This Day in History

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1965 - Jill Sobule♪ ♫(she kissed a girl, and she liked it);

Jill Sobule is not actually Katy Perry but the singer/songwriter who wrote the same titled song ten years before Katy Perry.

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

Jill Sobule is not actually Katy Perry but the singer/songwriter who wrote the same titled song ten years before Katy Perry.

Thanks for correcting me on that lyric. I confused the two. My head transposes my facts (and lyrics) sometimes.

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January 25

Tonight Scots, and fans of Robert Burns, celebrate Burns Night.


Events

41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate.

1533 – Henry VIII of England secretly marries his already-pregnant second wife Anne Boleyn.

1787 – Shays's Rebellion: The rebellion's largest confrontation, outside the Springfield Armory, results in the killing of four rebels and the wounding of twenty.

1858 – The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn is played at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia, and becomes a popular wedding processional.

1890 – Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.

1909 – Richard Strauss's 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.

1924 – The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, the first Winter Olympic Games.

1937 – The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until September 18, 2009.

1945 – World War II: The Battle of the Bulge ends.

1947 – Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.

1949 – The first Emmy Awards are presented; at the Hollywood Athletic Club.

1960 – The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the "payola" scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accept money for playing particular records.

1961 – In Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.

1964 – Blue Ribbon Sports is founded by University of Oregon track and field athletes, which would later become Nike.

1971 – Charles Manson and three female "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate–LaBianca murders.

1971 – Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.

1975 - The last Sunbury Rock Festival in Victoria, Australia was held. The promoters, who had taken heavy losses only paid Deep Purple. AC/DC were scheduled to play after Deep Purple but a fight started on stage between road crews after Deep Purple's set, when they began packing up the lights and PA, and denied AC/DC use of them, who then left the festival site without playing at all.

1993 – Five people are shot outside the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Two are killed and three wounded.

1995 – The Norwegian rocket incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.

1996 – Billy Bailey becomes the last person to be hanged in the USA.

2011 – The first wave of the Egyptian revolution begins in Egypt, with a series of street demonstrations, marches, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes in Cairo, Alexandria, and throughout other cities in Egypt.

Births

1640 – William Cavendish; 1736 – Joseph-Louis Lagrange (Lagrangian points); 1759 – Robert Burns; 1860 – Charles Curtis (31st VPOTUS); 1874 – W. Somerset Maugham; 1882 – Virginia Woolf; 1919 – Edwin Newman; 1928 – Eduard Shevardnadze; 1931 – Dean Jones; 1938 – Etta James♪ ♫; 1941 – Buddy Baker; 1943 – Tobe Hooper; 1945 – Leigh Taylor-Young; 1951 – Steve Prefontaine; 1981 – Alicia Keys♪ ♫

Deaths

1947 – Al Capone; 1981 – Adele Astaire; 1990 – Ava Gardner