Monday, January 25, 2021

History for January 25

History for January 25 - On-This-Day.com
Virginia Woolf 1882
  • 1533 - England's King Henry VIII secretly married his second wife Anne Boleyn. Boleyn later gave birth to Elizabeth I.
  • 1579 - The Treaty of Utrecht was signed marking the beginning of the Dutch Republic.
  • 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, communist Alger Hiss guilty of perjury.
  • 1971 - Maj. Gen. Idi Amin led a coup that deposed Milton Obote and became president of Uganda.
  • 1999 - In Louisville, KY, man received the first hand transplant in the United States.

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