Tuesday, January 25, 2011

TODAY IN HISTORY

JANUARY 25
1890:New York World journalist Nellie Bly arrives back in New Jersey, completing her around-the-world journey in a record-setting 72 days, eight days faster than the fictional Phileas Fogg of Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days.

1533: King Henry VIII of England marries his second wife, Anne Boleyn. Already pregnant, Boleyn will give birth to a daughter, the future Queen Elizabeth I, on Sept. 7, 1533. Less than three years later, when the royal couple fails to produce a male heir, Henry VIII will have Anne Boleyn beheaded on charges of adultery, incest and treason, thus clearing the way for him to marry the third of his eventual six wives.

1915: In New York, Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates transcontinental telephone service with a phone call to Thomas Watson in San Francisco. Atlantic Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) Company President Theodore Vail in Jekyll Island, Ga., and President Woodrow Wilson in Washington also take part in the historic call.

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