Posted on 01/25/2023 6:58:44 AM PST by Red Badger
Jan. 25 (UPI) -- On this date in history:
In 1533, Henry VIII of England secretly married Anne Boleyn, his second wife.
In 1858, Mendelssohn's "The Wedding March" was played at the marriage of Friedrich of Prussia and England's Princess Victoria, the daughter of Queen Victoria. It became a standard theme for weddings.
In 1890, Nellie Bly, a young New York reporter, completed a trip around the world that lasted 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes.
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In 1909, President-elect William Howard Taft sailed for Panama to plot a course forward following the completion of the canal.
In 1915, transcontinental phone service was inaugurated by Alexander Graham Bell in a hookup between New York and San Francisco.
In 1924, the first Winter Olympic Games opened in Chamonix, France.
Amanda Bailey with the Missouri History Museum adjusts a cutout figure of Al Capone in St. Louis on April 22, 2014. On January 25, 1947, Capone died at age 48 after suffering from syphilis. File Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI | License Photo
In 1947, gangster Al "Scarface" Capone died at age 48 after suffering from syphilis.
In 1959, the first scheduled transcontinental passenger jet flight took place, a non-stop American Airlines trip from California to New York.
In 1961, newly inaugurated U.S. President John Kennedy had the first televised presidential news conference.
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In 1993, a man with a rifle opened fire near the main CIA gate in Langley, Va., killing two agency employees and injuring three others.
In 2004, Opportunity, the second of two NASA robot explorers, landed on Mars, joining its twin to explore the planet.
In 2006, the militant Islamic group Hamas, calling for destruction of Israel, scored a stunning victory in the Palestinian parliamentary election.
In 2010, the man known as "Chemical Ali" -- Ali Hassan al-Majid, cousin and aide to Saddam Hussein -- was executed in Iraq for his role in a poison-gas attack in which 5,000 Kurds were killed.
In 2011, thousands of Egyptian citizens, expressing their dissatisfaction with the government, clashed with riot police in Cairo, Alexandria, and other cities throughout the country. This rebellion, locally referred to as the January 25 Revolution, would lead to the ousting of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak less than three weeks later.
In 2021, Janet Yellen was confirmed as the first woman to head the Treasury Department. She was sworn in a day later.
File Photo by Yuri Gripas/UPI
History Ping!..................
Call Geraldo!!!!!!
Capone was deathly afraid of needles
Spent last 10 years of life with dementia caused by untreated syphilis
weird thing about Al Capone...been dead for 75 years..was really only in the press in the late 20’s-early 30’s...yet today, he has almost 100% name recognition. Ask anybody this very day..who is over 18 years old, and i bet they know who he is.... amazing really.
Capone is history, now nobody kills like that. :^)
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