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, 484,128 hours 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
- 804 –The Sukabumi inscription, oldest known inscription written entirely in Old Javanese.
- 1199 –Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France, leading to his death on April 6.
- 1306 –Robert the Bruce becomes King of 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.
- 1948 –The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
- 1971 –Bangladesh Liberation War: Beginning of Operation Searchlight by the Pakistani Armed Forces against East Pakistani civilians.
- 1992 –Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station.
- 2006 –Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.
Who were born on March 25?
- 1868 –William Lockwood, English cricketer (d. 1932)
- 1901 –Ed Begley, American actor (d. 1970)
- 1925 –Flannery O'Connor, American author (d. 1964)
- 1928 –Jim Lovell, American astronaut
- 1934 –Johnny Burnette, American singer (d. 1964)
- 1941 –Gudmund Hernes, Norwegian politician
- 1954 –Thom Loverro, American sportswriter
- 1971 –Cammi Granato, American ice hockey player
- 1975 –Melanie Blatt, British singer (All Saints)
- 1976 –Cha Tae-hyun, South Korean actor
Who died on March 25?
- 752 –Pope-elect Stephen, Italian priest and elected successor to Pope Zachary
- 1738 –Turlough O'Carolan, Irish harper and composer (b. 1670)
- 1967 –Renato Cellini, Italian conductor (b.c. 1913)
- 1969 –Max Eastman, American writer (b. 1883)
- 1975 –Juan Gaudino, Argentine racing driver (b. 1893)
- 1983 –Bob Waterfield, American football player (b. 1920)
- 1995 –Krešimir Ćosić, Croatian basketball player (b. 1948)
- 1996 –John Snagge, British radio personality (b. 1904)
- 2001 –Brian Trubshaw, British Concorde test pilot (b. 1924)
- 2009 –Giovanni Parisi, Italian boxer (b. 1967)
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