Today is the 25th day of 2015. There are 340 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

1971: Charles Manson and three female followers were convicted in Los Angeles of murder and conspiracy in the 1969 slayings of seven people, including actress Sharon Tate.

OTHER EVENTS

1533: England’s King Henry VIII secretly marries Anne Boleyn, his second wife.

1759: Scottish poet Robert Burns is born in Alloway.

1787: Shays’ Rebellion suffers a setback when debt-ridden farmers, led by Captain Daniel Shays, fail to capture an arsenal at Springfield, Massachusetts.

1890: The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.

1915: Inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, inaugurates US transcontinental telephone service.

1959: American Airlines opens the jet age in the United States with the first scheduled transcontinental flight of a Boeing 707.

1988: US Vice-President George Bush and Dan Rather clash on the CBS Evening News, as the anchorman attempts to question the Republican presidential candidate about his role in the Iran-Contra affair.

1993: A gunman shoots and kills two CIA employees outside agency headquarters in Virginia. (A Pakistani national is later convicted and executed in 2002.)

2006: The Islamic militant group Hamas wins a large majority of seats in Palestinian parliamentary elections.

2011: Egypt’s revolution begins as thousands of anti-government protesters clash with police during a Tunisia-inspired demonstration to demand the end of President Hosni Mubarak’s rule.