01-25-2005, 06:22 AM
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January 25th
1627 ~ Birthday of Robert Boyle, Chemist.
1759 ~ Birthday of Robert Burns, Poet
1791 ~ The British Parliament split the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.
1882 ~ Birthday of Virginia Woolf, Writer.
1890 ~ Nellie Bly completed her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
1924 ~ The 1924 Winter Olympics opened in Chamonix, France, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
1947 ~ Death of Al Capone, Gangster.
1971 ~ Idi Amin lead a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.
1995 ~ The Norwegian Rocket Incident: Russia almost launched a nuclear attack after Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, was mistaken for a US Trident missile by the Olenegorsk early-warning radar station.
1999 ~ Death of Robert Shaw, American conductor
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