January 25 is:
National Irish Coffee Day
Opposite Day
Birthday of Robert Burns (January 25, 1627), celebrated in Scotland, England, and Newfoundland.
O my Luve’s like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June;
O my Luve’s like the melodie
That’s sweetly play’d in tune.As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I:
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a’ the seas gang dry:Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun:
I will luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands o’ life shall run.And fare thee well, my only Luve
And fare thee well, a while!
And I will come again, my Luve,
Tho’ it were ten thousand mile.
Shays’ Rebellion of 1787: The rebellion’s largest confrontation, outside the Springfield Armory, resulted in the killing of four rebels and the wounding of twenty. In 1787, Shays’ rebels marched on the federal Springfield Armory in an unsuccessful attempt to seize its weaponry and overthrow the government. The federal government found itself unable to finance troops to put down the rebellion, and it was consequently put down by the Massachusetts State militia and a privately funded local militia. The widely held view was that the Articles of Confederation needed to be reformed as the country’s governing document, and the events of the rebellion served as a catalyst for the Constitutional Convention and the creation of the new government.
Publication of Federalist Paper #44: Restrictions on the Authority of the Several States written by James Madison in 1788. In this article, Madison discusses the Constitution’s limitation on the powers of the states. The Anti-Federalists opposed the Constitution on the basis of state sovereignty. Madison explains the necessity of having a “supreme law of the land” and justifies its reserving of some, enumerated powers to the federal government, many of which were in the Articles of Confederation. He discusses the “Necessary and Proper Clause” and the “Supremacy Clause”. He also gives reason to the necessity of state legislative and judicial authorities as well as federal to swear by oath or affirmation to support this Constitution.
“The Wedding March”” by Felix Mendelssohn was played at the marriage of Queen Victoria’s daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia in 1858, and became a popular wedding recessional.
Birthday of W. Somerset Maugham (January 25, 1874), English novelist/playwright who penned The Razor’s Edge and Of Human Bondage.
In 1890 Nellie Bly completed her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
On Jan. 25, 1915, the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, inaugurated U.S. transcontinental telephone service.
On January 25, 1959, American Airlines was the first transcontinental commercial airline to offer flights from Los Angeles to New York. Tickets cost $301.