On this day in History - Mar 25

0752 - Pope Stephen II dies
1005 - King Kenneth III of Scotland dies (in battle)
1133 - Nascimento de Henrique II de Inglaterra .
1204 -Fallece el pintor japonés Takanobu Fujiwara.
1233- King Afonso II of Portugal, dies (b. 1185)
1252 - Conradin was born (d. 1268)
1306 - Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scotland.
1409 - The Council of Pisa opens.
1458 - Muere Íñigo López de Mendoza, marqués de Santillana.
1634 - The first settlers arrive in Maryland (led by Lord Baltimore).
1655 - Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christian Huygens.
1736 - Nicholas Hawksmoor, dies architect (b. circa 1661)
1741- Jean Antoine Houdon, was born sculptor, (d. 1828)
1742 - Foram demarcados os Bairros de Lisboa
1751 - King Frederick I of Sweden, dies (b. 1676)
1752 - Argentina, hundimiento de la mayor parte de la catedral de Buenos Aires. Tras su reconstrucción, fue nuevamente abierta al culto el 25 de marzo de 1791
1774 -Nascimento de Hipólito José da Costa Pereira Furtado de Mendonça,na colônia do Sacramento-RS (atual Uruguai). Patriarca da Imprensa Brasileira (Correio Brasiliense),
1801- Morte do poeta romântico alemão Novalis.
1801 - Muere el poeta, escritor y pensador Novalis.
1802 - The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace" between France and United Kingdom.
1806 - Venezuela, Francisco de Miranda intenta desembarcar con tres barcos en Ocumare (Venezuela), pero es rechazado por las fuerzas reales y tiene que retirarse a la isla de la Trinidad.
1807 - The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing slavery in the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1808 - Macimiento de José de Espronceda y Delgado, poeta romántico español, en Almendralejo, España.
1808 - Nace el escritor y poeta José de Espronceda y Delgado.
1814 - Venezuela, los patriotas venezolanos triunfan en San Mateo.
1821 - Greece declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire, beginning the Greek War of Independence.
1824 - O impaerador do Brasil, Dom Pedro I, jura uma Constitucião liberal apresentada pelo Conselho de Estado.
1839 - Termina la colocación del obelisco conmemorativo del 2 de mayo, en Madrid.
1863 -Simon Flexner was born ( d. 2 May 1946). American pathologist and bacteriologist who isolated (1899) a common strain (Shigella dysenteriae) of dysentery bacillus and developed a curative serum for cerebrospinal meningitis (1907).
1863 - Simon Flexner, was born, pathologist who isolated 1899 a common strain (Shigella dysenteriae) of dysentery bacillus, (d. 1946)
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.
1865 - American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces capture Fort Stedman from the Union.
1865 - Pierre-Ernest Weiss was born (d. 24 Oct 1940). French physicist who investigated magnetism and determined the Weiss magneton unit of magnetic moment. His chief work was on ferromagnetism.
1867 - Arturo Toscanini, was born, Italian conductor, (d. 1957)
1873 - Rudolf Rocker, was born, anarcho-syndicalist, (d. 1958)
1881 - Mary Gladys Webb, was born, , writer, (d. 1927)
1881 -Nascimento em Nagyszentmiklos-Hungria ( hoje Sannicolaul Mare, cidade da Roménia de Bartok (Béla Bartók), compositor erudito moderno.
1884 - Nace el oftalmólogo Ignacio Barraquer.
1886 - Athenagoras,was born, Patriarch of Constantinople, (d. 1972)
1887 - Chuichi Nagumo, nascimento de, almirante da Marinha Imperial Japonesa.
1894 - Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington D.C. 1896 -Tropas italianas invadem a Etiópia.
1901 -Presentación del primer motor diesel de dos tiempos.
1901 - At the five-day "Week of Nice" race in Nice, France, Mercedes wins its first racing victory.
1901 - Sir Raymond (William) Firth, was born. New Zealander social anthropologist best known for his research on the Maori and other peoples of Oceania and Southeast Asia.
1903 - Argentina, el Gobierno decreta la restauración del regimiento de granaderos "General San Martín", que había sido disuelto en 1826.
1903 - Argentina, el Gobierno decreta la restauración del regimiento de granaderos "General San Martín", que había sido disuelto en 1826.
1908 - se funda el Clube Atlético Mineiro, de Belo Horizonte, Brasil.
1908 - Helmut Käutner, was born, actor and film director, (d. 1980)
1908- David Lean, was born, film director, (d. 1991).
1909 - Muere el compositor español Ruperto Chapí.
1911 - Jack Ruby, was born, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald, (d. 1967)
1911 - In New York City the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire kills 146 garment workers.
1914 - Frédéric Mistral, morre. Poeta francês, Prémio Nobel da Literatura em 1904.
1914 - Norman Ernest Borlaug was born. American agricultural scientist, plant pathologist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1970. He was one of those who laid the groundwork of the so-called Green Revolution, the agricultural technological advance that promised to alleviate world hunger.
1915- Primeiro número da revista Orpheu é colocado à venda.
1915 - Se funda el Mariano Melgar Fútbol Club, de Arequipa, Perú.
1917 - Rusia, abolida la pena de muerte por el Gobierno reformista de Kerenski. Será restablecida en la URSS tras el desencadenamiento de la Guerra Civil.
1918 - The Belarusian National Republic was established.
1918 - Howard Cosell, was born, attorney, lecturer, sports journalist, (d. 1995)
1918 - Claude Debussy, dies composer, (b. 1862)
1920 - Arthur Wint, was born, Jamaican runner
1921 - Simone Signoret, was born, actress, (d. 1985)
1923 - Chile, se inicia en Santiago de Chile la V Conferencia Internacional en la que se firma el Tratado de Gondra, para el arreglo de conflictos entre Estados americanos.
1923 - Kenneth Linn Franklin was born. American astronomer who discovered that the giant planet Jupiter emits radio waves (1955).
1924 - Greece proclaims itself a republic.
1924 - O rei Jorge da Grécia é deposto e a república grega é proclamada
1925 - Flannery O'Connor, was born, author, (d. 1964)
1926 - Ángel Arango, nacimiento de, escritor y jurista cubano.
1928 - Jim Lovell, was born, astronaut
1928- O general Óscar de Fragoso Carmona é eleito presidente da República Portuguesa
1931 - The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
1933 - Suprimidos en Alemania los sindicatos libres.
1935 - Gloria Steinem, was born, feminist, author
1937 - Egipto es admitido en la Sociedad de Naciones.
1938 - Hoyt Axton, was born, musician, actor, (d. 1999)
1939 - Toni Cade Bambara, was born, author (d. 1995)
1939 - Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli becomes Pope Pius XII.
1940 - Anita Bryant, was born, entertainer, radical anti-homosexual activist
1941 - Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers.
1941 - Se suicida el actor argentino Florencio Parravicini.
1942 -Nascimento em Memphis - USA de Aretha Franklin, considerada a "Queen of Soul"(a rainha da soul music).
1942 - Richard O'Brien, was born, actor, writer
1945-Nascimento em Niterói - Rio de Janeiro de Leila Diniz (Leila Diniz). Actriz brasileira.
1947 - Elton John,[Reginald Kenneth Dwight] was born. English musician.
1947 - A explosion in a coalmine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
1951 - Eddie Collins, dies Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1887)
1952 - Antanas Mockus, Colombian mathematician and politician
1953 - Coronación del rey Husein de Jordania. 1954 - RCA fabrica el primer televisor color.
1955- El Parlamento de la India declara ilegales las discriminaciones de que son víctimas los parias.
1955 - United States Customs seizes Allen Ginsberg's Howl as obscene.
1957 - The European Economic Community is established (West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg).
1957 - Max Ophüls, dies director, writer, (b. 1902)
1958 - Tom Brown, dies jazz musician (b. 1888)
1960 - Idy Chan Yuk-Lin, was born Hong Kong, actress
1960 - In London, United Kingdom, Jacqueline Boyer wins the fifth Eurovision Song Contest for France singing "Tom Pillibi".
1962- Atentados de la OAS en Argelia: mueren 110 personas y 147 resultan heridas
1964 - Lisa Gay Hamilton, was born actress
1965 - Sarah Jessica Parker, was born actress
1965 - Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. complete successfully their 4 day 50 mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery.
1966 - Tom Glavine, was born baseball pitcher
1967 - Debi Thomas, was born figure skater
1969 - During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold a bed-in for peace in the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).
1969 - Max Eastman, dies writer (b. 1883)
1970 - O Concord realiza o seu primeiro voo supersónico.
1971 - Bangladesh Liberation War: Beginning of Operation Searchlight of Pakistan Army against East Pakistani civilians.
1972 - In Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Vicky Leandros wins the seventeenth Eurovision Song Contest for Luxembourg singing "Après toi" (After you).
1974 - Lark Voorhies, was born actress
1975 - Faisal of Saudi Arabia (b. 1906) is shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew.
1976 - Golpe de estado militar en Argentina.
1976 - Juvenile, was born rappe
1976 - Wladimir Klitschko, was born boxer
1977 - Argentina, el general Alejandro Lanusse es designado presidente.
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.
1979 - Kamarali Khan, was born, model
1980 - Roland Barthes, dies critic, writer (b. 1915)
1980 - Walter Susskind, dies Czech conductor (b. 1913)
1982 - O general Mohammad Hossain Ershad se declara líder de Bangladesh após um golpe militar e decreta lei marcial no país.
1984 - Aprobación de la Ley Electoral en Nicaragua.
1987 - Sexta encíclica del Papa Juan Pablo II, "Redemptoris Mater", que versa sobre la Virgen María
1990 - In New York City, a fire at an illegal social club called "Happy Land" kills 87.
1991 - Disolución del Pacto de Varsovia.
1991- Marcel Lefebvre, muere. Obispo tradicionalista francés, crítico de las reformas del Concilio Vaticano II.
1992 - Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station.
1994 - Los últimos soldados estadounidenses destacados en Somalía abandonan el país, al día siguiente de la firma de un tratado de paz entre líderes guerrilleros.
1995 - Ward Cunningham opens the first wiki, the Portland Pattern Repository.
1995 - Membros de um culto japonês soltam gás venenoso num metro no Japão, matando doze pessoas e contaminando mais de cinco mil.
1995 - Kresimir Cosic, dies, professional basketball player, (b. 1948)
1996 - An 81-day long standoff between the antigovernment group Montana Freemen and law enforcement in Jordan, Montana begins.
1996 - The EU's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (BSE).
1997 - El juez español Baltazar Garzón ordena prisión incondicional para el ex presidente argentino Galtieri por 350 desaparecidos españoles.
1997 - Son declaradas patrimonio de la Humanidad las ciudades españolas de Toledo, Segovia, Córdoba, Ávila, Cáceres, Salamanca y Santiago de Compostela.
1999 - La comisión de apelación de la Cámara de los Lores rechaza por segunda vez la inmunidad del general chileno Augusto Pinochet.
2002 - Kenneth Wolstenholme, dies, British football commentator
2004 - Air Holland files for bankruptcy when unproven allegations of marijuana abuse by the their pilots led them to bankruptcy.
2005-Celebração Judaica do Purim, em 14 de Adar (ano de 2005), que comemora um episódio da vida hebraica na Pérsia, onde a heroína é Ester, esposa do rei Assuero;
Dia da independência da Grécia