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.
- 1306 –Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scotland.
- 1655 –Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
- 1802 –The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a “Definitive Treaty of Peace” between France and the United Kingdom.
- 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 publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1971 –The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandon an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos.
- 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 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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