About March 25
March 25, 2023 is the 84th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 281 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 322 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 25
- 421 –Venice is founded at twelve o'clock noon, according to legend.
- 1409 –The Council of Pisa opens.
- 1584 –Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.
- 1634 –The first settlers arrive in Maryland.
- 1655 –Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
- 1807 –The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.
- 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.
- 1918 –The Belarusian People’s Republic is established.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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