On this day …
January 25, 2015
- In 1533, King Henry VIII of England secretly married his second wife, Anne Boleyn.
- In 1554, the city of Sao Paulo, in Brazil, was founded.
- In 1858, the “Wedding March” by Felix Mendelssohn was played at the marriage of Queen Victoria’s daughter, Victoria, to Friedrich of Prussia, and the tune became a popular wedding recessional.
- In 1915, Alexander Graham Bell inaugurated transcontinental telephone service with a call from New York City to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
- In 1924, the first Winter Olympic Games opened in Chamonix, France.
- In 1949, the first Emmy Awards were presented at the Hollywood Athletic Club.
- In 1971, Idi Amin became president of Uganda.
- In 1996, Billy Bailey became the last person to be hanged in the United States when he was executed in Delaware.
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