On this day....

On this day

January 25

1327 – King Edward III acceded to the English throne

1627 – Physicist Robert Boyle, was born in Lismore, Co. Waterford

1939 – Ten thousand people died in an earthquake in Chile

1964 – In the US, “I Want to Hold your Hand” reached No 1 in the US charts,

1971 – Major General Idi Amin staged a military coup in Uganda

1983 – Former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie was arrested in Bolivia

1989 – US basketball legend Michael Jordan scores his 10,000th NBA point

1998 – David and Victoria Beckham got engaged

1999 – The film The Blair Witch Project premiered at the Sundance Film Festval

2019 – The documentary “Leaving Neverland” about Michael Jackson’s friendship with two minors premiered at the Sundance Film Festival