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
- 804 –The Sukabumi inscription, oldest known inscription written entirely in Old Javanese.
- 1409 –The Council of Pisa opens.
- 1811 –Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.
- 1865 –American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union.
- 1894 –Coxey’s Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington D.C.
- 1911 –In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
- 1918 –The Belarusian People’s Republic is established.
- 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.
- 1947 –An explosion in a coal mine 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 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.
- 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 at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).
- 1971 –Bangladesh Liberation War: Beginning of Operation Searchlight by the Pakistani Armed Forces against East Pakistani civilians.
- 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.
- 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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