History Events on March 25

The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.

#Tornado_warning

The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.

#Georgian_Orthodox_Church

The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact.

#Kingdom_of_Yugoslavia

Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.

#Coxey's_Army

Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.

#Civil_rights_movement

American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union.

#American_Civil_War

During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).

#John_Lennon

The Council of Pisa opens.

#Council_of_Pisa

Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scots (Scotland).

#Robert_the_Bruce

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.

#Saturn

The European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy).

#European_Union

The city of Valencia is founded in present-day Venezuela.

#Valencia,_Carabobo

Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France, leading to his death on April 6.

#Richard_I_of_England

Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.

#Walter_Raleigh

New Zealand Legislative Council pass the first Militia Act constituting the New Zealand Army.

#New_Zealand_Army

In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.

#Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire

The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.

#Space_Shuttle

Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.

#Percy_Bysshe_Shelley

The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace" between France and the United Kingdom.

#Treaty_of_Amiens

An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.

#1947_Centralia_mine_disaster

Theodosius III resigns the throne to the Byzantine Empire to enter the clergy.

#Theodosius_III

The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandon an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos.

#Army_of_the_Republic_of_Vietnam

Traditional date of the start of the Greek War of Independence. The war had actually begun on 23 February 1821 (Julian calendar).

#Greek_War_of_Independence

Protesters demanding a new election in Belarus, following the rigged 2006 Belarusian presidential election, clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested.

#Belarus

The Belarusian People's Republic is established.

#Belarusian_People's_Republic

WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham.

#WikiWikiWeb

More than 92,000 kulaks are suddenly deported from the Baltic states to Siberia.

#Kulak

The European Economic Community is established with West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg as the first members.

#European_Economic_Community

On the anniversary of Greek Independence, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the Second Hellenic Republic.

#Greek_War_of_Independence

The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.

#Slave_Trade_Act_1807

The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.

#Candle_demonstration_in_Bratislava

Romanos Lekapenos seizes the Boukoleon Palace in Constantinople and becomes regent of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII.

#Romanos_I_Lekapenos

The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger-carrying railway in the world.

#Swansea_and_Mumbles_Railway

Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew.

#Faisal_of_Saudi_Arabia

Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.

United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds.

The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.

Jerome Savage takes out a sub-lease to start the Newington Butts Theatre outside London.

Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah assassinates the eunuch chief minister Barjawan and assumes control of the government.

Pope Constantine succeeds Pope Sisinnius as the 88th pope.