This Day in History January 25
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This Day in History
January 25
1822 Niels Christian Jensen Block, Mr. Seeley’s great- great-grandfather who immigrated to America in 1855, is born in Alborg, Denmark
1863 Abraham Lincoln removes General Ambrose Burnside as commander of the Union Army of the Potomac after only 2 months
1905 The world’s largest diamond, weighing 1.33 pounds, is discovered in South Africa
1924 The first Winter Olympics open in the French Alps with just 14 events
1938 Blues singer Etta James, best known for the enduring ballad “At Last,” is born Jamesetta Hawkins in Los Angeles
1949 The first Emmy awards, given for television excellence, are held in Los Angeles
1952 Pablo Ortiz, a New York Port Authority employee who helped save over 75 people in the North Tower of the World Trade Center on 9/11, is born in New York City— he died when the tower collapsed
1961 John F. Kennedy becomes the first U.S. president to hold a live television news conference
1971 In Los Angeles, cult leader Charles Manson and three of his followers are convicted of seven brutal 1969 murders
1981 Singer-songwriter Alicia Keys is born Alicia Augello Cook in New York City— her debut album, Songs in A Minor, reached #1 in 2001
1984 John Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono, donates $375,000 to Strawberry Field, an orphanage in the Beatles’ hometown of Liverpool, England—it served as the inspiration for the Beatles song “Strawberry Fields Forever”
2021 On Friday, baseball’s real Home Run king Hank Aaron, who finished his career with 755 home runs, died at age 86— Aaron broke Babe Ruth’s record in 1974, and Barry Bonds “broke” Aaron’s record in 2007
2021 Larry King, a legendary radio and TV interviewer, died Saturday in Los Angeles at age 87— he had recently been hospitalized with COVID-19
2021 Betty Munk Barton, Mr. Seeley’s aunt, died yesterday in Manti, Utah, at the age of 98—only one of Mr. Seeley’s maternal grandparents’ eleven children is still living
2021 On Friday, WalletHub released a study comparing the 50 states and the District of Columbia on five key COVID-19 metrics: vaccination rate, positive testing rate, hospitalization rate, death rate, and transmission rate—Arizona ranks last overall in the study
2021 The House of Representatives is expected to send the article of impeachment against former President Donald Trump to the Senate today, officially beginning the impeachment trial process— the actual trial is expected to begin February 8
2021 President Biden is expected to reinstate COVID-19 travel restrictions that were in place for most of 2020 and were rescinded by President Trump days before the end of his term
2021 President Biden is expected to reverse President Trump’s 2017 ban on transgender people serving in the U.S. military—the reversal could happen as soon as today
2021 A reward of $70,000 has been offered to anyone with information leading to the capture of two men who escaped from prison in Florence, Arizona, on Saturday
2021 Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced yesterday that he has tested positive for COVID-19—he stated that his symptoms are mild
2021 Newly released state data shows that deaths in Arizona in 2020 were 25% higher than in 2019
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