March 25
Today is the
International Day Of The Unborn Child.
Also, today is marked as an
International Day Of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
Today is observed as
International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members by the United Nations General Assembly.
This date also marks
Maryland Day, in the U.S. state of Maryland, while Tolkien fans can celebrate
Tolkien Reading Day, and Sweden celebrates
Waffle Day.
There are 281 days remaining in the year, and 274 days until Christmas. Don't want it to sneak up on ya, dontcha know.
Events
1199
Richard I (Richard The Lion Heart) is
wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France, leading to his death on April 6.
1306
Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scots (Scotland).
1584
Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.
1807 The
Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger-carrying railway in the world.
1811
Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet
The Necessity of Atheism.
1911 In New York City, the
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
1931 The
Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
1948 The first successful
tornado forecast predicts that a
tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
1949 More than 92,000
kulaks are suddenly
deported from the Baltic states to Siberia.
1957 United States Customs seizes copies of
Allen Ginsberg's poem "
Howl" on obscenity grounds.
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.
1969 During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first
Bed-In for Peace at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).
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.
1995
WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, and part of the
Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by
Ward Cunningham.
1999 - 73-year-old country music singer
Ray Price was arrested in his Texas home for possession of marijuana. He was fined $200 after pleading no contest to the charges. According to Price in a 2008 interview, old friend
Willie Nelson - no stranger to marijuana arrests - phoned and told him he'd just earned $5 million in free publicity with the drug bust.
2000 - Former
Bay City Rollers drummer
Derek Longmuir was given 300 hours community service after being caught with a hoard of child pornography including 150 videos and 73 floppy disks.
2006
Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.
Births
1840 Myles Keogh, 1867 Gutzon Borglum (designed Mount Rushmore), 1867 Arturo Toscanini♪ ♫, 1881 Bιla Bartσk

, 1901 Ed Begley, 1903 Binnie Barnes, 1908 David Lean, 1918 Howard Cosell, 1921 Simone Signoret, 1922 Eileen Ford (co-founded Ford Models), 1925 Flannery O'Connor, 1928 Jim Lovell, 1934 Gloria Steinem, 1937 Tom Monaghan (founded Domino's Pizza), 1938 Hoyt Axton♪ ♫,
1942 Aretha Franklin♪ ♫, 1947 Elton John♪ ♫, 1948 Bonnie Bedelia, 1950 Ronnie McDowell♪ ♫, 1965 Sarah Jessica Parker

, 1966 Jeff Healey

, 1967 Doug Stanhope

, 1967 Debi Thomas, 1976 Wladimir Klitschko

, 1981 Danica Patrick

, 1984 Katharine McPhee

Deaths
1918 Claude Debussy♪ ♫, 1969 Max Eastman, 1982 Goodman Ace, 1988 Robert Joffrey (co-founded the Joffrey Ballet), 1992 Nancy Walker, 1999 Cal Ripken, Sr., 2005 Paul Henning (developed several "rural" comedies for CBS including
The Beverly Hillbillies), 2006 - Buck Owens♪ ♫, 2008 Herb Peterson (created the McMuffin), 2009 Dan Seals♪ ♫(England Dan & John Ford Coley), 2012 John Crosfield (founded Crosfield Electronics), 2014 Ralph Wilson (founded the Buffalo Bills)