Today in History - History - March 25th

1965Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 to state capitol in Montgomery, Al

1584Sir Walter Raleigh renews Humphrey Gilbert's patent to explore North America

2013Golfer Tiger Woods returns to his world number one ranking

1955United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" as obscene.

19461st performance of Igor Stravinsky's "Ebony Concerto"

1958Sugar Ray Robinson is 1st boxing champ to win 5 times

1982Wayne Gretzky becomes 1st NHL to score 200 points in a season

1984Betsy King wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open

1961Elvis Presley performs live on the USS Arizona

1199Richard I, Lion Heart, King o f England, is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France which leads to his death on April 6.

1934Gloria Steinem, Toledo Ohio, US feminist/publisher (Ms Magazine)

1947Elton John, [Reginald Kenneth Dwight], England, singer (Rocketman)

1922Eileen Ford, Manhattan, New York, American modelling agency executive and co-founder (Ford Modelling Agency)

1911Jack Ruby, Chicago Illinois, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald

1961Playwright Samuel Beckett (54) weds Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil on a secret civil ceremony in England

1985Professional boxer George Foreman (35) weds Mary Martelly

1914Frederic Mistral, French poet (Nobel-1904), dies at 83

1918Claude Debussy, French composer (Iberia/La mer), dies in Paris at 55