History for January 25

History for January 25 - On-This-Day.com
Robert Burns 1759, W. Somerset Maugham 1874, Virginia Woolf 1882


Eduard Shevardnadze 1928 - President of Georgia, Corazon Aquino 1933, Alicia Keys 1981 - Singer


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.


1937 - NBC radio presented the first broadcast of "The Guiding Light." The show remained on radio until 1956 and began on CBS-TV in 1952.


1961 - John F. Kennedy presented the first live presidential news conference from Washington, DC. The event was carried on radio and television.


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.