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What happend on 25. March in History

In our data base we found 333 events happened on 25. March:
  • 421: Venice is founded at twelve o'clock noon, according to legend. [category: Events]
  • 752: Pope-elect Stephen, Italian priest and elected successor to Pope Zachary [category: Deaths]
  • 1199: Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France, leading to his death on April 6. [category: Events]
  • 1223: King Afonso II of Portugal (b. 1185) [category: Deaths]
  • 1252: Conradin, Duke of Swabia (d. 1268) [category: Births]

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  • 1259: Andronikos II Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1332) [category: Births]
  • 1297: Andronikos III Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1341) [category: Births]
  • 1297: Arnošt of Pardubice, Archbishop of Prague (d. 1364) [category: Births]
  • 1306: Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scotland. [category: Events]
  • 1345: Blanche of Lancaster, wife of John of Gaunt (d. 1369) [category: Births]
  • 1345: Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, English politician (b. 1281) [category: Deaths]
  • 1347: Catherine of Siena, Italian saint (d. 1380). [category: Births]
  • 1409: The Council of Pisa opens. [category: Events]
  • 1458: Íñigo López de Mendoza, Marqués de Santillana, Spanish poet (b. 1398) [category: Deaths]
  • 1479: Vasili III, Grand Prince of Moscow (d. 1533) [category: Births]
  • 1539: Christopher Clavius, German mathematician (d. 1612) [category: Births]
  • 1541: Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1587) [category: Births]
  • 1558: Marcos de Niza, French Franciscan explorer [category: Deaths]
  • 1561: Conrad Lycosthenes, French-born German philosopher and encyclopedist (b. 1518) [category: Deaths]
  • 1584: Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia. [category: Events]

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  • 1593: Saint Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649) [category: Births]
  • 1603: Ikoma Chikamasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1526) [category: Deaths]
  • 1609: Olaus Martini, Swedish Archbishop of Uppsala (b. 1557) [category: Deaths]
  • 1620: Johannes Nucius, German composer [category: Deaths]
  • 1625: Giambattista Marini, Italian poet (b. 1569) [category: Deaths]
  • 1634: The first settlers arrive in Maryland. [category: Events]
  • 1643: Louis Moréri, French encyclopedist (d. 1680) [category: Births]
  • 1655: Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens. [category: Events]
  • 1661: Paul de Rapin, French historian (d. 1725) [category: Births]
  • 1699: Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (d. 1783) [category: Births]
  • 1712: Nehemiah Grew, English naturalist (b. 1641) [category: Deaths]
  • 1732: Saint Lucy Filippini, Italian saint (b. 1672) [category: Deaths]
  • 1736: Nicholas Hawksmoor, British architect [category: Deaths]
  • 1738: Turlough O'Carolan, Irish harper and composer (b. 1670) [category: Deaths]
  • 1751: Frederick I of Sweden (b. 1676) [category: Deaths]
  • 1767: Joachim Murat, King of Naples (d. 1815) [category: Births]
  • 1782: Caroline Bonaparte, Queen of Naples (d. 1839) [category: Births]
  • 1800: Heinrich von Dechsen, German geologist (d. 1889) [category: Births]
  • 1801: Novalis, German poet (b. 1772) [category: Deaths]
  • 1802: The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace" between France and the United Kingdom. [category: Events]
  • 1807: The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire. [category: Events]
  • 1807: The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger carrying railway in the world. [category: Events]
  • 1808: Jose de Espronceda, Spanish Romantic poet (d. 1842) [category: Births]
  • 1811: Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism. [category: Events]
  • 1818: Caspar Wessel, Danish mathematician (b. 1745) [category: Deaths]
  • 1821: (Julian Calendar) Traditional date of the start of the Greek War of Independence. The war had actually began since 23 February 1821. [category: Events]
  • 1824: Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (d. 1900) [category: Births]
  • 1840: Myles Keogh, American soldier of fortune (d. 1876) [category: Births]
  • 1860: James Braid, Scottish surgeon (b. 1795) [category: Deaths]
  • 1863: Simon Flexner, American pathologist (d. 1946) [category: Births]
  • 1865: American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union. [category: Events]
  • 1867: Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor, (d. 1957) [category: Births]
  • 1867: Gutzon Borglum, American sculptor (d. 1941) [category: Births]
  • 1868: William Lockwood, English cricketer (d. 1932) [category: Births]
  • 1871: Louis Perrée, French fencer (d. 1924) [category: Births]
  • 1872: Horatio Nelson Jackson, American car driver (d. 1955) [category: Births]
  • 1873: Rudolf Rocker, German anarchist (d. 1958) [category: Births]
  • 1873: Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter (b. 1810) [category: Deaths]
  • 1876: Irving Baxter, American athlete (d. 1957) [category: Births]
  • 1877: Walter Little, Canadian politician (d. 1961) [category: Births]
  • 1879: Amedee Reyburn, American freestyle swimmer and water polo player (d. 1920) [category: Births]
  • 1881: Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer (d. 1945) [category: Births]
  • 1881: Mary Gladys Webb, English writer (d. 1927) [category: Births]
  • 1884: Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (d. 1950) [category: Births]
  • 1886: Athenagoras, Patriarch of Constantinople (d. 1972) [category: Births]
  • 1892: Andy Clyde, American actor (d. 1967) [category: Births]
  • 1894: Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington D.C. [category: Events]
  • 1895: Siegfried Handloser, German physician (d. 1954) [category: Births]
  • 1897: John Laurie, Scottish actor (d. 1980) [category: Births]
  • 1898: Marcelle Narbonne, Franch supercentenarian (d. 2012) [category: Births]
  • 1899: Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (d. 1978) [category: Births]
  • 1901: Ed Begley, American actor (d. 1970) [category: Births]
  • 1903: Frankie Carle, American pianist and bandleader (d. 2001) [category: Births]
  • 1903: Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (d. 1990) [category: Births]
  • 1905: Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, German army officer and 20 July Plot conspirator (d. 1944) [category: Births]
  • 1906: A.J.P. Taylor, British historian (d. 1990) [category: Births]
  • 1906: Jean Sablon, French singer and actor (d. 1994) [category: Births]
  • 1908: Helmut Käutner, German actor and director (d. 1980) [category: Births]
  • 1908: Sir David Lean, English film director (d. 1991) [category: Births]
  • 1908: Durham Stevens, American diplomat (b. 1851) [category: Deaths]
  • 1910: Benzion Netanyahu, Israeli historian, father of prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (d. 2012) [category: Births]
  • 1910: Magda Olivero, Italian soprano [category: Births]
  • 1911: Jack Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (d. 1967) [category: Births]
  • 1911: In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers. [category: Events]
  • 1912: Jean Vilar, French stage and film actor (d. 1971) [category: Births]
  • 1912: Melita Norwood, British civil servant and KGB intelligence source (d. 2005) [category: Births]
  • 1913: Sir Reo Stakis, Anglo-Cypriot hotel magnate (d. 2001) [category: Births]
  • 1914: Norman Borlaug, American agriculturalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2009) [category: Births]
  • 1914: Frédéric Mistral, French poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1830) [category: Deaths]
  • 1916: Jean Rogers, American actress (d. 1991) [category: Births]
  • 1917: Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American educator (b. 1832) [category: Deaths]
  • 1917: Spyridon Samaras, Greek composer (b. 1861) [category: Deaths]
  • 1917: The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811. [category: Events]
  • 1918: Howard Cosell, American sports reporter (d. 1995) [category: Births]
  • 1918: Claude Debussy, French composer (b. 1862) [category: Deaths]
  • 1918: Peter Martin, Australian rules footballer (b. 1875) [category: Deaths]
  • 1918: The Belarusian People's Republic is established. [category: Events]
  • 1920: Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner (d. 1992) [category: Births]
  • 1920: Patrick Troughton, English actor (d. 1987) [category: Births]
  • 1921: Alexandra of Greece and Denmark, Yugoslavia queen (d. 1993) [category: Births]
  • 1921: Nancy Kelly, American actress (d. 1995) [category: Births]
  • 1921: Simone Signoret, French actress (d. 1985) [category: Births]
  • 1922: Eileen Ford, American model agency executive [category: Births]
  • 1923: Bonnie Guitar, American singer [category: Births]
  • 1923: Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist (d. 2003) [category: Births]
  • 1924: Machiko Kyô, Japanese actress [category: Births]
  • 1924: Roberts Blossom, American actor d.2011 [category: Births]
  • 1924: On the anniversary of Greek Independence, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the Second Hellenic Republic. [category: Events]
  • 1925: Anthony Quinton, British philosopher (d. 2010) [category: Births]
  • 1925: Flannery O'Connor, American author (d. 1964) [category: Births]
  • 1926: Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (d. 1999) [category: Births]
  • 1926: László Papp, Hungarian boxer (d. 2003) [category: Births]
  • 1928: Jim Lovell, American astronaut [category: Births]
  • 1929: Cecil Taylor, American jazz pianist [category: Births]
  • 1931: Paul Motian, American jazz drummer and composer (d. 2011) [category: Births]
  • 1931: Tom Wilson, American record producer (d. 1978) [category: Births]
  • 1931: Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, American civil rights activist (b. 1862) [category: Deaths]
  • 1931: The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape. [category: Events]
  • 1932: Gene Shalit, American film critic [category: Births]
  • 1932: Penelope Gilliatt, English writer (d. 1993) [category: Births]
  • 1932: Wes Santee, American middle distance runner (d. 2010) [category: Births]
  • 1934: Bernard King, Australian chef (d. 2002) [category: Births]
  • 1934: Gloria Steinem, American feminist and publisher [category: Births]
  • 1934: Johnny Burnette, American singer (The Rock and Roll Trio) (d. 1964) [category: Births]
  • 1934: Karlheinz Schreiber, Canadian industrialist, lobbyist and arms dealer [category: Births]
  • 1935: Flash Elorde, Filipino boxer [category: Births]
  • 1937: Tom Monaghan, American fast-food entrepreneur, founded Domino's Pizza [category: Births]
  • 1938: Fritz d'Orey, Brazilian racing driver [category: Births]
  • 1938: Hoyt Axton, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1999) [category: Births]
  • 1939: Toni Cade Bambara, American author (d. 1995) [category: Births]
  • 1940: Anita Bryant, American singer [category: Births]
  • 1941: Gudmund Hernes, Norwegian politician [category: Births]
  • 1941: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact. [category: Events]
  • 1942: Aretha Franklin, American singer [category: Births]
  • 1942: Kim Woodburn, English television personality [category: Births]
  • 1942: Richard O'Brien, English actor and writer [category: Births]
  • 1942: William Carr, American rower (b. 1876) [category: Deaths]
  • 1943: Paul Michael Glaser, American actor [category: Births]
  • 1946: Cliff Balsam, English footballer [category: Births]
  • 1946: Daniel Bensaid, French philosopher (d. 2010) [category: Births]
  • 1946: Gerard John Schaefer, American serial killer (d. 1995) [category: Births]
  • 1946: Maurice Krafft, French vulcanologist (d. 1991) [category: Births]
  • 1946: Stephen Hunter, American author [category: Births]
  • 1947: Elton John, English singer and songwriter [category: Births]
  • 1947: An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111. [category: Events]
  • 1948: Bonnie Bedelia, American actress [category: Births]
  • 1948: Lynn Faulds Wood, Scottish television presenter [category: Births]
  • 1948: The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. [category: Events]
  • 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. [category: Events]
  • 1950: Chuck Greenberg, American musician (Shadowfax) (d. 1995) [category: Births]
  • 1951: Jumbo Tsuruta, Japanese wrestler (d. 2000) [category: Births]
  • 1951: Maizie Williams, British singer (Boney M.) [category: Births]
  • 1951: Eddie Collins, American baseball player (b. 1887) [category: Deaths]
  • 1952: Antanas Mockus, Colombian mathematician [category: Births]
  • 1954: Elli Stai, Greek journalist and talk show host [category: Births]
  • 1954: Thom Loverro, American sportswriter [category: Births]
  • 1955: Daniel Boulud, French chef and restaurateur [category: Births]
  • 1955: Lee Mazzilli, American baseball player [category: Births]
  • 1956: Matthew Garber, English actor (d. 1977) [category: Births]
  • 1956: Lou Moore, American race car driver (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
  • 1956: Robert Newton, English actor (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
  • 1957: Jim Uhls, American screenwriter [category: Births]
  • 1957: Max Ophüls, German director and writer (b. 1902) [category: Deaths]
  • 1957: The European Economic Community is established (West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg). [category: Events]
  • 1957: United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on the grounds of obscenity. [category: Events]
  • 1958: James McDaniel, American actor [category: Births]
  • 1958: John Ensign, American politician [category: Births]
  • 1958: Ray Tanner, American college baseball coach [category: Births]
  • 1958: Sisy Chen, Taiwanese politician and television commentator [category: Births]
  • 1958: Susie Bright, American feminist and writer [category: Births]
  • 1958: Åsa Torstensson, Swedish politician [category: Births]
  • 1958: Tom Brown, American jazz musician (b. 1888) [category: Deaths]
  • 1958: Canada's Avro Arrow makes its first flight. [category: Events]
  • 1960: Brenda Strong, American actress [category: Births]
  • 1960: Haywood Nelson, American actor [category: Births]
  • 1960: Idy Chan Yuk-Lin, Hong Kong actress [category: Births]
  • 1960: Peter O'Brien, Australian actor [category: Births]
  • 1960: Steve Norman, British saxophonist (Spandau Ballet) [category: Births]
  • 1961: Fred Goss, American actor, comedian, and writer [category: Births]
  • 1961: Mark Brooks, American golfer [category: Births]
  • 1962: Marcia Cross, American actress [category: Births]
  • 1964: Alex Solis, Panamanian jockey [category: Births]
  • 1964: Kate DiCamillo, American author [category: Births]
  • 1964: Ken Wregget, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
  • 1964: Lisa Gay Hamilton, American actress [category: Births]
  • 1964: René Meulensteen, Dutch football coach [category: Births]
  • 1964: Charles Benjamin Howard, Canadian business, industrialist and politician (b. 1885) [category: Deaths]
  • 1965: Avery Johnson, American basketball player and coach [category: Births]
  • 1965: Sarah Jessica Parker, American actress [category: Births]
  • 1965: Stefka Kostadinova, Bulgarian high jumper [category: Births]
  • 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. [category: Events]
  • 1966: Anton Rogan, Irish footballer [category: Births]
  • 1966: Jeff Healey, Canadian guitarist (The Jeff Healey Band) (d. 2008) [category: Births]
  • 1966: Tatjana Patitz, German model [category: Births]
  • 1966: Tom Glavine, American baseball player [category: Births]
  • 1967: Debi Thomas, American figure skater [category: Births]
  • 1967: Doug Stanhope, American comedian [category: Births]
  • 1967: Matthew Barney, American artist [category: Births]
  • 1967: Renato Cellini, Italian conductor (b.c. 1913) [category: Deaths]
  • 1969: Cathy Dennis, English singer, songwriter, and actress [category: Births]
  • 1969: Dale Davis, American basketball player [category: Births]
  • 1969: Jeffrey Walker, British Musician (Carcass, Blackstar, and Electro Hippies) [category: Births]
  • 1969: Billy Cotton, British bandleader (b. 1889) [category: Deaths]
  • 1969: Max Eastman, American writer (b. 1883) [category: Deaths]
  • 1969: During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31). [category: Events]
  • 1970: Kari Matchett, Canadian actress [category: Births]
  • 1970: Teri Moïse, American singer [category: Births]
  • 1971: Cammi Granato, American ice hockey player [category: Births]
  • 1971: Sheryl Swoopes, American basketball player [category: Births]
  • 1971: Stacy Dragila, American pole vaulter [category: Births]
  • 1971: Bangladesh Liberation War: Beginning of Operation Searchlight by the Pakistani Armed Forces against East Pakistani civilians. [category: Events]
  • 1971: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandon an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos. [category: Events]
  • 1972: Giniel de Villiers, South African racing driver [category: Births]
  • 1972: Phil O'Donnell, Scottish footballer with Motherwell, Celtic and Sheffield Wednesday (d. 2007) [category: Births]
  • 1973: Anders Fridén, Swedish singer (In Flames, Passenger, Dark Tranquillity and Ceremonial Oath) [category: Births]
  • 1973: Anthony Barness, English footballer [category: Births]
  • 1973: Bob Sura, American basketball player [category: Births]
  • 1973: Jakob Sildnik, Estonian photographer and filmmaker (b. 1883) [category: Deaths]
  • 1974: Lark Voorhies, American actress [category: Births]
  • 1975: Ladislav Benýšek, Czech ice hockey player [category: Births]
  • 1975: Melanie Blatt, British singer (All Saints) [category: Births]
  • 1975: Deiva Zivarattinam, Indian politician (b. 1894) [category: Deaths]
  • 1975: Juan Gaudino, Argentine racing driver (b. 1893) [category: Deaths]
  • 1975: King Faisal of Saudi Arabia (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
  • 1975: Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew. [category: Events]
  • 1976: Baek Ji Young, South Korean singer [category: Births]
  • 1976: Cha Tae-hyun, South Korean actor [category: Births]
  • 1976: Francis Bellew, Irish Gaelic footballer [category: Births]
  • 1976: Gigi Leung, Hong Kong singer and actress [category: Births]
  • 1976: Lars Figura, German sprinter [category: Births]
  • 1976: Rima Wakarua, New Zealand-Italian rugby player [category: Births]
  • 1976: Wladimir Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer [category: Births]
  • 1978: Gennaro Delvecchio, Italian footballer [category: Births]
  • 1978: Teanna Kai, American pornographic actress [category: Births]
  • 1978: Hanna Ralph, German actress (b. 1888) [category: Deaths]
  • 1979: Lee Pace, American actor [category: Births]
  • 1979: Natasha Yi, American model [category: Births]
  • 1979: Akinoumi Setsuo, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 37th Yokozuna (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
  • 1979: Sir Robert Madgwick, Australian educationist (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
  • 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. [category: Events]
  • 1980: Carrie Lam, Hong Kong actress [category: Births]
  • 1980: James Wright, American poet (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
  • 1980: Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist (b. 1901) [category: Deaths]
  • 1980: Roland Barthes, French literary critic and writer (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
  • 1980: Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
  • 1982: Danica Patrick, American race car driver [category: Births]
  • 1982: Jenny Slate, American comedienne [category: Births]
  • 1982: Sean Faris, American actor and model [category: Births]
  • 1982: Álvaro Saborío, Costa Rican footballer [category: Births]
  • 1983: Bob Waterfield, American football player (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
  • 1984: Katharine McPhee, American singer and actress [category: Births]
  • 1984: Liam Messam, New Zealand rugby player [category: Births]
  • 1985: Carmen Rasmusen, Canadian-American singer [category: Births]
  • 1986: Kyle Lowry, American basketball player [category: Births]
  • 1986: Marco Belinelli, Italian basketball player [category: Births]
  • 1986: Megan Gibson, American softball player [category: Births]
  • 1987: Jacob Bagersted, Danish handballer [category: Births]
  • 1987: Jason Castro, American singer [category: Births]
  • 1987: Nobunari Oda, Japanese figure skater [category: Births]
  • 1987: Victor Obinna, Nigerian footballer [category: Births]
  • 1988: Arthur Zeiler, German rugby player [category: Births]
  • 1988: Big Sean, American rapper [category: Births]
  • 1988: Erik Knudsen, Canadian actor [category: Births]
  • 1988: Robert Joffrey, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
  • 1988: The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. [category: Events]
  • 1989: Aly Michalka, American actress and singer (78violet) [category: Births]
  • 1989: Scott Sinclair, English footballer [category: Births]
  • 1989: Tom Maynard, Welsh cricketer (d. 2012) [category: Births]
  • 1990: Alexander Esswein, German footballer [category: Births]
  • 1990: Mehmet Ekici, Turkish footballer [category: Births]
  • 1990: The Happy Land fire was an arson fire that kills 87 people trapped inside an illegal nightclub in the New York City borough of The Bronx. [category: Events]
  • 1991: Samia Yusuf Omar, Somalian sprinter (d. 2012) [category: Births]
  • 1991: Seychelle Gabriel, American actress [category: Births]
  • 1991: Marcel Lefebvre, French Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
  • 1992: Erik Lamela, Argentine footballer [category: Births]
  • 1992: Nancy Walker, American actress (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
  • 1992: Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station. [category: Events]
  • 1992: Pakistan national cricket team won the 1992 Cricket World Cup first time in the history of cricket, Final was played at Melbourne Cricket Ground . [category: Events]
  • 1993: Sam Johnstone, English footballer [category: Births]
  • 1994: Angelines Fernández, Spanish Actress (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
  • 1994: Max Petitpierre, Swiss politician and jurist (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
  • 1995: James Coleman, American sociologist (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
  • 1995: John Hugenholtz, Dutch race track designer (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
  • 1995: Krešimir Ćosić, Croatian basketball player (b. 1948) [category: Deaths]
  • 1995: WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham. [category: Events]
  • 1996: John Snagge, British radio personality (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
  • 1996: An 81-day-long standoff between the anti-government group Montana Freemen and law enforcement near Jordan, Montana, begins. [category: Events]
  • 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). [category: Events]
  • 1998: Max Green, Australian lawyer (b. 1952) [category: Deaths]
  • 1998: Steve Schiff, United States Congressman (b. 1947) [category: Deaths]
  • 1999: Tatum McCann, American actress [category: Births]
  • 1999: Cal Ripken, Sr., American baseball manager (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
  • 2000: Helen Martin, American actress (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
  • 2001: Brian Trubshaw, British Concorde test pilot (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
  • 2002: Kenneth Wolstenholme, English football commentator (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
  • 2005: Paul Henning, American producer and writer (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
  • 2006: Buck Owens, American singer and guitarist (The Buckaroos) (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
  • 2006: Richard Fleischer, American film director (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
  • 2006: Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
  • 2006: Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. [category: Events]
  • 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. [category: Events]
  • 2007: Andranik Margaryan, Armenian politician (b. 1951) [category: Deaths]
  • 2008: Abby Mann, American film writer and producer (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
  • 2008: Ben Carnevale, American basketball coach (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
  • 2008: Gene Puerling, American vocalist and arranger (The Hi-Lo's and The Singers Unlimited) (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
  • 2008: Thierry Gilardi, French football and rugby commentator (b. 1958) [category: Deaths]
  • 2009: Giovanni Parisi, Italian boxer (b. 1967) [category: Deaths]
  • 2009: Gábor Ocskay, Hungarian hockey player (b. 1975) [category: Deaths]
  • 2009: Johnny Blanchard, American baseball player (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
  • 2009: Kosuke Koyama, Japanese theologian (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
  • 2010: Pål Bang-Hansen, Norwegian film critic and television personality (b. 1937) [category: Deaths]
  • 2012: Edd Gould, British flash animator (b. 1988) [category: Deaths]
  • 2012: Priscilla Buckley, American author and editor (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
  • _: Alfwold [category: Holidays and observances]
  • _: Anniversary of the Arengo and the Feast of the Militants (San Marino) [category: Holidays and observances]
  • _: Barontius and Desiderius [category: Holidays and observances]
  • _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
  • _: Dismas, the "Good Thief" [category: Holidays and observances]
  • _: Earliest day on which Seward's Day can fall, while March 31 is the latest; celebrated on the last Monday in March. (Alaska) [category: Holidays and observances]
  • _: Freedom Day (Belarus) [category: Holidays and observances]
  • _: Hilaria (Roman Empire) [category: Holidays and observances]
  • _: Historic start of the new year (Lady Day) in England, Wales, Ireland, and the future United States until the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar in 1752. (The year 1751 began on 25 March; the year 1752 began on 1 January.) [category: Holidays and observances]
  • _: Humbert of Maroilles [category: Holidays and observances]
  • _: In the Julian calendar, Birkat Hachama is recited every 28 years on this day [category: Holidays and observances]
  • _: March 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
  • _: Maryland Day (Maryland) [category: Holidays and observances]
  • _: Mother's Day (Slovenia) [category: Holidays and observances]
  • _: Quirinus of Tegernsee [category: Holidays and observances]
  • _: Revolution Day in Greece, celebrating the symbolic outbreak of the War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire in 1821. [category: Holidays and observances]
  • _: Struggle for Human Rights Day (Slovakia) [category: Holidays and observances]
  • _: The Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary (Christianity), and its related observances (some churches move the observance if March 25 falls on a Sunday or during Holy Week): [category: Holidays and observances]
  • _: Tolkien Reading Day [category: Holidays and observances]
  • _: Vårfrudagen or Våffeldagen, "Waffle Day" (Sweden) [category: Holidays and observances]