History for January 25

History for January 25 - On-This-Day.com
Robert Boyle 1627, Robert Burns 1759, W. Somerset Maugham 1874


Virginia Woolf 1882, Eduard Shevardnadze 1928 - President of Georgia, Etta James 1938


1533 - England's King Henry VIII secretly married his second wife Anne Boleyn. Boleyn later gave birth to Elizabeth I.


1858 - Mendelssohn’s "Wedding March" was presented for the first time at the wedding of the daughter of Queen Victoria and the Crown Prince of Prussia.


1915 - In New York, Alexander Graham Bell spoke to his assistant in San Francisco, inaugurating the first transcontinental telephone service.


1924 - The 1st Winter Olympic Games were inaugurated in Chamonix in the French Alps.


1950 - A federal jury in New York City found former State Department official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury.


1959 - In the U.S., American Airlines had the first scheduled transcontinental flight of a Boeing 707.


1999 - In Louisville, KY, man received the first hand transplant in the United States.


2011 - A revolution began in Egypt with the demonstrations that demanded the end of President Hosni Mubarak's rule.