About March 25
March 25, 2024 is the 85th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 281 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Aries is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 310 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 25
- 1306 –Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scotland.
- 1634 –The first settlers arrive in Maryland.
- 1802 –The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a “Definitive Treaty of Peace” between France and the United Kingdom.
- 1807 –The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger carrying railway in the world.
- 1821 –(Julian Calendar) Traditional date of the start of the Greek War of Independence. The war had actually began since 23 February 1821. The date was chosen in the early years of the Greek state so that it falls on the day of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, strengthening the ties between the Greek Orthodox Church and the newly-found state.
- 1894 –Coxey’s Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington D.C.
- 1918 –The Belarusian People’s Republic is established.
- 1924 –On the anniversary of Greek Independence, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the Second Hellenic Republic.
- 1941 –The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact.
- 1943 –Start of the American amphibious landings in the Philippines a turning point in the Pacific War.
- 1947 –An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
- 1948 –The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
- 1957 –The European Economic Community is established (West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg).
- 1971 –Bangladesh Liberation War: Beginning of Operation Searchlight by the Pakistani Armed Forces against East Pakistani civilians.
- 1971 –The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandon an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos.
- 1975 –Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew.
- 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.
- 1988 –The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
- 1996 –An 81-day-long standoff between the anti-government group Montana Freemen and law enforcement near Jordan, Montana, begins.
- 2006 –Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.
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