On this day in History - Mar. 25
- 0031 - 1st Easter, according to calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus.
- 0708 - Constantine is consecrated Pope.
- 0752 - Pope-elected Stephen dies before taking office.
- 1005 - King Kenneth III of Scotland dies in battle.
- 1133 - Henrique II of England was born.
- 1199 - Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France which leads to his death on April 6.
- 1204 - Takanobu Fujiwara dies. Japanese painter.
- 1223 - King Afonso II of Portugal dies (b. 1185).
- 1252 - Conradin was born (d. 1268).
- 1259 - Andronikos II Palaiologos was born (d. 1332). Byzantine emperor.
- 1297 - Andronicus III Palaeologus was born (d. 1341). Eastern Roman Emperor.
- 1297 - Arnost of Pardubice was born (d. 1364). Archbishop of Prague.
- 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 - Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster dies (b. 1281). English politician.
- 1347 - Catherine of Siena was born (d. 1380). Italian saint.
- 1404 - John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset was baptised (d. 1444). English military leader.
- 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.
- 1533 - Filipe, Príncipe de Portugal was born (d. 1539).
- 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.
- 1561 - Conrad Lycosthenes dies (b. 1518). Alsacian humanist and encyclopedist.
- 1584 - Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to exploit Virginia.
- 1590 - São Bento Monastary in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is founded / Fundação do Mosteiro de São Bento, no Rio de Janeiro.
- 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 - Protestants take control of Maryland at the Battle of the Severn.
- 1661 - Paul de Rapin was born (d. 1725). French historian.
- 1669- Mount Etna in Sicily erupts, destroying Nicolosi, killing 20,000.
- 1699 - Johann Adolph Hasse was born (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).
- 1782 - Caroline Bonaparte was born (d. 1839). Queen of Naples.
- 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.
- 1807 - The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, became the first passenger carrying railway in the world.
- 1808 - José de Espronceda y Delgado was born in Almendralejo. Spanish poet and revolutionary.
- 1811 - Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for his publication of the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.
- 1814 - Venezuela, los patriotas venezolanos triunfan en San Mateo.
- 1814 - Netherlands Bank is established.
- 1818 - Caspar Wessel dies (b. 1745). Danish mathematician.
- 1821 (Julian Calebndar) - Greece declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire, beginning the Greek War of Independence.
- 1824 - Clinton L. Merriam was born (d. 1900). American politician.
- 1839 - Termina la colocación del obelisco conmemorativo del 2 de mayo, en Madrid.
- 1840 - Myles Keogh was born (d. 1876). U.S. Soldier in U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment & Irish Soldier of Fortune.
- 1857 - Phonautograph patented.
- 1859 - Shatunovsky was born (d. 27 Mar 1929). Ukrainian mathematician.
- 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 - 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.
- 1869 - José Bernardo da Silva Cabral dies (b. 1801). Portuguese politician.
- 1873 - Rudolf Rocker was born (d. 1958). German anarcho-syndicalist.
- 1876 - Glasgow 1st soccer match Scotland-Wales (4-0).
- 1877 - Alphonse de Châteaubriant was born. French writer (Instantanés aux Pays-Bas).
- 1877 - Walter Little was born (d. 1961). Canadian politician.
- 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.
- 1892 - Andy Clyde was born (d. 1967). American actor.
- 1894 - Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington D.C.
- 1895 - Siegfried Handloser was born (d. 1954). German physician.
- 1895 - Italian troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia).
- 1896 - Modern Olympics begin in Athens Greece
- 1897 - John Laurie was born (d. 1980). Scottish actor (Jericho, Island of Desire).
- 1898 - Intercollegiate Trapshooting Association formed in New York City, New York.
- 1899 - Burt Munro was born (d. 1978). New Zealand motorcycle racer.
- 1901 - Presentación del primer motor diesel de dos tiempos.
- 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 - Racing Club de Avellaneda, one of the big five of Argentina, was founded.
- 1903 - Argentina, el Gobierno decreta la restauración del regimiento de granaderos "General San Martín", que había sido disuelto en 1826.
- 1903 - Nahum Norbert Glatzer was born (d. 1990). Jewish-American scholar.
- 1903 - Frankie Carle was born (d. 2001). American pianist and bandleader.
- 1906 - A.J.P. Taylor was born (d. 1990). British historian.
- 1906 - Jean Sablon was born (d. 1994). French singer.
- 1908 - Clube Atletico Mineiro founded in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
- 1908 - Helmut Käutner was born (d. 1980). German actor and film director. (Der Hauptmann von Köpenick).
- 1908 - David Lean was born (d. 1991). English film director (Dr. Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter).
- 1908 - Mário Peixoto was born. Brazilian writer and film director.
- 1908 - Durham Stevens dies (b. 1851). American diplomat.
- 1909 - Ruperto Chapí dies. Spanish composer.
- 1910 - Magda Olivero was born. Italian soprano.
- 1911 - In New York City the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
- 1911 - Luciano Santos was born (d. 2006). Portuguese painter.
- 1912 - Jean Vilar was born (d. 1971). French stage and film actor.
- 1913 - Sir Reo Stakis was born (d. 2001). Anglo-Cypriot hotel magnate, head of Stakis Hotels.
- 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.
- 1914 - Frédéric Mistral dies (b. 1830). French poet, Nobel Prize laureate in 1904.
- 1915 - Primeiro número da revista Orpheu é colocado à venda.
- 1915 - Se funda el Mariano Melgar Fútbol Club, de Arequipa, Perú.
- 1917 - Russia, death penalty is abolished by the reformist Government of Kerenski. It will be restored after the Civil War.
- 1917 - Elizabeth Storrs Mead dies (b. 1832). American educator.
- 1917 - Pedro Militão Kilkerry dies (b. 10 Mar. 1885). Brazilian poet.
- 1917 - Spyros Samaras dies (b. 1861). Greek composer of the Olympic Anthem.
- 1918 - The Belarusian National Republic was established.
- 1918 - Howard Cosell was born (d. 1995). American sports reporter.
- 1918 - Claude Debussy dies in Paris (b. 1862). French composer.
- 1920 - Walter Chrysler resigns as executive vice president from General Motors.
- 1920 - Arthur Wint was born. Jamaican runner.
- 1920 - Patrick Troughton was born (d. 1987). British actor.
- 1920 - Arthur Wint was born (d. 1992). Jamaican runner
- 1921 - Alexandra of Greece and Denmark was born (d. 1993). Queen of Yugoslavia.
- 1921 - Simone Signoret was born (d. 1985). French actress.
- 1921 - Nancy Kelly was born (d. 1995). American actress.
- 1922 - Brazilian Comunist Party / Partido Comunista do Brasil (PCB) is founded.
- 1922 - Eileen Ford was born. American model agency executive
- 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 - Bonnie Guitar was born. American singer.
- 1923 - Kenneth Linn Franklin was born. American astronomer who discovered that the giant planet Jupiter emits radio waves (1955).
- 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. American astronaut.
- 1928 - Viriato da Cruz was born in Porto Amboim (d. 13 Jun 1973). Angolan poet.
- 1928 - General Óscar Carmona is elected President / O general Óscar de Fragoso Carmona é eleito presidente da República Portuguesa.
- 1929 - Wim van Est was born (d. 2003). Dutch cyclist.
- 1931 - Paul Motian was born. American jazz drummer and composer.
- 1932 - Penelope Gilliatt was born (d. 9 May 1993). English writer of essays, short stories, screenplays and novels.
- 1932 - Gene Shalit was born. American film critic.
- 1933 - Suprimidos en Alemania los sindicatos libres.
- 1934 - Gloria Steinem was born. American author and feminist.
- 1934 - Johnny Burnette was born (d. 1964). American singer.
- 1935 - Flash Elorde was born. Filipino boxer.
- 1937 - Italy and Yugoslavia sign non-aggression treaty (Pact of Belgrade).
- 1937 - Egipto es admitido en la Sociedad de Naciones.
- 1937 - John Drinkwater dies in London (b. 1 Jun 1882). English poet/playwright (Bird in Hand).
- 1938 - Fritz d'Orey was born. Brazilian racing driver.
- 1938 - Hoyt Axton was born (d. 1999). American musician, actor.
- 1939 - Toni Cade Bambara was born (d. 1995). American author.
- 1939 - José Petitinga dies (b. 1866). Brazilian spiritist and wrtiter.
- 1940 - Anita Bryant was born. American entertainer, radical anti-homosexual activist.
- 1941 - Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers.
- 1941 - Gudmund Hernes was born. Norwegian politician.
- 1941 - Florencio Parravicini dies (suicide) (b. 1876). Argentinian actor and comedian.
- 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 - Kim Woodburn was born. English television personality.
- 1943 - Paul Michael Glaser was born. American actor.
- 1945 - Leila Diniz was born in Niterói. Brazilian actress.
- 1946 - Maurice Krafft was born (d. 1991). French vulcanologist.
- 1946 - Cliff Balsam was born. English footballer.
- 1946 - Gerard John Schaefer was born (d. 1995). American serial killer.
- 1947 - Elton John [Reginald Kenneth Dwight] was born. English musician.
- 1947 - An explosion in a coalmine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
- 1948 - Bonnie Bedelia was born. American actress.
- 1948 - Lynn Faulds Wood was born. Scottish television presenter.
- 1949 - António Mega Ferreira was born. Portuguese writer and journalist.
- 1949 - Nick Lowe was born. British singer/songwriter, producer.
- 1950 - Chuck Greenberg was born (d. 1995). American musician (Shadowfax).
- 1951 - Eddie Collins dies (b. 1887). American baseball player.
- 1952 - Antanas Mockus was born. Colombian mathematician and politician.
- 1952 - Ana Bela Chaves was born. Portuguese violinist.
- 1954 - Pope Pius XII encyclical Sacra virginitas.
- 1954 - Production of RCA's first commercial color TV.
- 1954 - Elli Stai was born. Greek journalist and TV presenter.
- 1954 - Thom Loverro was born. American sportswriter.
- 1955 - Lee Mazzilli was born. American baseball player.
- 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 - Ray Tanner was born. American college baseball coach.
- 1958 - Sisy Chen was born. Taiwanese politician and television commentator.
- 1958 - Åsa Torstensson was born. Swedish politician.
- 1958 - María Caridad Colón was born. Cuban javelin thrower (Olympics-gold-1980).
- 1958 - Tom Brown dies (b. 1888). American jazz musician.
- 1960 - Idy Chan Yuk-Lin was born. Hong Kong actress.
- 1960 - Peter O'Brien was born. Australian actor.
- 1960 - Haywood Nelson was born. American actor.
- 1960 - Brenda Strong was born. American 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".
- 1961 - Fred Goss was born. American actor, comedian, and writer.
- 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.
- 1964 - Alex Solis was born. Panamanian jockey.
- 1964 - Ken Wregget was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
- 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, to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks.
- 1965 - Avery Johnson was born. American basketball player and coach.
- 1965 - Sarah Jessica Parker was born. American actress.
- 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. American baseball player.
- 1966 - Tatjana Patitz was born. German supermodel.
- 1967 - Debi Thomas was born. American figure skater.
- 1967 - Doug Stanhope was born. American comedian.
- 1967 - Matthew Barney was born. American media artist.
- 1967 - Renato Cellini dies (b. c. 1913). Italian conductor.
- 1969 - During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold a bed-in for peace in the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).
- 1969 - Pakistan General Agha Mohammed Jagja Khan succeeds Ayub Khan as President.
- 1969 - Dale Davis was born. American basketball player.
- 1969 - Cathy Dennis was born. English singer, songwriter, record producer and actress.
- 1969 - Max Eastman dies (b. 1883). American writer.
- 1969 - Billy Cotton dies (b. 1889). British bandleader & entertainer.
- 1970 - Concorde makes its first supersonic flight (1127 km/h).
- 1970 - Kari Matchett was born. Canadian actress.
- 1970 - Mirita Casimiro dies (b. 1914). Portuguese actress.
- 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 - Cammi Granato was born. American hockey player.
- 1971 - Sheryl Swoopes was born. American basketball player.
- 1971 - Stacy Dragila was born. American pole vaulter.
- 1972 - In Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Vicky Leandros wins the seventeenth Eurovision Song Contest for Luxembourg singing "Après toi" (After you).
- 1973 - Anthony Barness was born. English footballer.
- 1973 - Anders Fridén was born. Swedish singer (In Flames).
- 1974 - Barbra Streisand records the album "Butterfly".
- 1974 - Lark Voorhies was born. American actress.
- 1974 - Otto Waldis dies at 72. Actor (Unknown World, Whip Hand).
- 1975 - Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew (b. 1906).
- 1975 - Viviane Araújo was born. Brazilian model and actress.
- 1975 - Juan Gaudino dies (b. 1893). Argentine racing driver.
- 1975 - Ladislav Benysek was born. Czech ice hockey player
- 1975 - Melanie Blatt was born. British singer (All Saints).
- 1976 - Juvenile was born. American rapper.
- 1976 - Francis Bellew was born. Irish Gaelic footballer.
- 1976 - Cha Tae-hyun was born. South Korean actor, TV personality, and singer.
- 1976 - Gigi Leung was born. Hong Kong singer and actress.
- 1976 - Wladimir Klitschko was born. Ukrainian boxer.
- 1976 - "My Fair Lady" opens at St James Theater NYC for 384 performances.
- 1976 - Argentine military junta bans leftist political parties.
- 1977 - Argentina, el general Alejandro Lanusse es designado presidente.
- 1978 - Baek Ji Young was born. South Korean singer.
- 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 - Lee Pace was born. American actor.
- 1979 - Gorilla Zoe was born. American rapper.
- 1979 - Natasha Yi was born. American supermodel.
- 1980 - Roland Barthes dies (b. 1915). French literary critic and writer.
- 1980 - James Wright dies (b. 1927). American poet.
- 1980 - Milton H. Erickson dies (b. 1901). American psychiatrist.
- 1980 - Walter Susskind dies (b. 1913). Czech conductor.
- 1982 - Álvaro Saborío was born. Costa Rican footballer.
- 1982 - Danica Patrick was born. American race car driver.
- 1982 - Sean Faris was born. American actor and model.
- 1982 - Sergey Yakovlev was born. Russian musical artist and painter.
- 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.
- 1984 - Katharine McPhee was born. American Idol contestant.
- 1985 - Edwin Meese III becomes US Attorney General.
- 1986 - Kyle Lowry was born. American basketball player.
- 1987 - Sexta encíclica del Papa Juan Pablo II, "Redemptoris Mater", que versa sobre la Virgen María.
- 1987 - Jason Castro was born. American Idol contestant.
- 1987 - Nobunari Oda was born. Japanese figure skater.
- 1988 - The Candle demonstration in Bratislava was the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
- 1988 - Robert Joffrey dies (b. 1930). American dancer, teacher, and choreographer.
- 1989 - Alyson Michalka was born. American actress.
- 1990 - In the Bronx, New York City, a fire at an illegal social club called "Happy Land" kills 87 people.
- 1991 - 63rd Academy Awards: "Dance with Wolves", Jeremy Irons & Kathy Bates win
- 1991 - Marcel Lefebvre dies (b. 1905). 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.
- 1994 - David Miles Bensusan Butt dies (b. 24 Jul 1914). English economist.
- 1995 - Mike Tyson is released from the Indiana Youth Center after serving three years for a rape conviction.
- 1995 - Membros de um culto japonês soltam gás venenoso num metro no Japão, matando doze pessoas e contaminando mais de cinco mil.
- 1995 - James Coleman dies (b. 1926). American sociologist.
- 1995 - Krešimir Ćosić dies (b. 1948). Croatian basketball player.
- 1995 - John Hugenholtz dies (b. 1914). Dutch race track designer.
- 1996 - An 81-day long standoff between the antigovernment group Montana Freemen and law enforcement in Jordan, Montana begins.
- 1996 - 68th Academy Awards: "Braveheart", Nicholas Cage & Susan Sarandon win.
- 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 - John Snagge dies (b. 1904). British radio personality.
- 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.
- 1998 - Max Green dies (b. 1952). Australian lawyer.
- 1999 - La comisión de apelación de la Cámara de los Lores rechaza por segunda vez la inmunidad del general chileno Augusto Pinochet.
- 1999 - Enron energy traders allegedly route 2,900 megawatts of electricity destined to California to Silver Peak, Nevada, population 200.
- 1999 - Cal Ripken, Sr. dies (b. 1936). Americasn baseball manager.
- 2000 - Helen Martin dies (b. 1909). American actress.
- 2002 - Kenneth Wolstenholme dies (b. 1920). British football commentator.
- 2003 - José Barros Moura dies (b. 1944). Portuguese politician.
- 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.
- 2005 - Paul Henning dies (b. 1911). American TV/film producer and writer.
- 2006 - The Capitol Hill massacre, where gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, one of the largest crime scenes the city has ever had.
- 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 - Buck Owens dies (b. 1929). American singer and television personality.
- 2006 - Richard Fleischer dies (b. 1916). American film director.
- 2006 - Rocío Dúrcal dies (b. 1944). Spanish singer and actress.
- 2007 - Andranik Margaryan dies (b. 1951). 14th Prime Minister of Armenia.
- 2008 - Ben Carnevale dies (b. 1915). American basketball coach.
- 2008 - Gene Puerling dies (b. 1929). American vocalist and arranger.
- 2008 - Rafael Azcona dies (b. 1926). Spanish screenwriter.
- 2008 - Thierry Gilardi dies (b. 1958). French football and rugby commentator.
- The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Lady Day) - this date is nine months before Christmas Day, and is based on the traditional date in Catholicism of a 1 BC - Annunciation of the Virgin Mary and conception of Jesus.
- Maryland Day.
- Greek Independence Day.
- Freedom Day in Belarus.
- Mother's Day in Slovenia.
- One of the four Irish Quarter days in the Irish calendar.
- Saint Dysmas, the 'Good Thief'.
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