On this day: January 25
POSTED: 11:01 AM PST Jan 24, 2013
UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Jan 24, 2013
The Winter Olympics are born, the Battle of the Bulge comes to an end, Charles Manson is found guilty, the Iran hostages arrive home, and Egypt begins rising up, all on this day.
20th Century Fox
1970: The movie "M*A*S*H," starring Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt and Elliott Gould, and directed by Robert Altman, premieres in theaters. The satirical black comedy based on Richard Hooker's novel "MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors," would become one of the biggest films of the early 1970s and inspire the critically acclaimed television series of the same name, which ran from 1972 to 1983.
