25 March

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 - Béla Bartók, composer († 1945)
• 1881 - Mary Gladys Webb, writer († 1927)
• 1886 - Athenagoras, Patriarch of Constantinople († 1972)
• 1908 - Helmut Käutner, 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)
• 1940 - Anita Bryant, entertainer
• 1942 - Aretha Franklin, singer
• 1947 - Elton John, musician
• 1965 - Sarah Jessica Parker, actress
• 1976 - Juvenile, rapper

Deaths

• 752 - Pope Stephen II
• 1233 - king Afonso II of Portugal
• 1918 - Claude Debussy, composer
• 1957 - Max Ophüls, 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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