History for January 25

History for January 25 - On-This-Day.com

Eduard Shevardnadze 1928 - President of Georgia

• 1533 - England's King Henry VIII secretly married his second wife Anne Boleyn. Boleyn later gave birth to Elizabeth I.
• 1858 - Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" was presented for the first time at the wedding of the daughter of Queen Victoria and the Crown Prince of Prussia.
• 1924 - The 1st Winter Olympic Games were inaugurated in Chamonix in the French Alps.
• 1981 - The 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived in the United States and were reunited with their families.
• 1999 - In Louisville, KY, man received the first hand transplant in the United States.