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
- 421 –Venice is founded at twelve o'clock noon, according to legend.
- 804 –The Sukabumi inscription, oldest known inscription written entirely in Old Javanese.
- 1409 –The Council of Pisa opens.
- 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 Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger carrying railway in the world.
- 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.
- 1924 –On the anniversary of Greek Independence, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the Second Hellenic Republic.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1969 –During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).
- 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.
- 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.
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