March 25: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

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.
• 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.
• 1857 - Phonautograph patented.
• 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 People's 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).
• 1958 - Canada's Avro Arrow makes it debute flight.
• 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.

• 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 - Patrick Troughton, British actor (d. 1987)
• 1920 - Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner
• 1921 - Simone Signoret, French actress (d. 1985)
• 1925 - Flannery O'Connor, American author (d. 1964)
• 1926 - László Papp, Hungarian boxer (d. 2003)
• 1926 - Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (d. 1999)
• 1926 - Gene Shalit, American film critic
• 1928 - Jim Lovell, astronaut
• 1929 - Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist (d. 2003)
• 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, English actor and writer
• 1943 - Paul Michael Glaser, American actor
• 1946 - Bonnie Bedelia, American actress
• 1946 - Maurice Krafft, French vulcanologist (d. 1991)
• 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
• 1965 - Stefka Kostadinova, Bulgarian high jumper and president of the Bulgarian olympic committee
• 1966 - Tom Glavine, baseball player
• 1967 - Matthew Barney, American media artist
• 1967 - Debi Thomas, American figure skater
• 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
• 1976 - Gigi Leung, Hong Kong singer/actress.
• 1982 - Danica Patrick, American race car driver
• 1989 - Alyson Michalka, American actress

• c. 33 - Jesus Christ
• 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)

• The Annunciation - this date 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

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