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Scone Palace, Scotland
Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore
Christiaan Huygens, Dutch astronomer
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ward Cunningham
Titan, moon of Saturn
Titan, moon of Saturn
Zhu Di, the Yongle Emperor
Robert the Bruce
Church of San Giacomo di Rialto, Venice
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Feast of the Annunciation (Christianity); | refimprove section |
| ; Independence Day in Greece (1821) | refimprove sections |
| Struggle for Human Rights Day in Slovakia | stub, refimprove |
| 421 – According to legend, the city of Venice (in modern Italy) was founded exactly at the stroke of noon with the dedication of the first church, that of San Giacomo at the islet of Rialto. | multiple issues |
| 1306 – Robert the Bruce was crowned King of Scotland at Scone. | refimprove section |
| 1409 – The Council of Pisa, an unrecognized ecumenical conference of the Roman Catholic Church held in an attempt to end the Western Schism, opened in Pisa. | refimprove sections |
| 1634 – Lord Baltimore, his younger brother Leonard Calvert, and a group of Catholic settlers founded the English colony of Maryland. | refimprove section |
| 1802 – France and the United Kingdom signed the Treaty of Amiens, temporarily ending the hostilities between the two during the French Revolutionary Wars. | refimprove section |
| 1811 – English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism. | refimprove sections |
| 1821 – Metropolitan Germanos III of Old Patras raised the Greek flag in the Monastery of Agia Lavra to symbolically mark the beginning of the Greek War of Independence. | refimprove section |
| 1911 – The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City killed 146 sweatshop workers, many of whom could not escape because the doors to the stairwells and exits had been locked. | "in popular culture" section has too many trivial entries |
| 1917 – Following the overthrow of the Russian tsar Nicholas II, Georgia's bishops unilaterally restored the autocephaly of the Georgian Orthodox Church. | missing information |
| 1918 – The Belarusian People's Republic was established during World War I per the terms of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, when Belarus was occupied by the German Empire. | refimprove section |
| 1931 – The Scottsboro Boys were arrested and charged with rape, leading to a legal case that eventually established legal principles in the United States that criminal defendants are entitled to effective assistance of counsel. | lots of CN tags |
| 1957 – West Germany, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg signed the Treaty of Rome, establishing the European Economic Community. | refimprove |
| 1995 – American computer programmer Ward Cunningham established the first wiki site, the WikiWikiWeb. | refimprove section |
| 2006 – A gunman in Seattle, Washington, U.S., entered a rave afterparty and opened fire, killing six and wounding two, before committing suicide. | lots of CN tags |
Eligible
- 708 – Pope Constantine was selected as one of the last popes of the Byzantine Papacy; he would be the last pope to visit Constantinople until Pope Paul VI in 1967.
- 1948 – Meteorologists at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City, United States, issued the world's first tornado forecast after noticing conditions similar to another tornado that had struck five days earlier.
- 1971 – Vietnam War: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandoned an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos.
- Born/died: Sophie Blanchard (b. 1778) · Melita Norwood (b. 1912) · Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas (d. 1927) · Harriet Backer (d. 1932) · Gloria Steinem (b. 1934) · Marcel Lefebvre (d. 1991)
March 25: Bengali Genocide Remembrance Day
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King Faisal of Saudi Arabia
- 1410 – The Yongle Emperor of Ming dynasty China launched the first of his military campaigns against the Mongols, resulting in the fall of the Mongol khan Bunyashiri.
- 1655 – Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovered Titan, the largest natural satellite of the planet Saturn.
- 1807 – The Slave Trade Act became law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.
- 1949 – The Soviet Union began mass deportations of more than 90,000 people from the Baltic states to Siberia.
- 1975 – King Faisal of Saudi Arabia (pictured) was shot and killed by his nephew Faisal bin Musaid.
José de Espronceda (b. 1808) · Selim Sırrı Tarcan (b. 1874) · Lorna Arnold (d. 2014)