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Today March 25th 2009 this day in history Read more below to view events, deaths, births, Holidays observances and video clips. Last database updated: Jan 17th, 2009
Events
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 – The Council of Pisa opens.
1584 – Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to exploit Virginia.
1634 – The first settlers arrive in Maryland.
1655 – Saturn s largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christian Huygens.
1802 – The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a Definitive Treaty of Peace between France and the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
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, becomes the first passenger carrying railway in the world.
1811 – Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for his publication of the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.
1821 – (Julian Calendar) Greeks revolt against the Ottoman Empire, beginning the Greek War of Independence.
1865 – American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces capture Fort Stedman from the Union in a bloody battle.
1894 – Coxey s Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington D.C.
1903 – Racing Club de Avellaneda, one of the big five of Argentina, is founded.
1908 – Clube Atletico Mineiro, Founded in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
1911 – In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
1917 – The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
1918 – The Belarusian People s Republic is established.
1931 – The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
1939 – Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli becomes Pope Pius XII.
1941 – The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact.
1947 – An explosion in a coalmine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
1949 – The extensive deportation campaign known as March deportation is 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.
1955 – United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg s poem Howl as obscene.
1957 – The European Economic Community is established (West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg).
1958 – Canada s Avro Arrow makes its first flight.
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, Alabama.
1969 – During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace in the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).
1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War: Beginning of Operation Searchlight of Pakistan Army against East Pakistani civilians.
1975 – Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew.
1979 – The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, The Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
1988 – The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
1990 – In The Bronx, a fire at an illegal social club called Happy Land kills 87 people.
1992 – Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station.
1996 – An 81-day-long standoff between the anti-government group Montana Freemen and law enforcement near Jordan, Montana, begins.
1996 – The European Union s Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (BSE).
2006 – Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle s Capitol Hill neighborhood.
2006 – Protesters demanding a re-election in Belarus following the rigged Belarusian presidential election, 2006 clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested.
Births
1252 – Conradin, Duke of Swabia (d. 1268)
1259 – Andronikos II Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1332)
1297 – Andronicus III Palaeologus, Byzantine emperor (d. 1341)
1297 – Arnost of Pardubice, Archbishop of Prague (d. 1364)
1345 – Blanche of Lancaster, wife of John of Gaunt (d. 1369)
1347 – Catherine of Siena, Italian saint (d. 1380)
1404 (baptism) – John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (d. 1444)
1479 – Vasili III, Grand Prince of Moscow (d. 1533)
1539 – Christopher Clavius, German mathematician (d. 1612)
1541 – Francesco I de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1587)
1593 – Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
1643 – Louis Moréri, French encylopedist (d. 1680)
1661 – Paul de Rapin, French historian (d. 1725)
1699 – Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (d. 1783)
1767 – Joachim Murat, King of Naples (d. 1815)
1782 – Caroline Bonaparte, Queen of Naples (d. 1839)
1800 – Heinrich von Dechsen, German geologist (d. 1889)
1824 – Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (d. 1900)
1840 – Myles Keogh, U.S. Soldier in U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment & Irish Soldier of Fortune (d. 1876)
1863 – Simon Flexner, American pathologist (d. 1946)
1867 – Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor, (d. 1957)
1868 – William Lockwood, English cricketer (d. 1932)
1873 – Rudolf Rocker, German anarchist (d. 1958)
1877 – Walter Little, Canadian politician (d. 1961)
1881 – Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer (d. 1945)
1881 – Mary Gladys Webb, English writer (d. 1927)
1884 – Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (d. 1950)
1886 – Athenagoras, Patriarch of Constantinople (d. 1972)
1892 – Andy Clyde, American actor (d. 1967)
1895 – Siegfried Handloser, German physician (d. 1954)
1897 – John Laurie, Scottish actor (d. 1980)
1899 – Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (d. 1978)
1901 – Ed Begley, American actor (d. 1970)
1903 – Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (d. 1990)
1903 – Frankie Carle, American pianist and bandleader (d. 2001)
1906 – A.J.P. Taylor, British historian (d. 1990)
1906 – Jean Sablon, French singer (d. 1994)
1908 – Helmut Käutner, German actor and director (d. 1980)
1908 – David Lean, English film director (d. 1991)
1910 – Magda Olivero, Italian soprano
1911 – Jack Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (d. 1967)
1912 – Jean Vilar, French stage and film actor (d. 1971)
1913 – Sir Reo Stakis, Anglo-Cypriot hotel magnate (d. 2001)
1914 – Norman Borlaug, American agriculturalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1918 – Howard Cosell, American sports reporter (d. 1995)
1920 – Patrick Troughton, English actor (d. 1987)
1920 – Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner (d. 1992)
1921 – Nancy Kelly, American actress (d. 1995)
1921 – Simone Signoret, French actress (d. 1985)
1921 – Alexandra of Greece and Denmark, Queen of Yugoslavia (d. 1993)
1922 – Eileen Ford, American model agency executive
1923 – Bonnie Guitar, American singer
1925 – Flannery O Connor, American author (d. 1964)
1926 – László Papp, Hungarian boxer (d. 2003)
1926 – Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (d. 1999)
1928 – Jim Lovell, American astronaut
1929 – Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist (d. 2003)
1931 – Paul Motian, American jazz drummer and composer
1932 – Gene Shalit, American film critic
1934 – Johnny Burnette, American singer (d. 1964)
1934 – Gloria Steinem, American feminist and publisher
1935 – Flash Elorde, Filipino boxer
1937 – Tom Monaghan, founder of Dominos pizza
1938 – Hoyt Axton, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 1999)
1938 – Fritz d Orey, Brazilian racing driver
1939 – Toni Cade Bambara, American author (d. 1995)
1940 – Anita Bryant, American singer
1941 – Gudmund Hernes, Norwegian politician
1942 – Aretha Franklin, American singer
1942 – Richard O Brien, English actor and writer
1942 – Kim Woodburn, English television personality
1943 – Paul Michael Glaser, American actor
1946 – Cliff Balsam, English footballer
1946 – Stephen Hunter, American author
1946 – Maurice Krafft, French vulcanologist (d. 1991)
1946 – Gerard John Schaefer, American serial killer (d. 1995)
1947 – Elton John, English singer and songwriter
1948 – Bonnie Bedelia, American actress
1948 – Lynn Faulds Wood, Scottish television presenter
1950 – Chuck Greenberg, American musician (Shadowfax) (d. 1995)
1951 – Jumbo Tsuruta, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 2000)
1952 – Antanas Mockus, Colombian mathematician
1954 – Elli Stai, Greek journalist and TV presenter
1954 – Thom Loverro, American sportswriter
1955 – Daniel Boulud, French chef and restaurateur
1955 – Lee Mazzilli, American baseball player
1956 – Matthew Garber, English actor (d. 1977)
1957 – Jim Uhls, American screenwriter
1958 – Sisy Chen, Taiwanese politician and television commentator
1958 – James McDaniel, American actor
1958 – Ray Tanner, American college baseball coach
1958 – Åsa Torstensson, Swedish politician
1960 – Idy Chan Yuk-Lin, Hong Kong actress
1960 – Steve Norman, British saxophonist (Spandau Ballet)
1960 – Peter O Brien, Australian actor
1960 – Haywood Nelson, American actor
1960 – Brenda Strong, American actress
1961 – Fred Goss, American actor, comedian, and writer
1962 – Marcia Cross, American actress
1964 – Lisa Gay Hamilton, American actress
1964 – Kate DiCamillo, American children s author
1964 – Alex Solis, Panamanian jockey
1964 – Ken Wregget, Canadian ice hockey player
1965 – Sarah Jessica Parker, American actress
1965 – Avery Johnson, American basketball player and coach
1965 – Stefka Kostadinova, Bulgarian high jumper
1966 – Tom Glavine, American baseball player
1966 – Jeff Healey, Canadian guitarist (d. 2008)
1966 – Tatjana Patitz, German supermodel
1966 – Anton Rogan, Irish footballer
1967 – Matthew Barney, American media artist
1967 – Debi Thomas, American figure skater
1967 – Doug Stanhope, American comedian
1969 – Dale Davis, American basketball player
1969 – Cathy Dennis, English singer, songwriter, and actress
1969 – Jeffrey Walker, British Musician
1970 – Kari Matchett, Canadian actress,
1971 – Cammi Granato, American ice hockey player
1971 – Sheryl Swoopes, American basketball player
1971 – Stacy Dragila, American pole vaulter
1973 – Anthony Barness, English footballer
1973 – Anders Fridén, Swedish singer (In Flames)
1974 – Lark Voorhies, American actress
1975 – Ladislav Benysek, Czech ice hockey player
1975 – Melanie Blatt, British singer (All Saints)
1976 – Francis Bellew, Irish Gaelic footballer
1976 – Cha Tae-hyun, South Korean actor
1976 – Juvenile, American rapper
1976 – Wladimir Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer
1976 – Gigi Leung, Hong Kong singer/actress
1976 – Baek Ji Young, South Korean singer
1978 – Teanna Kai, American porn star
1979 – Lee Pace, American actor
1979 – Natasha Yi, American supermodel
1980 – Carrie Lam, Hong Kong actress
1982 – Danica Patrick, American race car driver
1982 – Sean Faris, American actor and model
1982 – Álvaro Saborío, Costa Rican footballer
1984 – Katharine McPhee, American singer/actress
1986 – Megan Gibson, American softball player
1986 – Kyle Lowry, American basketball player
1986 – Marco Belinelli, Italian basketball player
1987 – Jason Castro, American Idol contestant
1987 – Nobunari Oda, Japanese figure skater
1987 – Jacob Bagersted, Danish handballer
1989 – Alyson Michalka, American actress/singer
1989 – Scott Sinclair, English footballer
Deaths
752 – Pope-elect Stephen, Italian priest and elected successor to Pope Zachary
1223 – Afonso II of Portugal (b. 1185)
1345 – Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, English politician (b. 1281)
1458 – Marqués de Santillana, Spanish poet (b. 1398)
1558 – Marcos de Niza, French Franciscan explorer
1561 – Conrad Lycosthenes, French-born German philosopher and encyclopedist (b. 1518)
1603 – Ikoma Chikamasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1526)
1609 – Olaus Martini, Swedish Archbishop of Uppsala (b. 1557)
1620 – Johannes Nucius, German composer
1625 – Giambattista Marini, Italian poet (b. 1569)
1712 – Nehemiah Grew, English naturalist (b. 1641)
1736 – Nicholas Hawksmoor, British architect
1738 – Turlough O Carolan, Irish harper and composer (b. 1670)
1751 – Frederick I of Sweden (b. 1676)
1801 – Novalis, German poet (b. 1772)
1818 – Caspar Wessel, Danish mathematician (b. 1745)
1857 – Matthew Carlton, english astronomer(b.1782)
1860 – James Braid, Scottish surgeon (b. 1795)
1873 – Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter (b. 1810)
1908 – Durham Stevens, American diplomat (b. 1851)
1914 – Frédéric Mistral, French poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1830)
1917 – Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American educator (b. 1832)
1917 – Spyridon Samaras, Greek composer (b. 1861)
1918 – Claude Debussy, French composer (b. 1862)
1931 – Ida Wells, American civil rights activist (b. 1862)
1951 – Eddie Collins, American baseball player (b. 1887)
1957 – Max Ophüls, German director and writer (b. 1902)
1958 – Tom Brown, American musician (b. 1888)
1967 – Renato Cellini, Italian conductor (b.c.1913)
1969 – Max Eastman, American writer (b. 1883)
1969 – Billy Cotton, British bandleader & entertainer (b. 1889)
1975 – King Faisal of Saudi Arabia (b. 1906)
1975 – Juan Gaudino, Argentine racing driver (b. 1893)
1980 – Roland Barthes, French literary critic and writer (b. 1915)
1980 – Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist (b. 1901)
1980 – Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (b. 1913)
1980 – James Wright, American poet (b. 1927)
1983 – Bob Waterfield, American football player (b. 1920)
1988 – Robert Joffrey, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1930)
1991 – Marcel Lefebvre, French Catholic prelate (b. 1905)
1992 – Nancy Walker, American actress (b. 1922)
1994 – Max Petitpierre, Swiss politician and jurist (b. 1899)
1995 – James Coleman, American sociologist (b. 1926)
1995 – Krešimir Cosic, Croatian basketball player (b. 1948)
1995 – John Hugenholtz, Dutch race track designer (b. 1914)
1996 – John Snagge, British radio personality (b. 1904)
1998 – Max Green, Australian lawyer (b. 1952)
1998 – Steve Schiff, United States Congressman (b. 1947)
1999 – Cal Ripken, Sr., American baseball manager (b. 1936)
2000 – Helen Martin, American actress (b. 1909)
2001 – Brian Trubshaw, British Concorde test pilot (b. 1924)
2002 – Kenneth Wolstenholme, English football commentator (b. 1920)
2005 – Paul Henning, American TV/film producer and writer (b. 1911)
2006 – Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944)
2006 – Richard Fleischer, American film director (b. 1916)
2006 – Buck Owens, American singer and television personality (b. 1929)
2007 – Andranik Margaryan, Armenian politician (b. 1951)
2008 – Rafael Azcona, Spanish screenwriter (b. 1926)
2008 – Ben Carnevale, American basketball coach (b. 1915)
2008 – Gene Puerling, American vocalist and arranger (b. 1929)
Holidays and observances
In Christianity, March 25 is typically celebrated as the day of the Annunciation so long as it does not fall on a Sunday or during Holy Week or Easter Week.
Hilaria, day of resurrection of Attis, a Phrygian deity
Historic start of the new year (Lady Day) in England, Wales, Ireland, and the future United States until the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar in 1752. (The year 1751 began on 25 March; the year 1752 began on 1 January.)
Maryland Day;
Greek Independence Day;
Freedom Day in Belarus;
Mother s Day in Slovenia.
One of the four Quarter days in Ireland and England.
Saint Dysmas, the Good Thief
Saint Humbert
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