25th March
Posted: 25 Mar 2015, 06:191199 – Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France, leading to his death on April 6.
1306 – Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scotland.
1584 – Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.
1807 – The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.
1941 – The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact.
1965 – 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.
1969 – During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).
1979 – The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
1988 – The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
1993 – Warrington Bomb victim Tim Parry dies five days after an IRA bomb detonated in Warrington, Cheshire on 20 March 1993 in the second of the Warrington bomb attacks.
1996 – 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).
Births
1897 – John Laurie, Scottish actor (d. 1980)
1908 – David Lean, English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1991)
1920 – Patrick Troughton, English actor (d. 1987)
1928 – Jim Lovell, American captain, pilot, and astronaut
1931 – Humphrey Burton, English television and radio host
1942 – Aretha Franklin, American singer-songwriter and pianist
1942 – Richard O'Brien, English actor and screenwriter
1943 – Paul Michael Glaser, American actor and director
1947 – Elton John, English singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor
1975 – Melanie Blatt, English singer-songwriter and actress (All Saints)
1989 – Scott Sinclair, English footballer
Deaths
1956 – Robert Newton, English actor (b. 1905)
1969 – Billy Cotton, English bandleader (b. 1899)
2001 – Brian Trubshaw, English cricketer and pilot (b. 1924)
2002 – Kenneth Wolstenholme, English sportscaster (b. 1920)
1306 – Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scotland.
1584 – Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.
1807 – The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.
1941 – The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact.
1965 – 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.
1969 – During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).
1979 – The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
1988 – The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
1993 – Warrington Bomb victim Tim Parry dies five days after an IRA bomb detonated in Warrington, Cheshire on 20 March 1993 in the second of the Warrington bomb attacks.
1996 – 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).
Births
1897 – John Laurie, Scottish actor (d. 1980)
1908 – David Lean, English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1991)
1920 – Patrick Troughton, English actor (d. 1987)
1928 – Jim Lovell, American captain, pilot, and astronaut
1931 – Humphrey Burton, English television and radio host
1942 – Aretha Franklin, American singer-songwriter and pianist
1942 – Richard O'Brien, English actor and screenwriter
1943 – Paul Michael Glaser, American actor and director
1947 – Elton John, English singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor
1975 – Melanie Blatt, English singer-songwriter and actress (All Saints)
1989 – Scott Sinclair, English footballer
Deaths
1956 – Robert Newton, English actor (b. 1905)
1969 – Billy Cotton, English bandleader (b. 1899)
2001 – Brian Trubshaw, English cricketer and pilot (b. 1924)
2002 – Kenneth Wolstenholme, English sportscaster (b. 1920)