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.
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.
On This Date
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
Actress Sarah Jessica Parker ("Sex and the City") turns 46 years old today.
AP Photo/Peter Kramer
Auto racer Danica Patrick turns 29 years old today.
AP Photo/Isaac Brekken
1928 | Jim Lovell, Astronaut, turns 83 |
1934 | Gloria Steinem, Feminist author, turns 77 |
1940 | Anita Bryant, Singer, turns 71 |
1942 | Aretha Franklin, R&B singer, turns 69 |
1943 | Paul Michael Glaser, Actor ("Starsky and Hutch"), turns 68 |
1947 | Elton John, Rock singer, musician, turns 64 |
1948 | Bonnie Bedelia, Actress ("Parenthood"), turns 63 |
1953 | Mary Gross, Actress, comedian, turns 58 |
1958 | John Ensign, U.S. senator, R-Nev., turns 53 |
1958 | James McDaniel, Actor ("NYPD Blue"), turns 53 |
1960 | Brenda Strong, Actress ("Desperate Housewives"), turns 51 |
1962 | Marcia Cross, Actress ("Desperate Housewives"), turns 49 |
1964 | Lisa Gay Hamilton, Actress, turns 47 |
1966 | Tom Glavine, Baseball player, turns 45 |
1971 | Sheryl Swoopes, Basketball player, turns 40 |
1979 | Lee Pace, Actor ("Pushing Daisies"), turns 32 |
1984 | Katherine McPhee, Singer ("American Idol"), turns 27 |
1987 | Jason Castro, Singer ("American Idol"), turns 24 |
1989 | Aly Michalka, Actress, singer ("Aly and AJ"), turns 22 |
Historic Birthdays
Bela Bartok3/25/1881 - 9/26/1945Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist and teacher.Go to obituary »
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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