Notable Historical Events on March 25th
March 25th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1 |
Origin of Dionysian Incarnation of the Word |
31 |
1st Easter, according to calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus |
421 |
Friday at 12 PM - city of Venice founded |
708 |
Constantine begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
1150 |
Tichborne family of Hampshire England start tradition of giving gallon of flour to residents to keep deathbed promise |
1199 |
Richard I, Lion Heart, King o f England, is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France which leads to his death on April 6. |
1306 |
Robert the Bruce crowned Robert I, King of Scots, having killed his rival John Comyn, Lord of Badenoch |
1409 |
Council of Pisa opens |
1571 |
Catholic Italian businessman Roberto Ridolfi leaves England |
1581 |
Portugese Cortes calls Philip II king of Portugal |
1584 |
Sir Walter Raleigh renews Humphrey Gilbert's patent to explore North America |
1598 |
Cornelis de Houtman's fleet departs for East-Indies |
1609 |
Henry Hudson embarks on an exploration for Dutch East India Co |
1634 |
Under charter granted to Lord Baltimore and led by his brother Leonard Calvert first settlers found Catholic colony of Maryland |
1647 |
Cape of Good Hope: tour ship Haerlem stranded in Tafel Bay |
1655 |
Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan (Saturn's largest satellite) |
1668 |
1st horse race in America takes place |
1669 |
Mount Etna in Sicily erupts, destroying Nicolosi, killing 20,000 |
1753 |
Voltaire leaves the court of Frederik II of Prussia |
1774 |
British Parliament passes Boston Port Bill |
1776 |
Continental Congress authorized a medal for George Washington |
1802 |
France, Netherlands, Spain & Great Britain sign Peace of Amiens |
1807 |
1st railway passenger service began in England |
1807 |
British Parliament abolishes slave trade |
1807 |
George Canning becomes British Foreign Secretary |
1811 |
Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for his publication of the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism. |
1813 |
1st US flag flown in battle on the Pacific, frigate Essex |
1814 |
Netherlands Bank established |
1817 |
Tsar Alexander I recommends formation of Society of Israeli Christians |
1820 |
Greece freedom revolt against anti Ottoman attack |
1821 |
Greece gains independence from Turkey (National Day) |
1846 |
German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt arrives in Sydney to a hero's welcome after completing his exploration of Australia's Northern Territory |
1847 |
Pope Pius IX encyclical "On aid for Ireland" |
1851 |
Yosemite Valley discovered in California |
1852 |
Friedrich Hebbel's "Agnes Bernauer" premieres in Munich |
1856 |
A E Burnside patents Burnside carbine |
1857 |
Frederick Laggenheim takes 1st photo of a solar eclipse |
1863 |
1st Army Medal of Honor awarded |
1863 |
Skirmish at Brentwood Tennessee |
1864 |
Battle of Paducah, KY (Forrest's raid) |
1865 |
Battle of Bluff Spring, FL |
1865 |
Battle of Fort Stedman, VA - in front of Petersburg |
1865 |
Battle of Mobile, AL (Spanish Fort, Fort Morgan, Fort Blakely) |
1865 |
SS General Lyon at Cape Hatteras catches fire & sinks, killing 400 |
1876 |
Glasgow 1st soccer match Scotland-Wales (4-0) |
1882 |
1st demonstration of pancake making (Dept store in NYC) |
1888 |
Socialist leader Domela Nieuwenhuis elected to Dutch 2nd chamber |
1889 |
1st Test Cricket match played at Newlands, Cape Town v England |
1894 |
Coxey's Army of the unemployed sets out from Massillon, Ohio, for Washington DC |
1895 |
Italian troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia) |
1896 |
Modern Olympics began in Athens, Greece [NS=Apr 6] |
1898 |
Intercollegiate Trapshooting Association formed in NYC |
1900 |
US Socialist Party forms in Indianapolis |
1901 |
55 die as Rock Island train derailed near Marshalltown, Iowa |
1902 |
Irving W Colburn patents sheet glass drawing machine |
1902 |
In Russia, 567 students are tried for rioting and 'political disaffection' are found guilty; 95 are banished to Siberia |
1903 |
Racing Club de Avellaneda, one of the big five of Argentina, is founded. |
1905 |
Confederate battle flags captured during the American Civil War are returned to South |
1907 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers lose to Kenora Thistles but outscore them in 2 game set but outscore them 12-8 and win cup |
1908 |
Clube Atletico Mineiro, Founded in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. |
1910 |
Chalmers Auto Co offers a new car to each leagues' batting champ |
1911 |
L D Swamikannu publishes "Manual of Indian Chronology" in Bombay |
1911 |
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory catches fire 145 die, all but 13 girls |
1913 |
Great Dayton Flood |
1913 |
Home of vaudeville, Palace Theatre, opens (NYC) starring Ed Wynn |
1915 |
1st submarine disaster; a US F-4 sank off Hawaii, killing 21 |
1915 |
German U boat torpedoes Neth merchant ship Medea |
1916 |
Heavyweight Jess Willard & Franc Moran fight to no decision in NYC |
1916 |
Jess Willard fights Frank Moran to no decision in 10 for boxing title |
1916 |
Women are allowed to attend a boxing match |
1917 |
Canadian ace Billy Bishop claims his first victory, shooting down a Leutnant Theiller |
1918 |
The Belarusian People's Republic is established. |
1920 |
Greek Independence Day |
1923 |
British government grants Trans-Jordan autonomy |
1924 |
Greek parliament selects admiral Paul Koundouriotis as premier |
1924 |
Stanley Cup: Mont Canadiens (NHL) sweep Calgary Tigers (WCHL) in 2 |
1931 |
Hal Kemp & his orchestra record Whistles, with Skinnay Ennis |
1931 |
Scottsboro Boys (accused of raping a white woman) arrested in Alabama |
1934 |
1st Golf Masters Championship: Horton Smith wins, shooting a 284 |
1935 |
1st Belgium government of Van Zealand resigns |
1936 |
200-inch mirror blank leaves for California to be ground |
1936 |
Detroit Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons in NHL longest game (2h56m30s) |
1937 |
It is revealed Quaker Oats pays Babe Ruth $25,000 per year for ads |
1937 |
Italy & Yugoslavia sign non-aggression treaty (Pact of Belgrade) |
1937 |
Lionel Conacher misses on 1st Stanley Cup penalty shot |
1937 |
Wash Daily News is 1st US newspaper with perfumed advertising page |
1938 |
1st US bred and owned horse (Battleship) to win British Grand National Steeplechase |
1939 |
Billboard Magazine introduces hillbilly (country) music chart |
1941 |
Carolina Paprika Mills in Dillon, SC, incorporated |
1942 |
700 Jews of Polish Lvov-district reach Belzec Concentration camp |
1943 |
97% of all Dutch physicians strike againt nazi registration |
1943 |
Jimmy Durante & Garry Moore premiere on radio |
1944 |
Germany troop executes 335 residents of Rome |
1944 |
RAF Flight Sgt Nicholas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber from 18,000 feet over Germany without a parachute; his fall was broken by pine trees and soft snow, and he suffered only a sprained leg. |
1945 |
US 1st army breaks out bridgehead near Remagen |
1945 |
US 4th Armored div arrives at Hanau & Aschaffenburg |
1945 |
US Northern Tractor Flotilla departs Ulithi to Okinawa |
1946 |
1st performance of Igor Stravinsky's "Ebony Concerto" |
1947 |
9th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Holy Cross beats Oklahoma 58-47 |
1947 |
Agreement of Linggadjati ratified in Batavia |
1947 |
Coal mine explosion in Centralia, Ill, claims 111 |
1947 |
Last day of Test cricket for Walter Hammond (v NZ, Christchurch) |
1949 |
SS police chief Rauter request for a pardon, denied |
1951 |
5th Tony Awards: Guys & Dolls & Rose Tattoo win |
1951 |
E Purcell & EM Ewen detect 21-cm radiation at Harvard physics lab |
1954 |
26th Academy Awards - "From Here to Eternity" best film, William Holden & Audrey Hepburn best actor/actress |
1954 |
Pope Pius XII encyclical "Sacra virginitas" (On consecrated virginity) |
1954 |
RCA manufactures 1st color TV set (12½" screen at $1,000) |
1955 |
E Germany granted full sovereignty by occupying power, USSR |
1955 |
United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" as obscene. |
1957 |
NBA modifies the free-throw rule |
1957 |
Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community (Common Mkt) |
1958 |
Sugar Ray Robinson is 1st boxing champ to win 5 times |
1958 |
West German parliament desires German atomic weapons |
1959 |
Bill White traded to St Louis for pitchers Sam Jones & Don Choate |
1959 |
French pres De Gaulle acknowledges Oder-Neisse boundary |
1960 |
1st guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub (Halibut) |
1960 |
DH Lawrence' "Lady Chatterley's Lover" ruled not obscene (NYC) |
1960 |
Ford Frick voids Indians-Red Sox deal as Sam White retires |
1960 |
Italian government Tambroni forms |
1961 |
"13 Daughters" closes at 54th St Theater NYC after 28 performances |
1961 |
"Gypsy" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 702 performances |
1961 |
23rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Cin beats Ohio State 70-65 (OT) |
1961 |
Elvis Presley performs live on the USS Arizona |
1961 |
Explorer 10 launched into elongated Earth orbit (177/181,000 km) |
1961 |
Sputnik 10 carries a dog into Earth orbit; later recovered |
1961 |
3rd place game is one of the wildest contests in NCAA Tournament history as St Joseph's defeats Utah 127-120 in 4 overtimes |
1962 |
"Family Affair" closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 65 performances |
1962 |
French OAS-leader ex-general Jouhaud arrested |
1963 |
KWHY TV channel 22 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting |
1964 |
Britain sets memorial for the late President John F Kennedy |
1964 |
Egypt ends state of siege (1952-64) |
1965 |
Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 to state capitol in Montgomery, Al |
1965 |
West German Bondsdag extends war crimes retribution |
1966 |
US Supreme court rules "poll tax" unconstitutional |
1966 |
Beatles pose with mutilated dolls & butchered meat for the cover of the "Yesterday & Today" album, It is later pulled |
1967 |
29th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Dayton 79-64 |
1967 |
The Turtle's "Happy Together" goes #1 |
1967 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1967 |
Who & Cream make US debut at Murray the K's Easter Show |
1968 |
KLVX TV channel 10 in Las Vegas, NV (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1968 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1968 |
Members of the Derry Housing Action Committee (DHAC) disrupt a meeting of Londonderry Corporation to protest at the lack of housing provision in the city, Northern Ireland |
1969 |
Andes Pact signed in Peru |
1969 |
John & Yoko stage their 1st bed-in for peace (Amsterdam) |
1969 |
Pakistan Gen Agha Mohammed Jagja Khan succeeds Ayub Chan as pres |
1969 |
Ian Paisley and Ronald Bunting, loyalists in Northern Ireland are jailed for organising an illegal counter demonstration in Armagh on 30 November 1968 |
1970 |
Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH) |
1971 |
Boston Patriots become New England Patriots |
1971 |
European council accepts Mansholt plan laying off 5 million farmers |
1971 |
Tom Jones' "She's a Lady" goes gold |
1971 |
James Callaghan speaks at a rally of the Northern Ireland labour movement, but rejects calls for the Labour Party to open membership to those living in N. Ireland |
1972 |
"Selling of the President" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 5 perfs |
1972 |
34th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Florida 81-76 |
1972 |
America's LP "America" goes #1 |
1972 |
Bobby Hull becomes the 2nd NHLer to score 600 goals |
1972 |
UCLA wins its 6th consecutive national basketball title |
1973 |
27th Tony Awards: That Championship Season & Little Night Music win |
1973 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Sears Women's Golf Classic |
1973 |
Majid Khan & Mushtaq Mohammad both out for 99 in Test v Eng |
1974 |
Barbra Streisand records the album "Butterfly" |
1976 |
"My Fair Lady" opens at St James Theater NYC for 384 performances |
1976 |
"Rex" opens at Lunt-Fontaine Theater NYC for 48 performances |
1976 |
Argentine milt junta bans leftist political parties |
1979 |
Major riot at Bourda prevents day's play in WSC Supertest |
1979 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sahara National Pro-Am Golf Tournament |
1982 |
Wayne Gretzky becomes 1st NHL to score 200 points in a season |
1983 |
Christa Rothenburger skates world record 500 m ladies (39.69 sec) |
1983 |
Pavel Pegov skates world record 1000m (1:12.58) |
1984 |
Betsy King wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open |
1985 |
57th Academy Awards - "Amadeus", F Murray Abraham & Sally Field win |
1985 |
Edwin Meese III becomes US Attorney General |
1986 |
Men's Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Brian Boitano (USA) |
1986 |
Supreme Court rules Air Force could ban wearing of yarmulkes |
1986 |
Kurt Browning (Canada) becomes 1st skater to land a quadruple jump |
1987 |
Supreme Court rules women/minorities may get jobs if less qualified |
1988 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Chunichi Theatre, Nagoya Japan |
1988 |
NASA launches space vehicle S-206 |
1988 |
Robin Givens demands full access to husband Mike Tyson's money |
1989 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Auditorium Theatre, Chicago |
1990 |
"Lettice & Lovage" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 284 performances |
1990 |
10th Golden Raspberry Awards: Star Trek V wins |
1990 |
Fire in illegal NYC social club, kills 87 |
1990 |
Pat Bradley wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic |
1991 |
63rd Academy Awards - "Dance with Wolves", Kathy Bates & Jeremy Irons win |
1991 |
Allan Border takes 5-68 v WI at Bourda (!), Georgetown |
1991 |
Nigerian crude becomes competitive in US Gulf Coast as Nigeria cuts crude prices |
1992 |
British scientists find new largest perfect # (2 756839 -1 * 2 756839) |
1992 |
Imran Khan scores 72 & takes 1-43 off 6 2 overs in last ODI |
1992 |
Pakistan defeats England by 22 runs to win World Cup |
1992 |
Russian manned space craft TM-14, lands |
1992 |
Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station. |
1993 |
"Candida" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances |
1994 |
Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3 km (4:09.32) |
1994 |
Yasunori Miyabe skates world record 1000 m (1:12.37) |
1995 |
Boxer Mike Tyson released from jail after serving 3 years |
1996 |
68th Academy Awards - "Braveheart", Nicholas Cage & Susan Sarandon win |
1996 |
Comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) approaches within 0.1018 AUs of Earth |
1996 |
Freedom Shoemakers on Maryport's Solway Estate closes |
1996 |
Ice Dance Championship at Edmonton won by Gritshuk & Platov (RUS) |
1996 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Edmonton won by Eltsova & Bushkov (RUS) |
1996 |
Ladies Fig Skating Championship in Edmonton won by Michelle Kwan (USA) |
1996 |
Men's Fig Skating Championship in Edmonton won by Todd Eldredge (USA) |
1996 |
US issues newly-redesigned $100 bill |
1996 |
The European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of "mad cow disease" (BSE). |
1997 |
"Barrymore" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 240 performances |
1997 |
Indians trade Lofton & Embree to Braves for Grissom & Justice |
1999 |
13th Soul Train Music Awards: Luther Vandross, R. Kelly & Lauryn Hill win |
2000 |
20th Golden Raspberry Awards: Wild Wild West wins |
2001 |
73rd Academy Awards - "Gladiator", Russell Crowe & Julia Roberts win |
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 re-election in Belarus following the rigged Belarusian presidential election, 2006 clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested. |
2012 |
Peter Cruddas, treasurer of Britain's Conservative Party, resigns after being caught on film selling access to British Prime Minister David Cameron |
2013 |
Golfer Tiger Woods returns to his world number one ranking |
2016 |
Ted Cruz Warns Donald Trump to Leave His Wife 'the Hell Alone' |
2016 |
Hollywood actors join Georgia boycott threats over gay bill |
2016 |
North Carolina Gay Bias Law Draws a Sharp Backlash |
2016 |
Six arrests in Brussels police operation after bombings |
2017 |
Republicans pull healthcare legislation plan in blow to Trump |
2017 |
UN fears 200 died in coalition airstrike on Mosul |
2018 |
Mexican police find bodies of 15 men crammed into pickup |
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