TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – MARCH 25
31 1st Easter, according to calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus
708 Constantine begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
1306 Robert the Bruce was crowned king of Scotland.
1634 Lord Baltimore founds the Catholic colony of Maryland.
1655 Puritans jail Governor Stone after a military victory over Catholic forces in the colony of Maryland.
1655 Christian Huygens discovered Titan. Titan is Saturn’s largest satellite.
1807 British Parliament abolishes the slave trade.
1813 The frigate USS Essex flies the first U.S. flag in battle in the Pacific.
1894 Jacob Sechler Coxey and his “army” of unemployed men began their march from Ohio to Washington, DC.
1900 The U.S. Socialist Party was formed in Indianapolis.
1901 It was reported in Washington, DC, that Cubans were beginning to fear annexation.
1911 A fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company, a sweatshop in New York City, claims the lives of 146 workers.
1919 The Paris Peace Commission adopts a plan to protect nations from the influx of foreign labor.
1947 John D. Rockefeller III presented a check for $8.5 million to the United Nations for the purchase of land for the site of the U.N. center.
1953 The USS Missouri fires on targets at Kojo, North Korea, the last time her guns fire until the Persian Gulf War of 1992.
1954 RCA manufactures its first color TV set and begins mass production.
1957 The European Economic Community was established by the Treaty of Rome.
1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono stage a bed-in for peace in Amsterdam.
1970 The Concorde makes its first supersonic flight.
1975 King Faisal of Saudi Arabia is assassinated by his nephew
1981 The U.S. Embassy in San Salvador is damaged when gunmen attack, firing rocket propelled grenades and machine guns.
1983 The U.S. Congress passed legislation to rescue the U.S. social security system from bankruptcy.
1988 Robert E. Chambers Jr. pled guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the death of 18-year-old Jennifer Levin. The case was known as New York City’s “preppie murder case.”
1994 U.S. troops withdrew from Somalia.
1995 WikiWikiWeb, the world’s first wiki, is launched. Ward Cunningham introduced the wiki, or user-editable website. Today, Wikipedia is the world’s most well known and widely used wiki.
1996 An 81-day standoff by the antigovernment Freemen began at a ranch near Jordan, MT.
1998 A cancer patient was the first known to die under Oregon’s doctor-assisted suicide law.
1998 The FCC nets $578.6 million at auction for licenses for new wireless technology.
2004 The U.S. Senate voted (61-38) on the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (H.R. 1997) to make it a separate crime to harm a fetus during the commission of a violent federal crime.
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