March 25

Holidays

• Maryland Day.
• Saint Pelagius
• International Waffle Day in Sweden.
• Freedom Day in Belarus
• Greek Independence Day.
• As the day falls close to the vernal equinox, similar to the way Christmas falls near the winter solstice, both days are regarded as one of the Quarter Days to Christians in the British Isles. (see below)
• Traditional date of the start of the new year in England and Wales, until the Calendar Act of 1752 (called Lady Day - see below).
• Traditional date of the death (circa 33), of Jesus, central figure in Christianity (b. circa 1 BC in traditional dating)
• In Christianity, March 25 is typically celebrated as the day of the Annunciation so long as it does not coincide with a Sunday or during Holy Week. (see below)
• The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Lady Day) - this date is nine months before Christmas Day, and is based on the traditional date in Catholicism of a 1 BC - Annunciation of the Virgin Mary and conception of Jesus.
• One of the four Irish Quarter days in the Irish calendar.
• Saint Dysmas, the 'Good Murderer'
• Saint Harold
• Saint Humbert
• The date of the passing of Sauron in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Many fans celebrate this day by throwing parties.
• Saint Izaak
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Events

• 2019 A rocket attack on a house in Mishmeret (Israel) has left seven people moderately hurt. Israel Defense Forces claims that Hamas is responsible in any attack from Gaza.
• 2018 Somali Civil War (2009-present). A car bomb claimed in Al-Shabab by Somalia kills five people, including the driver, and wounds about ten others. It is located outside Somalia's Parliament and Interior Ministry buildings, as well as the Presidential Palace building in Mogadishu.
• 2017 In twin bombings that struck Sylhet in Bangladesh, four people were killed.
• 2016 Aftermath from the 2016 Brussels bombings. Six suspects were arrested in Brussels Schaerbeek. (BBC/CNN) Belgian officials have confirmed that Najim Laachraoui (24-year-old suicide bomber) was the bomb-maker behind the suicide vests used in the Paris attacks of November 13, 2015.
• 2015 Afghanistan War (2001-present: Twenty-nine insurgents are killed by the Afghan National Army and twenty-one are injured in an operation in Daikundi and Ghazni provinces. This was within the last 24 hours.
• 2014 Oklahoma City Girl Scouts reported that they sold 18,107 boxes cookies to break the 18,000.
• 2013 (Al Jazeera) (Al Jazeera). South Africa's President Jacob Zuma claims that 13 of his soldiers were killed by rebels in the Central African Republic.
• 2012 Uprising in Syria:
• 2011 Arab Spring
• 2010 In a Colombian city known for its cocaine trafficking, a car bomb left at least 6 dead and more than 40 wounded.
• 2009 The 50-ore Swedish coin will be abolished by the Parliament of Sweden on September 30, 2010.
• 2008 Liechtenstein recognizes Kosovo as an independent state.
• 2007 John Holmes, United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator warns that Darfur's situation could fall if aid workers are not allowed to do their job.
• 2006 Seven people are killed in the Capitol Hill Massacre, Seattle, Washington.
• 2005 Many Imax cinemas across the US (Texas, Georgia, and the Carolinas), have decided not to show the film Volcanoes of the Deep Sea due to its references to evolution theory.
• 2004 France's prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin is defeated in a shocking and unprecedented regional election.
• 2003 SARS: Ontario declares a public health emergency. Anybody who has been at Scarborough Grace Hospital within the last 10 days will be taken home.
• 1999 Enron energy traders allegedly route 2,900 megawatts of electricity destined for California to the town of Silver Peak, Nevada, population 200.
• 1997 Barrymore, opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 240 performances
• 1996 68th Academy Awards - Braveheart, Nicholas Cage and Susan Sarandon win
• 1995 Boxer Mike Tyson released from jail after serving three years.
• 1994 Yasunori Miyabe skates world record 1000 metre (1:12.37).
• 1993 Candida opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances
• 1992 Russian manned space craft TM-14, lands
• 1991 63rd Academy Awards: Dance with Wolves, Jeremy Irons and Kathy Bates win.
• 1990 Lettice & Lovage opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 284 performances
• 1988 Les Miserables, opens at Chunichi Theatre, Nagoya Japan
• 1987 US Supreme Court rules women/minorities may get jobs if less qualified.
• 1986 Kurt Browning (Canada) becomes 1st skater to land a quadruple jump
• 1985 57th Academy Awards - Amadeus, F Murray Abraham and Sally Field win
• 1983 Pavel Pegov skates world record 1000 metre (1:12.58).
• 1982 Wayne Gretzky becomes first NHL player to score 200 points in a season.
• 1981 (to March 26) Bowers and Ruddy Galleries auctions part of the Garrett coin collection.
• 1979 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sahara National Pro-Am Golf Tournament.
• 1976 My Fair Lady opens at St. James Theater NYC for 384 performances
• 1975 Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz, king of Saudi-Arabia (1964-75), shot to death by nephew at age 68.
• 1974 Barbra Streisand records the album Butterfly
• 1973 27th Tony Awards: That Championship Season and Little Night Music win.
• 1972 Selling of the President closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 5 performances
• 1971 Boston Patriots become New England Patriots.
• 1970 Concorde makes its first supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH).
• 1969 Andes Pact signed in Peru.
• 1968 KLVX TV channel 10 in Las Vegas, NV (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1966 Beatles pose with mutilated dolls and butchered meat for the cover of the Yesterday and Today album, It is later pulled
• 1965 West German Bondsdag extends war crimes retribution.
• 1964 Britain sets memorial for the late President John F Kennedy
• 1963 KWHY TV channel 22 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
• 1962 Family Affair closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 65 performances
• 1961 13 Daughters closes at 54th St. Theater NYC after 28 performances
• 1960 Ford Frick voids Cleveland Indians-Boston Red Sox deal as Sam White retires.
• 1959 Bill White traded to Saint Louis Cardinals for pitchers Sam Jones and Don Choate.
• 1958 West German parliament desires German atomic weapons.
• 1957 NBA modifies the free-throw rule.
• 1954 26th Academy Awards: From Here to Eternity, William Holden and Audrey Hepburn win.
• 1953 26 – ''Lari Massacre'' in Kenya: Mau Mau rebels kill up to 150 Kikuyu natives.
• 1951 5th Tony Awards: Guys and Dolls and Rose Tattoo win.
• 1949 SS police chief Rauter request for a pardon, denied
• 1948 The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
• 1947 Agreement of Linggadjati ratified in Batavia.
• 1945 US first army breaks out bridgehead near Remagen.
• 1944 Germany troop executes 335 residents of Rome
• 1943 Jimmy Durante and Garry Moore premiere on radio
• 1942 700 Jews of Polish Lvov-district reach Belzec Concentration camp.
• 1941 Carolina Paprika Mills in Dillon SC, incorporated
• 1939 Billboard Magazine introduces hillbilly (country) music chart.
• 1937 Washington Daily News is first US newspaper with perfumed advertising page.
• 1936 200 mirror blank leaves for California to be ground
• 1931 Hal Kemp and his orchestra record Whistles, with Skinnay Ennis
• 1924 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens (NHL) sweep Calgary Tigers (WCHL) in two games (second of 1924).
• 1923 British government grants Trans-Jordan autonomy.
• 1920 Greek Independence Day.
• 1917 The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
• 1916 Jess Willard fights Frank Moran to no decision in 10 for boxing title
• 1915 The U.S. submarine F-4 sinks off Hawaii 21 are killed.
• 1914 The Greek multisport club Aris Thessaloniki is founded.
• 1913 Great Dayton Flood.
• 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory catches fire 145 die, all but 13 girls
• 1907 Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers lose to Kenora Thistles but outscore them in 2 game set but outscore them 12-8 and win cup
• 1905 Rebel battle flags captured during war are returned to South.
• 1902 Irving W Colburn patents sheet glass drawing machine.
• 1901 55 die as Rock Island train derails near Marshalltown, Iowa.
• 1900 US Socialist Party is formed at Indianapolis.
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Famous Birthday

Who was born on March 25?

• Sarah Jessica Parker
• Simone Signoret

  German-born actress, winner of the Best Actress Oscar for "Room At the Top" and the Best Foreign Film Award for "Madame Rosa" in 1977.

• Big Sean

  Musician.

• Aretha Franklin

  American singer of gospel, soul and rhythm and blues music.

• Marcia Cross

  American actress, primarily in TV evening soap-style series.

• Sean Faris

  American actor and model.

• Lee Pace

  American actor.

• Gloria Steinem

  American writer, editor and most noted feminist of her time.

• Katharine McPhee

  American reality show entrant in the fifth season of popular TV show "American Idol.

• Paul Michael Glaser

  American actor.

• Brenda Strong

  American actress.

• Jenny Slate

  American actress, stand-up comedian, voice artist, and author best known for her breakout role as Donna Stern in Obvious Child, as well as...

• Bonnie Bedelia

  American actress.

• Tatjana Patitz

  German model and actress.

• David Lean

  English film director, producer, screenwriter and editor, best remembered for big-screen epics such asThe Bridge on the River Kwai...

• Anita Bryant

  American Beauty Queen and entertainer who was named Miss Oklahoma at 19, and then the runner-up for Miss America.

• Howard Cosell

  American sports broadcaster and commentator.

• Richard O'Brien

  English actor and writer.

• Kiowa Gordon

  Movie Actor.

• Casey Neistat

  Director.

• Lark Voorhies

  American actress.

• Kari Matchett

  Canadian actress.

• Matthew Beard
• Nancy Kelly

  Lowell, Massachusetts -- Actress (Double Exposure, Jesse James).

• Ryan Simpkins

  Movie Actress.

• Gigi Leung

  Hong Kong singer and actress.

• Emma Suárez
• Justin Prentice
• Ed Begley

  Hartford, Connecticut -- Actor (Mr Koppel-Leave it to Larry).

• James McDaniel

  American actor and director.

• Louie Anderson

  Comedian.

• Jean Rogers

  Actress (Flash Gordon, Hot Cargo), dies at 74.

• Laz Alonso

  Movie Actor.

• Patrick Troughton

  Actor (Dr Who-Dr Who), dies at 56.

• Matthew Garber

  British child actor (Mary Poppins) (Born 1956).

• Hoyt Axton

  American actor and country music singer-songwriter (Born 1938).

• Emraan Hashmi

  Actor.

• Elizabeth Lail

  TV Actress.

• Aly Michalka

  TV Actress.

• Binnie Barnes

  English-American actress whose career in films spanned fifty years, from 1923 to 1973.

• Kenneth Haigh

  Yorkshire, England -- Actor (Search for the Nile).

• Elton John

  British musician and rock superstar of immense appeal of the '70s, '80s, and '90s.

• Philippe de Villiers
• Venice (Italy)
• Danica Patrick

  American race car driver.

• Mina (singer)
• Wladimir Klitschko

  Ukrainian heavyweight professional boxer.

• Bernard de la Villardiere
• Elke Winkens

  German-Austrian actress.

• Edgar Ramirez
• Maurice Krafft

  French scientist, a specialist in the study of volcanoes.

• Daniel Buren

  French sculptor and painter.

• Barbara Ivanova

  Russian psychic, famed.

• Sébastien Flute
• Jean Sablon

  French actor and singer.

• Muriel Hurtis-Houairi

  French Guadeloupe athlete running the 200 and the 499m.

• Teri Moïse

  American singer (d. 2013).

• Markéta Belonoha
• Helmut Käutner

  German actor, director and screenwriter, he became a leading German director of the postwar period partly due to his noncollaboration with...

• Cathy Dennis

  English singer-songwriter producer and actress.

• François Bloch-Lainé

  French banker, directed finances of the French resistance in WWII.

• László Papp

  Hungarian boxer (d. 2003).

• Jean Vilar

  French actor and stage director, his films were few, but striking.

• Denis Kessler

  French businessman, who has served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of SCOR SE since 2002.

• Jean-Joël Barbier

  French writer and pianist, best known for his recording of the complete piano works of Erik Satie.

• Steve Norman

  English rock musician who plays the saxophone and has had several hits with the group "Spandau Ballet.

• Jim Lovell

  American captain pilot and astronaut.

• Daniel Bensaïd

  French philosopher and a leader of the Trotskyist movement.

• A J P Taylor

  English historian, (Born 1906).

• Jamie Faunt

  American musician and teacher, a bass guitarist and recording artist with top groups and live performers.

• Serge Betsen
• François Delamontagne
• Jean-Marie Deveaux
• Eugenio Siragusa
• Bernard Jensen

  American advocate of health through diet whose products can be found in health-food stores.

• Anders Fridén

  Swedish singer-songwriter and producer (In Flames Passenger Dark Tranquillity and Ceremonial Oath).

• Chiara Zocchi

  Italian writer, a success at the age of 20 with her romance novel, "Olga," published in 1996.

• Magda Olivero

  Italian soprano (d. 2014).

• Kathrine Sørland

  Norwegian fashion model TV presenter and beauty queen.

• Jacques Domergue
• Seychelle Gabriel

  TV Actress.

• Makoto Ozone
• Thomas Glavine
• Erica Schoenberg
• Gerald J Wasserburg
• Rémi Bezançon
• Susan Engel

  Vienna, Austria -- Actress (Ascendancy).

• Kenneth Carlisle
• Peter Walker
• Brian Barnes
• Dale Davis

  American basketball forward playing with the Pacers.

• Debi Thomas

  United States -- Figure skater (1988 Olympics - Bronze Medalist).

• Lynn Faulds Wood

  Scottish television presenter.

• Christoph Gruber
• Michaela Dorfmeister

  Austrian skier.

• Kenneth Franklin

  American scientist, and educator and chief astronomer at Hayden Planetarium in New York City.

• John Stockwell (actor)
• Pete Johnson
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Famous Deaths

• Jack Hulbert

  Actor (Bulldog Jack), dies at 85.

• Helen Martin

  American actress (Born 1909).

• Thierry Gilardi

  French football/soccer commentator on French television.

• Nancy Walker

  American actress, singer and comedienne, known for her diminutive size of 4' 11" along with a bull-moose voice.

• Giovanni Parisi

  Italian boxer who won an Olympic Gold Medal at Seoul, 1988.

• Max Ophuls

  German director and writer (Born 1902).

• Buck Owens

  American musician, a country-western singer, songwriter and guitarist who also played trumpet and saxophone.

• Lee Donn

  Pianist, dies of a stroke at 96.

• Eileen Joyce

  Pianist, dies at 78.

• Billy Cotton

  British bandleader & entertainer (Born 1889).

• King Faisal

  of Saudi Arabia (Born 1906).

• Milton H Erickson

  American psychiatrist (Born 1901).

• Viola Gregg Liuzzo

  US civil rights activist, is murdered.

• Henry R LaBouisse

  headed UNICEF (1965-79), dies at age 83.

• Peter Herbert Penwarden

  priest, dies at age 73.

• Warren E Burger

  chief justice of US (1969-86), dies.

• James Gardner

  designer, dies at age 87.

• Peter Martin

  Australian rules footballer (Born 1875).

• Elizabeth Storrs Mead

  American educator (Born 1832).

• Renato Cellini

  Italian conductor (Bornc.

• Juan Gaudino

  Argentine racing driver (Born 1893).

• Kresimir Cosic

  Croatian basketball player (Born 1948).

• George Luther Foote

  Composer, dies at 70.

• Brian Trubshaw

  British Concorde test pilot (Born 1924).

• Ben Carnevale

  American basketball coach (Born 1915).

• Gabor Ocskay

  Hungarian hockey player (Born 1975).

• Gene Puerling

  American vocalist and arranger (Born 1929).

• Johnny Blanchard

  American baseball player (Born 1933).

• Kosuke Koyama

  Japanese theologian (Born 1929).

• Pal Bang-Hansen

  Norwegian film critic and television personality (Born 1937).

• Claude Debussy

  French composer and pianist.

• Richard Fleischer

  American film director (Born 1916).

• Durham Stevens

  American lawyer and diplomat (d. 1908).

• John Snagge

  British radio personality (Born 1904).

• Akinoumi Setsuo

  Japanese sumo wrestler, the 37th Yokozuna (Born 1914).

• Ida Wells

  American journalist and activist (d. 1931).

• John Hugenholtz

  Dutch engineer and designer (d. 1995).

• Steve Schiff

  United States Congressman (Born 1947).

• Fud Livingston

  Composer, dies at 50.

• David Moore

  US feather weight boxer, dies at 29.

• Giorgio Federico Ghedini

  Composer, dies at 72.

• Otto Waldis

  Actor (Unknown World, Whip Hand), dies at 72.

• Emerson Whithorne

  Composer, dies at 73.

• Douglas Evans

  actor (South Pacific Trail), dies in Hollywood.

• Max F Eastman

  US critic/essayist (Love and Revolution), dies at age 86.

• Alan Mowbray

  Actor (Dante, Colonel Flack), dies at 72.

• Sykes

  British ambassador in The Hague, murdered.

• Michel R Vassallucci

  French / Netherlands publisher (Arena), dies at 32.

• James Coleman

  American sociologist (Born 1926).

• Ruperto Chapi y Lorente composer

  dies at age 57.

• Claude A Debussy French composer (Iberia/La mer)

  dies in Paris France at age 55.

• Hanns A Rauter

  German SS-commandant in Netherlands, executed at age 54.

• Auguste Piccard

  Swiss explorer/balloonist, dies at age 78.

• David Miles Bensuan-Butt

  economist, dies at age 79.

• John Derrick Mordaunt Snagge

  British radio news commentator (BBC), dies at age 91 (born 1904).

• Frederic Mistral

  French writer, a poet who compiled a Provencal dictionary and devoted his life to the revival of the Provencal language and customs.

• Roberto Sanchez Vilella

  The second Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, holding the position from 1965 to 1969.

• Max Green

  Australian lawyer (Born 1952).

• Eddie Collins

  American baseball player and manager (d. 1951).

• Billy Mayerl

  English pianist and composer (d. 1959).

• Bob Waterfield

  American football player and coach (d. 1983).

• Anton Heiller

  Austrian organist composer and conductor (d. 1979).

• Paul Henning

  American TV/film producer and writer (Born 1911).

• Spyridon Samaras

  Greek playwright and composer (d. 1917).

• Deiva Zivarattinam

  Indian lawyer and politician (d. 1975).

• Robert Joffrey

  [Abdullah Jaffa Anver Bey Khan]; American choreographer (Joffrey Ballet).

• Warren Hymer

  Actor (Show Them No Mercy), dies at 42.

• Tom Brown

  American musician (Born 1888).

• Martha Sleeper

  Actress (Spitfire), dies of a heart attack at 72.

• Robert Newton

  England, United Kingdom -- Actor (Henry V, Around the World in 80 Days).

• Edward Steichen

  Luxembourgish-American painter and photographer (d. 1973).

• John Drinkwater

  English Poet / playwright (Bird in Hand), dies at 54.

• Colin Campbell

  Actor (Leather Boys), dies at 83.

• Ion Nonna Otescu

  Composer, dies at 51.

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Top #1 songs in the USA

• 2018 Drake - God's Plan
• 2017 Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You
• 2016 Rihanna Featuring Drake - Work
• 2015 Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk!
• 2014 Pharrell Williams - Happy
• 2013 Baauer - Harlem Shake
• 2012 Fun. - We Are Young
• 2011 Lady GaGa - Born This Way
• 2010 Rihanna - Rude Boy
• 2009 Flo Rida - Right Round
• 2008 Usher - Love In This Club
• 2007 Fergie - Glamorous
• 2006 Ne-Yo - So Sick
• 2005 50 Cent - Candy Shop
• 2004 Usher - Yeah!
• 2003 50 Cent - In Da Club
• 2002 Jennifer Lopez - Ain't It Funny
• 2001 Crazy Town - Butterfly
• 2000 Destiny's Child - Say My Name
• 1999 Cher - Believe
• 1998 Will Smith - Gettin' Jiggy Wit It
• 1997 Puff Daddy - Can't Nobody Hold Me Down
• 1996 Celine Dion - Because You Loved Me
• 1995 Madonna - Take A Bow
• 1994 Ace Of Base - The Sign
• 1993 Snow - Informer
• 1992 Vanessa Williams - Save The Best For Last
• 1991 Timmy T - One More Try
• 1990 Alannah Myles - Black Velvet
• 1989 Mike + The Mechanics - The Living Years
• 1988 Michael Jackson - Man In The Mirror
• 1987 Club Nouveau - Lean On Me
• 1986 Heart - These Dreams
• 1985 REO Speedwagon - Can't Fight This Feeling
• 1984 Van Halen - Jump
• 1983 Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
• 1982 Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - I Love Rock 'N Roll
• 1981 REO Speedwagon - Keep On Loving You
• 1980 Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall (Part II)
• 1979 Bee Gees - Tragedy
• 1978 Bee Gees - Night Fever
• 1977 Daryl Hall & John Oates - Rich Girl
• 1976 The Four Seasons - December 1963 (Oh, What A Night)
• 1975 Frankie Valli - My Eyes Adored You
• 1974 Cher - Dark Lady
• 1973 The O'Jays - Love Train
• 1972 America - A Horse With No Name
• 1971 Janis Joplin - Me And Bobby McGee
• 1970 Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
• 1969 Tommy Roe - Dizzy
• 1968 Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay
• 1967 The Turtles - Happy Together
• 1966 Barry Sadler - The Ballad Of The Green Berets
• 1965 The Supremes - Stop! In The Name Of Love
• 1964 The Beatles - She Loves You
• 1963 Ruby and the Romantics - Our Day Will Come
• 1962 Bruce Channel - Hey! Baby
• 1961 Elvis Presley - Surrender
• 1960 Percy Faith - The Theme From A Summer Place
• 1959 Frankie Avalon - Venus
• 1958 The Champs - Tequila
• 1957 Tab Hunter - Young Love
• 1955 Bill Hayes - The Ballad Of Davy Crockett
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Top #1 Rock songs

• 2017 Imagine Dragons - Believer
• 2016 twenty one pilots - Stressed Out
• 2015 Hozier - Take Me To Church
• 2014 Bastille - Pompeii
• 2013 The Lumineers - Ho Hey
• 2012 The Black Keys - Lonely Boy
• 2011 Foo Fighters - Rope
• 2010 Alice In Chains - Your Decision