Random News: January 25, 2024

DISCLAIMER: Zak's Random News is very random and doesn't cover many things, and not everything may be accurate, because I'm just some guy. Go find a real news source.

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Good morning. It’s January 25, 2024, and it’s a Thursday. I am not able to do my news today since I am being a business drone. Here are some historical things nonetheless.

• Today in history… Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn (1533). São Paulo, Brazil, is founded by Jesuit priests (1554). University of Virginia chartered by Commonwealth of Virginia, with Thomas Jefferson one of its founders (1819). The ‘Wedding March’ by Felix Mendelssohn is played at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, and becomes a popular wedding processional (1858). Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company (1881). Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco (1915). The Ukrainian People's Republic declares independence from Soviet Russia (1918). The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games (1924). ‘The Guiding Light’ debuts on NBC radio from Chicago (1937). Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game (1947). The first Emmy Awards are presented in the United States (1949). The National Association of Broadcasters in the United States reacts to the "payola" scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accept money for playing particular records (1960). Blue Ribbon Sports, which would later become Nike, is founded by University of Oregon track and field athletes (1964). Charles Manson and four "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate–LaBianca murders (1971). The first wave of the Egyptian revolution begins throughout the country, marked by street demonstrations, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes (2011). 
• January 25 is the birthday of chemist/physicist Robert Boyle (1627), poet Robert Burns (1759), businessman William Colgate (1783), abolitionist/activist/educator Anna Gardner (1816),  writer W. Somerset Maugham (1874), writer Virginia Woolf (1882), conductor/composer Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886), singer-songwriter Sleepy John Estes (1899), politician Corazon Aquino (1933), singer Etta James (1938), director Tobe Hooper (1943), runner Steve Prefontaine (1951), NHL player Chris Chelios (1962), NFL player Mark Schlereth (1966), singer-songwriter Emily Haines (1974), politician Volodymyr Zelenskyy (1978), and singer-songwriter Alicia Keys (1981).

I'll be back. Enjoy your day.