Today in History - History - March 25th

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

1753Voltaire leaves the court of Frederik II of Prussia

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

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

1979Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sahara National Pro-Am Golf Tournament

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

195426th Academy Awards - "From Here to Eternity" best film, William Holden & Audrey Hepburn best actor/actress

1917Canadian ace Billy Bishop claims his first victory, shooting down a Leutnant Theiller

1776Continental Congress authorized a medal for George Washington

2013Golfer Tiger Woods returns to his world number one ranking

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

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

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

1965Sarah Jessica Parker, Nelsonville Ohio, American actress (Square Pegs, Sex and the City)

1985Professional boxer George Foreman (35) weds Mary Martelly

2003Actress-model Liv Tyler (25) weds rock band vocalist Royston Langdon (30) at a private villa in St James, Barbados

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

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