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March 25 is the 84 th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (85th in Leap Year s). There are 281 days remaining.
Events
- 708 - Constantine is consecrated Pope .
- 1300 - Dante descends to the Inferno in The Divine Comedy .
- 1306 - Robert The Bruce becomes King of Scotland .
- 1409 - The Council Of Pisa opens.
- 1634 - The first settlers arrive in Maryland (led by Lord Baltimore ).
- 1655 - Saturn 's largest 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 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 Kg are recovered.
- 1865 - , Confederate forces capture Fort Stedman from the Union in a bloody battle.
- 1894 - Coxey's Army , the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington D.C. .
- 1901 - At the five-day " Week Of Nice " race in Nice , France , 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 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 to the capitol in Montgomery .
- 1969 - During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In For Peace in the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31 ).
- of Pakistan Army against East Pakistan i 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 Mentally Ill nephew.
- 1979 - The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, '' Columbia ,'' is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
- 1988 - The Candle Demonstration in Bratislava was the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia .
- 1990 - In The Bronx , New York City , a Fire at an illegal Social Club called " 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 is founded in Turkey .
- 1996 - The 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 - The Capitol Hill Massacre , where gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, one of the largest Crime Scene s 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
- 1297 - Andronicus III Palaeologus , Eastern Roman Emperor (d. 1341 )
- 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 , American 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 - Athenagoras , Patriarch Of Constantinople (d. 1972 )
- 1901 - Ed Begley , American actor (d. 1970 )
- 1906 - A.J.P. Taylor , British historian (d. 1990 )
- 1908 - 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, and pianist
- 1949 - Nick Lowe , British singer, songwriter, and producer
- 1952 - Antanas Mockus , Colombian mathematician and politician
- 1956 - Matthew Garber , British actor (d. 1977 )
- 1960 - 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 hockey player
- 1964 - Alex Solis , Panamanian Thoroughbred Jockey
- 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 , 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 , American rapper
- 1976 - Wladimir Klitschko , Ukrainian boxer
- 1976 - Gigi Leung , Hong Kong singer and actress
- 1982 - Danica Patrick , American race car driver
- 1984 - Katharine McPhee , Season Five American Idol contestant
- 1987 - Nobunari Oda , Japanese figure skater
- 1989 - Alyson Michalka , American actress
Deaths
- 752 - Pope Stephen
- 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 - 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 , Scottish surgeon (b. 1795 )
- 1914 - Frédéric Mistral , French poet, 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 , American musician (b. 1888 )
- 1969 - Max Eastman , American writer (b. 1883 )
- 1975 - King Faisal Of Saudi Arabia (b. 1906 )Ć
- 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 )
- 1991 - I Was Born , Civillian (b. 1905 )
- 1992 - Nancy Walker , American actress (b. 1922 )
- 1994 - Max Petitpierre , member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1899 )
- 1995 - 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 , American singer and television personality (b. 1929 )
- 2006 - Rocío Dúrcal , Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944 )
Holidays and observances
External links
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