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March 25
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March 25
Events
421
–
Venice
is founded at twelve o'clock noon, according to legend.
708
–
Pope Constantine
succeeds
Pope Sisinnius
as the 88th
pope
.
717
–
Theodosius III
resigns the throne to the
Byzantine Empire
to enter the clergy.
1199
–
Richard I
is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France, leading to his death on
April 6
.
1306
–
Robert the Bruce
becomes king of
Scotland
.
1409
– The
Council of Pisa
opens.
1555
– The city of
Valencia
is founded in present-day
Venezuela
.
1584
– Sir
Walter Raleigh
is granted a patent to colonize
Virginia
.
1634
– The first settlers arrive in
Maryland
.
1655
–
Saturn
's largest moon,
Titan
, is discovered by
Christiaan Huygens
.
1802
– The
Treaty of Amiens
is signed as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace" between France and the United Kingdom.
1807
– The
Slave Trade Act
becomes law, abolishing the
slave trade
in the
British Empire
.
1807 – The
Swansea and Mumbles Railway
, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger-carrying railway in the world.
1811
–
Percy Bysshe Shelley
is expelled from the
University of Oxford
for publishing the pamphlet
The Necessity of Atheism
.
1821
– (
Julian calendar
) Traditional date of the start of the
Greek War of Independence
. The war had actually begun on
23 February
1821. The date was chosen in the early years of the Greek state so that it falls on the day of the
Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
, strengthening the ties between the Greek Orthodox Church and the newly founded state.
1865
–
American Civil War
: In
Virginia
,
Confederate
forces temporarily capture
Fort Stedman
from the
Union
.
1894
–
Coxey's Army
, the first significant American protest march, departs
Massillon, Ohio
for Washington, D.C.
1911
– In New York City, the
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
kills 146 garment workers.
1914
–
Aris
is founded in
Thessaloniki
.
1917
– The
Georgian Orthodox Church
restores its
autocephaly
abolished by
Imperial Russia
in 1811.
1918
– The
Belarusian People's Republic
is established.
1924
– On the anniversary of
Greek Independence
,
Alexandros Papanastasiou
proclaims the
Second Hellenic Republic
.
1931
– The
Scottsboro Boys
are arrested in
Alabama
and charged with rape.
1941
– The
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
joins the
Axis powers
with the signing of the
Tripartite Pact
.
1947
– An
explosion in a coal mine
in
Centralia, Illinois
kills 111.
1948
– The first successful
tornado forecast
predicts that
a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base
,
Oklahoma
.
1949
– The extensive deportation campaign known as
March deportation
is conducted in
Estonia
,
Latvia
and
Lithuania
to force
collectivisation
by way of
terror
. The
Soviet
authorities deport more than 92,000 people from the
Baltics
to remote areas of the
Soviet Union
.
1957
–
United States Customs
seizes copies of
Allen Ginsberg
's poem "
Howl
" on obscenity grounds.
1957 – The
European Economic Community
is established with West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and
Luxembourg
as the first members.
1958
– Canada's
Avro Arrow
makes its first flight.
1965
–
Civil rights
activists led by
Martin Luther King Jr.
successfully complete
their 4-day 50-mile march
from
Selma
to the capitol in
Montgomery, Alabama
.
1969
– During their honeymoon,
John Lennon
and
Yoko Ono
hold their first
Bed-In for Peace
at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).
1971
–
Bangladesh Liberation War
: Beginning of
Operation Searchlight
by the Pakistan Armed Forces against
East Pakistani
civilians.
1971 – The
Army of the Republic of Vietnam
abandon an attempt
to cut off the
Ho Chi Minh trail
in
Laos
.
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.
1988
– The
Candle demonstration in Bratislava
is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in
Czechoslovakia
.
1990
– The
Happy Land fire
was an arson fire that kills 87 people trapped inside an illegal nightclub in
The Bronx
, New York City.
1992
– The
Pakistan national cricket team
wins the
1992 Cricket World Cup
at
Melbourne Cricket Ground
.
1992 –
Cosmonaut
Sergei Krikalev
returns to
Earth
after a 10-month stay aboard the
Mir space station
.
1993
–
Warrington
bomb victim Tim Parry dies five days after an
IRA
bomb detonated on 20 March 1993 in the second of the
Warrington bomb attacks
.
1995
–
WikiWikiWeb
, the world's first wiki, and part of the
Portland Pattern Repository
, is made public by
Ward Cunningham
.
1996
– An 81-day-long standoff between the anti-government group
Montana Freemen
and law enforcement near
Jordan, Montana
, begins.
1996 – The
European Union
's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
).
2006
–
Capitol Hill massacre
: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle's
Capitol Hill
neighborhood.
2006 – Protesters demanding a new election in
Belarus
, following the rigged
Belarusian presidential election, 2006
, clash with riot police. Opposition leader
Aleksander Kozulin
is among several protesters arrested.
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