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Events from History on March 25

1133 : William the Conqueror orders 1st Domesday Survey of England
1306 : Robert the Bruce crowned king of Scotland
1409 : Council of Pisa opens
1571 : Catholic Italian businessman Roberto Ridolfi leaves Enngeland
1581 : Portugese Cortes calls Philip II king of Portugal
1584 : Sir Walter Raleigh renews Humphrey Gilbert's patent to explore N Amer
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
1647 : Cape of Good Hope: tour ship Haerlem stranded in Tafel Bay
1655 : Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan, (Saturn's largest satellite)
1668 : 1st horse race in America takes place
1669 : Mount Etna in Sicily erupts, destroying Nicolosi, killing 20,000
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
1776 : Continental Congress authorized a medal for George Washington
1802 : France, Netherlands, Spain & England signs Peace of Amiens
1807 : 1st railway passenger service began in England
1807 : British Parliament abolishes slave trade
1807 : George Canning becomes British minister of Foreign affairs
1813 : 1st US flag flown in battle on the Pacific, frigate Essex
1814 : Netherlands Bank established
1817 : Tsar Alexander I recommends formation of Society of Israeli Christians
1820 : Greece freedom revolt against anti Ottoman attack
1821 : Greece gains independence from Turkey (National Day)
1847 : Pope Pius IX encyclical "On aid for Ireland"
1852 : Friedrich Hebbel's "Agnes Bernauer," premieres in Munich
1856 : A E Burnside patents Burnside carbine
1857 : Frederick Laggenheim takes 1st photo of a solar eclipse
1863 : 1st Army Medal of Honor awarded
1863 : Skirmish at Brentwood Tennessee
1864 : Battle of Paducah, KY (Forrest's raid)
1865 : Battle of Bluff Spring, FL
1865 : Battle of Fort Stedman, VA - in front of Petersburg
1865 : Battle of Mobile, AL (Spanish Fort, Fort Morgan, Fort Blakely)
1865 : SS General Lyon at Cape Hatteras catches fire & sinks, killing 400
1882 : 1st demonstration of pancake making (Dept store in NYC)
1888 : Socialist leader Domela Nieuwenhuis elected to Dutch 2nd chamber
1894 : Coxey's Army of the unemployed sets out from Massillon Oh for Wash
1895 : Italian troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1896 : Modern Olympics began in Athens, Greece [NS=Apr 6]
1898 : Intercollegiate Trapshooting Association formed in NYC
1900 : US Socialist Party forms in Indianapolis
1901 : 55 die as Rock Island train derailed near Marshalltown Iowa
1902 : Irving W Colburn patents sheet glass drawing machine
1905 : Rebel battle flags captured during war are returned to South
1907 : Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers lose to Kenora Thistles but outscore
1907 : them in 2 game set but outscore them 12-8 and win cup
1910 : Chalmers Auto Co offers a new car to each leagues' batting champ
1911 : L D Swamikannu publishes "Manual of Indian Chronology" in Bombay
1911 : Triangle Shirtwaist Factory catches fire 145 die, all but 13 girls
1913 : Great Dayton Flood
1913 : Home of vaudeville, Palace Theatre, opens (NYC) starring Ed Wynn
1915 : 1st submarine disaster; a US F-4 sank off Hawaii, killing 21
1915 : German U boat torpedoes Neth merchant ship Medea
1916 : Heavyweight Jess Willard & Franc Moran fight to no decision in NYC
1920 : Greek Independence Day
1923 : British govt grants Trans-Jordan autonomy
1924 : Greek parliament selects admiral Paul Koundouri¢tis as premier
1931 : Hal Kemp & his Orch record Whistles, with Skinnay Ennis
1931 : Scottsboro Boys (accused of raping a white woman) arrested in Alabama
1935 : 1st Belgium government of Van Zealand resigns
1936 : 200" mirror blank leaves for California to be ground
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 1st Stanley Cup penalty shot
1937 : Wash Daily News is 1st US newspaper with perfumed advertising page
1938 : 1st US bred horse (Battleship) to win Grand National Steeplechase
1939 : Billboard Magazine introduces hillbilly (country) music chart
1941 : Carolina Paprika Mills in Dillon SC, incorporated
1942 : 700 Jews of Polish Lvov-district reach Belzec Concentration camp
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 Sgt Nickolas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber
1944 : from 18,000 feet without a parachute
1945 : US 1st army breaks out bridgehead near Remagen
1945 : US 4th Armored div arrives at Hanau & Aschaffenburg
1945 : US Northern Tractor Flotilla departs Ulithi to Okinawa
1946 : 1st performance of Igor Stravinsky's "Ebony Concerto"
1947 : 9th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Holy Cross beats Okla 58-47
1947 : Agreement of Linggadjati ratified in Batavia
1947 : Coal mine explosion in Centralia, Ill, claims 111
1949 : SS police chief Rauter request for a pardon, denied
1951 : 5th Tony Awards: Guys & Dolls & Rose Tattoo win
1951 : E Purcell & EM Ewen detect 21-cm radiation at Harvard physics lab
1954 : 26th Academy Awards - "From Here to Eternity," Holden & A Hepburn win
1954 : Pope Pius XII encyclical "Sacra virginitas" (On consecrated virginity)
1954 : RCA manufactures 1st color TV set (12«" screen at $1,000)
1955 : E Germany granted full sovereignty by occupying power, USSR
1957 : Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community (Common Mkt)
1958 : West German parliament desires German atomic weapons
1959 : Bill White traded to St Louis for pitchers Sam Jones & Don Choate
1959 : French pres De Gaulle acknowledges Oder-Neisse boundary
1960 : 1st guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub (Halibut)
1960 : DH Lawrence' "Lady Chatterley's Lover" ruled not obscene (NYC)
1960 : Ford Frick voids Indians-Red Sox deal as Sam White retires
1960 : Italian govt Tambroni forms
1961 : "13 Daughters" closes at 54th St Theater NYC after 28 performances
1961 : "Gypsy" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 702 performances
1961 : 23rd NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: Cin beats Ohio State 70-65 (OT)
1961 : 3rd place game is one of the wildest contests in NCAA Tournament
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
1961 : history as St Joseph's defeats Utah 127-120 in 4 overtimes
1962 : "Family Affair" closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 65 performances
1962 : French OAS-leader ex-general Jouhaud arrested
1963 : KWHY TV channel 22 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
1964 : Britain sets memorial for the late Pres John F Kennedy
1964 : Egypt ends state of siege (1952-64)
1965 : Martin Luther King Jr led 25,000 to state capitol in Montgomery, Al
1965 : West German Bondsdag extends war crimes retribution
1966 : Beatles pose with mutilated dolls & butchered meat for the cover
1966 : US Supreme court rules "poll tax" unconstitutional
1966 : of the "Yesterday & Today" album, It is later pulled
1967 : 29th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Dayton 79-64
1967 : The Turtle's "Happy Together" goes #1
1967 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1967 : Who & Cream make US debut at Murray the K's Easter Show
1968 : KLVX TV channel 10 in Las Vegas, NV (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 : Andes Pact signed in Peru
1969 : John & Yoko stage their 1st bed-in for peace (Amsterdam)
1969 : Pakistan Gen Agha Mohammed Jagja Khan succeeds Ayub Chan as pres
1970 : Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH)
1971 : #5408 The, #6072 Hooghoudt, #6616 Plotinos, #6617 Boethius,
1971 : #6673 Degas, #6751 van Genderen, #7148 Reinholdbien, #7211 Xerxes,
1971 : #7314 Pevsner, #7624 Gluck, #7690 & #7972
1971 : Boston Patriots become New England Patriots
1971 : European council accepts Mansholt plan laying off 5 million farmers
1971 : Tom Jones, "She's a Lady," goes gold
1972 : "Selling of the President" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 5 perfs
1972 : 34th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Florida 81-76
1972 : America's LP "America" goes #1
1973 : 27th Tony Awards: That Championship Season & Little Night Music win
1973 : Majid Khan & Mushtaq Mohammad both out for 99 in Test v Eng
1974 : Barbra Streisand records the album "Butterfly"
1975 : Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz, king of Saudi-Arab (1964-75), shot by nephew
1976 : "My Fair Lady" opens at St James Theater NYC for 384 performances
1976 : "Rex" opens at Lunt-Fontaine Theater NYC for 48 performances
1976 : Argentine milt junta bans leftist political parties
1979 : Major riot at Bourda prevents day's play in WSC Supertest
1983 : Christa Rothenburger skates world record 500 m ladies (39.69 sec)
1983 : Pavel Pegov skates world record 1000m (1:12.58)
1985 : 57th Academy Awards - "Amadeus," F Murray Abraham & Sally Field win
1985 : Edwin Meese III becomes US Attorney General
1986 : Kurt Browning (Canada) becomes 1st skater to land a quadruple jump
1986 : Men's Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Brian Boitano (USA)
1986 : Supreme Court rules Air Force could ban wearing of yarmulkes
1987 : Supreme Court rules women/minorities may get jobs if less qualified
1988 : "Les Miserables," opens at Chunichi Theatre, Nagoya Japan
1988 : NASA launches space vehicle S-206
1988 : Robin Givens demands full access to husband Mike Tyson's money
1989 : "Les Miserables," opens at Auditorium Theatre, Chicago
1990 : "Lettice & Lovage" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 284 performances
1990 : 10th Golden Raspberry Awards: Star Trek V wins
1990 : Fire in illegal NYC social club, kills 87
1991 : 63rd Academy Awards - "Dance with Wolves," Kathy Bates & J Irons win
1991 : Allan Border takes 5-68 v WI at Bourda (!), Georgetown
1992 : British scientists find new largest perfect # (2 756839 -1 * 2 756839)
1992 : Imran Khan scores 72 & takes 1-43 off 6 2 overs in last ODI
1992 : Pakistan defeats England by 22 runs to win World Cup
1992 : Russian manned space craft TM-14, lands
1993 : "Candida" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances
1994 : Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3 km (4:09.32)
1994 : Yasunori Miyabe skates world record 1000 m (1:12.37)
1995 : Boxer Mike Tyson released from jail after serving 3 years
1996 : 68th Academy Awards - "Braveheart," Nicholas Cage & Susan Sarandon win
1996 : Comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) approaches within 0.1018 AUs of Earth
1996 : Freedom Shoemakers on Maryport's Solway Estate closes
1996 : Ice Dance Championship at Edmonton won by Gritshuk & Platov (RUS)
1996 : Ice Pairs Championship at Edmonton won by Eltsova & Bushkov (RUS)
1996 : Ladies Fig Skating Championship in Edmonton won by Michelle Kwan (USA)
1996 : Men's Fig Skating Championship in Edmonton won by Todd Eldredge (USA)
1996 : US issues newly-redesigned $100 bill
1997 : "Barrymore," opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 240 performances
1997 : Indians trade Lofton & Embree to Braves for Grissom & Justice

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