Sanarchive:Selected anniversaries/January 25
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25 January: Major events in the arts
- 1858 – Mendelssohn's Wedding March was played at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, becoming a global standard for wedding ceremonies.
- 1915 – Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson conducted the first transcontinental telephone call, a leap that transformed global artistic communication.
- 1949 – The first Emmy Awards were presented at the Hollywood Athletic Club, honoring the best in the emerging medium of television arts.
- 1961 – The Disney animated classic One Hundred and One Dalmatians premiered in theaters, introducing new xerography techniques to animation.
- Robert Burns (b. 1759)
- Virginia Woolf (b. 1882)
- Etta James (d. 2012)