January 25
1890
United Mine Workers of America was founded.
1915
Alexander Graham Bell inaugurated transcontinental telephone service.
1924
The first Winter Olympic games opened at Chamonix, France.
1961
President John F. Kennedy held the first presidential news conference carried live on radio and television.
1971
Charles Manson was found guilty of murdering Sharon Tate and six others.
Birthdays
Virginia Woolf
1882–1941, English Writer.
Joseph Louis Lagrange
mathematician and astronomer (1736)
Robert Burns
poet (1759)
George Edward Pickett
Confederate general (1825)
W. Somerset Maugham
writer (1874)
Corazon Aquino
politician (1933)
Eusebio
soccer player (1942)
Steve Prefontaine
runner (1951)
Alicia Keys
singer, songwriter (1981)
Tatiana Golovin
tennis player (1988)