^B{^#!16!25 January^N! Feast day of Saints Juventinus and Maximinimus, the Conversion of St Paul, St Apollo, St Artemas, St Publius, St Dwynwen, St Poppo, and Saint Praejectus or Prix.
^B{1533^B} King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn were secretly married. ^B{1917^B} The US purchased the Danish West Indies (now the Virgin Islands) for $25 million. 1924 The first Winter Olympic Games were inaugurated in Chamonix in the French Alps. ^B{1938^B} Due to intense sunspot activity, the aurora borealis, or 'northern lights', were seen as far south as western Europe. ^B{1971^B} Idi Amin led a coup that deposed Milton Obote and became president of Uganda. ^B{1971^B} At a US court, Charles Manson and others were found guilty of murdering actress Sharon Tate and four others. ^B{1981^B} Jiang Qing, Mao's widow, was tried for treason and received a death sentence, which was subsequently commuted to life imprisonment.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Robert Boyle, Irish physicist and chemist, ^B{1627^B}; Robert Burns, Scottish poet, ^B{1759^B}; William Somerset Maugham, English author, ^B{1874^B}; Virginia Woolf, English author, ^B{1882^B}; Wilhelm FurtwΣngler, German conductor, ^B{1886^B}; Edvard Shevardnadze, Russian politician, ^B{1928^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Marcus Cocceius Nerva, Roman emperor, ^B{AD 98^B}; Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter, ^B{1586^B}; Dorothy Wordsworth, English writer, ^B{1855^B}; Al Capone, US gangster, ^B{1947^B}; Ava Gardner, US film actress, ^B{1990^B}.
