March 25
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[edit] Births
- 1947-Elton John
- 1960-Steve Norman
[edit] Deaths
- 752 - Pope Stephen II
- 1005 - King Kenneth III of Scotland (in battle)
- 1233 - King Afonso II of Portugal (b. 1185)
- 1458 - Marqués de Santillana, Spanish poet (b. 1398)
- 1736 - Nicholas Hawksmoor, architect
- 1751 - King Frederick I of Sweden (b. 1676)
- 1801 - Novalis, German poet (b. 1772)
- 1918 - Claude Debussy, French composer (b. 1862)
- 1951 - Eddie Collins, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1887)
- 1957 - Max Ophüls, director and 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, French literary critic and writer (b. 1915)
- 1980 - Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (b. 1913)
- 1988 - Robert Joffrey, dancer, teacher, and choreographer
- 1991 - Marcel Lefebvre, Roman Catholic leader
- 1992 - Nancy Walker, American actress
- 1995 - James Coleman, American sociologist
- 1995 - Kresimir Cosic, basketball player, (b. 1948)
- 1999 - Cal Ripken, Sr., baseball manager
- 2000 - Helen Martin, American actress
- 2002 - Kenneth Wolstenholme, British football commentator
- 2005 - Paul Hester, musician, (b. 1959)
[edit] 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.
- 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 - 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 Allen Ginsberg's 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 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.
- 1995 - Ward Cunningham opens the first wiki, the Portland Pattern Repository.
- 1996 - An 81-day long standoff between the antigovernment group Montana Freemen and law enforcement in Jordan, Montana 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 - Air Holland files for bankruptcy in response to unproven allegations of marijuana abuse by the their pilots.
