History for January 25:
Events: 1858 - Mendelssohn's Wedding March first played. 1915 - Alexander Bell in New York calls Thomas Watson in San Francisco. 1949 - First Emmy Awards are given out. 1949 - First Israeli election. 1959 - First transcontinental commercial jet flight (LA to NY for $301). 1961 - First live, nationally televised, Presidential news conference conducted by President John F. Kennedy. Birthdays: 1759 - Robert Burns, the Scottish poet. 1874 - Somerset Maugham, poet. 1882 - Virginia Woolf, author. 1919 - Edwin Newman, Network News Correspondent 1934 - Elizabeth Allen in New Jersey 1945 - Leigh Taylor Young in Washington DC
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