January 25: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1533 - Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.
2. 1791 - The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.
3. 1881 - Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
4. 1890 - Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
5. 1924 - The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating theWinter Olympic Games.
6. 1947 - Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a cathode ray tubeamusement device
7. 1961 - In Washington, D.C. John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
8. 1994 - The Clementine space probe launches.
9. 2004 - Opportunity rover (MER-B) lands on surface of Mars.
10. 2006 - Three independent observing campaigns announce the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb through gravitational microlensing, the first cool rocky/icy extrasolar planet around a main-sequence star.
11. Famous Birthdays: Joseph-Louis Lagrange (Italian-French mathematician and astronomer), Virginia Woolf (English author and critic), Ilya Prigogine (Russian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate), Arvid Carlsson (Swedish scientist, Nobel Prize laureate), Paul Nurse (English geneticist and biologist, Nobel Prize Laureate)

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