
01-24-2013, 08:16 PM
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January 25th
1627 ~ Birthday of Robert Boyle, Chemist.
1759 ~ Birthday of Robert Burns, Poet.
1882 ~ Birthday of Virginia Woolf, Writer.
1890 ~ Nellie Bly completed her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
1919 ~ The League of Nations was founded.
1947 ~ Death of Al Capone, Gangster.
1971 ~ General Idi Amin becomes Ugandan President Idi Amin after a coup.
1977 ~ Rene Levesque told a Wall Street audience at the Economic Club of New York that “separation is inevitable”.
2004 ~ Opportunity landed on Mars.
2011 ~ The Arab Spring arrives in Egypt, with street demonstrations, marches, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes in Cairo, and Alexandria.
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