JANUARY 25

Events that happened on January 25:


1858 - The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional after it is played on this day at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia.
1881 - Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
1890 - Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
1915 - Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service.
1918 - Russia declared a republic of Soviets.
1924 - The 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, France (in the French Alps), inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
1929 - birth of Benny Golson, Jazz Musician
1933 - birth of Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines
1945 - Battle of the Bulge ends.
1947 - death of Al Capone, American gangster
1971 - Charles Manson and three female "family members" are found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.
1980 - birth of Alicia Keys, American singer
1990 - death of Ava Gardner, American actress
1995 - The Norwegian Rocket Incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, is mistaken for a US Trident missile by the Olenegorsk early-warning radar station.
2004 - Opportunity (MER-B) lands on surface of Mars.