On this day in History - Mar 25

• 0708 - Constantine is consecrated Pope.
• 0752 - Pope Stephen II dies.
• 1005 - King Kenneth III of Scotland dies in battle.
• 1133 - Henrique II of England was born.
• 1204 - Takanobu Fujiwara dis. Japanese painter.
• 1233 - King Afonso II of Portugal dies (b. 1185).
• 1252 - Conradin was born (d. 1268)
• 1297 - Arnost of Pardubice was born (d. 1364). Archbishop of Prague.
• 1300 - Dante descends to the Inferno in The Divine Comedy
• 1305 - The Arena Chapel, containing frescoes by Giotto, was consecrated in Padua, Italy.
• 1306 - Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scotland, freed Scotland from English rule, winning the decisive Battle of Bannockburn (1314) and confirming Scottish independence in the Treaty of Northampton (1328).
• 1345 - Blanche of Lancaster was born (d. 1369). Wife of John of Gaunt
• 1347 - Catherine of Siena was born (d. 1380). Italian saint.
• 1409 - The Council of Pisa opens.
• 1458 - [Íñigo López de Mendoza] Marqués de Santillana dies (b. 1398). Spanish poet
• 1479 - Vasili III was born (d. 1533). Grand Prince of Moscow.
• 1539 - Christopher Clavius was born (d. 1612). German mathematician and astronomer
• 1541 - Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany was born (d. 1587).
• 1558 - Marcos de Niza dies. French Franciscan explorer
• 1593 - Jean de Brébeuf was born (d. 1649). French Jesuit missionary.
• 1603 - Ikoma Chikamasa dies (b. 1526). Japanese warlord
• 1609 - Olaus Martini dies (b. 1557). Swedish Archbishop of Uppsala.
• 1620 - Johannes Nucius dies. German composer.
• 1625 - Giambattista Marini dies (b. 1569). Italian poet.
• 1634 - The first settlers arrive in Maryland (led by Lord Baltimore).
• 1643 - Louis Moréri was born (d. 1680). French encylopedist.
• 1655 - Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christian Huygens.
• 1655 - Protestants take control of Maryland at the Battle of the Severn.
• 1661 - Paul de Rapin was born (d. 1725). French historian.
• 1699 - Johann Adolph Hasse was bor (d. 1783). German composer.
• 1712 - Nehemiah Grew dies (b. 1641). English naturalist.
• 1736 - Nicholas Hawksmoor dies (b. c. 1661). British architect.
• 1738 - Turlough O'Carolan dies (b. 1670). Irish harper and composer.
• 1741 - Jean Antoine Houdon was born (d. 1828). Sculptor.
• 1742 - Portugal: 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
• 1767 - Joachim Murat was born (d. 1815). French marshal and King of Naples.
• 1774 - Nascimento de Hipólito José da Costa Pereira Furtado de Mendonça na colônia do Sacramento-RS (atual Uruguai). Patriarca da Imprensa Brasileira (Correio Brasiliense),
• 1800 - Heinrich von Dechsen was born (d. 1889). German geologist and mineralogist.
• 1801 - Novalis dies (b. 1772). German poet.
• 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 - José de Espronceda y Delgado was born in Almendralejo. Spanish poet.
• 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 imperador 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.
• 1857 - Phonautograph patented.
• 1860 - James Braid dies (b. 1795). Scottish surgeon.
• 1863 - Simon Flexner was born (d. 1946). Pathologist who isolated 1899 a common strain (Shigella dysenteriae) of dysentery bacillus
• 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 (d. 1957). Italian conductor.
• 1868 - William Lockwood was born (d. 1932)- English cricketer.
• 1873 - Rudolf Rocker was born (d. 1958). German anarcho-syndicalist.
• 1879 - William Knudsen was born (d. 27 Apr 1948). Danish-born American industrialist; president of General Motors (1937-1940)
• 1881 - Mary Gladys Webb was born (d. 1927). English writer.
• 1881 - Béla Bartók was born in Nagyszentmiklós. Hungarian composer / Nascimento em Nagyszentmiklos-Hungria (hoje Sannicolaul Mare, cidade da Roménia de Bartok (Béla Bartók). Compositor erudito moderno.
• 1884 - Ignacio Barraquer was born. Oftalmologist.
• 1884 - Georges Imbert was born (d. 1950). Alsatian chemist.
• 1886 - Athenagoras was born (d. 1972). Patriarch of Constantinople.
• 1887 - Chuichi Nagumo was born. Japanese Admiral
• 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.
• 1901 - Ed Begley was born (d. 1970). American actor.
• 1903 - Argentina, el Gobierno decreta la restauración del regimiento de granaderos "General San Martín", que había sido disuelto en 1826.
• 1906 - A.J.P. Taylor was born (d. 1990). British historian.
• 1908 - Foundation of Clube Atletico Mineiro in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
• 1908 - Helmut Käutner was born (d. 1980). German actor and film director.
• 1908 - David Lean was born (d. 1991). Film director.
• 1909 - Ruperto Chapí dies. Spanish composer.
• 1911 - Jack Ruby was born (d. 1967). Killer of Lee Harvey Oswald
• 1911 - In New York City the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire kills 146 garment workers.
• 1914 - Frédéric Mistral dies (b. 1830). French poet, Nobel Prize laureate in 194.
• 1914 - Norman 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 (d. 1995). American attorney, lecturer, sports journalist.
• 1918 - Claude Debussy dies in Paris (b. 1862). Composer.
• 1920 - Arthur Wint was born. Jamaican runner.
• 1920 - Patrick Troughton was born (d. 1987). British actor.
• 1920 - Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner
• 1921 - Simone Signoret was born (d. 1985). French actress.
• 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 - King George is deposed and Greece proclaims itself a republic.
• 1925 - Flannery O'Connor was born (d. 1964. American author.
• 1926 - László Papp was born (d. 2003). Hungarian boxer.
• 1926 - Jaime Sabines was born (d. 1999). Mexican poet.
• 1926 - Gene Shalit was born. American film critic.
• 1926 - Ángel Arango was born. Cuban writer and jurist.
• 1928 - Jim Lovell was born. Astronaut.
• 1928 - Viriato da Cruz was born in Porto Amboim (d. 1973). Angolan poet.
• 1928 - Portugal: O general Óscar de Fragoso Carmona é eleito presidente da República Portuguesa
• 1929 - Wim van Est was born (d. 2003). Dutch cyclist.
• 1931 - The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
• 1932 - Penelope Gilliatt was born (d. 9 May 1993). English writer of essays, short stories, screenplays and novels
• 1933 - Suprimidos en Alemania los sindicatos libres.
• 1934 - Gloria Steinem was born. American author and feminist.
• 1935 - Flash Elorde was born. Filipino boxer.
• 1937 - Egipto es admitido en la Sociedad de Naciones.
• 1938 - Hoyt Axton was born (d. 1999). American musician, actor.
• 1939 - Toni Cade Bambara was born (d. 1995). American author.
• 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 - Aretha Franklin was born. American singer crowned the “Queen of Soul,” defined the golden age of 1960s soul music with hits such as "I Never Loved a Man (the Way I Love You)," "Respect," and "Think." / Nascimento em Memphis - USA de Aretha Franklin, considerada a "Queen of Soul" (a rainha da soul music).
• 1942 - Richard O'Brien was born. English actor and writer.
• 1943 - Paul Michael Glaser was born. American actor
• 1945 - Leila Diniz was born in Niterói. Brazilian actrss.
• 1946 - Bonnie Bedelia was born. American actress.
• 1946 - Maurice Krafft was born (d. 1991). French vulcanologist.
• 1947 - Elton John [Reginald Kenneth Dwight] was born. English musician.
• 1947 - A explosion in a coalmine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
• 1949 - The extensive deportation campaign was conducted in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The Soviet authorities deported more than 92,000 people from Baltics to remote areas of the Soviet Union.
• 1949 - Nick Lowe was born. British singer/songwriter, producer
• 1951 - Eddie Collins dies (b. 1887). Baseball Hall of Famer
• 1952 - Antanas Mockus was born. Colombian mathematician and politician
• 1952 - Ana Bela Chaves was born. Portuguese violinist.
• 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.
• 1956 - Matthew Garber was born (d. 1977). British actor.
• 1957 - The Treaties of Rome were signed and the European Economic Community is established (West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg).
• 1957 - Max Ophüls dies (b. 1902). German-born director and writer.
• 1958 - Canada's Avro Arrow makes it debute flight.
• 1958 - Tom Brown dies (b. 1888). American jazz musician.
• 1960 - Idy Chan Yuk-Lin was born. Hong Kong actress.
• 1960 - Steve Norman was born. British saxophonist (Spandau Ballet)
• 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
• 1962 - Marcia Cross was born. American actress.
• 1964 - Ken Wregget was born. Canadian ice hockey goaltender
• 1964 - Lisa Gay Hamilton was born. American actress.
• 1965 - The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 marchers to the state capitol in Montgomery, Ala., to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks
• 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.
• 1965 - Stefka Kostadinova was born. Bulgarian high jumper and president of the Bulgarian olympic committee
• 1966 - Anton Rogan was born. Northern Irish footballer.
• 1966 - Jeff Healey was born. Canadian guitarist
• 1966 - Tom Glavine was born. Baseball pitcher.
• 1967 - Debi Thomas was born. American figure skater.
• 1967 - Matthew Barney was born. American media artist
• 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 (b. 1883). American writer.
• 1969 - Dale Davis was born. American basketball player.
• 1970 - O Concord realiza o seu primeiro voo supersónico.
• 1970 - Mirita Casimiro dies. Portuguese actress.
• 1971 - Bangladesh Liberation War: Beginning of Operation Searchlight of Pakistan Army against East Pakistani civilians.
• 1971 - Cammi Granato was born. American hockey player
• 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. American actress.
• 1975 - Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew (b. 1906).
• 1976 - Golpe de estado militar en Argentina.
• 1976 - Juvenile was born. Amewrican rapper
• 1976 - Wladimir Klitschko was born. Ukrainian boxer.
• 1976 - Gigi Leung was born. Hong Kong singer/actress.
• 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 (b. 1915). French literary critic and writer.
• 1980 - Milton H. Erickson dies (b. 1901). American psychiatrist.
• 1980 - Walter Susskind dies (b. 1913). Czech conductor.
• 1982 - O general Mohammad Hossain Ershad se declara líder de Bangladesh após um golpe militar e decreta lei marcial no país.
• 1982 - Danica Patrick was born. American race car driver.
• 1984 - Katharine McPhee was born. American Idol contestant.
• 1984 - Aprobación de la Ley Electoral en Nicaragua.
• 1984 - Carlos Lopes, atleta português, vence pela segunda vez o Campeonato Mundial de Corta-Mato.
• 1987 - Sexta encíclica del Papa Juan Pablo II, "Redemptoris Mater", que versa sobre la Virgen María
• 1987 - Nobunari Oda was born. Japanese figure skater.
• 1988 - Candle demonstration in Bratislava
• 1988 - Robert Joffrey dies (b. 1930). Dancer, teacher, and choreographer.
• 1989 - Alyson Michalka was born. American actress.
• 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 dies. French Catholic leader, critic of the Concilio Vaticano II reformes.
• 1992 - Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station.
• 1992 - Nancy Walker dies (b. 1922). American actress.
• 1994 - American troops completed their withdrawal from Somalia
• 1994 - Max Petitpierre dies (b. 1899). Member of the Swiss Federal Council.
• 1995 - Ward Cunningham opens the first wiki, the Portland Pattern Repository.
• 1995 - James Coleman dies (b. 1926). American sociologist.
• 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 (b. 1948). Croarian professional basketball player
• 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).
• 1996 - The Labour Party is founded in Turkey.
• 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.
• 1998 - D. António Ribeiro dies. Portuguese Cardinal.
• 1999 - La comisión de apelación de la Cámara de los Lores rechaza por segunda vez la inmunidad del general chileno Augusto Pinochet.
• 1999 - Cal Ripken, Sr. dies (b. 1936). Baseball manager.
• 2000 - Helen Martin dies (b. 1909). American actress.
• 2002 - Kenneth Wolstenholme dies (b. 1920). 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;
• The Annunciation - this date is nine months before Christmas Day.
• Maryland Day
• Greek Independence Day