TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 2020

On this day in history:

1504 - The English Parliament passed statutes against retainers and liveries to curb private warfare.

1533 - England’s King Henry VIII secretly married his second wife Anne Boleyn. Boleyn later gave birth to Elizabeth I.

1579 - The Treaty of Utrecht was signed marking the beginning of the Dutch Republic.

1858 - Mendelssohn’s Wedding March was presented for the first time at the wedding of the daughter of Queen Victoria and the Crown Prince of Prussia. 1885 - One of Australia’s earliest rail disasters occurs at Cootamundra in New South Wales.

1924 - The 1st Winter Olympic Games were inaugurated in Chamonix in the French Alps. 1949 - The first Emmys were presented at the Hollywood Athletic Club.

1964 - Nike was founded. The company was originally named Blue Ribbon Sports.

1971 - Maj Gen Idi Amin led a coup that deposed Milton Obote and became president of Uganda.

1973 - The Northern Territory sees the latest arrival of the monsoon, to date.

1974 - The devastating 1974 Brisbane floods begin.

2011 - A revolution began in Egypt with the demonstrations that demanded the end of President Hosni Mubarak’s rule.

BIRTHDAYS

Robert Boyle 1627 Robert Burns 1759

W. Somerset Maugham 1874 Ernst F. W. Alexanderson 1878 Virginia Woolf 1882 Edwin Newman 1919 Barbara Carroll 1925 Eduard Shevardnadze 1928 President of Georgia

Dean Jones 1931 - Actor Corazon Aquino 1933 Elizabeth Allen 1934

Diana Hyland (Gentner) 1936 Etta James 1938

Leigh Taylor-Young 1944 Richard Finch (KC and the Sunshine Band) 1954 Jennifer Lewis 1957

Dinah Manoff 1958 - Actress Andy Cox (Fine Young Cannibals) 1960

Mike Burch (River Road) 1966 Kina Cosper (Brownstone) 1969 China Kantner 1971

Mia Kirshner 1975 - Actress