About March 25
March 25, 2025 is the 84th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 281 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 329 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 25
- 1199 –Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France, leading to his death on April 6.
- 1584 –Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.
- 1634 –The first settlers arrive in Maryland.
- 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.
- 1917 –The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
- 1924 –On the anniversary of Greek Independence, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the Second Hellenic Republic.
- 1943 –Start of the American amphibious landings in the Philippines a turning point in the Pacific War.
- 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 deport more than 92,000 people from the Baltics to remote areas of the Soviet Union.
- 1957 –The European Economic Community is established (West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg).
- 1957 –United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl” on the grounds of obscenity.
- 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 at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).
- 1971 –The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandon an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos.
- 1992 –Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station.
- 1995 –WikiWikiWeb, the world’s first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham.
- 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 (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy).
- 2006 –Protesters demanding a new election in Belarus, following the rigged Belarusian presidential election, 2006, clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested.
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