TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – JAN 25
1533 Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn.
1554 Sir Thomas Wyatt gathers an army in Kent, rebels against Queen Mary
1787 Small farmers in Springfield, Massachusetts led by Daniel Shays, revolt against tax laws. Federal troops break up the protesters of what becomes known as Shay’s Rebellion.
1799 1st US patent for a seeding machine, Eliakim Spooner, Vermont
1846 The dreaded Corn Laws, which taxed imported oats, wheat and barley, are repealed by the British Parliament.
1858 Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March” 1st played, at wedding of Queen Victoria’s daughter Princess Victoria, to crown prince of Prussia
1865 The CSS Shenandoah arrives in Melbourne, Australi
1870 Soda fountain patented by Gustavus Dows
1890 United Mine Workers of America was founded.
1904 179 die in coal mine explosion at Cheswick PA
1915 Alexander Graham Bell in New York and Thomas Watson in San Francisco make a record telephone transmission.
1924 The first Winter Olympics begin
1930 New York police rout a Communist rally at the Town Hall.
1945 Grand Rapids MI becomes 1st US city to fluoridate its water
1947 The first arcade game is patented
1949 Axis Sally, who broadcasted Nazi propaganda to U.S. troops in Europe, stands trial in the United States for war crimes.
1949 1st Israeli election won by David Ben-Gurion’s Mapai party
1951 The U.S. Eighth Army in Korea launches Operation Thunderbolt, a counter attack to push the Chinese Army north of the Han River.
1955 Columbia University scientists develop an atomic clock that is accurate to within one second in 300 years.
1957 FBI arrests Jack & Myra Sobel, charged with spying for the USSR
1971 Military coup in Uganda under Major General Idi Amin
1972 Shirley Chisholm, the first African American woman elected to U.S. Congress, announces candidacy for president.
1972 Nixon airs the eight-point peace plan for Vietnam, asking for POW release in return for withdrawal.
1977 The world’s first solar power plant is opened
1984 President Reagan endorses the development of the first U.S. permanently-manned space station.
1993 Sears announces it is closing its catalog sales department after 97 years
1995 Russia prepares to launch a nuclear attack following a Norwegian launch of a Black Brant XII four-stage sounding rocket to study the aurora borealis over Svalbard ( Which the Russians mistook for a Trident missile ) the rocket landed near Spitsbergen 24 minutes after launch and the Russians decided it was not an attack .
2005 Over 300 die in a stampede at the Mandher Devi Temple in India during the annual Kalubai Jatra pilgrimage the first full moon day in January when animal sacrifices to the goddess Kalubai are made.
2011 Egyptian Revolution of 2011 begins with a series of street demonstrations, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, labor strikes and violent clashes in Cairo, Alexandria and other major cities
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