Today in History - 25 January

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After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate
1327
Edward III becomes King of England
1494
Alfonso II becomes King of Naples
1533
Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn
1544
Founding of Sao Paulo city, Brazil
1573
Battle of Mikatagahara in Japan; Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu
1755
Moscow University established inn Tatiana Day
1787
American Daniel Shays leads rebellion to seize Federal arsenal to protest debtor's
prisons
1791
The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old province
of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada
1792
The London Corresponding Society is founded
1858
The "Wedding March" by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional
after it is played on this day at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and

Friedrich of Prussia
1879
The Bulgarian National Bank is founded
1881
Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company
1890
Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days
1909
Richard Strauss' opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State
Opera
1915
Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking
from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco
1918
The Ukraine people declare independence in Bolshevik Russia
1919
The League of Nations in founded
1924
The 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, France, inaugurating the Winter Olympics
Games
1937
THe Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS
television. It's the longest running US broadcast program
1941
Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Island to the dignity of a
diocese. It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu

1942
World WarII: Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom
1945
World War II: Battle of the Bulge ends
1946
The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor
1949
At the Hollywood Athletic Club the first Emmy Awards are presented
1955
Soviet Union ends state of war with Germany
1959
Pope John XXIII proclaims upcoming Second Vatican Council
1960
The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the Payola scandal by threatening
fines for any disc jockeys who accepted money for playing particular records
1961
The Washington, D.C. John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television
news conference
1971
Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president
1981
Jiang Qing, the widow of Mao Zedong, is sentenced to death
1986
The National Resistance Movement topple the government of Tito Okello in Uganda
1990
The Burn's Day storm hits northwestern Europe

1993
Five people were shot outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia resulting in two
murders
1994
The Clementine space probe launches
1995
The Norwegian Rocket Incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after is
mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile
1996
Billy Bailey became the last person to be hanged in the United States of America
1998
During a historic visit to Cuba Pope John II demands the release of political prisoners
and political reforms while condemning US attempts to isolate the country
1999
A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1000
2001
A 50-year-old Douglas DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela killing 24

2004
Opportunity rover lands on surface of Mars
2005
A stampede at the Mandher Devi temple in Mandhradvei in India kills at least 258
2006
Three independent observing campaigns announce the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG390Lb through gravitational microlensing, the first cool rocky/ice extrasolar planet
around a main-sequence a star