What happened on March 25? There are more than 287 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About March 25
March 25 is the 85th day of the year 2024. There are 281 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday. This day falls under the 13th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Dahlen, North Dakota 58224 sunrise occured at 07:20 AM and sunset occured at 07:54 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Aries. The modern birthstone for this month is Aquamarine while the mystical birthstone is Jade.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 310 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For March 25
- 421Venice is founded at twelve o'clock noon, according to legend.
- 804The Sukabumi inscription, oldest known inscription written entirely in Old Javanese.
- 1199Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France, leading to his death on April 6.
- 1306Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scotland.
- 1409The Council of Pisa opens.
- 1584Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.
- 1634The first settlers arrive in Maryland.
- 1655Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
- 1802The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a “Definitive Treaty of Peace” between France and the United Kingdom.
- 1807The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.
- 1807The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger carrying railway in the world.
- 1811Percy 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 began since 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-found state.
- 1865American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union.
- 1894Coxey’s Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington D.C.
- 1911In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
- 1917The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
- 1918The Belarusian People’s Republic is established.
- 1924On the anniversary of Greek Independence, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the Second Hellenic Republic.
- 1931The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
- 1941The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact.
- 1943Start of the American amphibious landings in the Philippines a turning point in the Pacific War.
- 1947An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
- 1948The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
- 1949The 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.
- 1957The European Economic Community is established (West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg).
- 1957United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl” on the grounds of obscenity.
- 1958Canada’s Avro Arrow makes its first flight.
- 1965Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1969During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).
- 1971Bangladesh Liberation War: Beginning of Operation Searchlight by the Pakistani Armed Forces against East Pakistani civilians.
- 1971The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandon an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos.
- 1975Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew.
- 1979The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
- 1988The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
- 1990The Happy Land fire was an arson fire that kills 87 people trapped inside an illegal nightclub in the New York City borough of The Bronx.
- 1992Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station.
- 1995WikiWikiWeb, the world’s first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham.
- 1996An 81-day-long standoff between the anti-government group Montana Freemen and law enforcement near Jordan, Montana, begins.
- 1996The 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).
- 2006Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.
- 2006Protesters 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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Who Were Born On March 25?
- 1252Conradin, Duke of Swabia (d. 1268)
- 1259Andronikos II Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1332)
- 1297Andronikos III Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1341)
- 1297Arnošt of Pardubice, Archbishop of Prague (d. 1364)
- 1345Blanche of Lancaster, wife of John of Gaunt (d. 1369)
- 1347Catherine of Siena, Italian saint (d. 1380).
- 1479Vasili III, Grand Prince of Moscow (d. 1533)
- 1539Christopher Clavius, German mathematician (d. 1612)
- 1541Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1587)
- 1593Saint Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
- 1643Louis Moréri, French encyclopedist (d. 1680)
- 1661Paul de Rapin, French historian (d. 1725)
- 1699Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (d. 1783)
- 1767Joachim Murat, King of Naples (d. 1815)
- 1782Caroline Bonaparte, Queen of Naples (d. 1839)
- 1800Heinrich von Dechsen, German geologist (d. 1889)
- 1824Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (d. 1900)
- 1840Myles Keogh, American soldier of fortune (d. 1876)
- 1863Simon Flexner, American pathologist (d. 1946)
- 1867Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor, (d. 1957)
- 1867Gutzon Borglum, American sculptor (d. 1941)
- 1868William Lockwood, English cricketer (d. 1932)
- 1872Horatio Nelson Jackson, American car driver (d. 1955)
- 1873Rudolf Rocker, German anarchist (d. 1958)
- 1877Walter Little, Canadian politician (d. 1961)
- 1881Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer (d. 1945)
- 1881Mary Gladys Webb, English writer (d. 1927)
- 1884Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (d. 1950)
- 1886Athenagoras, Patriarch of Constantinople (d. 1972)
- 1892Andy Clyde, American actor (d. 1967)
- 1895Siegfried Handloser, German physician (d. 1954)
- 1897John Laurie, Scottish actor (d. 1980)
- 1898Marcelle Narbonne, Franch supercentenarian
- 1899Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (d. 1978)
- 1901Ed Begley, American actor (d. 1970)
- 1903Frankie Carle, American pianist and bandleader (d. 2001)
- 1903Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (d. 1990)
- 1905Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, German army officer and 20 July Plot conspirator (d. 1944)
- 1906A.J.P. Taylor, British historian (d. 1990)
- 1906Jean Sablon, French singer (d. 1994)
- 1908Helmut Käutner, German actor and director (d. 1980)
- 1908Sir David Lean, English film director (d. 1991)
- 1910Magda Olivero, Italian soprano
- 1911Jack Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (d. 1967)
- 1912Jean Vilar, French stage and film actor (d. 1971)
- 1913Sir Reo Stakis, Anglo-Cypriot hotel magnate (d. 2001)
- 1914Norman Borlaug, American agriculturalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2009)
- 1918Howard Cosell, American sports reporter (d. 1995)
- 1920Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner (d. 1992)
- 1920Patrick Troughton, English actor (d. 1987)
- 1921Alexandra of Greece and Denmark, Queen of Yugoslavia (d. 1993)
- 1921Nancy Kelly, American actress (d. 1995)
- 1921Simone Signoret, French actress (d. 1985)
- 1922Eileen Ford, American model agency executive
- 1923Bonnie Guitar, American singer
- 1923Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist (d. 2003)
- 1924Machiko Kyô, Japanese actress
- 1924Roberts Blossom, American actor d.2011
- 1925Anthony Quinton, British philosopher (d. 2010)
- 1925Flannery O'Connor, American author (d. 1964)
- 1926Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (d. 1999)
- 1926László Papp, Hungarian boxer (d. 2003)
- 1928Jim Lovell, American astronaut
- 1929Cecil Taylor, American jazz pianist
- 1931Paul Motian, American jazz drummer and composer
- 1931Tom Wilson, American record producer (d. 1978)
- 1932Gene Shalit, American film critic
- 1932Penelope Gilliatt, English writer (d. 1993)
- 1932Wes Santee, American middle distance runner (d. 2010)
- 1934Bernard King, Australian chef and television personality (d. 2002)
- 1934Gloria Steinem, American feminist and publisher
- 1934Johnny Burnette, American singer (d. 1964)
- 1935Flash Elorde, Filipino boxer
- 1937Tom Monaghan, American fast-food industry entrepreneur
- 1938Fritz d'Orey, Brazilian racing driver
- 1938Hoyt Axton, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 1999)
- 1939Toni Cade Bambara, American author (d. 1995)
- 1940Anita Bryant, American singer
- 1941Gudmund Hernes, Norwegian politician
- 1942Aretha Franklin, American singer
- 1942Kim Woodburn, English television personality
- 1942Richard O'Brien, English actor and writer
- 1943Paul Michael Glaser, American actor
- 1946Cliff Balsam, English footballer
- 1946Daniel Bensaid, French philosopher (d. 2010)
- 1946Gerard John Schaefer, American serial killer (d. 1995)
- 1946Maurice Krafft, French vulcanologist (d. 1991)
- 1946Stephen Hunter, American author
- 1947Elton John, English singer and songwriter
- 1948Bonnie Bedelia, American actress
- 1948Lynn Faulds Wood, Scottish television presenter
- 1950Chuck Greenberg, American musician (Shadowfax) (d. 1995)
- 1951Jumbo Tsuruta, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 2000)
- 1952Antanas Mockus, Colombian mathematician
- 1954Elli Stai, Greek journalist and TV presenter
- 1954Thom Loverro, American sportswriter
- 1955Daniel Boulud, French chef and restaurateur
- 1955Lee Mazzilli, American baseball player
- 1956Matthew Garber, English actor (d. 1977)
- 1957Jim Uhls, American screenwriter
- 1958Åsa Torstensson, Swedish politician
- 1958James McDaniel, American actor
- 1958John Ensign, American politician
- 1958Ray Tanner, American college baseball coach
- 1958Sisy Chen, Taiwanese politician and television commentator
- 1958Susie Bright, American feminist and sex writer
- 1960Brenda Strong, American actress
- 1960Haywood Nelson, American actor
- 1960Idy Chan Yuk-Lin, Hong Kong actress
- 1960Peter O'Brien, Australian actor
- 1960Steve Norman, British saxophonist (Spandau Ballet)
- 1961Fred Goss, American actor, comedian, and writer
- 1961Mark Brooks, American golfer
- 1962Marcia Cross, American actress
- 1964Alex Solis, Panamanian jockey
- 1964Kate DiCamillo, American children’s author
- 1964Ken Wregget, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1964Lisa Gay Hamilton, American actress
- 1964René Meulensteen, Dutch football coach
- 1965Avery Johnson, American basketball player and coach
- 1965Sarah Jessica Parker, American actress
- 1965Stefka Kostadinova, Bulgarian high jumper
- 1966Anton Rogan, Irish footballer
- 1966Jeff Healey, Canadian guitarist (d. 2008)
- 1966Tatjana Patitz, German supermodel
- 1966Tom Glavine, American baseball player
- 1967Debi Thomas, American figure skater
- 1967Doug Stanhope, American comedian
- 1967Matthew Barney, American media artist
- 1969Cathy Dennis, English singer, songwriter, and actress
- 1969Dale Davis, American basketball player
- 1969Jeffrey Walker, British Musician (Carcass)
- 1970Kari Matchett, Canadian actress
- 1970Teri Moïse, American singer
- 1971Cammi Granato, American ice hockey player
- 1971Sheryl Swoopes, American basketball player
- 1971Stacy Dragila, American pole vaulter
- 1972Giniel de Villiers, South African racing driver
- 1973Anders Fridén, Swedish singer (In Flames)
- 1973Anthony Barness, English footballer
- 1973Bob Sura, American basketball player
- 1974Lark Voorhies, American actress
- 1975Anne Dudek, American actress
- 1975Ladislav Benýšek, Czech ice hockey player
- 1975Melanie Blatt, British singer (All Saints)
- 1976Baek Ji Young, South Korean singer
- 1976Cha Tae-hyun, South Korean actor
- 1976Francis Bellew, Irish Gaelic footballer
- 1976Gigi Leung, Hong Kong singer/actress
- 1976Rima Wakarua, New Zealand/Italian rugby player
- 1976Wladimir Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer
- 1978Teanna Kai, American pornographic actress
- 1979Lee Pace, American actor
- 1979Natasha Yi, American model
- 1980Carrie Lam, Hong Kong actress
- 1982Álvaro Saborío, Costa Rican footballer
- 1982Danica Patrick, American race car driver
- 1982Jenny Slate, American comedienne
- 1982Sean Faris, American actor and model
- 1984Katharine McPhee, American singer and actress
- 1984Liam Messam, New Zealand rugby player
- 1985Carmen Rasmusen, Canadian-American singer
- 1986Kyle Lowry, American basketball player
- 1986Marco Belinelli, Italian basketball player
- 1986Megan Gibson, American softball player
- 1987Jacob Bagersted, Danish handballer
- 1987Jason Castro, American singer
- 1987Nobunari Oda, Japanese figure skater
- 1987Victor Obinna, Nigerian footballer
- 1988Arthur Zeiler, German rugby player
- 1988Big Sean, American Rapper
- 1988Erik Knudsen, Canadian actor
- 1989Aly Michalka, American actress and singer
- 1989Scott Sinclair, English footballer
- 1990Alexander Esswein, German footballer
- 1991Seychelle Gabriel, American actress
- 1999Tatum McCann, American actress
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Who Died On March 25?
- 752Pope-elect Stephen, Italian priest and elected successor to Pope Zachary
- 1223King Afonso II of Portugal (b. 1185)
- 1345Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, English politician (b. 1281)
- 1458Íñigo López de Mendoza, Marqués de Santillana, Spanish poet (b. 1398)
- 1558Marcos de Niza, French Franciscan explorer
- 1561Conrad Lycosthenes, French-born German philosopher and encyclopedist (b. 1518)
- 1603Ikoma Chikamasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1526)
- 1609Olaus Martini, Swedish Archbishop of Uppsala (b. 1557)
- 1620Johannes Nucius, German composer
- 1625Giambattista Marini, Italian poet (b. 1569)
- 1712Nehemiah Grew, English naturalist (b. 1641)
- 1732Saint Lucy Filippini, Italian saint (b. 1672)
- 1736Nicholas Hawksmoor, British architect
- 1738Turlough O'Carolan, Irish harper and composer (b. 1670)
- 1751Frederick I of Sweden (b. 1676)
- 1801Novalis, German poet (b. 1772)
- 1818Caspar Wessel, Danish mathematician (b. 1745)
- 1860James Braid, Scottish surgeon (b. 1795)
- 1873Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter (b. 1810)
- 1908Durham Stevens, American diplomat (b. 1851)
- 1914Frédéric Mistral, French poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1830)
- 1917Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American educator (b. 1832)
- 1917Spyridon Samaras, Greek composer (b. 1861)
- 1918Claude Debussy, French composer (b. 1862)
- 1918Peter Martin, Australian rules footballer (b. 1875)
- 1931Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, American civil rights activist (b. 1862)
- 1951Eddie Collins, American baseball player (b. 1887)
- 1957Max Ophüls, German director and writer (b. 1902)
- 1958Tom Brown, American musician (b. 1888)
- 1967Renato Cellini, Italian conductor (b.c. 1913)
- 1969Billy Cotton, British bandleader & entertainer (b. 1889)
- 1969Max Eastman, American writer (b. 1883)
- 1975Deiva Zivarattinam, Indian politician (b. 1894)
- 1975Juan Gaudino, Argentine racing driver (b. 1893)
- 1975King Faisal of Saudi Arabia (b. 1906)
- 1978Hanna Ralph, German actress (b. 1888)
- 1979Akinoumi Setsuo, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 37th Yokozuna (b. 1914)
- 1980James Wright, American poet (b. 1927)
- 1980Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist (b. 1901)
- 1980Roland Barthes, French literary critic and writer (b. 1915)
- 1980Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (b. 1913)
- 1983Bob Waterfield, American football player (b. 1920)
- 1988Robert Joffrey, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1930)
- 1992Nancy Walker, American actress (b. 1922)
- 1994Max Petitpierre, Swiss politician and jurist (b. 1899)
- 1995James Coleman, American sociologist (b. 1926)
- 1995John Hugenholtz, Dutch race track designer (b. 1914)
- 1995Krešimir Ćosić, Croatian basketball player (b. 1948)
- 1996John Snagge, British radio personality (b. 1904)
- 1998Max Green, Australian lawyer (b. 1952)
- 1998Steve Schiff, United States Congressman (b. 1947)
- 1999Cal Ripken, Sr., American baseball manager (b. 1936)
- 2000Helen Martin, American actress (b. 1909)
- 2001Brian Trubshaw, British Concorde test pilot (b. 1924)
- 2002Kenneth Wolstenholme, English football commentator (b. 1920)
- 2005Paul Henning, American TV/film producer and writer (b. 1911)
- 2006Buck Owens, American singer and television personality (b. 1929)
- 2006Richard Fleischer, American film director (b. 1916)
- 2006Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944)
- 2007Andranik Margaryan, Armenian politician (b. 1951)
- 2008Ben Carnevale, American basketball coach (b. 1915)
- 2008Gene Puerling, American vocalist and arranger (b. 1929)
- 2008Thierry Gilardi, French football and rugby commentator (b. 1958)
- 2009Gábor Ocskay, Hungarian hockey player (b. 1975)
- 2009Giovanni Parisi, Italian boxer (b. 1967)
- 2009Johnny Blanchard, American baseball player (b. 1933)
- 2009Kosuke Koyama, Japanese theologian (b. 1929)
- 2010Pål Bang-Hansen, Norwegian film critic and television personality (b. 1937)
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