Today in History
25th March
Joachim Murat
Voltaire
Domela Nieuwenhuis
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| 1133 William the Conqueror orders 1st Domesday Survey of England |
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| 1133 Henry II, King of England (1154-89) was born | ||
| 1306 Robert de Bruce was crowned Robert I the Bruce of Scotland at Scone. He led the forces that freed Scotland from English rule in 1328. | ||
| 1409 The Council of Pisa, formed to try to resolve the schism in the Catholic church between the popes Gregory and Benedict, held its first meeting at Pisa. | ||
| 1571 Catholic Italian businessman Roberto Ridolfi leaves Enngeland | ||
| 1581 Portugese Cortes calls Philip II king of Portugal | ||
| 1584 Sir Walter Raleigh renews Humphrey Gilbert's patent to explore N Amer | ||
| 1594 Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher, Dutch writer was born | ||
| 1598 Cornelis de Houtman's fleet departs for East-Indies | ||
| 1609 Henry Hudson embarks on an exploration for Dutch East India Co | ||
| 1634 Lord Baltimore founded Catholic colony of Maryland | ||
| 1647 Cape of Good Hope: tour ship Haerlem stranded in Tafel Bay | Joachim Murat |
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| 1653 Joseph Sauveur, French physicist/mathematician was born | ||
| 1655 Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan, (Saturn's largest satellite) | ||
| 1668 1st horse race in America takes place | ||
| 1669 Mount Etna in Sicily erupts, destroying Nicolosi, killing 20,000 | ||
| 1700 England, France & Netherlands ratify 2nd Extermination treaty | ||
| 1702 Pieter Teyler Van der Hulst, Dutch silk merchant (Teyler's Museum) was born | ||
| 1753 Voltaire leaves the court of Frederik II of Prussia | ||
| 1767 Joachim Murat, marshal of France/King of Naples (1808-15) was born | ||
| 1774 English Parliament passes Boston Port Bill | ||
| 1776 Continental Congress authorized a medal for George Washington | ||
| 1786 Giovanni B Amia, Italian astronomer/physicist/botanist was born | ||
| 1799 In the French Revolutionary Wars, 40,000 French troops under Jourdan were defeated near Baden and beaten back to the Rhine by 60,000 Austrians under Archduke Charles at the Battle of Stokach. |
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| 1802 France, Netherlands, Spain & England signs Peace of Amiens | ||
| 1807 1st railway passenger service began in England | ||
| 1807 British Parliament abolishes slave trade | ||
| 1807 George Canning becomes British minister of Foreign affairs | ||
| 1814 Netherlands Bank established | ||
| 1817 Tsar Alexander I recommends formation of Society of Israeli Christians | ||
| 1820 Greece freedom revolt against anti Ottoman attack | ||
| 1821 Greece gains independence from Turkey (National Day) | ||
| 1847 Pope Pius IX encyclical "On aid for Ireland" | ||
| 1856 A E Burnside patents Burnside carbine | ||
| 1857 Frederick Laggenheim takes 1st photo of a solar eclipse | Voltaire |
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| 1865 SS General Lyon at Cape Hatteras catches fire & sinks, killing 400 | ||
| 1867 Arturo Toscanini, Parma Italy, temperamental conductor was born | ||
| 1872 Vito Pardo, Italian sculptor (Columbus monument in Argentina) was born | ||
| 1888 Socialist leader Domela Nieuwenhuis elected to Dutch 2nd chamber | ||
| 1895 Italian troops invaded Abyssinia (Ethiopia | ||
| 1900 In the United States the first Socialist Party was formed when the Socialist Labor Party merged with the Social-Democratic Party. Their first convention was held in Indianapolis in 1904. | ||
| 1901 55 die as Rock Island train derailed near Marshalltown Iowa | ||
| 1902 Irving W Colburn patents sheet glass drawing machine | ||
| 1906 Alan J P Taylor, British historian (English history 1914-1915) was born | ||
| 1911 146 immigrant women, mostly Jewish and Italian, died when New York's worst industrial fire swept through a factory owned by the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. | ||
| 1913 Great Dayton Flood | ||
| 1914 Frederic Mistral, French poet and winner of the 1904 Nobel Prize for Literature, died. He helped in the 19th century revival of Provencal language and worked for some 20 years on a Provencal-French dictionary. | |
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| 1915 1st submarine disaster; a US F-4 sank off Hawaii, killing 21 | ||
| 1915 German U boat torpedoes Netherland merchant ship Medea | ||
| 1918 Claude Debussy, French composer, died. His music, described as "musical Impressionism," explored original avenues of expression. | ||
| 1920 Greek Independence Day | ||
| 1923 British govt grants Trans-Jordan autonomy | ||
| 1924 King George of Greece was deposed and a republic proclaimed. | ||
| 1924 Greek parliament selects admiral Paul Koundouriątis as premier | ||
| 1935 Paul Van Zeeland became premier of Belgium. | ||
| 1937 Italy & Yugoslavia sign no-attack treaty (Pact of Belgrade) | ||
| 1941 Yugoslavia joined the Tripartite Pact, a military alliance directed against the U.S. and Britain. | ||
| 1942 700 Jews of Polish Lvov-district reach Belzec Concentration camp | ||
| 1943 Jimmy Durante & Garry Moore premiere on radio | ||
| 1944 Germany troop executes 335 residents of Rome | ||
| 1944 RAF Sgt Nickolas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber from 18,000 feet without a parachute | ||
| 1945 US 1st army breaks out bridgehead near Remagen | ||
| 1945 US Northern Tractor Flotilla departs Ulithi to Okinawa | ||
| 1947 Agreement of Linggadjati ratified in Batavia | ||
| 1947 Coal mine explosion in Centralia, Ill, claims 111 | ||
| 1949 Laurence Olivier's "Hamlet" became the first British film to win an Oscar. | ||
| 1954 Pope Pius XII encyclical "Sacra virginitas" (On consecrated virginity) | ||
| 1955 E Germany granted full sovereignty by occupying power, USSR | ||
| 1957 The Treaty of Rome was signed, providing for the establishment on January 1, 1958, of the Common Market in Europe. | ||
| 1958 West German parliament desires German atomic weapons | ||
| 1959 French pres De Gaulle acknowledges Oder-Neisse boundary | ||
| 1960 Italian governament Tambroni forms | ||
| 1961 Sputnik 10 carries a dog into Earth orbit; later recovered | ||
| 1964 Egypt ends state of siege (1952-64) | ||
| 1965 West German Bondsdag extends war crimes retribution |
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| 1969 Andes Pact signed in Peru | ||
| 1969 Pakistan General Agha Mohammed Jagja Khan succeeds Ayub Chan as president | ||
| 1970 Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH) | ||
| 1975 King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was murdered by his nephew Prince Faisal. He was succeeded by his brother, Khaled ibn Abdul-aziz. | ||
| 1976 Argentine milt junta bans leftist political parties | ||
| 1980 Archbishop Robert Runcie was enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury. | ||
| 1984 French troops began part of a phased withdrawal of its 1,300-man peacekeeping force from Beirut. | ||
| 1988 NASA launches space vehicle S-206 | ||
| 1990 Fire swept through a packed, unlicensed nightclub in New York, killing 87 people. | ||
| 1992 Russian manned space craft TM-14, lands | ||
| 1994 The last U.S. troops left Somalia after a 15-month peace mission, leaving only a depleted U.N. force behind. | ||
| 1994 Neo-Nazis firebombed a synagogue in the north German town of Luebeck, believed to be the first such incident in Germany since the end of the Second World War. | ||
| 1995 Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson was freed from an Indiana prison three years after his conviction for rape. | ||
| 1996 Officials from the 15 European Union states agreed to recommend a ban on exports of British beef products because of concern over mad cow disease. | Domela Nieuwenhuis |
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| 1996 France, Britain and the United States signed the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty. | ||
| 1996 Abel Goodman, the world's first patient to receive a permanent electric heart, died in Britain. |
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