January 25<\/p>\n
1554 \u2013 S\u00e3o Paulo, (Saint Paul) Brazil, is founded.<\/p>\n
1585 \u2013 Walter Raleigh is knighted, shortly after renaming a region of North America “Virginia”, in honor of Queen Elizabeth I.<\/p>\n
1787 \u2013 In the largest action of Shays’s Rebellion,\u00a0Shaysites march on the federal Springfield Armory in an unsuccessful attempt to seize its weaponry with 4 killed and 20 wounded.<\/p>\n
1819 \u2013 The University of Virginia is chartered, with Thomas Jefferson one of its founders.<\/p>\n
1881 \u2013 Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Bell Telephone Company of New York and the Anglo-Indian Telephone Company, Ltd with licenses to sell telephones in Greece, Turkey, South Africa, India, Japan, China, ‘and other Asian countries’.<\/p>\n
1915 \u2013 Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.<\/p>\n
1945 \u2013 The ‘Battle of the Bulge’ ends with the final collapse of the German\u00a0 offensive in the Ardennes<\/p>\n
1947 \u2013 Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a “Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device”, which simulates firing an artillery shell, the first ever electronic game.<\/p>\n
1961 \u2013 In Washington, D.C., President Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.<\/p>\n
1971 \u2013 Charles Manson and three female “Family” members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate\u2013LaBianca murders.<\/p>\n
1990 \u2013 Avianca Flight 52, a Boeing 707, en route from from Bogot\u00e1, Colombia, to New York City crashes in Cove Neck, New York, while attempting to land, killing 73 of the 158 passengers and crew on board.<\/p>\n
1993 \u2013 Outside CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia, Mir Aimal Kansi shoots and kills 2 CIA employees in their cars as they were waiting at a stoplight, wounding 3 others.<\/p>\n
1996 \u2013 In Delaware, Billy Bailey becomes the last person to be executed by hanging in the U.S.<\/p>\n
1999 \u2013 A 6.2 magnitude earthquake centered about 25 miles west south west of Ibagu\u00e9, Colombia kills at least 1,000.<\/p>\n
2019 \u2013 A C\u00f3rrego do Feij\u00e3o iron ore mine tailing dam collapses in Brumadinho, Brazil, killing at least 7 people and leaving 200 missing.<\/p>\n
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