THIS DAY IN HISTORY – JANUARY 25

HISTORICAL EVENTS

1905 - The world's largest diamond is found in Pretoria, South Africa, 1.33 pounds.

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1919 - A formal commission is established on the League of Nations.

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1924 - The first Winter Olympics begin in Chamonix, France.

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1971 - Charles Manson and followers are convicted of the Tate-Labianaca murders.

1995 - Near launching of Russian nukes after early-warning radar detection.

FAMOUS BIRTHS

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1759 - Robert Burns (The Bard), Alloway Scotland, poet (A Red, Red Rose and Auld Lang Syne), (d. 1796).

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1882 - British author Adeline Virginia Woolf (Jacob's Room, To Lighthouse), (d. 1941).

FAMOUS DEATHS

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1947 - Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone, Chicago gangster, dies at 48. He had suffered a stroke, contracted pneumonia and suffered a fatal cardiac arrest the next day.