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On Jan. 25, 1915, the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, inaugurated U.S. transcontinental telephone service. (Go to article.)
On Jan. 25 , 1882, Virginia Woolf , the British novelist , was born. Following her death on March 28 , 1941, her obituary appeared in The Times. (Go to obit. | Other Birthdays)
Editorial Cartoon of the Day
On January 25, 1879, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about military spending by Congress. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.)
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1533 England's King Henry VIII secretly married Anne Boleyn, his second wife.
1759 Scottish poet Robert Burns was born in Alloway.
1787 Shays' Rebellion suffered a setback when debt-ridden farmers led by Capt. Daniel Shays failed to capture an arsenal at Springfield, Mass.
1890 The United Mine Workers of America was founded in Columbus, Ohio.
1947 Gangster Al Capone died at age 48.
1959 American Airlines opened the jet age in the United States with the first scheduled transcontinental flight of a Boeing 707.
1961 President John F. Kennedy held the first presidential news conference carried live on radio and TV.
1971 Charles Manson and three female followers were convicted in Los Angeles of murder and conspiracy in the 1969 slayings of seven people, including actress Sharon Tate.
1988 Vice President George Bush and Dan Rather clashed on "The CBS Evening News" as the anchorman attempted to question the Republican presidential candidate about his role in the Iran-Contra affair.
1994 Singer Michael Jackson settled a child molestation lawsuit against him.
1995 The defense gave its opening statement in the O.J. Simpson trial in Los Angeles, saying Simpson was the victim of a "rush to judgment" by authorities.
2006 The Islamic militant group Hamas won a large majority of seats in Palestinian parliamentary elections.
2007 Ford Motor Co. said it had lost a staggering $12.7 billion in 2006, the worst loss in the company's 103-year history.
Current Birthdays
Alicia Keys turns 29 years old today.
AP Photo/Peter Kramer R&B singer Alicia Keys turns 29 years old today.
91 Edwin Newman
Journalist
82 Eduard Shevardnadze
Former president of Georgia
79 Dean Jones
Actor
75 Conrad Burns
Former U.S. senator, R-Mont.
72 Etta James
Blues singer
52 Dinah Manoff
Actress ("Empty Nest," "Soap")
44 Chet Culver
Governor of Iowa
Historic Birthdays
Virginia Woolf
1/25/1882 - 3/28/1941
British author
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71 Giovanni Morone
1/25/1509 - 12/1/1580
Italian cardinal and diplomat
64 Robert Boyle
1/25/1627 - 12/30/1691
Anglo-Irish chemist
77 Joseph-Louis Lagrange
1/25/1736 - 4/10/1813
Italian-French mathematician
37 Robert Burns
1/25/1759 - 7/21/1796
Scottish national poet
60 Benjamin Robert Haydon
1/25/1786 - 6/22/1846
English historical painter/writer
77 Dan Rice
1/25/1823 - 2/22/1900
American clown
50 George Edward Pickett
1/25/1825 - 7/30/1875
American Confederate Army officer
76 Charles Curtis
1/25/1860 - 2/8/1936
American 31st vice president
85 Rufus Matthew Jones
1/25/1863 - 6/16/1948
American Quaker and author
91 W. Somerset Maugham
1/25/1874 - 12/16/1965
English novelist/playwright
76 William C. Bullitt
1/25/1891 - 2/15/1967
U.S. diplomat
73 Paul-Henri Spaak
1/25/1899 - 7/31/1972
Post-World War II statesmen from Belgium
54 Viljo Revell
1/25/1910 - 11/8/1964
Finnish architect
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