March 25
March 25 is the 84th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (85th in Leap years). There are 281 days remaining.
Events:
- 1821 - Greece declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire, beginning the Greek War of Independence.
- 1911 - The Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire.
- 1957 - EEC Established (W.Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg).
- 1969 - During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold a bed-in for peace in the Amsterdam Hilton (until March 31).
- 1979 The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, was delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center.
Births:
- 1133 - Henry II, King of England (+ 1189)
- 1741 - Jean Antoine Houdon, sculptor (+ 1828)
- 1803 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist (+ 1882)
- 1863 - Simon Flexner, pathologist who isolated 1899 a common strain (Shigella dysenteriae) of dysentery bacillus (+ 1946)
- 1867 - Arturo Toscanini, conductor (+ 1957)
- 1881 - Béla Bartók, composer (+ 1945)
- 1881 - Mary Gladys Webb, writer (+ 1927)
- 1908 - Helmut Käutner, actor and film director (+ 1980)
- 1920 - Howard Cosell
- 1921 - Simone Signoret, actress (+ 1985)
- 1925 - Flannery O'Connor, author (+ 1964)
- 1935 - Gloria Steinem
- 1942 - Aretha Franklin
- 1947 - Elton John, musician
- 1949 - Nick Lowe
Deaths:
Holidays and observances:
- Annunciation - this is nine months before Christmas day.
- Traditional date of the start of the new year in Britain, until the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 1752 (called Lady Day - see above).
- Greek Independence Day.
See Also:
March 24 - March 26 - February 25 - April 25 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December