On this day....
On this day
January 25
1327 – King Edward III acceded to the English throne
1627 – Physicist Robert Boyle, was born in Lismore, Co. Waterford
1939 – Ten thousand people died in an earthquake in Chile
1964 – In the US, “I Want to Hold your Hand” reached No 1 in the US charts,
1971 – Major General Idi Amin staged a military coup in Uganda
1983 – Former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie was arrested in Bolivia
1989 – US basketball legend Michael Jordan scores his 10,000th NBA point
1998 – David and Victoria Beckham got engaged
1999 – The film The Blair Witch Project premiered at the Sundance Film Festval
2019 – The documentary “Leaving Neverland” about Michael Jackson’s friendship with two minors premiered at the Sundance Film Festival