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01/25/1925
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Eric Dempster, cricketer (NZ slow bowl of mid-50's, bowling avg 109.5)
Type: Birth
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01/25/1927
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Gregg Palmer, SF, actor (Scream, To Hell and Back)
Type: Birth
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01/25/1927
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Seung Sahn, zen teacher (Korean line)
Type: Birth
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01/25/1927
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Antonio Carlos Jobim, composer
Type: Birth
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01/25/1928
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Eduard Shevardnadze, Soviet Georgia, foreign minister of USSR (-91)
Type: Birth
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01/25/1929
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Bradman scores 340* for NSW v Victoria, 488 mins, 38 fours
Type: Event
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01/25/1931
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Paavo J Haavikko, finnish writer/poet/husband of Marja-Liisa Vartio
Type: Birth
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01/25/1931
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Dean Jones, Decatur Ala, actor (Ensign O'Toole, Company, Love Bug)
Type: Birth
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01/25/1931
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Stikkan, Stig Anderson, music entrepreneur
Type: Birth
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01/25/1931
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Harold Lloyd Jr, actor (Frankenstein's Daughter)
Type: Birth
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01/25/1932
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Bradman scores 167 NSW v Victoria, 224 mins, 22 fours
Type: Event
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01/25/1932
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1st commencement exercises at Hebrew U in Jerusalem
Type: Event
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01/25/1933
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Coraz¢n Aquino, president of Philippines (1986-92)
Type: Birth
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01/25/1934
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Elizabeth Allen, Jersey City NJ, actress (Laura-Bracken's World)
Type: Birth
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01/25/1936
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Dan Schaefer, (Rep-R-CO, 1983- )
Type: Birth
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01/25/1936
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Diana Hyland, Cleve Hgts Ohio, actress (Peyton Place, 8 is Enough)
Type: Birth
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01/25/1937
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Miami-to-Tampa bus overturned in a canal, kills 13
Type: Event
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01/25/1937
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1st broadcast of "Guiding Light" on NBC radio
Type: Event
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01/25/1937
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Soap Opera "Guiding Light" premieres on radio
Type: Event
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01/25/1937
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Kathleen Tynan Halton, writer
Type: Birth
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01/25/1937
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Don Maynard, NFL receiver (NY Jets), #13
Type: Birth
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01/25/1938
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Etta James, [Jamesette Hawkins], US singer (Roll With Me Henry)
Type: Birth
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01/25/1938
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Betico Croes, Arubian politician (Status Aparte)
Type: Birth
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01/25/1938
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Ian Hay's "Bachelor Born," premieres in NYC
Type: Event
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01/25/1939
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Earthquake hits Chill n Chile, 10,000 killed
Type: Event
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01/25/1939
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Joe Louis KOs John Henry Lewis in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
Type: Event
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01/25/1940
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Nazi decrees establishment of Jewish ghetto in Lodz Poland
Type: Event
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01/25/1941
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Elzie "Buddy" Baker, race-car driver
Type: Birth
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01/25/1942
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Lt General Rommels African corps reaches Msus
Type: Event
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01/25/1942
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Eugene Samuel-Holeman, composer, dies at 78
Type: Death
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01/25/1945
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NY Yankees sold by Ruppert estate to Larry MacPhail, Dan Topping, and
Type: Event
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01/25/1945
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Grand Rapids, Michigan becomes 1st US city to fluoridate its water
Type: Event
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01/25/1945
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Dan Topping, Del Webb and Larry MacPhail purchase NY Yanks for $2.8 mil
Type: Event
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01/25/1945
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Leigh Taylor-Young, Wash DC, actress (Peyton Place, Alice B Toklas)
Type: Birth
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01/25/1945
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Japanese occupiers of Batavia arrest Indo-European youths
Type: Event
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01/25/1945
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West Africa 82nd division occupies Myohaung, Burma
Type: Event
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01/25/1946
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Richard Strauss' "Metamorphosis," premieres in Zurich
Type: Event
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01/25/1946
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Silvio Blatter, writer
Type: Birth
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01/25/1946
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United Mine Workers union rejoins American Federation of Labor
Type: Event
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01/25/1946
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Ronnie Brandon, rocker (McCoys)
Type: Birth
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01/25/1946
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Josephine M Verspaget, sociologist/Dutch MP (PvdA)
Type: Birth
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01/25/1947
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Al Capone, Chicago gangster, dies of syphilis at 48
Type: Death
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01/25/1947
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Grace Moore, soprano/actress (One Night of Love), dies at 45
Type: Death
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01/25/1949
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Emil Axman, composer, dies at 61
Type: Death
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01/25/1949
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1st Emmy Awards: Shirley Dinsdale and Pantomime Quiz (KTLA) win
Type: Event
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01/25/1949
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1st Israeli election - Ben-Gurion's Mapai party wins
Type: Event
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01/25/1950
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Gloria Naylor, US author (Women of Brewster Place)
Type: Birth
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01/25/1950
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Michael Cotton, rocker (Tubes)
Type: Birth
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01/25/1950
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73øF (23øC) highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in January
Type: Event
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01/25/1951
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UN begins counter offensive in Korea
Type: Event
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