March 25
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March 25 is the 84th day of the year (85th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 281 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Events [change]
- 708 – Constantine is made Pope.
- 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 over 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.
- 1821 – Greece declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire, beginning the Greek War of Independence.
- 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 – American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces capture Fort Stedman from the Union.
- 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.
- 1911 – In New York City the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire kills 146 garment workers.
- 1913 – Floods kill 300 people in Dayton, Ohio.
- 1918 – The Belarusian National 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 – A 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 Allen Ginsberg's Howl as obscene.
- 1957 – The European Economic Community is established (West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg). It later becomes the European Union.
- 1960 – In London, United Kingdom, Jacqueline Boyer wins the fifth Eurovision Song Contest for France singing "Tom Pillibi".
- 1961 – Sputnik 10 is launched into space.
- 1965 – Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. complete successfully 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).
- 1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War: Beginning of Operation Searchlight of 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 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.
- 1980 – The UK announces that it will participate in the Summer Olympics in Moscow.
- 1990 – In New York City, a fire at an illegal social club called "Happy Land" kills 87.
- 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 Portland Pattern Repository.
- 1996 – An 81-day long standoff between the antigovernment group Montana Freemen and law enforcement in Jordan, Montana begins.
- 1996 – The EU's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (BSE).
- 2001 – Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Iceland implement the Schengen Agreement.
- 2002 – An earthquake in Afghanistan kills 2,000 people.
- 2004 – Air Holland files for bankruptcy in response to unproven allegations of marijuana abuse by the their pilots.
- 2006 – Several anti-Government demonstrators are arrested in Belarus.
- 2012 – Hong Kong elected Mr.Leung Chun Ying as Chief Executive.
Births [change]
- 1259 – Andronikos II Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1332)
- 1297 – Andronikos III Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1341)
- 1345 – Blanche of Lancaster, wife of John of Gaunt (d. 1369)
- 1347 – Catherine of Siena, Italian saint (d. 1380)
- 1479 – Vasili III, Grand Prince of Moscow (d. 1533)
- 1541 – Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1587)
- 1661 – Paul de Rapin, French historian (d. 1725)
- 1767 – Joachim Murat, King of Naples (d. 1815)
- 1782 – Caroline Bonaparte, Queen of Naples (d. 1839)
- 1840 – Myles Keogh, American soldier of fortune (d. 1876)
- 1865 – Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian-German painter (d. 1941)
- 1867 – Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor (d. 1957)
- 1873 – Rudolf Rocker, German anarchist (d. 1958)
- 1881 – Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer (d. 1945)
- 1884 – Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (d. 1950)
- 1886 – Patriarch Athenagoras of Constantinople (d. 1972)
- 1908 – David Lean, British film director (d. 1991)
- 1910 – Magda Olivero, Italian operatic soprano
- 1911 – Jack Ruby, assassin of Lee Harvey Oswald (d. 1967)
- 1914 – Norman Borlaug, American agronomist (d. 2009)
- 1920 – Patrick Troughton, English actor (d. 1987)
- 1920 – Paul Scott, British novelist (d. 1987)
- 1921 – Alexandra of Greece and Denmark, Queen of Yugoslavia (d. 1993)
- 1921 – Simone Signoret, French actress (d. 1985)
- 1926 – Laszlo Papp, Hungarian boxer (d. 2003)
- 1928 – Roald Aas, Norwegian speed skater (d. 2012)
- 1928 – Jim Lovell, American astronaut
- 1931 – Paul Motian, American jazz drummer and composer (d. 2011)
- 1934 – Gloria Steinem, American feminist and publisher
- 1934 – Karlheinz Schreiber, German-Canadian industrialist, lobbyist and arms dealer
- 1942 – Aretha Franklin, American singer
- 1942 – Richard O'Brien, British actor, author and composer
- 1942 – Kim Woodburn, English television personality
- 1947 – Elton John, English singer and songwriter
- 1962 – Marcia Cross, American actress
- 1965 – Sarah Jessica Parker, American actress
- 1965 – Frank Ordenewitz, German footballer
- 1966 – Jeff Healey, Canadian guitarist (d. 2008)
- 1967 – Debi Thomas, American figure skater
- 1972 – Yuichi Yoshimoto, Japanese footballer
- 1975 – Melanie Blatt, British singer
- 1976 – Reema Vakarua, New Zealand-Italian rugby player
- 1976 – Wladimir Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer
- 1979 – Muriel Hurtis-Houari, French athlete
- 1982 – Danica Patrick, American racecar driver
- 1984 – Katharine McPhee, American singer and actress
- 1987 – Jason Castro, American singer
- 1987 – Nobunari Oda, Japanese figure skater
- 1987 – Jacob Bagersted, Danish handball player
- 1987 – Victor Obinna, Nigerian footballer
- 1988 – Erik Knudsen, Canadian actor
- 1989 – Scott Sinclair, English footballer
- 1989 – Alyson Michalka, American actress
- 1991 – Seychelle Gabriel, American actress
Deaths [change]
- 752 – Pope-elect Stephen
- 1223 – Afonso II of Portugal (b. 1185)
- 1345 – Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster (b. 1281)
- 1620 – Johannes Nucius, German composer (b. 1556)
- 1751 – Frederick I of Sweden (b. 1676)
- 1801 – Novalis, German poet (b. 1772)
- 1862 – John Peisley, first Australian born bushranger, hanged (b. 1835)
- 1873 – Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter (b. 1810)
- 1914 – Frederic Mistral, French poet (b. 1830)
- 1917 – Spyridon Samaras, Greek composer (b. 1861)
- 1918 – Claude Debussy, French composer (b. 1862)
- 1945 – Franz Oppenhoff, German jurist and Mayor of Aachen (b. 1902)
- 1969 – Max Eastman, American writer (b. 1883)
- 1973 – Edward Steichen, Luxembourg-American photographer (b. 1879)
- 1975 – Faisal of Saudi Arabia (b. 1906)
- 1975 – Juan Gaudino, Argentine racing driver (b. 1893)
- 1980 – Roland Barthes, French literary critic and writer (b. 1915)
- 1980 – Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (b. 1913)
- 1999 – Cal Ripken, Sr., American baseball manager (b. 1936)
- 2002 – Kenneth Wolstenholme, British football commentator (b. 1920)
- 2005 – Paul Henning, American TV and film producer (b. 1911)
- 2006 – Buck Owens, American singer and TV personality (b. 1926)
- 2007 – Andranik Margaryan, Armenian politician (b. 1951)
- 2008 – Abby Mann, American film writer and producer (b. 1927)
- 2009 – Yukio Endo, Japanese gymnast (b. 1937)
- 2010 – Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, German political scientist (b. 1916)
- 2012 – Antonio Tabucchi, Italian writer (b. 1943)
