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• Today is Saturday, Jan. 25, the 25th day of 2014. There are 340 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Jan. 25, 1924, the first Winter Olympic Games opened in Chamonix (SHAH'-moh-nee), France.
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• On this date:
• In 1533, England's King Henry VIII secretly married his second wife, Anne Boleyn, who later gave birth to Elizabeth I.
• In 1787, Shays's Rebellion suffered a setback when debt-ridden farmers led by Capt. Daniel Shays failed to capture an arsenal at Springfield, Mass.
• In 1863, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln accepted Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside's resignation as commander of the Army of the Potomac, and replaced him with Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker.
• In 1890, reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) of the New York World completed a round-the-world journey in 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes. The United Mine Workers of America was founded in Columbus, Ohio.
• In 1915, Alexander Graham Bell inaugurated U.S. transcontinental telephone service between New York and San Francisco.
• In 1936, former Gov. Al Smith, D-N.Y., delivered a radio address in Washington, titled "Betrayal of the Democratic Party," in which he fiercely criticized the New Deal policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
• In 1947, American gangster Al Capone died in Miami Beach, Fla., at age 48.
• In 1956, Hank Greenberg and Joe Cronin were elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame.
• In 1961, President John F. Kennedy held the first presidential news conference

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