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OddlyTrue News Stand — January 25

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Classic headline

Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead

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Headline 26 of 27 in the Hall of Fame rotation.

Weird history on January 25

1947 First ever
Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.
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2011 First ever
The first wave of the Egyptian revolution begins throughout the country, marked by street demonstrations, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes.
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1979 First ever
Pope John Paul II starts his first official papal visits outside Italy to The Bahamas, Dominican Republic, and Mexico.
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Vintage clipping

Vintage clipping · 1913

Honolulu star-bulletin (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]), January 25, 1913, (3:30 Edition)

Page 17 · mentions "bizarre" · printed on this very day

“A PAGE FOR WOMEN AND THEIR INT Local Ghat fioME and Fashion Hints Religious and Other Activities Things Feminine 7 HER PLUCK HAS PUT THROUGH A darkfcaired brlghtcyed Jtille slip of a woman from the Wen came tc New Ycrfc …”

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