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.

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1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

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.
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 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.
1911 - In New York City the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
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 copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" as obscene.
1957 - The European Economic Community is established (West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg).
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. 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.
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.

Births

1252 - Conradin, Duke of Swabia (d. 1268)
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)
1863 - Simon Flexner, 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 - Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner
1920 - Patrick Troughton, British actor (d. 1987)
1921 - Simone Signoret, French actress (d. 1985)
1925 - Flannery O'Connor, American author (d. 1964)
1928 - Jim Lovell, astronaut
1929 - Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist (d. 2003)
1932 - Gene Shalit, American film critic
1934 - Gloria Steinem, American author
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, actor and writer
1943 - Paul Michael Glaser, American actor
1946 - Maurice Krafft, French vulcanologist (d. 1991)
1946 - Bonnie Bedelia, American actress
1947 - Sir Elton John, English musician
1952 - Antanas Mockus, Colombian mathematician and politician
1956 - Matthew Garber, British actor (d. 1977)
1960 - Idy Chan Yuk-Lin, Hong Kong actress
1962 - Marcia Cross, American actress
1964 - Lisa Gay Hamilton, American actress
1965 - Sarah Jessica Parker, American actress
1966 - Tom Glavine, baseball player
1967 - Debi Thomas, American figure skater
1967 - Matthew Barney, Media artist
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
1982 - Danica Patrick, American race car driver
1989 - Alyson Michalka, American actress

Deaths

752 - Pope Stephen II
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)
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)
1992 - Nancy Walker, American actress (b. 1922)
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)

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 England and Wales, until the Calendar Act of 1752 (called Lady Day - see above).
Maryland Day
Greek Independence Day.
Good Friday in 2005, 2016