Today is Monday, January 25, the 25th day of 2010. There are 340 days left in the year.
1533 _ England's King Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn (approximate date)
1799 _ First U.S. patent for a seeding machine, Eliakim Spooner, Vermont
1802 _ Napoleon elected president of the Italian (Cisalpine) Republic
1858 _ Mendelssohn's ``Wedding March" first played, at wedding of Queen Victoria's daughter Princess Victoria, to crown prince of Prussia
1918 _ Russia declared a republic of Soviets
1919 _ Founding of League of Nations, first meeting one year later
1924 _ First Winter Olympic games open in Chamonix, France
1951 _ U.N. begins counter offensive in Korea
1964 _ Beatles first U.S. No. 1, ``I Want to Hold your Hand" (Cashbox)
1993 _ 20th American Music Award; Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey win