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When a finger points to the moon, the idiot looks at the finger What happened on March 25 Please support our Sponsors - They help us keep this site Alive! 0031 First Easter, according to calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus 0421 Friday at 12 Prime Minister: city of Venice founded 0708 Constantine begins his reign as Catholic Pope 0752 Stephen ends his reign as Catholic Pope (or 26th) 1133 William the Conqueror orders first Domesday Survey of England 1199 Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France which leads to his death on April 6. 1306 Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scotland. 1409 Council of Pisa opens 1409 The Council of Pisa opens. 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 Lord Baltimore founded Catholic colony of Maryland 1634 The first settlers arrive in Maryland. 1647 Cape of Good Hope; tour ship Haerlem stranded in Tafel Bay 1655 Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan, (Saturn's largest satellite) 1655 Protestants take control of Maryland at the Battle of the Severn. 1655 Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christian Huygens. 1668 The first horse race in America takes place 1700 England, France & Netherlands ratify 2nd Extermination treaty 1753 Voltaire leaves the court of Frederik II of Prussia 1774 English Parliament passes Boston Port Bill 1802 France, Netherlands, Spain & England signs Peace of Amiens 1802 The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace" between France and United Kingdom. 1807 First railway passenger service began in England 1807 George Canning becomes British minister of Foreign affairs 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, became the first passenger carrying railway in the world. 1807 Visitor posting - World's 1st passenger rail service - horse drawn Swansea to Mumbles in Wales - United Kingdom 1811 Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for his publication of the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism. 1813 USS Essex takes Neryeda, first capture by U.S. Navy in Pacific 1814 Netherlands Bank established 1817 Tsar Alexander I recommends formation of Society of Israeli Christians 1820 Greece freedom revolt against anti Ottoman attack 1821 (Julian Calendar) Greeks revolt against the Ottoman Empire, beginning the Greek War of Independence. 1821 Greece gains independence from Turkey (National Day) 1856 A E Burnside patents Burnside carbine 1857 Frederick Laggenheim takes first photo of a solar eclipse 1857 Phonautograph patented. 1863 Skirmish at Brentwood TN 1863 The first Army Medal of Honor awarded 1864 Battle of Paducah KY (Forrest's raid) 1865 Battle of Bluff Spring FL 1865 First Queensland Divorce Act is passed. 1865 SS General Lyon at Cape Hatteras catches fire & sinks, killing 400 1865 The "Claywater Meteorite" explodes just before reaching ground level in Vernon County, Wisconsin. Fragments having a combined mass of 1.5 kg are recovered. 1876 Glasgow first soccer match Scotland-Wales (4-0) 1877 Australian immigrants' friend, Caroline Chisholm, dies in London. 1888 Socialist leader Domela Nieuwenhuis elected to Dutch 2nd chamber 1894 Coxey's Army of the unemployed sets out from Massillon OH for Washington DC 1894 Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington D.C.. 1895 Italian troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia) 1896 Modern Olympics begin in Athens Greece 1898 Assist. SECNAV Theodore Roosevelt proposes Navy investigate military application of Samuel Langley's flying machine, beginning naval aviation 1900 US Socialist Party is formed at Indianapolis 1901 55 die as Rock Island train derailed near Marshalltown IA 1901 At the five-day "Week of Nice" race in Nice, France, Mercedes wins its first racing victory. 1902 Irving W Colburn patents sheet glass drawing machine 1903 Racing Club de Avellaneda, one of the big five of Argentina, was founded. 1905 Rebel battle flags captured during war are returned to South 1908 Clube Atletico Mineiro, Founded in Belo Horizonte,Brazil. 1911 In New York City the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers. 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City. Nearly 146 workers died, mostly immigrant women. Many were trapped because of locked exits. 1913 Great Dayton Flood 1915 German U boat torpedoes Netherlands merchant ship Medea 1915 The first submarine disaster; a US F-4 sank off Hawaii, killing 21 1916 Women are allowed to attend a boxing match 1917 The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811. 1918 The Belarusian People's Republic was established. 1920 Greek Independence Day 1923 British government grants Trans-Jordan autonomy 1924 Greek parliament selects Admiral Paul Koundouriótis as premier 1931 Scottsboro Boys (accused of raping a white woman) arrested in Alabama 1931 The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape. 1937 It's revealed Quaker Oats pays Babe Ruth $25,000 per year for ads 1937 Italy & Yugoslavia sign no-attack treaty (Pact of Belgrade) 1937 Lionel Conacher misses on first Stanley Cup penalty shot 1937 Washington Daily News is first US newspaper with perfumed advertising page 1939 Billboard Magazine introduces hillbilly (country) music chart 1941 Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact. 1942 700 Jews of Polish Lvov-district reach Belzec Concentration camp 1942 R& B vocalist Aretha Franklin born this day. 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 Sergeant Nickolas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber from 18,000 feet without a parachute 1945 US 4th Armored division arrives at Hanau & Aschaffenburg 1945 US Northern Tractor Flotilla departs Ulithi to Okinawa 1945 US first army breaks out bridgehead near Remagen 1946 The XHJD-1, the first twin engined helicopter, made a hovering flight. Designed for the Navy by the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation 1947 Agreement of Linggadjati ratified in Batavia 1947 Coal mine explosion in Centralia IL, claims 111 lives 1947 Singer/songwriter/pianist Elton John (Reginald Kenneth Dwight) born this day. 1949 The extensive deportation campaign known as March deportation was conducted in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to force collectivisation by way of terror. The Soviet authorities deported more than 92,000 people from Baltics to remote areas of the Soviet Union. 1954 26th Academy Awards: "From Here to Eternity", William Holden & Audrey Hepburn win 1954 RCA manufactures first color TV set (12˝" screen at $1,000) 1955 East 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 Market) 1958 Canada's Avro Arrow makes it debut flight. 1958 Sugar Ray Robinson is first boxing champion to win 5 times 1958 West German parliament desires German atomic weapons 1959 French President De Gaulle acknowledges Oder-Neisse boundary 1960 DH Lawrence' "Lady Chatterley's Lover" ruled not obscene (New York NY) 1960 Italian government Tambroni forms 1960 The first guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub (Halibut) 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 1962 French OAS-leader ex-General Jouhaud arrested 1963 Visitor posting - Wendy Watson was born 1964 Britain sets memorial for the late President John F Kennedy 1965 Actor Sarah Jessica Parker born this day. 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. 1965 West German Bondsdag extends war crimes retribution 1966 Beatles pose with mutilated dolls & butchered meat for the cover of the "Yesterday & Today" album, It is later pulled 1967 The Turtles' "Happy Together" goes #1 1969 Andes Pact signed in Peru 1969 During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace in the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31). 1969 Pakistan General Agha Mohammed Jagja Khan succeeds Ayub Chan as President 1970 Concorde makes its first supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH) 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War: Beginning of Operation Searchlight of Pakistan Army against East Pakistani civilians. 1971 European council accepts Mansholt plan laying off 5 million farmers 1971 Tom Jones, "She's a Lady", goes gold 1972 America's LP "America" goes #1 1973 Majid Khan & Mushtaq Mohammad both out for 99 in Test vs England 1975 Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz, king of Saudi-Arabia (1964-75), shot by nephew 1975 Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew. 1976 Argentine military junta bans leftist political parties 1977 In Turkey a 4.8 earthquake jolted the northeastern part of Turkey, killed at least one, injured several, 1977 In another part of Turkey a 5.2 earthquake killed 30, injured some, and caused considerable damage in the Lice-Palu area. 1979 Major riot at Bourda prevents day's play in WSC Supertest 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. 1980 Visitor posting - Rossella Maria Artale was born today Gods gift to man - Italy 1983 In the Damavand-Amol area of Iran a5.2 quake killed 30 people and injured 61 , many homes damaged and landslides in the . 1985 57th Academy Awards: "Amadeus", F Murray Abraham & Sally Field win 1985 Edwin Meese III becomes US Attorney General 1987 Supreme Court rules women/minorities may get jobs if less qualified 1988 Robin Givens demands full access to husband Mike Tyson's money 1988 The Candle demonstration in Bratislava was the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. 1989 Number one hit on UK music charts - Madonna - Like A Prayer 1990 10th Golden Raspberry Awards: Star Trek V wins 1990 Fire in illegal NYC social club, kills 87 1990 In the Bronx, New York City, a fire at an illegal social club called "Happy Land" kills 87 people. 1990 in the Puntarenas and San Jose areas of Costa Rica, a 7.0 earthquake injured 10 and damaged 60 building severely 1991 63rd Academy Awards: "Dance with Wolves", Jeremy Irons & Kathy Bates win 1992 British scientists find new largest perfect number (2 756839 -1 2 756839) 1992 Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station. 1992 Pakistan defeats England by 22 runs to win World Cup 1993 "Spring Break Quake", a 5.7 earthquake, hits the state of Oregon. The epicenter was just outside the town of Scotts Mills along the Mount Angel faultline. 1995 Boxer Mike Tyson released from jail after serving 3 years 1995 Ward Cunningham opens the first wiki, the WikiWikiWeb. 1996 68th Academy Awards: "Braveheart", Nicholas Cage & Susan Sarandon win 1996 An 81-day-long standoff between the anti-government group Montana Freemen and law enforcement near Jordan, Montana, begins. 1996 Comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) approaches within 0.1018 AUs of Earth 1996 The EU's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (BSE). 1996 The Labour Party is founded in Turkey. 1996 US issues newly-redesigned $100 bill 1997 Rapper Notorious B.I.G. releases his first posthumous album Life After Death sixteen days after he is killed from gunshots. The double cd is certified ten million copies and debuts at number one. 1997 The Australian Senate votes to overturn the Northern Territory's Rights of the Terminally Ill law, the world's only law allowing terminally ill patients to commit suicide with a doctor's help 1999 Enron energy traders allegedly route 2,900 megawatts of electricity destined to California to Silver Peak, Nevada, population 200. 2004 Air Holland files for bankruptcy in response to unproven allegations of cannabis abuse by their pilots. 2006 Protesters demanding a re-election in Belarus following the rigged Belarusian presidential election, 2006 clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin was among several protesters arrested. 2006 The Capitol Hill massacre occurs: a gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood; it is one of the largest crime scenes the city has ever had. 2008 Visitor posting - Chris Bridges celebrated Abigale Thomas's 23rd birthday More historical events added daily - keep checking back Add your own Personal Historic listing FREE! - Click Here Return to Daily Calendar Contact us at: info @ datesinhistory.com (remove the spaces) "This site contains links to other Internet sites. These links are not endorsements of any products or services in such sites, and no information in such site has been endorsed or approved by this site. We are not responsible for the content of external sites. We do not vouch for accuracy of the dates listed on this site." Privacy Policy . What happened on my birthday? 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