January 25
Activity of the day
Today is . . .
- Burns Night
- Tatiana Day in Russia
- Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul celebrated
- Feast day of Saints Juventinus and Maximinimus
On this day . . .
- King Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn (1533)
- First performance of The Wedding March (1858)
- Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates the U.S. transcontinental telephone service (1915)
- The U.S. buys the Virgin islands for $25 million (1917)
- The first Winter Olympics begin in France (1924)
- The first Emmy Awards are presented (1949)
- President John F. Kennedy holds the first presidential news conference live on radio and TV (1961)
- The Beatles have their first hit in the U.S. (1964)
- Idi Amin leads a coup becomes president of Uganda (1971)
- Charles Manson is found guilty of the Tate murders (1971)
- Billy Bailey becomes the last person to be hanged in the U.S. (1996)
- Martina Hingis (16) becomes the youngest grand slam tennis champion this century (1997)
Births
- Robert Burns, Scottish poet (1759)
- William Somerset Maugham, English novelist (1874)
- Virginia Woolf, English novelist and critic (1882)
- Corazon Aquino, 11th President of the Philippines (1933)
- Alicia Keys, American singer (1981)
Deaths
- Dorothy Wordsworth, English writer (1855)
- Al Capone, Chicago gangster (1947)
- Ava Gardner, American actress (1990)