History Quiz / On this Day... 01/25

Scottish poet Robert Burns is born

ontinental Congress authorizes the first national Revolutionary War memorial in honor of Brigadier General Richard Montgomery

Premier Mine in Pretoria, South Africa, a 3,106-carat diamond is discovered during a routine inspection by the mine’s superintendent. Weighing 1.33 pounds, and christened the “Cullinan,” it was the largest diamond ever found.

Delegates to the peace conference formally approve the establishment of a commission on the League of Nations.

The first Winter Olympics take off in style at Chamonix in the French Alps.

Thailand declares war on the United States and England

First Emmy Awards ceremony

President John F. Kennedy becomes the first U.S. president to hold a live televised news conference.

The Israeli submarine Dakar, carrying 69 sailors, disappears

Charles Manson and his followers convicted of murder

Paul McCartney is released from a Tokyo jail and deported from Japan

Chairman Mao’s widow sentenced to death

Russia activates its nuclear command systems for the first time

A Wichita, Kansas, television station receives a postcard from the BTK killer that leads police to discover a Post Toasties cereal box that had been altered to contain the letters BTK

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