March 25

What happened that day?

• 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.
• 2006: Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.
• 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).
• 1995: WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham.
• 1988: The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
• 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.
• 1975: Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew.
• 1971: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandon an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos.
• 1971: Bangladesh Liberation War: Beginning of Operation Searchlight by the Pakistan Armed Forces against East Pakistani civilians.
• 1969: During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).
• 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.
• 1957: The European Economic Community is established with West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg as the first members.
• 1957: United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds.
• 1949: More than 92,000 kulaks are suddenly deported from the Baltic states to Siberia.
• 1948: The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
• 1947: An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
• 1941: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact.
• 1931: The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
• 1924: On the anniversary of Greek Independence, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the Second Hellenic Republic.
• 1918: The Belarusian People's Republic is established.
• 1917: The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
• 1911: In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
• 1894: Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.
• 1865: American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union.
• 1821: Traditional date of the start of the Greek War of Independence. The war had actually begun on 23 February 1821 (Julian calendar).
• 1811: Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.
• 1807: The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger-carrying railway in the world.
• 1807: The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.
• 1802: The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace" between France and the United Kingdom.
• 1655: Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
• 1584: Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.
• 1576: Jerome Savage takes out a sub-lease to start the Newington Butts Theatre outside London.
• 1555: The city of Valencia is founded in present-day Venezuela.
• 1409: The Council of Pisa opens.
• 1306: Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scots (Scotland).
• 1199: Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France, leading to his death on April 6.
• 1000: Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah assassinates the eunuch chief minister Barjawan and assumes control of the government.
• 919: Romanos Lekapenos seizes the Boukoleon Palace in Constantinople and becomes regent of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII.
• 717: Theodosius III resigns the throne to the Byzantine Empire to enter the clergy.
• 708: [Pope](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope) Constantine succeeds Pope Sisinnius as the 88th pope.