January 24, 2021
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Today is Monday, Jan. 25, the 25th day of 2021. There are 340 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Jan. 25, 1981, the 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived in the United States.
On this date:
In 1533, England’s King Henry VIII secretly married his second wife, Anne Boleyn, who later gave birth to Elizabeth I.
In 1759, Scottish poet Robert Burns was born in Alloway.
In 1915, America’s first official transcontinental telephone call took place as Alexander Graham Bell, who was in New York, spoke to his former assistant, Thomas Watson, who was in San Francisco, over a line set up by American Telephone & Telegraph.
By The Associated Press
Today is Monday, Jan. 25, the 25th day of 2021. There are 340 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Jan. 25, 1981, the 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived in the United States.
On this date:
In 1533, England’s King Henry VIII secretly married his second wife, Anne Boleyn, who later gave birth to Elizabeth I.
In 1759, Scottish poet Robert Burns was born in Alloway.
In 1915, America’s first official transcontinental telephone call took place as Alexander Graham Bell, who was in New York, spoke to his former assistant, Thomas Watson, who was in San Francisco, over a line set up by American Telephone & Telegraph.
Here are some things that happened on this day in pop music:
– On this day in 1981, Alicia Keyes was born in New York City. She honed her love for singing and acting by attending a performing arts school. Keyes is a Grammy-winning artist, with hits like “Fallin’,” “No One,” and “Girl On Fire.”
– In 1986, Norwegian group A-Ha were at No.1 in the UK with ‘The Sun Always Shines On TV,’ becoming the first ever-Norwegian act to score a UK No.1 hit single.
– In 1994, R Kelly released “Bump n’ Grind,” the second single from his debut studio solo album. The track was written and produced by Kelly, and the track went to No. 1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot R&B Songs charts.
Almanacs are full of lists of global and national historic events. But “This Day in History” feature invites you to not just peruse a list, but to take a trip back in time to see how a significant event originally was reported in the Chicago Tribune.