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On March 25, 1965, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 marchers to the state capitol in Montgomery, Ala., to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks. (Go to article.)
On March 25, 1881, Bela Bartok, the Hungarian pianist who was one of the most important composers of the 20th century , was born. Following his death on Sept. 26, 1945, his obituary appeared in The Times. (Go to obit. | Other Birthdays)
Editorial Cartoon of the Day
On March 25, 1882, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about a federal government scandal. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.)
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1634 Maryland was founded by English colonists sent by the second Lord Baltimore.
1807 Britain abolished its slave trade.
1894 Jacob S. Coxey began leading an "army" of the unemployed from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington, D.C., to demand help from the federal government.
1911 A fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. factory in New York City killed 146 workers, most of them young immigrant women. The tragedy galvanized America's labor movement.
1913 The home of vaudeville, the Palace Theatre, opened in New York City.
1957 The Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community.
1975 King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot to death by a nephew with a history of mental illness.
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."
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 American troops completed their withdrawal from Somalia.
1996 An 81-day standoff by the antigovernment Freemen began at a ranch near Jordan, Mont.
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.
Current Birthdays
Sarah Jessica Parker turns 45 years old today.
AP Photo/Evan Agostini Actress Sarah Jessica Parker ("Sex and the City") turns 45 years old today.
82 Jim Lovell
Astronaut
76 Gloria Steinem
Feminist author
70 Anita Bryant
Singer
68 Aretha Franklin
R&B singer
67 Paul Michael Glaser
Actor ("Starsky and Hutch")
63 Elton John
Rock singer, musician
62 Bonnie Bedelia
Actress ("Parenthood")
57 Mary Gross
Actress, comedian
52 John Ensign
U.S. senator, R-Nev.
52 James McDaniel
Actor ("NYPD Blue")
50 Brenda Strong
Actress ("Desperate Housewives")
48 Marcia Cross
Actress ("Desperate Housewives")
46 Lisa Gay Hamilton
Actress
44 Tom Glavine
Baseball player
39 Sheryl Swoopes
Basketball player
31 Lee Pace
Actor ("Pushing Daisies")
26 Katherine McPhee
Singer ("American Idol")
23 Jason Castro
Singer ("American Idol")
21 Aly Michalka
Actress, singer ("Aly and AJ")
Historic Birthdays
Bela Bartok
3/25/1881 - 9/26/1945
Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist and teacher
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33 Saint Catherine of Siena
3/25/1347 - 4/29/1380
Italian Dominican tertiary, mystic and patron Saint of Italy
71 Matilda Gage
3/25/1826 - 3/18/1898
American women's rights advocate
90 Stephen Luce
3/25/1827 - 7/28/1917
American founder and first president of the Naval War College
89 Arturo Toscanini
3/25/1867 - 1/16/1957
Italian conductor
69 William Knudsen
3/25/1879 - 4/27/1948
Danish-born American industrialist; president of General Motors (1937-1940)
76 Gerald Murphy
3/25/1888 - 10/17/1964
American expatriate; befriended, with wife, writers and artists in Paris in the 1920's
83 Sir David Lean
3/25/1908 - 4/16/1991
English film director
64 Simone Signoret
3/25/1921 - 9/30/1985
French stage and motion picture actress
39 Flannery O'Connor
3/25/1925 - 8/3/1964
American writer
61 Penelope Gilliatt
3/25/1932 - 5/9/1993
English writer of essays, short stories, screenplays and novels
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