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 85th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 281 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 12, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,711,324,800 seconds 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 ‘octacontapentagon’ day.
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 310 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 4,112 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 25 Historical Events
- 421 –Venice is founded at twelve o'clock noon, according to legend.
- 1199 –Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France, leading to his death on April 6.
- 1911 –In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
- 1917 –The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
- 1947 –An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
- 1958 –Canada’s Avro Arrow makes its first flight.
- 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.
- 1971 –The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandon an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos.
- 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.
- 1992 –Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station.
Who were born on March 25?
- 1479 –Vasili III, Grand Prince of Moscow (d. 1533)
- 1867 –Gutzon Borglum, American sculptor (d. 1941)
- 1881 –Mary Gladys Webb, English writer (d. 1927)
- 1921 –Simone Signoret, French actress (d. 1985)
- 1946 –Maurice Krafft, French vulcanologist (d. 1991)
- 1946 –Stephen Hunter, American author
- 1964 –René Meulensteen, Dutch football coach
- 1971 –Stacy Dragila, American pole vaulter
- 1975 –Ladislav Benýšek, Czech ice hockey player
- 1991 –Seychelle Gabriel, American actress
Who died on March 25?
- 1345 –Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, English politician (b. 1281)
- 1801 –Novalis, German poet (b. 1772)
- 1908 –Durham Stevens, American diplomat (b. 1851)
- 1957 –Max Ophüls, German director and writer (b. 1902)
- 1969 –Max Eastman, American writer (b. 1883)
- 1996 –John Snagge, British radio personality (b. 1904)
- 2002 –Kenneth Wolstenholme, English football commentator (b. 1920)
- 2006 –Buck Owens, American singer and television personality (b. 1929)
- 2009 –Johnny Blanchard, American baseball player (b. 1933)
- 2009 –Kosuke Koyama, Japanese theologian (b. 1929)
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