March 25

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

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 Great Britain.
   * 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 it is a republic.
   * 1931 - The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with
     rape.
   * 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 Common Market 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 nephew with a
     history of mental illness.
   * 1979 - The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, was
     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 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.
   * 2003 - Breadmen's, a restaurant in Chapel Hill, North Carolina,
     receives a 95% cleanliness rating from the state inspector.

Births

   * 1741 - Jean Antoine Houdon, sculptor (+ 1828)
   * 1803 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist (+ 1882)
   * 1863 - Simon Flexner, pathologist who isolated 1899 a common strain
     (Shigella dysenteriae) of dysentery bacillus (+ 1946)
   * 1867 - Arturo Toscanini, conductor (+ 1957)
   * 1881 - BŽla Bart—k, composer (+ 1945)
   * 1881 - Mary Gladys Webb, writer (+ 1927)
   * 1886 - Patriarch Athenagoras (+ 1972)
   * 1908 - Helmut KŠutner, actor and film director (+ 1980)
   * 1908 - David Lean, film director (+ 1991)
   * 1911 - Jack Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (+ 1967)
   * 1918 - Howard Cosell, attorney, lecturer, sports journalist (+ 1995)
   * 1921 - Simone Signoret, actress (+ 1985)
   * 1925 - Flannery O'Connor, author (+ 1964)
   * 1928 - Jim Lovell, astronaut
   * 1935 - Gloria Steinem, feminist, author
   * 1938 - Hoyt Axton, musician, actor (+ 1999)
   * 1942 - Aretha Franklin, singer
   * 1947 - Elton John, musician
   * 1965 - Sarah Jessica Parker, actress
   * 1976 - Juvenile, singer

Deaths

   * 752 - Pope Stephen II
   * 1918 - Claude Debussy, composer
   * 1957 - Max Ophźls, director, writer
   * 1975 - King Faisal of Saudi Arabia

Holidays and observances

   * Annunciation - this is nine months before Christmas day.
   * 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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