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March 25
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'''
March 25''' is the
84 (number) 84th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar (85th in
leap years). There are 281 days remaining.
Events
*
708 -
Pope Constantine Constantine is consecrated
Pope.
*
1300 -
Dante Alighieri Dante descends to the Inferno in
The Divine Comedy.
*
1306 -
Robert I of Scotland Robert the Bruce becomes
Monarch King of
Scotland.
*
1409 - The
Council of Pisa opens.
*
1634 - The first settlers arrive in
Maryland (led by
Lord Baltimore).
*
1655 -
Saturn (planet) Saturn's largest moon,
Titan (moon) Titan, is discovered by
Christian Huygens.
*1655 -
Protestants take control of
Maryland at the
Battle of the Severn.
*
1802 - The
Treaty of Amiens is signed as a "
Definitive Treaty of Peace" between
France and
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom.
*
1807 - The
Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing
slavery in the
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
*
1811 -
Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the
University of Oxford for his publication of the pamphlet ''
The Necessity of Atheism''.
*
1821 -
Greece declares its independence from the
Ottoman Empire, beginning the
Greek War of Independence.
*
1857 -
Phonautograph patented.
*
1865 - The "
Claywater Meteorite" explodes just before reaching ground level in
Vernon County, Wisconsin. Fragments having a combined mass of 1.5
kilogram kg are recovered.
*1865 -
American Civil War: In
Virginia,
Confederate forces capture
Fort Stedman from the
Union in a bloody battle.
*
1894 -
Coxey's Army, the first significant
United States American protest march, departs
Massillon, Ohio for
Washington D.C..
*
1901 - At the five-day "
Week of Nice" race in
Nice,
France,
Mercedes-Benz Mercedes wins its first racing victory.
*
1908 -
Clube Atletico Mineiro, Founded in
Belo Horizonte,
Brazil.
*
1911 - In
New York City the
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
*
1918 - The
Belarusian People's Republic was established.
*
1924 -
Greece proclaims itself a
republic.
*
1931 - The
Scottsboro Boys are arrested in
Alabama and charged with
rape.
*
1939 -
Cardinal (Catholicism) Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli becomes
Pope Pius XII.
*
1941 -
Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the
Axis powers.
*
1947 - An explosion in a
coalmine in
Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
*
1949 - The extensive deportation campaign was conducted in
Estonia,
Latvia and
Lithuania. The
Soviet authorities deported more than 92,000 people from
Baltics to remote areas of the
Soviet Union.
*
1955 -
United States Customs seizes copies of
Allen Ginsberg's poem "
Howl" as obscene.
*
1957 - The
European Economic Community is established (
West Germany,
France,
Italy,
Belgium,
Netherlands,
Luxembourg).
*
1958 -
Canada's
Avro Arrow makes it debut flight.
*
1960 - In
London,
United Kingdom,
Jacqueline Boyer wins the fifth
Eurovision Song Contest for
France singing "
Tom Pillibi".
*
1965 -
Civil rights activists led by
Martin Luther King, Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from
Selma, Alabama Selma to the capitol in
Montgomery, Alabama Montgomery.
*
1969 - During their honeymoon,
John Lennon and
Yoko Ono hold their first
Bed-In Bed-In for Peace in the
Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until
March 31).
*
1971 -
Bangladesh Liberation War: Beginning of
Operation Searchlight of
military of Pakistan Pakistan Army against
East Pakistani civilians.
*
1972 - In
Edinburgh,
Scotland,
United Kingdom,
Vicky Leandros wins the seventeenth
Eurovision Song Contest for
Luxembourg singing "
Après toi" (
After you).
*
1975 -
Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a
mental illness mentally ill nephew.
*
1979 - The first fully functional
space shuttle orbiter, ''
Space Shuttle Columbia Columbia,'' is delivered to the
John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
*
1988 -
Candle demonstration in Bratislava.
*
1990 - In
the Bronx,
New York City, a
Happyland Fire fire at an illegal
social club called "
Happy Land Social Club Happy Land" kills 87 people.
*
1992 -
Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to
Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the
Mir space station.
*
1995 -
Ward Cunningham opens the first
wiki, the
WikiWikiWeb.
*
1996 - An 81-day-long standoff between the
antigovernment group
Montana Freemen and law enforcement near
Jordan, Montana, begins.
*1996 - The
Labour Party (Turkey) Labour Party is founded in
Turkey.
*1996 - The
European Union EU's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of
British beef and its by-products as a result of
mad cow disease (
BSE).
*
2004 -
Air Holland files for bankruptcy in response to unproven allegations of
marijuana abuse by their pilots.
*
2006 - A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in
Seattle, Washington Seattle's Capitol Hill, Seattle, Washington Capitol Hill neighborhood, one of the largest
Crime scene crime scenes the city has ever had.
*
2006 - Protesters demanding a re-election in Belarus following the rigged
Belarusian presidential election, 2006 clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin was among several protesters arrested.
Births
*
1252 -
Conradin, Duke of Swabia (d.
1268)
*
1297 -
Arnost of Pardubice, Archbishop of Prague (d.
1364)
*
1345 -
Blanche of Lancaster, wife of
John of Gaunt (d.
1369)
*
1347 -
Catherine of Siena, Italian saint (d.
1380)
*
1404 (baptism) -
John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (d.
1444)
*
1479 -
Vasili III, Grand Prince of Moscow (d.
1533)
*
1539 -
Christopher Clavius, German mathematician and astronomer (d.
1612)
*
1541 -
Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d.
1587)
*
1593 -
Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (d.
1649)
*
1643 -
Louis Moréri, French encylopedist (d.
1680)
*
1661 -
Paul de Rapin, French historian (d.
1725)
*
1699 -
Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (d.
1783)
*
1767 -
Joachim Murat, French marshal and King of Naples (d.
1815)
*
1800 -
Heinrich von Dechsen, German geologist and mineralogist, (d.
1889)
*
1863 -
Simon Flexner, pathologist (d.
1946)
*
1867 -
Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor, (d.
1957)
*
1868 -
William Lockwood, English cricketer (d.
1932)
*
1873 -
Rudolf Rocker, German anarchist (d.
1958)
*
1881 -
Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer (d.
1945)
* 1881 -
Mary Gladys Webb, English writer (d.
1927)
*
1884 -
Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (d.
1950)
*
1886 -
Patriarch Athenagoras Athenagoras,
Patriarch of Constantinople (d.
1972)
*
1901 -
Ed Begley, American actor (d.
1970)
*
1906 -
A.J.P. Taylor, British historian (d.
1990)
*
1908 -
Helmut Kautner Helmut Käutner, German actor and film director (d.
1980)
* 1908 -
David Lean, English film director (d.
1991)
*
1911 -
Jack Ruby, American killer of
Lee Harvey Oswald (d.
1967)
*
1914 -
Norman Borlaug, American agricultural scientist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize
*
1918 -
Howard Cosell, American attorney, lecturer, and sports journalist (d.
1995)
*
1920 -
Patrick Troughton, British actor (d.
1987)
* 1920 -
Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner
*
1921 -
Simone Signoret, French actress (d.
1985)
*
1925 -
Flannery O'Connor, American author (d.
1964)
*
1926 -
László Papp, Hungarian boxer (d.
2003)
* 1926 -
Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (d.
1999)
* 1926 -
Gene Shalit, American film critic
*
1928 -
Jim Lovell, astronaut
*
1929 -
Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist (d.
2003)
*
1934 -
Gloria Steinem, American author
*
1935 -
Flash Elorde, Filipino boxer
*
1938 -
Hoyt Axton, American musician and actor (d.
1999)
*
1939 -
Toni Cade Bambara, American author (d.
1995)
*
1940 -
Anita Bryant, American entertainer and activist
*
1942 -
Aretha Franklin, American singer
* 1942 -
Richard O'Brien, English actor and writer
*
1943 -
Paul Michael Glaser, American actor
*
1946 -
Bonnie Bedelia, American actress
* 1946 -
Maurice Krafft, French vulcanologist (d.
1991)
*
1947 - Sir
Elton John, English singer/songwriter, pianist
*
1949 -
Nick Lowe, British singer/songwriter, producer
*
1952 -
Antanas Mockus, Colombian mathematician and politician
*
1956 -
Matthew Garber, British actor (d.
1977)
*
1960 -
Idy Chan Idy Chan Yuk-Lin, Hong Kong actress
* 1960 -
Steve Norman, British saxophonist (
Spandau Ballet)
*
1962 -
Marcia Cross, American actress
*
1964 -
Lisa Gay Hamilton, American actress
* 1964 -
Ken Wregget, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
*
1965 -
Sarah Jessica Parker, American actress
* 1965 -
Stefka Kostadinova, Bulgarian high jumper and president of the Bulgarian olympic committee
*
1966 -
Tom Glavine, baseball player
* 1966 -
Anton Rogan, Northern Irish footballer
* 1966 -
Jeff Healey, Canadian guitarist
*
1967 -
Matthew Barney, American media artist
* 1967 -
Debi Thomas, American figure skater
*
1969 -
Dale Davis, American basketball player
*
1971 -
Cammi Granato, American hockey player
*
1974 -
Lark Voorhies, American actress
*
1976 -
Juvenile (rapper) Juvenile, American rapper
* 1976 -
Wladimir Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer
* 1976 -
Gigi Leung, Hong Kong singer/actress.
*
1982 -
Danica Patrick, American race car driver
*
1984 -
Katharine McPhee, ''
American Idol'' contestant
*
1985 -
Carmen Rasmusen, ''
American Idol'' contestant, American-Canadian singer
*
1987 -
Nobunari Oda, Japanese figure skater
*
1989 -
Alyson Michalka, American actress
Deaths
*
752 -
Stephen (ephemeral pope) Stephen, three days after he was elected
pope
*
1005 - King
Kenneth III of Scotland (in battle)
*
1223 - King
Afonso II of Portugal (b.
1185)
*
1345 -
Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, English politician (b.
1281)
*
1458 -
Iñigo López de Mendoza Marqués de Santillana, Spanish poet (b.
1398)
*
1558 -
Marcos de Niza, French Franciscan explorer
*
1603 -
Ikoma Chikamasa, Japanese warlord (b.
1526)
*
1609 -
Olaus Martini, Swedish Archbishop of Uppsala (b.
1557)
*
1620 -
Johannes Nucius, German composer
*
1625 -
Giambattista Marini, Italian poet (b.
1569)
*
1712 -
Nehemiah Grew, English naturalist (b.
1641)
*
1736 -
Nicholas Hawksmoor, British architect
*
1738 -
Turlough O'Carolan, Irish harper and composer (b.
1670)
*
1751 - King
Frederick I of Sweden (b.
1676)
*
1801 -
Novalis, German poet (b.
1772)
*
1860 -
James Braid (physician) James Braid, Scottish surgeon (b.
1795)
*
1914 -
Frédéric Mistral, French poet,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1830)
*
1918 -
Claude Debussy, French composer (b.
1862)
*
1951 -
Eddie Collins, baseball player (b.
1887)
*
1957 -
Max Ophüls, German-born director and writer (b.
1902)
*
1958 -
Tom Brown (trombonist) Tom Brown, American musician (b.
1888)
*
1969 -
Max Eastman, American writer (b.
1883)
*
1975 - King
Faisal of Saudi Arabia (b.
1906)
*
1980 -
Roland Barthes, French literary critic and writer (b.
1915)
* 1980 -
Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist (b.
1901)
* 1980 -
Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (b.
1913)
*
1988 -
Robert Joffrey, dancer, teacher, and choreographer (b.
1930)
*
1991 -
Marcel Lefebvre, French Catholic leader (b.
1905)
*
1992 -
Nancy Walker, American actress (b.
1922)
*
1994 -
Max Petitpierre, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b.
1899)
*
1995 -
James Coleman (sociologist) James Coleman, American sociologist (b.
1926)
* 1995 -
Krešimir Ćosić, Croatian basketball player (b.
1948)
*
1999 -
Cal Ripken, Sr., baseball manager (b.
1936)
*
2000 -
Helen Martin, American actress (b.
1909)
*
2002 -
Kenneth Wolstenholme, British football commentator (b.
1920)
*
2006 -
Buck Owens, Country music singer, co-host of
Hee Haw (b.
1929)
* 2006 -
RocÃo Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (b.
1944)
Holidays and observances
*
Annunciation The Annunciation (
Lady Day) - this date is nine months before
Christmas Day.
*One of the four
Irish Quarter days in the
Irish calendar.
*Traditional date of the start of the new year in
England and
Wales, until the
Calendar Act of
1752 (called ''
Lady Day'' - see above).
*
Maryland Day.
*
Greece Greek Independence Day.
*
Freedom Day (Belarus) Freedom Day in
Belarus
*
Good Friday in
2005,
2016.
*
International Waffle Day in
Sweden.
*The date of the passing of
Sauron in
J.R.R. Tolkien's ''
The Lord of the Rings''. Many fans celebrate this day by throwing parties.
External links
-
On this day in Canada
-
NY Times: On this day
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BBC: On This Day
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Today in History: March 25
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March 24 -
March 26 -
February 25 -
April 25 --
historical anniversaries listing of all days
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