March 25

Definition: March 25

March 25

Noun

1. A festival commemorating the announcement of the Incarnation by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland.

Synonyms: March 25

Synonyms: Annunciation (n), Annunciation Day (n), Lady Day (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: March 25

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

March 25 is the 84th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (85th in Leap years). There are 281 days remaining.

Events

708 - Constantine is consecrated Pope.
1306 - Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scotland.
1409 - The Council of Pisa opens.
1634 - The first settlers arrive in Maryland (led by Lord Baltimore).
1655 - Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christian Huygens.
1802 - The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace" between France and Great Britain.
1807 - The Slave Trade Act becomes law abolishing slavery in the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1821 - Greece declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire, beginning the Greek War of Independence.
1865 - American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces capture Fort Stedman from the Union.
1894 - Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington D.C.
1901 - At the five-day "Week of Nice" race in Nice, France, Mercedes wins its first racing victory.
1911 - In New York City the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire kills 146 garment workers.
1924 - Greece proclaims it is a republic.
1931 - The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
1941 - Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers.
1947 - A coalmine explosion in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
1955 - United States Customs seizes Allen Ginsberg's Howl as obscene.
1957 - The Common Market is established (West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg).
1965 - Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr begin march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery.
1969 - During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold a bed-in for peace in the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).
1975 - Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a nephew with a history of mental illness.
1979 - The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, was delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
1990 - In New York City, a fire at an illegal social club called "Happy Land" kills 87.
1992 - Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station.
1996 - An 81-day long standoff between antigovernment Freemen in Jordan, Montana and federal officers begins.
2003 - Breadmen's, a restaurant in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, receives a 95% cleanliness rating from the state inspector.

Births

1741 - Jean Antoine Houdon, sculptor (+ 1828)
1803 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist (+ 1882)
1863 - Simon Flexner, pathologist who isolated 1899 a common strain (Shigella dysenteriae) of dysentery bacillus (+ 1946)
1867 - Arturo Toscanini, conductor (+ 1957)
1881 - Béla Bartók, composer (+ 1945)
1881 - Mary Gladys Webb, writer (+ 1927)
1886 - Athenagoras, Patriarch of Constantinople (+ 1972)
1908 - Helmut Käutner, actor and film director (+ 1980)
1908 - David Lean, film director (+ 1991)
1911 - Jack Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (+ 1967)
1918 - Howard Cosell, attorney, lecturer, sports journalist (+ 1995)
1921 - Simone Signoret, actress (+ 1985)
1925 - Flannery O'Connor, author (+ 1964)
1928 - Jim Lovell, astronaut
1935 - Gloria Steinem, feminist, author
1938 - Hoyt Axton, musician, actor (+ 1999)
1940 - Abnita Bryant, entertainer
1942 - Aretha Franklin, singer
1947 - Elton John, musician
1965 - Sarah Jessica Parker, actress
1976 - Juvenile, singer

Deaths

752 - Pope Stephen II
1233 - king Afonso II of Portugal
1918 - Claude Debussy, composer
1957 - Max Ophüls, director, writer
1975 - King Faisal of Saudi Arabia

Holidays and observances

Annunciation - this is nine months before Christmas day.
Traditional date of the start of the new year in Britain, until the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 1752 (called Lady Day - see above).
Greek Independence Day.

See Also:

March 24 - March 26 - February 25 - April 25 -- listing of all days

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "March 25."

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Crosswords: March 25

Specialty definitions using "March 25": Moore's Law. (references)

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Commercial Usage: March 25

Domain	Title
Books	Fragments from the Fire: The Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire of March 25, 1911 (reference) Steam Dummy & Fragments from the Fire: The Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire of March 25, 1911: Poems (Midwest Writers) (reference) The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, March 25, 1911: The Blaze That Changed an Industry, (reference) Oversight hearings concerning the U.S. Department of Agriculture : hearings before the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, second session ... March 25, April 8, and June 3, 1992 (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: March 25

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	The Hubble telescope snapped pictures of comet Hyakutake March 25, 1996, when the comet was ...Credit: NASA.		Acting Librarian of Congress Werner W. Clapp receives The Yonan Codex to exhibit at the Library, March 25, 1955.Credit: Library of Congress.
	In the Senate, March 25, 1898--Reading the President's message on the destruction of the "Maine" / drawn by W.A. Rogers.Credit: Library of Congress.		Bird eye view, Columbus flood, March 25, 1913.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Major General Winfield Scott. At Vera Cruz March 25, 1847.Credit: Library of Congress.		Scene in Vera Cruz during the bombardment, March 25, 1847.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Children's march for survival, March 25, Washington, D.C.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Non-Fiction Usage: March 25

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Zimbabwe	The High Court overturned the ban as a violation of freedom of expression, and on March 25, Tsvangirai addressed a rescheduled ceremony in Chitungwiza. (references)
	Iceland	Iceland became part of the Schengen free travel area on March 25, which resulted in the elimination of formal border controls on the movement of persons into Iceland from other Schengen countries. (references)
Economic History	Turkey	Investment incentives are clearly specified in regulations (a government decree issued March 25, 1998, and a related communiqué dated May 6, 1998). (references)
Human Rights	Bangladesh	For example, after 10 months of detention in a case of mistaken identity, Noor Hossain was released on bail from a jail in Khulna on March 25. According to Hossain, after his brother Noor Mohammad was charged in a case, a police officer first asked Hossain, and then his father, for a bribe, offering to settle his brother's case. (references)
Minorities	Cote d'Ivoire	The March 25 municipal elections were canceled in Zouan-Hounien, and the authorities gradually restored calm. (references)
Political Economy	FINLAND	The European Commission reported on March 25, 1998 that 11 EU member countries, one of them Finland, were ready for the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and met the conditions to adopt the single currency (euro). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Anagrams: March 25

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "2-5-a-c-h-m-r"
	-2 letters: charm, march.
	-3 letters: arch, cham, char, cram, harm, mach, marc.
	-4 letters: arc, arm, cam, car, ham, mac, mar, rah, ram.
	-5 letters: ah, am, ar, ha, hm, ma.
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