March 25
1634 - Maryland was founded by settlers sent by Lord Baltimore.
1776 - Gen. George Washington, commander of the Continental Army, was awarded the first Congressional Gold Medal by the Continental Congress.
1807 - Britain abolished its slave trade.
1894 - Jacob Sechler Coxey and his "army" of unemployed men began their march from Ohio to Washington, D.C. to demand help from the federal government.
1911 - A fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. in New York City killed 145 workers.
1915 - The U.S. Navy lost its first commissioned submarine as the USS F-4 sank off Hawaii, claiming the lives of all 21 crew members.
1931 - In the so-called “Scottsboro Boys” case, nine young Black men were taken off a train in Alabama, accused of raping two white women; after years of convictions, death sentences and imprisonment, the nine were eventually vindicated.
1947 - A coal-dust explosion inside the Centralia Coal Co. Mine No. 5 in Washington County, Illinois, claimed 111 lives; 31 men survived.
1954 - RCA announced it had begun producing color television sets at its plant in Bloomington, Indiana.
1957 - The European Economic Community was established by the Treaty of Rome.
1963 - Private pilot Ralph Flores and his 21-year-old passenger, Helen Klaben, were rescued after being stranded for seven weeks in brutally cold conditions in the Yukon after their plane crashed.
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, Alabama.
1975 - King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot and killed by his nephew who had a history of mental illness.
1987 - The Supreme Court, in Johnson v. Transportation Agency, ruled 6-3 that an employer could promote a woman over an arguably more-qualified man to help get women into higher-ranking jobs.
1988 - Robert E. Chambers Jr. pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the death of 18-year-old Jennifer Levin in New York City's so-called "preppie murder case."
1990 - 87 people, most of them Honduran and Dominican immigrants, were killed when fire raced through an illegal social club in New York City.
1992 - Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returned to Earth from the Mir space station after a 10-month stay, during which his native country, the Soviet Union, ceased to exist.
1994 - U.S. troops withdrew from Somalia.
1996 - An 81-day standoff by the antigovernment Freemen began at a ranch near Jordan, Montana.
1996 - The redesigned $100 bill went into circulation.
1998 - President Bill Clinton acknowledged during his Africa tour that "we did not act quickly enough" to stop the slaughter of 1 million Rwandans four years earlier.
2002 - A powerful earthquake rocked Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan, killing as many as 1,000 people.
2020 - The Senate unanimously passed a $2.2 trillion economic rescue package steering aid to businesses, workers and health care systems engulfed by the coronavirus pandemic; the largest economic relief bill in U.S. history included direct payments to most Americans, expanded unemployment benefits and $367 billion for small businesses to keep making payroll while workers were forced to stay home. The number of U.S. deaths from the pandemic topped 1,000.
Birthdays
29 - Elizabeth Lail (actress)
30 - Seychelle Gabriel (actress)
31 - Kiowa Gordon (actor)
32 - Aly Michalka (actress/singer)
32 - Matthew Beard (actor)
34 - Jason Castro (singer)
36 - Chris Redd (actor/comedian)
37 - Katharine McPhee (actress/singer)
39 - Danica Patrick (race car driver)
39 - Alex Moffat (actor/comedian)
39 - Sean Faris (actor)
39 - Jenny Slate (actress)
42 - Lee Pace (actor)
46 - Melanie Blatt (singer)
50 - Laz Alonso (actor)
54 - Debi Thomas (figure skater)
55 - Tom Glavine (baseball player)
56 - Sarah Jessica Parker (actress)
57 - Lisa Gay Hamilton (actress)
59 - Marcia Cross (actress)
60 - Fred Goss (actor)
61 - Brenda Strong (actress)
63 - James McDaniel (actor)
68 - Mary Gross (actress/comedian)
73 - Bonnie Bedelia (actress)
74 - Sir Elton John (singer)
78 - Paul Michael Glaser (actor)
81 - Anita Bryant (singer)
93 - James Lovell (astronaut)
95 - Gene Shalit (movie critic)
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Today in Sports History - March 25
1934 - Horton Smith won the first Masters golf tournament at Augusta National in Georgia.
1936 - The Detroit Red Wings defeated the Montreal Maroons in the longest hockey game to date. The game lasted for 2 hours and 56 minutes.
1947 - Holy Cross defeats Oklahoma 58-47 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1958 - Sugar Ray Robinson regained his middleweight title for the fifth time when he defeated Carmen Basilio in a 12-round decision.
1961 - Cincinnati defeats Ohio State 70-65 in overtime to win the NCAA Tournament.
1961 - In the now defunct third-place game of the NCAA Tournament, one of the wildest games in NCAA history occurred as St. Joseph's defeated Utah 127-120 in quadruple overtime.
1967 - UCLA defeats Dayton 79-64 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1972 - UCLA defeats Florida 81-76 to win a sixth consecutive NCAA Tournament.
1972 - Bobby Hull joined Gordie Howe to become only the second National Hockey League player to score 600 career goals.
1982 - Wayne Gretzky became the first player in the NHL to score 200 points in a season.
1995 - Boxer Mike Tyson was released from jail after serving 3 years.
1997 - Hartford Whalers announced that they would move from Connecticut following the 1996-97 season. In 1997-98 they became the Carolina Hurricanes.
2002 - The NHL suspended Keith Tkachuk (St. Louis Blues) for slashing Lyle Odelein (Chicago Blackhawks) during a game on March 23, 2002.
2002 - Bobby Holik (New Jersey Devils) was suspended by the NHL for slashing Rod Brind'Amour (Carolina Hurricanes) in the face. Brind'Amour needed seven stitches to close the cut around his left eye.
2004 - The NHL suspended Marty Turco (Dallas Stars) for four games for a high-sticking incident the night before against Ryan Smith (Edmonton Oilers). Turco forfeited more than $195,000 in salary.
2013 - Tiger Woods returns to the top of the world golf rankings.
1634 - Maryland was founded by settlers sent by Lord Baltimore.
1776 - Gen. George Washington, commander of the Continental Army, was awarded the first Congressional Gold Medal by the Continental Congress.
1807 - Britain abolished its slave trade.
1894 - Jacob Sechler Coxey and his "army" of unemployed men began their march from Ohio to Washington, D.C. to demand help from the federal government.
1911 - A fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. in New York City killed 145 workers.
1915 - The U.S. Navy lost its first commissioned submarine as the USS F-4 sank off Hawaii, claiming the lives of all 21 crew members.
1931 - In the so-called “Scottsboro Boys” case, nine young Black men were taken off a train in Alabama, accused of raping two white women; after years of convictions, death sentences and imprisonment, the nine were eventually vindicated.
1947 - A coal-dust explosion inside the Centralia Coal Co. Mine No. 5 in Washington County, Illinois, claimed 111 lives; 31 men survived.
1954 - RCA announced it had begun producing color television sets at its plant in Bloomington, Indiana.
1957 - The European Economic Community was established by the Treaty of Rome.
1963 - Private pilot Ralph Flores and his 21-year-old passenger, Helen Klaben, were rescued after being stranded for seven weeks in brutally cold conditions in the Yukon after their plane crashed.
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, Alabama.
1975 - King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot and killed by his nephew who had a history of mental illness.
1987 - The Supreme Court, in Johnson v. Transportation Agency, ruled 6-3 that an employer could promote a woman over an arguably more-qualified man to help get women into higher-ranking jobs.
1988 - Robert E. Chambers Jr. pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the death of 18-year-old Jennifer Levin in New York City's so-called "preppie murder case."
1990 - 87 people, most of them Honduran and Dominican immigrants, were killed when fire raced through an illegal social club in New York City.
1992 - Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returned to Earth from the Mir space station after a 10-month stay, during which his native country, the Soviet Union, ceased to exist.
1994 - U.S. troops withdrew from Somalia.
1996 - An 81-day standoff by the antigovernment Freemen began at a ranch near Jordan, Montana.
1996 - The redesigned $100 bill went into circulation.
1998 - President Bill Clinton acknowledged during his Africa tour that "we did not act quickly enough" to stop the slaughter of 1 million Rwandans four years earlier.
2002 - A powerful earthquake rocked Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan, killing as many as 1,000 people.
2020 - The Senate unanimously passed a $2.2 trillion economic rescue package steering aid to businesses, workers and health care systems engulfed by the coronavirus pandemic; the largest economic relief bill in U.S. history included direct payments to most Americans, expanded unemployment benefits and $367 billion for small businesses to keep making payroll while workers were forced to stay home. The number of U.S. deaths from the pandemic topped 1,000.
Birthdays
29 - Elizabeth Lail (actress)
30 - Seychelle Gabriel (actress)
31 - Kiowa Gordon (actor)
32 - Aly Michalka (actress/singer)
32 - Matthew Beard (actor)
34 - Jason Castro (singer)
36 - Chris Redd (actor/comedian)
37 - Katharine McPhee (actress/singer)
39 - Danica Patrick (race car driver)
39 - Alex Moffat (actor/comedian)
39 - Sean Faris (actor)
39 - Jenny Slate (actress)
42 - Lee Pace (actor)
46 - Melanie Blatt (singer)
50 - Laz Alonso (actor)
54 - Debi Thomas (figure skater)
55 - Tom Glavine (baseball player)
56 - Sarah Jessica Parker (actress)
57 - Lisa Gay Hamilton (actress)
59 - Marcia Cross (actress)
60 - Fred Goss (actor)
61 - Brenda Strong (actress)
63 - James McDaniel (actor)
68 - Mary Gross (actress/comedian)
73 - Bonnie Bedelia (actress)
74 - Sir Elton John (singer)
78 - Paul Michael Glaser (actor)
81 - Anita Bryant (singer)
93 - James Lovell (astronaut)
95 - Gene Shalit (movie critic)
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Today in Sports History - March 25
1934 - Horton Smith won the first Masters golf tournament at Augusta National in Georgia.
1936 - The Detroit Red Wings defeated the Montreal Maroons in the longest hockey game to date. The game lasted for 2 hours and 56 minutes.
1947 - Holy Cross defeats Oklahoma 58-47 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1958 - Sugar Ray Robinson regained his middleweight title for the fifth time when he defeated Carmen Basilio in a 12-round decision.
1961 - Cincinnati defeats Ohio State 70-65 in overtime to win the NCAA Tournament.
1961 - In the now defunct third-place game of the NCAA Tournament, one of the wildest games in NCAA history occurred as St. Joseph's defeated Utah 127-120 in quadruple overtime.
1967 - UCLA defeats Dayton 79-64 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1972 - UCLA defeats Florida 81-76 to win a sixth consecutive NCAA Tournament.
1972 - Bobby Hull joined Gordie Howe to become only the second National Hockey League player to score 600 career goals.
1982 - Wayne Gretzky became the first player in the NHL to score 200 points in a season.
1995 - Boxer Mike Tyson was released from jail after serving 3 years.
1997 - Hartford Whalers announced that they would move from Connecticut following the 1996-97 season. In 1997-98 they became the Carolina Hurricanes.
2002 - The NHL suspended Keith Tkachuk (St. Louis Blues) for slashing Lyle Odelein (Chicago Blackhawks) during a game on March 23, 2002.
2002 - Bobby Holik (New Jersey Devils) was suspended by the NHL for slashing Rod Brind'Amour (Carolina Hurricanes) in the face. Brind'Amour needed seven stitches to close the cut around his left eye.
2004 - The NHL suspended Marty Turco (Dallas Stars) for four games for a high-sticking incident the night before against Ryan Smith (Edmonton Oilers). Turco forfeited more than $195,000 in salary.
2013 - Tiger Woods returns to the top of the world golf rankings.