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Information about 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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