25th January: Today In History

Today is January,  the 25th day of 2016. There are 332,days left in the year.
Today's Highlight In History;

Events;
1533 Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn
1787 Small farmers in Springfield, Massachusetts led by Daniel Shays, revolt against tax laws. Federal troops break up the protesters of what becomes known as Shay’s Rebellion 
1846 The dreaded Corn Laws, which taxed imported oats, wheat and barley, are repealed by the British Parliament
1904 Two-hundred coal miners are trapped in their Pennsylvania mine after an explosion
1915 Alexander Graham Bell in New York and Thomas Watson in San Francisco make a record telephone transmission
1918 Austria and Germany reject U.S. peace proposals
1919 The League of Nations plan is adopted by the Allies
1929 Members of the New York Stock Exchange ask for an additional 275 seats
1930 New York police rout a Communist rally at the Town Hall
1943 The last German airfield inStalingrad is captured by theRed Army
1949 Axis Sally, who broadcasted Nazi propaganda to U.S. troops in Europe, stands trial in the United States for war crimes
1951 The U.S. Eighth Army in Korea launches Operation Thunderbolt, a counter attack to push the Chinese Army north of the Han River
1955 Columbia University scientists develop an atomic clock that is accurate to within one second in 300 years.
1956 Khrushchev says that he believes that Eisenhower is sincere in his efforts to abolish war
1959 American Airlines begins its first coast-to-coast flight service on a Boeing 707.
1972 Shirley Chisholm, the first African American woman elected to U.S. Congress, announces candidacy for president
1972 Nixon airs the eight-point peace plan for Vietnam, asking for POW release in return for withdrawal
1984 President Reagan endorses the development of the first U.S. permanently-manned space station

Birthday;
1759 Robert Burns, Scottish poet (“Auld Lang Syne,” “Comin’ Thru the Rye.”)
1882 Virginia Woolf, English author (Mrs. Dalloway and Orlando).
1933 Corazon Aquino, president of the Philippines.