TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – MARCH 25
31 1st Easter, according to calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus
0708 Constantine begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
1306 Robert the Bruce crowned king of Scotland
1655 Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan, (Saturn’s largest satellite)
1655 Puritans jail Governor Stone after a military victory over Catholic forces in the colony of Maryland.
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.
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.
1931 Scottsboro Boys (accused of raping a white woman) arrested in Alabama
1940 The United States agrees to give Britain and France access to all American warplanes.
1949 The Soviet Union begins deporting some 90,000 Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians to some of Russia’s most inhospitable areas
1953 The USS Missouri fires on targets at Kojo, North Korea, the last time her guns fire until the Persian Gulf War of 1992.
1965 The 25,000-person Alabama Freedom March to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks, led by Martin Luther King Jr., ended its journey from Selma on the steps of the State Capitol in Montgomery, Ala.
1970 The Concorde makes its first supersonic flight.
1975 Hue is lost and Da Nang is endangered by North Vietnamese forces. The United States orders a refugee airlift to remove those in danger.
1975 King Faisal of Saudi Arabia is assassinated by his nephew
1986 President Ronald Reagan orders emergency aid for the Honduran army. U.S. helicopters take Honduran troops to the Nicaraguan border.
1987 Supreme Court rules women/minorities may get jobs if less qualified
1988 Thousands of people join the first peaceful demonstrations against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia
1994 U.S. troops withdrew from Somalia.
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