January 25 in History

January 25 is the 25th day of the year. There are 341 days remaining until the end of the year.

• 1533 – Henry VIII of England secretly married his second wife, Anne Boleyn.
• 1755 – Moscow University was established.
• 1787 – American Daniel Shays led a rebellion to seize a Federal arsenal to protest debtors’ prisons.
• 1858 – The Wedding March by Mendelssohn became popular after it was played at Queen Victoria’s daughter’s wedding.
• 1881 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell formed the Oriental Telephone Company.
• 1890 – Nellie Bly completed her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
• 1909 – Richard Strauss’ opera Electra debuted at the Dresden State Opera.
• 1915 – Alexander Graham Bell inaugurated U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to San Francisco.
• 1919 – The League of Nations was founded.
• 1924 – The 1924 Winter Olympics opened, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
• 1937 –The Guiding Light debuted on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952, it moved to CBS TV, where it remained until 2009.
• 1954 – Kay Cottee, Australian sailor & first woman to circumnavigate the world alone, was born.
• 1961 – John F. Kennedy delivered the first live presidential television news conference.
• 1971 – Charles Manson and three women are found guilty of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders.
• 1981 – Jiang Qing, the widow of Mao Zedong, was sentenced to death.
• 1996 – Billy Bailey became the last person to be hanged in the US.
• 2011 – Egyptian Revolution of 2011 began with a series of street demonstrations, marches, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes in Cairo, Alexandria, and other cities in Egypt.