March 25

And God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.


Genesis 1:5

March is:

National Hemophilia Month

National Kidney Month

National Middle School Month - This month celebrates the students and teachers of middle schools.

March 25 is:

European Economic Com munity founded (1957) - Also known as the Common Market, the European Economic Community was established by the Treaty of Rome.

Feast of the Annunciation - Celebrates the time when Angel Gabriel announced to the Virgin Mary that she was to be the mother of Christ (nine months before the birth of Christ).

Global Understanding Day - Promotes better understanding among all people of the earth.

Lady Day - An ancient festival celebrated by the Welsh in honor of the maiden goddess in search of her lord consort. Celebrate today by decorating your home with flowers. This day is also known among goddess worshippers as the Return of the Goddess Day.

Maryland Founding Day - In 1634, the first people arrived to to settle Lord Baltimore's land grant, the current state of Maryland. Contact: ; Maryland Office of Tourism.

No, I'm the Greatest Day - Celebrates the birthday of sportscaster Howard Cosell, who was born in 1920 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Sponsor: The Life of the Party. 

Old British New Year - Before the Calendar Adjustment Act of 1751 , Great Britain and its U.S. colonies celebrated New Year's Day on March 25 because it is Lady Day and the Feast of the Annunciation Since 1752, New Year's has been celebrated on January 1 . 

Pecan Day - In 1775, George Washington planted pecan trees given to him by Thomas Jefferson. 

Saint Dismas Feast Day - The good thief who died on the cross next to Jesus, Saint Dismas is patron saint of thieves, prisoners sentenced to death, and undertakers.

Seward's Day - Named after Secretary of State William Seward who negotiated the treaty to buy Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000. The treaty was signed on March 30, 1867.

Born on this Day

• 1133: King Henry II of England
  

• 1252: Conrad the Younger, King of Jerusalem and Sicily
  

• 1347: St. Catherine of Siena
  

• 1867: Italian conductor Aturo Toscanini in Parma, Italy. Toscanini was considered by many to be the world's greatest virtuoso conductor of the first half of the 20th century.
  

• 1867: Mount Rushmore sculptor Gutzon Borglum
  

• 1881: Bela Bartok, composer
  

• 1920: Sports commentator Howard Cosell 1920: Attorney, author and sports commentator Howard Cosell (Cohen) was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Cosell ventured into sports journalism through his association with WABC Radio and TV in New York.
  

• 1922: Modeling agency head Eileen Ford
  

• 1928: Former astronaut Jim Lovell
  

• 1932: Movie reviewer Gene Shalit
  

• 1935: Feminist writer Gloria Steinem
  

• 1938: Singer-actor Hoyt Axton
  

• 1940: Singer Anita Bryant
  

• 1942: Soul singer Aretha Franklin
  

• 1943: Actor Paul Michael Glaser
  

• 1947: Rock musician Elton John
  

• 1948: Actress Bonnie Bedelia
  

• 1948: Actress Kelly Garrett
  

• 1949: Singer Nick Lowe.
  

• 1953: Actress-comedian Mary Gross
  

• 1958: Actor James McDaniel ("NYPD Blue")
  

• 1960: Actor Haywood Nelson
  

• 1961: Actor John Stockwell (Samuels)
  

• 1964: Actress Lisa Gay Hamilton
  

• 1965: Actress Sarah Jessica Parker
  

• 1966: Singer-musician Jeff Healey
  

• 1967: Olympic bronze medal figure skater Debi Thomas
  

• 1975: Singer Melanie Blatt (All Saints)        
     

Events in History on this day
  

• 0493: Theodoric, King of the Ostrogoths, murders Odoacer
  

• 0708: Constantine elected Pope
  

• 0752: Pope Stephen died, only two days after his election.
  

• 1252: Excommunication of Manfred, self-appointed King of Sicily
  

• 1273: Death of Thomas Berard, 20th Master of the Templars
  

• 1306: Robert I, "the Bruce," crowned King of Scots at Scone
  

• 1437: Coronation of James II as King of Scots, at Holyrood
  

• 1449: England broke a truce and captured Fougeres from the French, leading Charles VII to renew the Hundred Years War.
  

• 1634: Maryland was founded by English colonists sent by the second Lord Baltimore.
  

• 1655: Battle at Annapolis, Md. between Puritans & Royalists
  

• 1738: Death of Turlough O'Carolan, the last of the true traditional Irish harpers
  

• 1821: Greece gains it's independence.
  

• 1865: During the Civil War, Confederate forces captured Fort Stedman in Virginia.
  

• 1894: Jacob S. Coxey began leading an "army" of unemployed from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington DC to demand help from the federal government.
  

• 1902: Irving W. Colburn patented the sheet glass drawing machine.
  

• 1911: 147 immigrant workers died when they were trapped by a fire that swept the Triangle Shirt Waist factory in New York City. This disaster stirred public outrage and spurred workplace safety reform.
  

• 1913 New York City's famed Palace Theatre opens its doors for the first time. Ed Wynn was the first on the vaudeville bill.
  

• 1918: French composer Claude Debussy died in Paris.
  

• 1937: The first perfumed ad appeared in the Washington, D.C. Daily News. The ad was for flowers since it was cherry blossom time.
  

• 1937: Babe Ruth was reported to have received $25,000 a year for the Quaker Oats Company to use his name in ads for Quaker Oatmeal.
  

• 1941: The first paprika mill was incorporated in Dollon, South Carolina.
  

• 1945: Winston Churchill became the first British leader to enter Germany since Chamberlain signed the Munich Pact.
  

• 1946: Stravinsky's "Ebony Concerto" was premiered in New York. Playing the clarinet solo role was bandleader Woody Herman. But it would be Woody Herman's rival Benny Goodman who made the first popular recording of it.
  

• 1947: A mine explosion in Centralia, Illinois, killed 111 men, most of them asphyxiated by gas.
  

• 1954: The Radio Corporation of America began commercial production of color television sets. (The sets, with 12-½ inch picture tubes, were expected to cost $1,000 each).
  

• 1954: "From Here To Eternity" starring Burt Lancaster, won the Academy Award for Best Picture of

• 1953. Fred Zimmerman, Frank Sinatra and Donna Reed won awards for best director, supporting actor and actress for the film.
  

• 1957: The Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community.
  

• 1960: The first guided missile launched from nuclear powered submarine is launched from the USS Halibut.
  

• 1965: The Reverend Martin Luther King Junior led 25,000 marchers to the state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks.
  

• 1965: The Selma-to-Montgomery march for black voting rights came to a triumphant close. That same evening, a woman from Michigan named Viola Liuzzo, who had been shuttling demonstrators from Montgomery back to housing in Selma, was murdered. She was killed by a  Klansman who held up a pistol and fired twice from a passing car. The bulletsshattered her skull, causing instant death.
  

• 1965: The U.S. spacecraft Ranger 9 crash-landed on the moon. Some 5,000 pictures it sent back were broadcast live on television for the first time.
  

• 1972: Bobby Hull joined Gordie Howe to become only the second National Hockey League player to score 600 career goals. Hull and Howe played for the Detroit Red Wings.
  

• 1975: King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot to death by a deranged nephew in his palace in Riyadh. (The nephew was beheaded the following June.)
  

• 1978: The oil tanker Amoco Cadiz, aground in the English Channel since March 16, split in two, spilling the last of its 1.6 million barrels of oil.
  

• 1983: the Reagan administration announced the resignations of five senior officials of the Environmental Protection Agency, including the acting administrator, John W. Hernandez Jr.
  

• 1985: British journalist Alec Collett was kidnapped in Lebanon; his captors later claimed they had killed him.
  

• 1985: "Amadeus" was named best picture of 1984 at the 75th annual Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles; the best actor award went to F. Murray Abraham, while Sally Field was named best actress.
  

• 1986: In the second day of a confrontation between Libyan forces and the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Gulf of Sidra, thousands of Libyans rallied at Tripoli.
  

• 1986: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the Air Force could ban the wearing of yarmulkes by Jewish military personnel in uniform.
  

• 1987: The Supreme Court ruled employers may sometimes favor women and members of minority groups over men and whites in hiring and promoting in order to achieve better balance in the work force.
  

• 1988: In New York City's so-called "preppie murder case," Robert E. Chambers Junior pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the death of 18-year-old Jennifer Levin. (Chambers received a sentence of five to 15 years in prison, which he's still serving.)
  

• 1988: Former nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu was found guilty in an Israeli court of treason for revealing Israel's nuclear secrets.
  

• 1989: In the wake of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska's chief environmental officer, Dennis Kelso, criticized cleanup efforts as too slow.
  

• 1990: 87 people, most of them Honduran and Dominican immigrants, were killed when fire raced through an illegal social club, the "Happy Land Social Club," in New York City.
  

• 1991: "Dances With Wolves" won seven Oscars, including best picture, at the 63rd annual Academy Awards.
  

• 1991: Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, a rebellious conservative in the Roman Catholic Church, died in Martigny, Switzerland, at age 85.
  

• 1992: Libyan leader Colonel Moammar Gadhafi backed away from an offer to turn over two suspects in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 to the Arab League.
  

• 1992: Soviet cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, who'd spent ten months aboard the orbiting "Mir" space station, thereby missing the upheaval in his homeland, finally returned to Earth.
  

• 1993: The Senate approved an outline of President Clinton's plan to spark the economy and trim the budget deficit by a vote of 54-to-45.
  

• 1994: Operation Restore Hope came to an end as the last American troops completed their withdrawal from Somalia.
  

• 1994: The U.S. Senate approved a $1.5 trillion budget.
  

• 1994: The self-proclaimed Bosnian Serb republic refused to join a Moslem-Croat federation until United Nation sanctions on Serbia were lifted.
  

• 1995: Two Americans who'd strayed across the Kuwaiti border into Iraq were sentenced to eight years in prison. David Daliberti and William Barloon were released by Iraq the following July.
  

• 1995: "Iron" Mike Tyson was released from the Indiana Youth Center after serving three years for the 1992 rape of beauty pageant contestant Desiree Washington.
  

• 1996: First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, accompanied by her daughter, Chelsea, visited US troops in Bosnia.
  

• 1996: "Braveheart" won Academy Awards for best picture and best director Mel Gibson; Nicolas Cage won best actor for "Leaving Las Vegas," Susan Sarandon best actress for "Dead Man Walking."
  

• 1996: The redesigned $100 bill went into circulation.
  

• 1996: An 81-day standoff by the anti-government Freemen began at a ranch near Jordan, Montana. 
  

• 1997: The Federal Reserve nudged interest rates higher for the first time in two years, hoping to stifle any threat of rising inflation.
  

• 1997: Georgia Governor Zell Miller signed into a law a ban on a controversial form of late-term abortion.
  

• 1997: Former President George Bush, 73, parachuted from a plane over the Arizona desert.
  

• 1998: Shaken by horror stories from the worst genocide since World War Two, President Clinton grimly acknowledged during his Africa tour that "we did not act quickly enough" to stop the slaughter of up to a million Rwandans four years earlier.
  

• 1998: The FCC netted $578.6 million at auction for licenses for new wireless technology.
  

• 1998: Monica Lewinsky's mother Marcia Lewis asked a federal judge to excuse her as a witness in the White House sex scandal investigation. But she remaind a witness.
  

• 1998: The House of Representatives unanimously approved a two-year extension of a visa waiver program, which allowed some 12 million tourists and business people entry to the U.S. without need of a visa. 
  

• 1999: NATO aircraft and missiles blasted targets in Yugoslavia for a second night, directing much of their fire on Kosovo, where fighting raged between Serbs and ethnic Albanians.
  

• 1999: Alexei Yagudin won the men's title for the second time at the World Figure Skating Championships held in Helsinki, Finland.
  

• 2000: President Clinton briefly visited Pakistan, where he met with the new military ruler, General Pervez Musharraf.  
  

• 2000: A weary Pope John Paul the Second traveled the ancient streets of Nazareth, Jesus' boyhood town, and celebrated Mass in the soaring Basilica of the Annunciation.

   

  
  
  
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