What are the important events that happened on March 25? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
March 25: Facts & Myths About This Day
March 25 is the 84th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 281 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 12, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,047,680 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘octacontatetragon’ day.
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Aries is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 329 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,477 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 25 Historical Events
- 1634 –The first settlers arrive in Maryland.
- 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.
- 1941 –The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact.
- 1957 –The European Economic Community is established (West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg).
- 1971 –Bangladesh Liberation War: Beginning of Operation Searchlight by the Pakistani Armed Forces against East Pakistani civilians.
- 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.
- 1996 –An 81-day-long standoff between the anti-government group Montana Freemen and law enforcement near Jordan, Montana, begins.
Who were born on March 25?
- 1903 –Frankie Carle, American pianist and bandleader (d. 2001)
- 1920 –Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner (d. 1992)
- 1946 –Daniel Bensaid, French philosopher (d. 2010)
- 1956 –Matthew Garber, English actor (d. 1977)
- 1960 –Peter O'Brien, Australian actor
- 1967 –Matthew Barney, American media artist
- 1969 –Cathy Dennis, English singer, songwriter, and actress
- 1973 –Anders Fridén, Swedish singer (In Flames)
- 1989 –Scott Sinclair, English footballer
- 1999 –Tatum McCann, American actress
Who died on March 25?
- 1223 –King Afonso II of Portugal (b. 1185)
- 1558 –Marcos de Niza, French Franciscan explorer
- 1603 –Ikoma Chikamasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1526)
- 1712 –Nehemiah Grew, English naturalist (b. 1641)
- 1918 –Claude Debussy, French composer (b. 1862)
- 1918 –Peter Martin, Australian rules footballer (b. 1875)
- 1958 –Tom Brown, American musician (b. 1888)
- 1975 –King Faisal of Saudi Arabia (b. 1906)
- 2006 –Buck Owens, American singer and television personality (b. 1929)
- 2008 –Gene Puerling, American vocalist and arranger (b. 1929)
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