March 25

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March 25 is the 84th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (85th in leap years). There are 281 days remaining.

Table of contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

Events

708 - Constantine is consecrated 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.
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 - 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.
1918 - Belarusian Democratic Republic proclaims independence.
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 coalmine explosion in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
1955 - United States Customs seizes Allen Ginsberg's Howl as obscene.
1957 - The European Economic Community is established (West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg).
1965 - Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. begin march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery.
1969 - During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold a bed-in for peace in the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).
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.
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.
1996 - An 81-day long standoff between antigovernment Freemen in Jordan, Montana and federal officers 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).
2004 - British Prime Minister Tony Blair visits Libyan leader Muammar Gadafi. He becomes the first PM to visit that country in over half a century.
2004 - Rusty Foster closes off new user accounts to Kuro5hin as a result of a particularly offensive troll that attacked his wife by photoshopping her face onto a pornographic image [1] (http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/3/24/0502/96199).

Births

1741 - Jean Antoine Houdon, sculptor, (d. 1828)
1863 - Simon Flexner, pathologist who isolated 1899 a common strain (Shigella dysenteriae) of dysentery bacillus, (d. 1946)
1867 - Arturo Toscanini, conductor, (d. 1957)
1873 - Rudolf Rocker, anarcho-syndicalist, (d. 1958)
1881 - B�la Bart�k, composer, (d. 1945)
1881 - Mary Gladys Webb, writer, (d. 1927)
1886 - Athenagoras, Patriarch of Constantinople, (d. 1972)
1908 - Helmut K�utner, actor and film director, (d. 1980)
1908 - David Lean, film director, (d. 1991)
1911 - Jack Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald, (d. 1967)
1918 - Howard Cosell, attorney, lecturer, sports journalist, (d. 1995)
1920 - Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner
1921 - Simone Signoret, actress, (d. 1985)
1925 - Flannery O'Connor, author, (d. 1964)
1928 - Jim Lovell, astronaut
1935 - Gloria Steinem, feminist, author
1938 - Hoyt Axton, musician, actor, (d. 1999)
1939 - Toni Cade Bambara, author (d. 1995)
1940 - Anita Bryant, entertainer
1942 - Aretha Franklin, singer
1942 - Richard O'Brien, actor, writer
1947 - Elton John, musician
1952 - Antanas Mockus, Colombian mathematician and politician
1964 - Lisa Gay Hamilton, actress (The Practice)
1965 - Sarah Jessica Parker, actress
1966 - Tom Glavine, baseball pitcher
1967 - Debi Thomas, figure skater
1974 - Lark Voorhies, actress (Saved by the Bell)
1976 - Juvenile, rapper
1976 - Wladimir Klitschko, boxer

Deaths

752 - Pope Stephen II
1005 - King Kenneth III of Scotland (in battle)
1233 - King Afonso II of Portugal, (b. 1185)
1736 - Nicholas Hawksmoor, architect (b. circa 1661)
1751 - King Frederick I of Sweden, (b. 1676)
1918 - Claude Debussy, composer, (b. 1862)
1951 - Eddie Collins, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1887)
1957 - Max Oph�ls, director, writer, (b. 1902)
1958 - Tom Brown, jazz musician (b. 1888)
1969 - Max Eastman, writer (b. 1883)
1975 - King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, (b. 1906)
1980 - Roland Barthes, critic, writer (b. 1915)
1995 - Kresimir Cosic, professional basketball player, (b. 1948)

Holidays and observances

Annunciation - this 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 Britain, until the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 1752 (called Lady Day - see above).
Greek Independence Day.

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