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.
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1882: Writer Virginia Woolf, one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the 20th century, is born Adeline Virginia Stephen in London, England. Some of Woolf's most famous works include the novels "Mrs. Dalloway," "To the Lighthouse" and "Orlando," and the book-length essay "A Room of One's Own."
