January 25

But his delight is in the law of the LORD, And in His law he meditates day and night.


– Psalm 1:2 

January is:

• Human Resources Month - Honors human resources executives in companies. Sponsor: Personnel Journal.
  
  
• January Diet Month - Promotes a healthy eating plan after the winter holidays. Sponsor: The Popcorn Institute.
  
  
• March of Dimes Birth Defects Month - Encourages the fight to prevent birth defects. Sponsor: March of Dimes Foundation.

Today is:

• A Room of One's Own Day - Find a private place to enjoy silence and aloneness. Sponsor: Wellness Permission League.
  
  
• Emmy Awards Birthday - The first Emmys were given out on this day in 1949. 
  
  
• Fluoride Day - In 1945, Grand Rapids, Michigan, was the first city to add fluoride to their drinking water.

Born on this Day

 

	0749: Leo IV (the Khazar), Byzantine Emperor
	1627: Irish natural philosopher Robert Boyle, a founder of modern chemistry
	1759: Scottish poet Robert Burns
	1783: Soapmaker and philanthropist William Colgate
	1860: Charles Curtis, 31st U.S. Vice President.
	1874: Novelist, poet William Somerset Maugham (Of Human Bondage, The Razor’s Edge)
	1882: Novelist Virginia Woolf
	19??: Matt Odmark (Jars of Clay)
	1913: Composer Witold Lutoslawski (Warsaw)
	1919: Journalist-author Edwin Newman
	1924: Sportscaster Lou Groza
	1925: Pianist Barbara Carroll
	1926: Basketball Hall of Famer Dick McGuire ‘Tricky Dick’
	1927: Actor Gregg Palmer
	1928: Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze
	1931: Actor Dean Jones (The Love Bug, Tea and Sympathy, Beethoven)
	1933: The former president of the Philippines, Corazon Aquino
	1934: Actress Elizabeth Allen (The Paul Lynde Show, C.P.O. Sharkey, Bracken’s World)
	1936: Actress Diana (Gentner) Hyland (The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, One Man’s Way, Eight is Enough, Peyton Place)
	1938: Blues singer Etta James (Wallflower, Good Rockin’ Daddy, All I Could Do Was Cry, Tell Me Mama, I’ve Found a Love)
	1941: Auto racer Buddy Baker (Fastest win ever in the Daytona 500: 177.602mph [1980])
	1942: Football Defensive end Carl Eller
	1943: Movie director Tobe Hooper ("The Texas Chainsaw Massacre")
	1944: Actress Leigh Taylor-Young (I Love You Alice B. Toklas, Soylent Green, Can’t Stop the Music, Honeymoon Academy, Peyton Place, Dallas)
	1945: Baseball pitcher Wally Bunker
	1954: Songwriter and musician Richard Finch (Group: KC and the Sunshine Band: Blow Your Whistle, Do It Good, Queen of Hearts, Rock Your Baby, Get Down Tonight, That’s the Way [I like It], Please Don’t Go)
	1957: Actress Jenifer Lewis
	1958: Actress Dinah Manoff (I Ought to be in Pictures, Soap, Empty Nest)
	1960: Andy Cox
	1966: Country musician Mike Burch (River Road)
	1969: Rhythm-and-blues singer Kina Cosper (Brownstone)
	1970: Richard Griece
	1972: Actress China Kantner

Events in History on this day
  

 

• 0098: Death of Nerva, Roman Emperor
  

• 0363: Death of Sts. Juventinus and Maximinus
  

• 0477: Death of Gaiseric, King of the Vandals
  

• 0817: Consecration of Paschal I as Pope
  

• 1077: Emperor Henry IV submits to Pope Gregory VII at Canossa
  

• 1138: Death of Anacletus, anti-Pope
  

• 1356: Edward III, King of England, having no further use for him, pensions off Edward Balliol, "King" of Scots
  

• 1494: Death of Ferrante I, King of Aragon
  

• 1498: Vasco da Gama reaches Quelimane, on the Sofala coast
  

• 1502: Marriage of Margaret, daughter of Henry VII, King of England, to James IV, King of Scotland
  

• 1533: England's King Henry the Eighth secretly married his second wife, Anne Boleyn (who later gave birth to Elizabeth the First).
  

• 1559: Elizabeth I's first Parliament convenes
  

• 1579: The Treaty of Utrecht was signed, marking the beginning of the Dutch Republic.
  

• 1627: Death of Louis Hebert
  

• 1787: Shays's Rebellion suffered a setback when debt-ridden farmers led by Captain Daniel Shays failed to capture an arsenal at Springfield, Massachusetts.
  

• 1817: Rossini's version of "Cinderella" premiered in Rome.
  

• 1858: Mendelssohn’s "Wedding March" was presented for the first time, as the daughter of Queen Victoria married the Crown Prince of Prussia.
  

• 1878: A Turkish steamer became the first ship to be sunk by a torpedo, fired from a Russian boat.
  

• 1890: Nellie Bly, a young New York reporter, completed a trip around the world in the astounding time of 72 days, six hours and 11 minutes.
  

• 1890: The United Mine Workers of America was founded.
  

• 1902: Russia abolishes the death penalty.
  

• 1904: Two-hundred coal miners are entombed in an explosion in Pennsylvania.
  

• 1908: Five San Francisco scientists photograph the corona of the sun.
  

• 1909: The controversial Richard Strauss opera "Elektra" was premiered in Dresden.
  

• 1915: The inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, inaugurated US transcontinental telephone service when Alexander Bell in New York calls Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
  

• 1918: Austria and Germany reject U.S. peace proposals.
  

• 1919: The League of Nation’s plan is adopted by the Allies.
  

• 1924: The first Winter Olympics began at Chamonix, France.
  

• 1927: Jack Benny married Sadye Marks (Mary Livingstone).
  

• 1929: Members of the New York Stock Exchange ask for an additional 275 seats.
  

• 1930: New York police rout a Communist rally at the Town Hall.
  

• 1932: The U.S.S.R. signs a non-aggression pact with Poland.
  

• 1937: NBC radio presented the first broadcast of "The Guiding Light". The program became the longest-running story line in daytime drama. The radio show remained until 1956. "The Guiding Light" began its long run on CBS-TV in 1952.
  

• 1940: Mary Martin recorded "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" -- for Decca Records.
  

• 1946: The United Mine Workers rejoined the American Federation of Labor.
  

• 1947: American gangster Al Capone died in Miami Beach, Florida, at age 48.
  

• 1949: 1st Emmy Awards are given out.
  

• 1950: U.S. State Department official Alger Hiss was found guilty of perjury after he concealed his membership in the Communist Party.
  

• 1955: Columbia University scientists develop an atomic clock that is accurate to within one second in 300 years.
  

• 1956: Khrushchev says that he believes that Eisenhower is sincere in his efforts to abolish war.
  

• 1959: American Airlines opened the jet age in the United States with the first scheduled transcontinental flight of a Boeing 707. (LA to NY for $301).
  

• 1959: Pope John XXIII, 90 days after his election, announced his intention to hold an ecumenical church council. (The Vatican II Council officially opened October 11, 1962 and closed December 8, 1965.)
  

• 1961: President Kennedy held the first presidential news conference carried live on radio and television.
  

• 1964: The Beatles reached the #1 spot on the music charts, as their hit single, "I Want to Hold Your Hand" grabbed the top position.
  

• 1971: Charles Manson and three women followers were convicted in Los Angeles of murder and conspiracy in the 1969 slayings of seven people, including actress Sharon Tate.
  

• 1971: Army officers led by Idi Amin deposed Milton Obote, and he became president of Uganda.
  

• 1972: Shirley Chisholm announces candidacy for president as Democrat.
  

• 1972: Nixon airs the eight-point peace plan for Vietnam, asking for POW release in return for withdrawal.
  

• 1978: Muriel Humphrey was appointed to fill the Senate seat left vacant by the death of her husband, Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota.
  

• 1984: President Reagan endorses the development of the first U.S. permanently manned space station.
  

• 1986: NASA postponed the launch of the space shuttle Challenger, originally planned for the next day, because of an unfavorable weather forecast.
  

• 1988: His final State of the Union address, President Reagan declared America was "strong, prosperous, at peace," and called for approval of the INF Treaty by Congress and renewal of aid for the Nicaraguan Contras.
  

• 1988: Vice President George Bush and Dan Rather clashed on "The CBS Evening News" as the anchorman attempted to question the Republican presidential candidate about his role in the Iran-Contra affair.
  

• 1989: The Senate Armed Services Committee opened confirmation hearings on the nomination of John Tower to be secretary of defense.
  

• 1990: Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto gave birth to a girl, the first-ever head of government to give birth while still in office.
  

• 1990: A Colombian jetliner with little fuel left crashed in Long Island, N.Y., after missing its first approach to Kennedy Airport. 73 people were killed.
  

• 1990: Actress Ava Gardner died in London at age 67.
  

• 1990: The Senate failed by four votes to override President Bush's veto of a statutory guarantee of asylum for Chinese students in United States.
  

• 1991: Utah Govenor Norman Bangerter signed into law the strictest anti-abortion measure in the nation.
  

• 1991: Military officials said Iraq had sabotaged Kuwait's main supertanker loading pier, dumping millions of gallons of crude oil into the Persian Gulf. 
  

• 1991: Missiles fired from western Iraq struck in the Tel Aviv and Haifa areas, killing one Israeli and injuring more than 40 others.
  

• 1993: Sears Roebuck & Co. announced it was shutting down its pioneering catalog operation.
  

• 1993: A gunman shot and killed two CIA employees outside agency headquarters in Virginia (a Pakistani national, Mir Aimal Kansi, was later tried and convicted of the shootings).
  

• 1993: President Clinton appointed his wife, Hillary, to head a committee on health-care reform.
  

• 1994: Michael Jackson reached an out-of-court settlement in the civil lawsuit brought by a teenage boy who accused the performer of molesting him.
  

• 1994: President Clinton delivered his State of the Union address in which he challenged Congress to pass comprehensive health care reforms.
  

• 1994: The United States launched "Clementine One," an unmanned spacecraft that was to study the moon before it was "lost and gone forever."
  

• 1995: The defense gave its opening statement in the O.J. Simpson trial in Los Angeles, saying Simpson was the victim of a "rush to judgment" by authorities who had mishandled evidence and ignored witnesses.
  

• 1995: A missile fired by Norway as part of a scientific research program triggered an air defense alert in Russia.
  

• 1996: The Council of Europe parliamentary assembly voted to admit Russia to the 38-nation body despite fierce criticism of its military crackdown in Chechnya and its human rights record.
  

• 1996: With Republicans bruised by two government shutdowns, the House overwhelmingly approved legislation to keep federal agencies running through March 15th, 1996. 
  

• 1997: Responding to recent cases of deadly food poisoning, President Clinton said in his weekly radio address that he would seek 43 million dollars to implement a state-of-the-art early warning system for food contamination.
  

• 1997: As predicted astrologer Jeane Dixon died in Washington DC at age 79.
  

• 1998: Pope John Paul the Second ended his historic journey to Cuba. The pope criticized Cuba's state education system, called for political prisoners to be "reinserted into society" and urged freedom of expression and religious freedom.
  

• 1998: American astronaut Andrew Thomas moved from the space shuttle "Endeavour" into the Russian space station "Mir" as the relief for David Wolf.
  

• 1998: The Denver Broncos won their first Super Bowl title in four tries, defeating the Green Bay Packers, 31-to-24. A spontaneous Super Bowl street party stared peacefuly but ended with helmeted police using tear gas to disperse revelers who were overturning cars and looting. Twenty people were arrested and 40 were injured during the celebration by an estimated 20,000 jubilant fans.
  

• 1999: Jury selection began in Jasper, Texas, in the trial of John William King, accused in the dragging death of James Byrd Junior.
  

• 1999: A powerful earthquake rocked Colombia, killing more than one-thousand people.
  

• 1999: The Supreme Court ruled, five-to-four, that the 2000 census could not use statistical sampling to enhance its accuracy.
  

• 1999: In Louisville, Kentucky, a man who'd lost his left hand received the first hand transplant in the United States.
  

• 2000: Under government orders, the Florida relatives of Elian Gonzalez agreed to make the boy available for a meeting with his Cuban grandmothers at a neutral site. 
  

• 2000: Lesbian pro tennis player, Martina Navratilova entered the International Tennis Hall of Fame. 
  
  
  

 

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