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Events on the 25th of March in history

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25 Mar 0001 Origin of Dionysian Incarnation of the Word
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25 Mar 0031 1st Easter, according to calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus
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25 Mar 0421 Venice is founded at twelve o'clock noon, according to legend.
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25 Mar 0421 Friday at 12 Prime Minister: city of Venice founded
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25 Mar 0708 Pope Constantine succeeds Pope Sisinnius as the 88th pope.
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25 Mar 0708 Constantine begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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25 Mar 0717 Theodosius III resigns the throne to the Byzantine Empire to enter the clergy.
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25 Mar 0752 Stephen ends his reign as Catholic Pope (or 26th)
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25 Mar 1133 William the Conqueror orders 1st Domesday Survey of England
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25 Mar 1199 Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France, leading to his death on April 6.
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25 Mar 1306 Robert the Bruce becomes king of Scotland.
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25 Mar 1409 The Council of Pisa opens.
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25 Mar 1555 The city of Valencia is founded in present-day Venezuela.
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25 Mar 1571 Catholic Italian businessman Roberto Ridolfi leaves Enngeland
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25 Mar 1581 Portugese Cortes calls Philip II king of Portugal
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25 Mar 1584 Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.
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25 Mar 1584 Sir Walter Raleigh renews Humphrey Gilbert's patent to explore North America
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25 Mar 1598 Cornelis de Houtman's fleet departs for East-Indies
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25 Mar 1609 Henry Hudson embarks on an exploration for Dutch East India Company
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25 Mar 1634 The first settlers arrive in Maryland.
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25 Mar 1634 Lord Baltimore founded Catholic colony of Maryland
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25 Mar 1647 Cape of Good Hope; tour ship Haerlem stranded in Tafel Bay
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25 Mar 1655 Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
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25 Mar 1655 Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan, (Saturn's largest satellite)
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25 Mar 1668 1st horse race in America takes place
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25 Mar 1669 Mount Etna in Sicily erupts, destroying Nicolosi, killing 20,000
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25 Mar 1700 England, France & Netherlands ratify 2nd Extermination treaty
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25 Mar 1753 Voltaire leaves the court of Frederik II of Prussia
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25 Mar 1774 English Parliament passes Boston Port Bill
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25 Mar 1776 Continental Congress authorizes a medal for General George Washington
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25 Mar 1802 The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace" between France and the United Kingdom.
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25 Mar 1802 France, Netherlands, Spain & England signs Peace of Amiens
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25 Mar 1807 The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger-carrying railway in the world.
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25 Mar 1807 The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.
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25 Mar 1807 1st railway passenger service began in England
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25 Mar 1807 British Parliament abolishes slave trade
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25 Mar 1807 George Canning becomes British minister of Foreign affairs
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25 Mar 1811 Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.
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25 Mar 1813 1st US flag flown in battle on the Pacific, frigate Essex
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25 Mar 1814 Netherlands Bank established
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25 Mar 1817 Tsar Alexander I recommends formation of Society of Israeli Christians
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25 Mar 1820 Greece freedom revolt against anti Ottoman attack
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25 Mar 1821 (Julian calendar) Traditional date of the start of the Greek War of Independence. The war had actually begun on 23 February 1821. The date was chosen in the early years of the Greek state so that it falls on the day of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, strengthening the ties between the Greek Orthodox Church and the newly founded state.
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25 Mar 1821 Greece gains independence from Turkey (National Day)
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25 Mar 1847 Pope Pius IX encyclical "On aid for Ireland"
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25 Mar 1852 Friedrich Hebbel's "Agnes Bernauer" premieres in Munich
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25 Mar 1856 A E Burnside patents Burnside carbine
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25 Mar 1857 Frederick Laggenheim takes 1st photo of a solar eclipse
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25 Mar 1863 Skirmish at Brentwood Tennessee
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25 Mar 1863 1st Army Medal of Honor awarded
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25 Mar 1864 Battle of Paducah KY (Forrest's raid)
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25 Mar 1865 Battle of Bluff Spring, Florida
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25 Mar 1865 American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union.
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25 Mar 1865 Battle of Fort Stedman VA: in front of Petersburg
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25 Mar 1865 Battle of Mobile AL (Spanish Fort, Fort Morgan, Fort Blakely)
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25 Mar 1865 SS General Lyon at Cape Hatteras catches fire & sinks, killing 400
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25 Mar 1876 Glasgow 1st soccer match Scotland-Wales (4-0)
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25 Mar 1882 1st demonstration of pancake making (Department store in New York NY)
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25 Mar 1888 Socialist leader Domela Nieuwenhuis elected to Dutch 2nd chamber
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25 Mar 1889 1st Test Cricket match played at Newlands, Cape Town vs England
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25 Mar 1894 Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.
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25 Mar 1894 Coxey's Army of the unemployed sets out from Massillon OH for Washington DC
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25 Mar 1895 Italian troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
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25 Mar 1896 Modern Olympics begin in Athens Greece
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25 Mar 1898 Intercollegiate Trapshooting Association formed in New York NY
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25 Mar 1900 US Socialist Party is formed at Indianapolis
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25 Mar 1901 55 die as Rock Island train derailed near Marshalltown, Iowa
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25 Mar 1902 Irving W Colburn patents sheet glass drawing machine
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25 Mar 1905 Rebel battle flags captured during war are returned to South
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25 Mar 1907 Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers lose to Kenora Thistles but outscore them in 2 game set but outscore them 12-8 and win cup
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25 Mar 1910 Chalmers Auto Co offers a new car to each leagues' batting champion
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25 Mar 1911 L D Swamikannu publishes "Manual of Indian Chronology" in Bombay
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25 Mar 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory catches fire 145 die, all but 13 girls
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25 Mar 1911 In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
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25 Mar 1911 146 die in a fire at Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York NY
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25 Mar 1913 Great Dayton Flood
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25 Mar 1913 Home of vaudeville, Palace Theatre, opens (New York NY) starring Ed Wynn
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25 Mar 1914 Aris is founded in Thessaloniki.
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25 Mar 1915 1st submarine disaster; a US F-4 sank off Hawaii, killing 21
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25 Mar 1915 German U boat torpedoes Netherlands merchant ship Medea
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25 Mar 1916 Heavyweight Jess Willard and Franc Moran fight to no decision in New York City
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25 Mar 1916 Jess Willard fights Frank Moran to no decision in 10 for boxing title
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25 Mar 1916 Heavyweight Jess Willard & Franc Moran fight to no decision in 10 for boxing title (New York NY)
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25 Mar 1916 Women are allowed to attend a boxing match
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25 Mar 1917 The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
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25 Mar 1918 The Belarusian People's Republic is established.
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25 Mar 1920 Greek Independence Day
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25 Mar 1923 British government grants Trans-Jordan autonomy
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25 Mar 1924 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens (NHL) sweep Calgary Tigers (WCHL) in 2
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25 Mar 1924 On the anniversary of Greek Independence, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the Second Hellenic Republic.
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25 Mar 1924 Greek parliament selects Admiral Paul Koundouri
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25 Mar 1924 Stanley Cup: Montr
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25 Mar 1931 The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
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25 Mar 1931 Hal Kemp & his Orchestra record Whistles, with Skinnay Ennis
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25 Mar 1931 Scottsboro Boys (accused of raping a white woman) arrested in Alabama
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25 Mar 1934 1st Golf Masters Championship: Horton Smith wins, shooting a 284
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25 Mar 1934 Horton Smith win 1st Masters golf championship
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25 Mar 1935 1st Belgium government of Van Zealand resigns
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25 Mar 1936 200" mirror blank leaves for California to be ground
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25 Mar 1936 Detroit Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons in NHL longest game (2h56m30s)
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25 Mar 1936 Detroit Red Wings beat Montr
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25 Mar 1937 Italy & Yugoslavia sign no-attack treaty (Pact of Belgrade)
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25 Mar 1937 It's revealed Quaker Oats pays Babe Ruth $25,000 per year for ads
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25 Mar 1937 Lionel Conacher misses on 1st Stanley Cup penalty shot
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25 Mar 1937 Washington Daily News is 1st US newspaper with perfumed advertising page
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25 Mar 1938 1st US bred horse (Battleship) to win Grand National Steeplechase
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25 Mar 1939 Billboard Magazine introduces hillbilly (country) music chart
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25 Mar 1941 The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact.
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25 Mar 1941 Carolina Paprika Mills, Dillon SC, incorporated
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25 Mar 1942 700 Jews of Polish Lvov-district reach Belzec Concentration camp
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25 Mar 1943 97% of all Dutch physicians strike againt Nazi registration
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25 Mar 1943 Jimmy Durante & Garry Moore premiere on radio
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25 Mar 1944 Germany troop executes 335 residents of Rome
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25 Mar 1944 RAF Sergeant Nickolas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber from 18,000 feet without a parachute
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25 Mar 1945 US 1st army breaks out bridgehead near Remagen
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25 Mar 1945 US 4th Armored division arrives at Hanau & Aschaffenburg
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25 Mar 1945 US Northern Tractor Flotilla departs Ulithi to Okinawa
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25 Mar 1946 1st performance of Igor Stravinsky's "Ebony Concerto"
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25 Mar 1947 An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
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25 Mar 1947 9th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Holy Cross beats Oklahoma 58-47
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25 Mar 1947 Agreement of Linggadjati ratified in Batavia
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25 Mar 1947 Coal mine explosion in Centralia IL, claims 111 lives
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25 Mar 1947 Last day of Test cricket for Walter Hammond (v New Zealand, Christchurch)
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25 Mar 1948 The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
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25 Mar 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.
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25 Mar 1949 SS police chief Rauter request for a pardon, denied
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25 Mar 1951 5th Tony Awards: Guys and Dolls and Rose Tattoo win
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25 Mar 1951 E Purcell & EM Ewen detect 21-cm radiation at Harvard physics lab
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25 Mar 1954 26th Academy Awards - "From Here to Eternity, " Holden and A Hepburn win
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25 Mar 1954 Pope Pius XII encyclical "Sacra virginitas" (On consecrated virginity)
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25 Mar 1954 26th Academy Awards: "From Here to Eternity", William Holden & Audrey Hepburn win
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25 Mar 1954 RCA manufactures 1st color TV set (12
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25 Mar 1955 East Germany granted full sovereignty by occupying power, USSR
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25 Mar 1957 The European Economic Community is established with West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg as the first members.
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25 Mar 1957 United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds.
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25 Mar 1957 NBA modifies the free-throw rule
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25 Mar 1957 Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community (Common Market)
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25 Mar 1958 Canada's Avro Arrow makes its first flight.
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25 Mar 1958 Sugar Ray Robinson is 1st boxing champion to win 5 times
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25 Mar 1958 West German parliament desires German atomic weapons
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25 Mar 1959 Bill White traded to St. Louis for pitchers Sam Jones and Don Choate
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25 Mar 1959 French President De Gaulle acknowledges Oder-Neisse boundary
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25 Mar 1960 1st guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub (Halibut)
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25 Mar 1960 DH Lawrence' "Lady Chatterley's Lover" ruled not obscene (New York NY)
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25 Mar 1960 Ford Frick voids Indians-Red Sox deal as Sam White retires
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25 Mar 1960 Italian government Tambroni forms
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25 Mar 1961 "13 Daughters" closes at 54th St. Theater NYC after 28 performances
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25 Mar 1961 "Gypsy" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 702 performances
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25 Mar 1961 23rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Cincinnati beats Ohio State 70-65 (OT)
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25 Mar 1961 3rd place game is one of the wildest contests in NCAA Tournament history as St Joseph's defeats Utah 127-120 in 4 overtimes
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25 Mar 1961 Elvis Presley performs live on the USS Arizona
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25 Mar 1961 Explorer 10 launched into elongated Earth orbit (177/181,000 km)
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25 Mar 1961 Sputnik 10 carries a dog into Earth orbit; later recovered
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25 Mar 1962 "Family Affair" closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 65 performances
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25 Mar 1962 French OAS-leader ex-General Jouhaud arrested
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25 Mar 1963 KWHY TV channel 22 in Los Angeles CA (IND) begins broadcasting
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25 Mar 1964 Britain sets memorial for the late President John F Kennedy
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25 Mar 1964 Egypt ends state of siege (1952-64)
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25 Mar 1965 Martin Luther King Jr led 25,000 to state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama
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25 Mar 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.
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25 Mar 1965 West German Bondsdag extends war crimes retribution
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25 Mar 1966 Beatles pose with mutilated dolls and butchered meat for the cover of the "Yesterday and Today" album, It is later pulled
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25 Mar 1966 US Supreme court rules "poll tax" unconstitutional
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25 Mar 1967 29th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Dayton 79-64
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25 Mar 1967 The Turtles' "Happy Together" goes #1
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25 Mar 1967 UCLA wins its 3rd national basketball championship in 4 years
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25 Mar 1967 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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25 Mar 1967 Who & Cream make US debut at Murray the K's Easter Show
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25 Mar 1968 KLVX TV channel 10 in Las Vegas NV (PBS) begins broadcasting
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25 Mar 1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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25 Mar 1969 During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).
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25 Mar 1969 Andes Pact signed in Peru
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25 Mar 1969 John & Yoko stage their 1st bed-in for peace (Amsterdam)
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25 Mar 1969 Pakistan General Agha Mohammed Jagja Khan succeeds Ayub Chan as President
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25 Mar 1970 Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight (700 mph / 1,127 km/h)
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25 Mar 1971 The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandon an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos.
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25 Mar 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War: Beginning of Operation Searchlight by the Pakistan Armed Forces against East Pakistani civilians.
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25 Mar 1971 Boston Patriots become New England Patriots
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25 Mar 1971 European council accepts Mansholt plan laying off 5 million farmers
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25 Mar 1971 Tom Jones' "She's a Lady" goes gold
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25 Mar 1972 "Selling of the President" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 5 performances
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25 Mar 1972 UCLA wins its 6th consecutive national basketball title
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25 Mar 1972 34th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Florida 81-76; UCLA's 6th consecutive national basketball title
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25 Mar 1972 America's LP "America" goes #1
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25 Mar 1972 Bobby Hull becomes the 2nd NHLer to score 600 goals
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25 Mar 1973 27th Tony Awards: That Championship Season & Little Night Music win
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25 Mar 1973 Carol Mann wins LPGA Sears Women's Golf Classic
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25 Mar 1973 Majid Khan & Mushtaq Mohammad both out for 99 in Test vs England
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25 Mar 1974 Barbra Streisand records the album "Butterfly"
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25 Mar 1975 Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew.
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25 Mar 1975 Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz, king of Saudi-Arabia (1964-75), shot by nephew
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25 Mar 1976 "My Fair Lady" opens at St. James Theater NYC for 384 performances
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25 Mar 1976 "Rex" opens at Lunt-Fontaine Theater NYC for 48 performances
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25 Mar 1976 Argentine military junta bans leftist political parties
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25 Mar 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.
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25 Mar 1979 Major riot at Bourda prevents day's play in WSC Supertest
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25 Mar 1979 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sahara National Pro-Am Golf Tournament
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25 Mar 1982 Wayne Gretzky becomes 1st NHL to score 200 points in a season
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25 Mar 1983 Christa Rothenburger skates world record 500 meter ladies (39.69 seconds)
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25 Mar 1983 Pavel Pegov skates world record 1000 meter (1:12.58)
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25 Mar 1984 Betsy King wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
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25 Mar 1985 57th Academy Awards - "Amadeus, " F Murray Abraham and Sally Field win
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25 Mar 1985 Edwin Meese III becomes US Attorney General
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25 Mar 1986 Kurt Browning (Canada) becomes 1st skater to land a quadruple jump
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25 Mar 1986 Supreme Court rules Air Force could ban wearing of yarmulkes
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25 Mar 1987 Supreme Court rules women/minorities may get jobs if less qualified
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25 Mar 1988 "Les Miserables, " opens at Chunichi Theatre, Nagoya Japan
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25 Mar 1988 The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
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25 Mar 1988 NASA launches space vehicle S-206
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25 Mar 1988 Robin Givens demands full access to husband Mike Tyson's money
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25 Mar 1989 "Les Miserables" opens at Auditorium Theatre, Chicago
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25 Mar 1990 "Lettice & Lovage" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 284 performances
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25 Mar 1990 The Happy Land fire was an arson fire that kills 87 people trapped inside an illegal nightclub in The Bronx, New York City.
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25 Mar 1990 10th Golden Raspberry Awards: Star Trek V wins
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25 Mar 1990 Fire in illegal NYC social club, kills 87
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25 Mar 1990 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic
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25 Mar 1991 63rd Academy Awards - "Dance with Wolves, " Kathy Bates and J Irons win
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25 Mar 1991 63rd Academy Awards: "Dance with Wolves", Jeremy Irons & Kathy Bates win
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25 Mar 1991 Allan Border takes 5-68 vs West Indies at Bourda (!), Georgetown
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25 Mar 1992 Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station.
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25 Mar 1992 The Pakistan national cricket team wins the 1992 Cricket World Cup at Melbourne Cricket Ground.
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25 Mar 1992 British scientists find new largest perfect number (2 756839 -1 2 756839)
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25 Mar 1992 Imran Khan scores 72 & takes 1-43 off 6 2 overs in last ODI
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25 Mar 1992 Pakistan defeats England by 22 runs to win World Cup
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25 Mar 1992 Russian manned space craft TM-14, lands
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25 Mar 1993 "Candida" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances
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25 Mar 1993 Warrington bomb victim Tim Parry dies five days after an IRA bomb detonated on 20 March 1993 in the second of the Warrington bomb attacks.
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25 Mar 1994 Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3 km (4:09.32)
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25 Mar 1994 Yasunori Miyabe skates world record 1000 meter (1:12.37)
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25 Mar 1995 WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham.
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25 Mar 1995 Boxer Mike Tyson released from jail after serving 3 years
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25 Mar 1996 68th Academy Awards - "Braveheart, " Nicholas Cage and Susan Sarandon win
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25 Mar 1996 Ice Pairs Championship at Edmonton won by Eltsova and Bushkov (RUS)
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25 Mar 1996 The European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy).
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25 Mar 1996 An 81-day-long standoff between the anti-government group Montana Freemen and law enforcement near Jordan, Montana, begins.
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25 Mar 1996 Comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) approaches within 0.1018 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth
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25 Mar 1996 Freedom Shoemakers on Maryport's Solway Estate closes
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25 Mar 1996 US issues newly-redesigned $100 bill
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25 Mar 1996 World Ice Dance Championship in Edmonton won by Gritshuk & Platov (Russia)
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25 Mar 1996 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Edmonton won by Eltsova & Bushkov (Russia)
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25 Mar 1996 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Edmonton won by Michelle Kwan (USA)
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25 Mar 1996 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Edmonton won by Todd Eldredge (USA)
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25 Mar 1997 "Barrymore, " opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 240 performances
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25 Mar 1997 Indians trade Lofton and Embree to Braves for Grissom and Justice
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25 Mar 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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25 Mar 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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