March 25

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2008 Calendar

March 25 is the 84th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (85th in leap years). There are 281 days remaining.

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708 - Constantine is made Pope.
1306 - Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scotland.
1409 - The Council of Pisa opens.
1634 - The first settlers arrive in Maryland (led by Lord Baltimore).
1655 - Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christian Huygens.
1655 - Protestants take over Maryland at the Battle of the Severn.
1802 - The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace" between France and United Kingdom.
1807 - The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing slavery in the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1821 - Greece declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire, beginning the Greek War of Independence.
1865 - The "Claywater Meteorite" explodes just before reaching ground level in Vernon County, Wisconsin. Fragments having a combined mass of 1.5 kg are recovered.
1865 - American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces capture Fort Stedman from the Union.
1894 - Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington D.C..
1901 - At the five-day "Week of Nice" race in Nice, France, Mercedes wins its first racing victory.
1911 - In New York City the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire kills 146 garment workers.
1918 - The Belarusian National Republic was established.
1924 - Greece proclaims itself a republic.
1931 - The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
1939 - Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli becomes Pope Pius XII.
1941 - Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers.
1947 - A explosion in a coalmine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
1949 - The extensive deportation campaign was conducted in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The Soviet authorities deported more than 92,000 people from Baltics to remote areas of the Soviet Union.
1955 - United States Customs seizes Allen Ginsberg's Howl as obscene.
1957 - The European Economic Community is established (West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg).
1960 - In London, United Kingdom, Jacqueline Boyer wins the fifth Eurovision Song Contest for France singing "Tom Pillibi".
1965 - Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. complete successfully their 4 day 50 mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery.
1969 - During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace in the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).
1971 - Bangladesh Liberation War: Beginning of Operation Searchlight of Pakistan Army against East Pakistani civilians.
1972 - In Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Vicky Leandros wins the seventeenth Eurovision Song Contest for Luxembourg singing "Après toi" (After you).
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.
1990 - In New York City, a fire at an illegal social club called "Happy Land" kills 87.
1992 - Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station.
1995 - Ward Cunningham opens the first wiki, the Portland Pattern Repository.
1996 - An 81-day long standoff between the antigovernment group Montana Freemen and law enforcement in Jordan, Montana begins.
1996 - The EU's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (BSE).
2004 - Air Holland files for bankruptcy in response to unproven allegations of marijuana abuse by the their pilots.