Today in History for 25th January 2023

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Historical Events

1802 - Napoleon Bonaparte elected president of Italian (Cisalpine) Republic
1906 - Del Valle Inclans "El Marqués de Bradomin" premieres in Madrid
1941 - Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese. It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.
1955 - US and Panama sign canal treaty
1970 - Dark comedy film "M*A*S*H", directed by Robert Altman, starring Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould, and based on novel by Richard Hooker, premieres (Palme d'Or 1970)
2013 - Initial GDP figures for the fourth quarter of 2012 show the UK economy shrank by 0.3% raising fears of a triple dip recession

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Famous Birthdays

1640 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English polymath and aristocrat, born in Handsworth, England (d. 1707)
1736 - Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian mathematician and astronomer (number theory, celestial mechanics), born in Turin, Italy (d. 1813)
1814 - Francis Harrison Pierpont, American lawyer and politician (Union), born in Morgantown, West Virginia (d. 1899)
1900 - Yojiro Ishizaka, Japanese writer, born in Hirosaki, Japan (d. 1986)
1931 - Harold Lloyd Jr., American actor, singer and son of famous silent film actor Harold Lloyd, Sr. (Frankenstein's Daughter), born in Beverly Hills, California (d. 1971)
1987 - Maria Kirilenko, Russian tennis player, born in Moscow, Russia

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Famous Deaths

1910 - Leon Walras, French economist (School of Lausanne), dies at 75
1933 - William Faulkes, British organist, transcriber and composer, dies at 59
1949 - Emil Axman, Czech composer, dies at 61
1972 - Erhard Milch, German field marshal (b. 1892)
1998 - Mohammad Yusuf Khan, prime minister of Afganistan in (1963-65), dies
2016 - Concepcion Picciotto, American peace activist (longest political protest in US history, outside The White House), dies at 80

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