colombia, South America, killing around 300 and injuring 1000 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. 264th Pope John Paul II264th Pope John Paul II 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. 2010 - Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after take-off from Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport, killing all 90 people on-board. 2011 - Egyptian Revolution of 2011 begins in Egypt, with a series of street demonstrations, marches, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes in Cairo, Alexandria, and throughout other cities in Egypt. 2011 - It is announced today that the UK economy suffered a shock contraction of 0.5% in the fourth quarter of 2010, which has been widely blamed on the severe winter weather in December and austere budget cuts implemented by the coalition government increasing fears that the UK is heading for a double-dip recession
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