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January 30, 1925

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NOME RELIEF DOGS SPEED 192 MILES; Third Relay Team Was Due at Ruby, 250 Miles From Nenana, at Midnight. PLANE READY AT FAIRBANKS Awaits Word to Undertake Trip -- Old Antitoxin Found Effective.

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FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. 29 (Associated Press). -- The third relay dog team, carrying diphtheria anti-toxin for Nome on the Seward Peninsula, was due in Ruby, 250 miles from Nenana, on the Alaska Railroad, between 8 o'clock and midnight tonight, according to word received here.

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Notable Births

Douglas Engelbart

1925Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist, invented the computer mouse (died 2013)[†]

Douglas Carl Engelbart was an American engineer, inventor, and a pioneer in many aspects of computer science. He is best known for his work on founding the field of human–computer interaction, particularly while at his Augmentation Research Center Lab in SRI International, which resulted in creation of the computer mouse, and the development of hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to graphical user interfaces. These were demonstrated at The Mother of All Demos in 1968. Engelbart's law, the observation that the intrinsic rate of human performance is exponential, is named after him.

Historical Events

Turkey

1925The Government of Turkey expels Patriarch Constantine VI from Istanbul.[†]

Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq, Syria, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south; and the Aegean Sea, Greece, and Bulgaria to the west. Turkey is home to over 85 million people; most are ethnic Turks, while Kurds are the largest ethnic minority. Officially a secular state, Turkey has a Muslim-majority population. Ankara is Turkey's capital and second-largest city. Istanbul is its largest city and economic center. Other major cities include İzmir, Bursa, and Antalya.