1881 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
1890 – Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
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1915 – All South African Schools until this day only taught classes in Dutch or English, opening with the name Government Skool.
1924 – The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
1938 – The aurora borealis (Northern lights) were seen as far South as London’s West End and throughout Western Europe due to intense sunspot activities.
1947: Al Capone, a Chicago gang boss in the prohibition era, died of a heart attack at the age of 48, days after suffering a stroke.
1961 – In Washington, D.C. John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
1971 – A military Coup d’état deposes Milton Obote, Ugandas Prime Minister since independence in 1962. The coup ushered in the autocratic regime of Idi Amin Dada who will begin mass killings to maintain his dictatorship.
1990 – A Boeing 707 jet crashed on Long Island in New York State after running out of fuel, killing 77 people including the pilot. more than 80 passengers survived.
2004 – Opportunity rover (MER-B) lands on the surface of Mars.
Famous Birthdays:
1949: Paul Nurse, 75
was born in 1949, Norwich, United Kingdom. He is an English geneticist, former President of the Royal Society and Chief Executive and Director of the Francis Crick Institute.
1981: Alicia Keys (born January 25, 1981, New York, New York, U.S.) American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress, who achieved enormous success in the early 2000s with her blend of R&B and soul music.
Keys began performing at age four and playing piano at age seven, concentrating on classical music and jazz.
1978: Volodymyr Zelenskyy , 46
He is a Ukrainian politician who has been serving as the sixth president of Ukraine since 2019. He was formerly a comedian and actor. Born to a Ukrainian Jewish family, Zelenskyy grew up as a native Russian speaker in Kryvyi Rih, a major city of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in central Ukraine. He is 46 today.
1980: Xavi Terrassa, 43
Spanish football (soccer) player and manager who was widely regarded as one of the best midfielders in the world in the early 21st century.
At age 11 Xavi joined the youth squad of FC Barcelona, a first-division football club near his hometown. He advanced through the club’s various junior ranks before making his first-team debut in 1998.
1882: Virginia Woolf (born January 25, 1882, in London, England—died March 28, 1941, near Rodmell, Sussex) English writer whose novels, through their nonlinear approaches to narrative, exerted a major influence on the genre. While she is best known for her novels, especially Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927)
