Today in History - History - January 25th

197510th hat trick in Islander history-Denis Potvin's 1st

1971Charles Manson & 3 women followers convicted of Tate-LaBianca murders

1980Paul McCartney is released from Tokyo jail & deported

1915Alexander Graham Bell in NY calls Thomas Watson in SF

198775th Australian Mens Tennis: S Edberg beats Pat Cash (63 64 36 57 63)

199320th American Music Award: Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey win

198815th American Music Award: Anita Baker, Paul Simon & Whitney Houston

1929Bradman scores 340* for NSW v Victoria, 488 mins, 38 fours

1998Britain's Queen Mother, 97, gets an emergency hip replacement

1802Napoleon Bonaparte elected president of Italian (Cisalpine) Republic

1759Robert Burns, Alloway Scotland, poet (Auld Lang Syne), (d. 1796)

1933Corazon Aquino, 11th President of the Philippines (1986-92)

1981Alicia Keys [Cook], New York NY, singer-songwriter (Fallin, Where Do We Go From Here)

17Messalina, Rome, Roman Empress (wife of Claudius, infamous for her promiscuity) (either 17 or 20 AD)

1533England's King Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn (approximate date), his 2nd wife

1964Comedian and actor Bill Cosby marries Camille Olivia Hanks

1981Actor Bill Murray (30) weds Margaret Kelly on Super Bowl Sunday in Las Vegas

1871US President William McKinley (27) weds Ida Saxton (23) at the First Presbyterian Church in Canton

1947Al Capone, Chicago gangster, dies of neurosyphilis at 48

1990Ava Gardner, actress (Barefoot Contessa), dies of pneumonia at 67