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March 25

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

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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.
• 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 - 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, in return for the dismantling of Libya's WMD program in December 2003. He becomes the first PM to visit that country in over half a century.

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)
• 1881 - Béla Bartók, composer, (d. 1945)
• 1881 - Mary Gladys Webb, writer, (d. 1927)
• 1886 - Athenagoras, Patriarch of Constantinople, (d. 1972)
• 1908 - Helmut Käutner, 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)
• 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
• 1965 - Sarah Jessica Parker, actress
• 1967 - Debi Thomas, figure skater
• 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)
• 1751 - King Frederick I of Sweden, (b. 1676)
• 1918 - Claude Debussy, composer, (b. 1862)
• 1957 - Max Ophüls, 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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See Also:

March 24 - March 26 - February 25 - April 25 -- listing of all days

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