Today in History
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1977 The world’s first solar power plant is opened
The solar furnace in Odeillo, France, was the first alternative energy power plant.
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1971 Idi Amin seizes power in Uganda
Human rights violations, political repression, and corruption marked the dictator’s rule (1971-1979).
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1947 The first arcade game is patented
Thomas Goldsmith’s “Cathode ray tube amusement device” is considered the ancestor of video games.
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1924 The first Winter Olympics begin
The I Olympic Winter Games were held in Chamonix, France.
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1919 The League of Nations is founded
It is the forerunner of the United Nations and the first international organization dedicated to world peace.
Births On This Day, January 25
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1981 Alicia Keys
American singer-songwriter, pianist, actress
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1933 Corazon Aquino
Filipino politician, 11th President of the Philippines
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1913 Witold Lutosławski
Polish composer, conductor
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1882 Virginia Woolf
English author, critic
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1759 Robert Burns
Scottish poet
Deaths On This Day, January 25
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2005 Philip Johnson
American architect, designed the IDS Center, PPG Place
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1982 Mikhail Suslov
Soviet politician
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1954 M. N. Roy
Indian activist, theorist
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1947 Al Capone
American gangster
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389 Gregory of Nazianzus
Turkish archbishop, theologian
