Today in History, 1/25

1327: Edward III becomes King of England
1533: Henry VIII secretly marries Anne Boleyn.
1627: Robert Boyle is is born. He was the chemist who came up with Boyle's Law.1741: Benedict Arnold is born.
1759: Robert Burns is born.
1787: Daniel Shays leads the aptly named Shay's Rebellion to seize the Federal arsenal to protest debtor's prisons.1825: General George Pickett is born.
1863: General Ambrose Burnside is relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac.
1881: Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
1905: The world's largest diamond, the Cullinan, is discovered in Pretoria, South Africa.1919: The League of Nations is founded.
1924: The first Winter Olympics is held in Chamonix, France.
1945: The Battle of the Bulge ends.
1947: Al Capone dies of a heart attack.1943: Tobe Hooper is born. He directed many horror movies, but he's still most famous for the first one, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
1945: Leigh Taylor-Young is born. She played the "furniture" Shirl in Soylent Green.
1949: The first Emmy Awards are presented.
1971: Charles Manson and three female Family members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders.1971: Idi Amin becomes Uganda's president.
1981: Jiang Qing, Mao Zedong's widow is sentenced to death.
1990: Ava Gardner dies.1995: The Russians mistake a Norwegian research rocket for a US Trident missile and come a hair's breadth from launching their own missiles.

Today in History elements mostly cribbed from The History Channel, Wikipedia, The New York Times, The Jewish World Review, The Writer's Almanac and anything else I can dig up