January 24, 1927Alfred Hitchcock releases his first movie, The Pleasure Garden, in England.

January 25, 1881Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison establish the Oriental Telephone Company. Bell is known as the inventor of the telephone.

January 25, 1971In Uganda, Africa, General Idi Amin leads a military coup to seize power while President Milton Obote is abroad on official business.

January 25, 1755Moscow University, the oldest university in Rus