THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: JANUARY 25TH 2015
Jan 19, 1937 Howard Hughes flies from Los Angeles to New York in seven hours and 22 minutes. Jan 20, 1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated for his fourth term. Jan 21, 1790 Joseph Guillotine proposes a new a machine designed to cut off the condemned person's head as painlessly as possible. Jan 22, 1879 82 British soldiers hold off attacks by 4,000 Zulu warriors at the Battle of Rorke's Drift in South Africa. Jan 23, 1977 Alex Haley's Roots begins a record-breaking eight-night broadcast on ABC. Jan 24, 41 Shortly after declaring himself a god, Caligula is assassinated by two Praetorian tribunes. Jan 25, 1955 Columbia University scientists develop an atomic clock that is accurate to within one second in 300 years.
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