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25 January. On this day….
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41 AD After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate 1554 Founding of the city of São Paulo in Brazil 1802 Napoleon Bonaparte elected president of Italian (Cisalpine) Republic 1840 American naval expedition under Charles Wilkes is first to identify Antarctica as a new continent 1858 Felix Mendelssohn 's "Wedding March" first played , at wedding of Queen Victoria 's daughter Princess Victoria, to crown prince of Prussia.
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1881 Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company . 1915 Alexander Graham Bell in NY calls Thomas Watson in San Francisco 1924 1st Winter Olympic Games open in Chamonix, France 1942 Lt General Rommels African corps reaches Msus.
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1947 Johannes Frederick Janse van Rensburg is born. 1959 1st transcontinental commercial jet flight (American) (LA to NY for $301 ) 1961 1st live, nationally televised presidential newsconference with JFK 1964 The Beatles get their first US #1 , "I Want to Hold your Hand" (Cashbox ) 1971 Military coup in Uganda under Major General Idi Amin.
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1974 Dr Christiaan Barnard transplants 1st heterotopic heart transplant ( adding donor heart without removal of old ) 1980 Paul McCartney is released from Tokyo jail & deported 1989 Michael Jordan scores his 10,000th NBA point in his 5th season 1990 Avianca Flight 52, runs out of fuel & crashes in Cove Neck NY, 73 die 1991 Soap opera "Generation's" last episode after a 2½ year run 1992 Hubble space telescope optics finds NGC3862/3C264.
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1999 Earthquake hits Colombia, South America, killing around 300 and injuring 1000 2004 NASA's Opportunity rover (MER-B) lands on the surface of Mars 2013 Tropical cyclone Oswald makes landfall in Queensland, Australia , causing mass flooding 2019 Longest-ever US government shutdown ends after 35 days when President Donald Trump agrees to three week of negotiations on border security by a House-Senate conference committee.
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2022 Johan van Rensburg turns 75… and the rest, as they say is history ….