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CELEBRATIONS ON MARCH 25th Independence Day (Greece), also known as The 25th of March, It is A Double Holiday in Greece 1. Anniversary of the declaration of the start of Greek War of Independence from the Ottoman Empire, in 1821. 2. Celebration of the Annunciation, when the birth of Christ was announced to the Virgin Mary

Freedom Day (Belarus)

Mother's Day (Slovenia)

Struggle for Human Rights Day (Slovakia)

Lady Day (England, Wales, Ireland), The Historic start of the new year (Lady Day) in England, Wales, Ireland, and the future United States until the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar in 1752. The year 1751 began on March 25th, the year 1752 began on January 1st It is one of the four Quarter days in Ireland and England

Vårfrudagen or Våffeldagen, "Waffle Day" (Sweden)

International Day of Remembrance of The Victims of Slavery and The Transatlantic Slave Trade (UN)

Anniversary of the Arengo and the Feast of the Militants (San Marino)

National Tap Dance Day (USA)

Hilaria (Roman Empire)

Maryland Day (Maryland, USA)

National Day of Celebration of Greek & American Democracy

National Medal of Honor Day (USA)

Tolkien Reading Day

Day of the Unborn Child

Old New Year's Day

Medieval European New Year (Occasionally)

Pecan Day .. Christian Feast Day of Alfwold

Christian Feast Day of Barontius and Desiderius

Christian Feast Day of Saint Dismas, the "Good Thief"

Christian Feast Day of Humbert of Maroilles

Earliest possible date for Seward's Day (Alaska, USA)

Feast of Annunciation (Christianity), except if it falls on a Sunday or during Holy Week

National Cherry Blossom Festival (USA), March 20th through April 14th

CELEBRATIONS THIS WEEK .. Tsunami Awareness Week, Last Full Week in March

Pediatric Nurse Practioner Week, Last Full Week in March

National Protocol Officer's Week, Last Full Week in March .. National Cleaning Week, Last Full Week in March

Week of Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism & Discrimination, Fourth Week of March .. Act Happy Week, Third Monday to Sunday

Passiontide, Last Two Weeks of Lent

Youth Violence Prevention Week, Last Week in March

Termite Awareness Week, Last Work Week in March .. PADDY's JOKE OF THE DAY

"I can't find a cause for your illness," the doctor said. "Frankly, I think it's due to drinking. "In that case," replied his patient, "I'll come back when you are sober. " LILLY's DRINK OF THE DAY

TENNESSEE .. 2 oz. Whisky, 1 oz. Maraschino Liqueur, 1oz. Lemon Juice, Combine ingredients in a shaker filled with ice, shake and strain into a chilled martini or cocktail glass. SCOTTY's TOASTS OF THE DAY

- 1 - "May your pockets be heavy and your heart be LIGHT, May good luck pursue you each morning and NIGHT." - Traditional Irish - 2 - "Stin Eyiassou! (Stin Eye-ee-yass-ooh)" (Greek) "To Your Health!" - In Recognition of the 25th of March (Greece)

HISTORICAL EVENTS ON MARCH 25th

1 Origin of Dionysian Incarnation of the Word .. 31 1st Easter, according to calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus .. 421 Venice, Italy is born at twelve o'clock noon, according to legend. .. 708 Constantine begins his reign as Catholic Pope .. 1199 Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France which leads to his death on April 6. .. 1306 Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scotland. .. 1409 The Council of Pisa opens. .. 1571 Catholic Italian businessman Roberto Ridolfi leaves Enngeland .. 1581 Portugese Cortes calls Philip II king of Portugal .. 1584 Sir Walter Raleigh renews Humphrey Gilbert's patent to explore North America and Colonize Virginia .. 1598 Cornelis de Houtman's fleet departs for East-Indies .. 1609 Henry Hudson embarks on an exploration for Dutch East India Co .. 1634 Lord Baltimore founded Catholic colony of Maryland .. 1634 The first settlers arrive in Maryland. .. 1647 Tour ship Haerlem stranded in Tafel Bay, Cape of Good Hope .. 1655 Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens. .. 1668 1st horse race in America takes place .. 1669 Mount Etna in Sicily erupts, destroying Nicolosi, killing 20,000 .. 1700 England, France & Netherlands ratify 2nd Extermination treaty .. 1753 Voltaire leaves the court of Frederik II of Prussia .. 1774 English Parliament passes Boston Port Bill .. 1776 Continental Congress authorized a medal for George Washington .. 1802 The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace" between France and the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. .. 1807 George Canning becomes British minister of Foreign affairs .. 1807 The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire. .. 1807 The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, England, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger carrying railway in the world. .. 1811 Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for his publication of the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism. .. 1813 1st US flag flown in battle on the Pacific, frigate Essex .. 1814 Netherlands Bank established .. 1817 Tsar Alexander I recommends formation of Society of Israeli Christians .. 1820 Greece freedom revolt against anti Ottoman attack .. 1821 (Julian Calendar) Greece revolts against the Ottoman Empire, beginning the Greek War of Independence, (National Day). .. 1847 Pope Pius IX encyclical "On aid for Ireland" .. 1852 Friedrich Hebbel's "Agnes Bernauer," premieres in Munich .. 1856 A E Burnside patents Burnside carbine .. 1857 Frederick Laggenheim takes 1st photo of a solar eclipse .. 1863 1st Army Medal of Honor awarded .. 1863 Skirmish at Brentwood Tennessee .. 1864 Battle of Paducah, KY (Forrest's raid) .. 1865 In Virginia, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union in front of Petersburg, American Civil War. .. 1865 Battle of Bluff Spring, FL .. 1865 Battle of Mobile, AL (Spanish Fort, Fort Morgan, Fort Blakely) .. 1865 SS General Lyon at Cape Hatteras catches fire & sinks, killing 400 .. 1876 Glasgow 1st soccer match Scotland-Wales (4-0) .. 1882 1st demonstration of pancake making (Dept store in NYC) .. 1888 Socialist leader Domela Nieuwenhuis elected to Dutch 2nd chamber .. 1889 1st Test Cricket match played at Newlands, Cape Town v England .. 1894 Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington D.C. .. 1895 Italian troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia) .. 1896 Modern Olympics began in Athens, Greece [NS=Apr 6] .. 1898 Intercollegiate Trapshooting Association formed in NYC .. 1900 US Socialist Party forms in Indianapolis .. 1901 55 die as Rock Island train derailed near Marshalltown Iowa .. 1902 Irving W Colburn patents sheet glass drawing machine .. 1903 Racing Club de Avellaneda, one of the big five of Argentina, is founded. .. 1905 Rebel battle flags captured during war are returned to South .. 1907 Stanley Cup, Montreal Wanderers lose to Kenora Thistles but outscore them in 2 game set but outscore them 12-8 and win cup .. 1908 Clube Atletico Mineiro is founded in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. .. 1910 Chalmers Auto Co offers a new car to each leagues' batting champ .. 1911 In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers (all but 13 girls). .. 1911 L D Swamikannu publishes "Manual of Indian Chronology" in Bombay .. 1913 Great Dayton Flood .. 1913 Home of vaudeville, Palace Theatre, opens (NYC) starring Ed Wynn .. 1915 1st submarine disaster, a US F-4 sank off Hawaii, killing 21 .. 1915 German U boat torpedoes Neth merchant ship Medea .. 1916 Heavyweights Jess Willard & Franc Moran fight to no decision in 10 for boxing title in NYC .. 1916 Women are allowed to attend a boxing match .. 1917 The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811. .. 1918 The Belarusian People's Republic is established. .. 1920 Greek Independence Day .. 1923 British government grants Trans-Jordan autonomy .. 1924 Greek parliament selects admiral Paul Koundouriotis as premier .. 1924 On the anniversary of Greek Independence, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the Second Hellenic Republic. .. 1924 Stanley Cup, Montreal Canadiens (NHL) sweep Calgary Tigers (WCHL) in 2 .. 1931 Hal Kemp & his orchestra record Whistles, with Skinnay Ennis .. 1931 The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape of a white woman. .. 1934 1st Golf Masters Championship, Horton Smith wins, shooting a 284 .. 1935 1st Belgium government of Van Zealand resigns .. 1936 200" mirror blank leaves for California to be ground .. 1936 Detroit Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons in NHL longest game (2h56m30s) .. 1937 It's revealed Quaker Oats pays Babe Ruth $25,000 per year for ads .. 1937 Italy & Yugoslavia sign no-attack treaty (Pact of Belgrade) .. 1937 Lionel Conacher misses on 1st Stanley Cup penalty shot .. 1937 Wash Daily News is 1st US newspaper with perfumed advertising page .. 1938 1st US bred horse (Battleship) to win Grand National Steeplechase .. 1939 Billboard Magazine introduces hillbilly (country) music chart .. 1939 Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli becomes Pope Pius XII. .. 1941 Carolina Paprika Mills in Dillon SC, incorporated .. 1941 The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact. .. 1942 700 Jews of Polish Lvov-district reach Belzec Concentration camp .. 1943 97% of all Dutch physicians strike againt nazi registration .. 1943 Jimmy Durante & Garry Moore premiere on radio .. 1944 Germany troop executes 335 residents of Rome .. 1944 RAF Sgt Nickolas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber from 18,000 feet without a parachute .. 1945 US 1st army breaks out bridgehead near Remagen .. 1945 US 4th Armored div arrives at Hanau & Aschaffenburg .. 1945 US Northern Tractor Flotilla departs Ulithi to Okinawa .. 1946 1st performance of Igor Stravinsky's "Ebony Concerto" .. 1947 9th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship, Holy Cross beats Oklahoma 58-47 .. 1947 Agreement of Linggadjati ratified in Batavia .. 1947 An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111. .. 1947 Last day of Test cricket for Walter Hammond (v NZ, Christchurch) .. 1948 The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. .. 1949 SS police chief Rauter request for a pardon, denied .. 1949 The extensive deportation campaign known as March deportation is conducted in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to force collectivisation by way of terror. The Soviet authorities deport more than 92,000 people from the Baltics to remote areas of the Soviet Union. .. 1951 5th Tony Awards: Guys & Dolls & Rose Tattoo win .. 1951 E Purcell & EM Ewen detect 21-cm radiation at Harvard physics lab .. 1954 26th Academy Awards, "From Here to Eternity," Holden & A Hepburn win .. 1954 Pope Pius XII encyclical "Sacra virginitas" (On consecrated virginity) .. 1954 RCA manufactures 1st color TV set (12½" screen at $1,000) .. 1955 E Germany granted full sovereignty by occupying power, USSR .. 1957 NBA modifies the free-throw rule .. 1957 Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community (West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg). .. 1957 United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on the grounds of obscenity. .. 1958 Canada's Avro Arrow makes its first flight. .. 1958 Sugar Ray Robinson is 1st boxing champ to win 5 times .. 1958 West German parliament desires German atomic weapons .. 1959 Bill White traded to St Louis for pitchers Sam Jones & Don Choate .. 1959 French pres De Gaulle acknowledges Oder-Neisse boundary .. 1960 1st guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub (Halibut) .. 1960 DH Lawrence' "Lady Chatterley's Lover" ruled not obscene (NYC) .. 1960 Ford Frick voids Indians-Red Sox deal as Sam White retires .. 1960 Italian government Tambroni forms .. 1961 "13 Daughters" closes at 54th St Theater NYC after 28 performances .. 1961 "Gypsy" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 702 performances .. 1961 3rd place game is one of the wildest contests in NCAA Tournament history as St Joseph's defeats Utah 127-120 in 4 overtimes .. 1961 23rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Cin beats Ohio State 70-65 (OT) .. 1961 Elvis Presley performs live on the USS Arizona .. 1961 Explorer 10 launched into elongated Earth orbit (177/181,000 km) .. 1961 Sputnik 10 carries a dog into Earth orbit; later recovered .. 1962 "Family Affair" closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 65 performances .. 1962 French OAS-leader ex-general Jouhaud arrested .. 1963 KWHY TV channel 22 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting .. 1964 Britain sets memorial for the late Pres John F Kennedy .. 1964 Egypt ends state of siege (1952-64) .. 1965 25,000 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. .. 1965 West German Bondsdag extends war crimes retribution .. 1966 Beatles pose with mutilated dolls & butchered meat for the cover of the "Yesterday & Today" album, It is later pulled .. 1966 US Supreme court rules "poll tax" unconstitutional .. 1967 29th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Dayton 79-64 .. 1967 The Turtle's "Happy Together" goes #1 .. 1967 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR .. 1967 Who & Cream make US debut at Murray the K's Easter Show .. 1968 KLVX TV channel 10 in Las Vegas, NV (PBS) begins broadcasting .. 1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site .. 1969 Andes Pact signed in Peru .. 1969 During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31). .. 1969 Pakistan Gen Agha Mohammed Jagja Khan succeeds Ayub Chan as pres .. 1970 Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH) .. 1971 Beginning of Operation Searchlight by the Pakistan Army against East Pakistani civilians, Bangladesh Liberation War. .. 1971 Boston Patriots become New England Patriots .. 1971 European council accepts Mansholt plan laying off 5 million farmers .. 1971 Tom Jones, "She's a Lady," goes gold .. 1972 "Selling of the President" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 5 perfs .. 1972 34th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship, UCLA beats Florida 81-76 .. 1972 America's LP "America" goes #1 .. 1972 Bobby Hull becomes the 2nd NHLer to score 600 goals .. 1972 UCLA wins its 6th consecutive national basketball title .. 1973 27th Tony Awards, That Championship Season & Little Night Music win .. 1973 Carol Mann wins LPGA Sears Women's Golf Classic .. 1973 Majid Khan & Mushtaq Mohammad both out for 99 in Test v Eng .. 1974 Barbra Streisand records the album "Butterfly" .. 1975 Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz, king of Saudia Arabia (1964-75) is shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew. .. 1976 "My Fair Lady" opens at St James Theater NYC for 384 performances .. 1976 "Rex" opens at Lunt-Fontaine Theater NYC for 48 performances .. 1976 Argentine milt junta bans leftist political parties .. 1979 Major riot at Bourda prevents day's play in WSC Supertest .. 1979 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sahara National Pro-Am Golf Tournament .. 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. .. 1982 Wayne Gretzky becomes 1st NHL to score 200 points in a season .. 1983 Christa Rothenburger skates world record 500 m ladies (39.69 sec) .. 1983 Pavel Pegov skates world record 1000m (1:12.58) .. 1984 Betsy King wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open .. 1985 57th Academy Awards "Amadeus," F Murray Abraham & Sally Field win .. 1985 Edwin Meese III becomes US Attorney General .. 1986 Kurt Browning (Canada) becomes 1st skater to land a quadruple jump .. 1986 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Brian Boitano (USA) .. 1986 Supreme Court rules Air Force could ban wearing of yarmulkes .. 1987 Supreme Court rules women/minorities may get jobs if less qualified .. 1988 "Les Miserables," opens at Chunichi Theatre, Nagoya Japan .. 1988 NASA launches space vehicle S-206 .. 1988 Robin Givens demands full access to husband Mike Tyson's money .. 1988 The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. .. 1989 "Les Miserables," opens at Auditorium Theatre, Chicago .. 1990 "Lettice & Lovage" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 284 performances .. 1990 10th Golden Raspberry Awards, Star Trek V wins .. 1990 Fire in illegal NYC social club, kills 87 .. 1990 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic .. 1991 63rd Academy Awards "Dance with Wolves," Kathy Bates & J Irons win .. 1991 Allan Border takes 5-68 v WI at Bourda, Georgetown .. 1992 British scientists find new largest perfect # (2 756839 -1 * 2 756839) .. 1992 Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station. .. 1992 Imran Khan scores 72 & takes 1-43 off 6 2 overs in last ODI .. 1992 Pakistan defeats England by 22 runs to win World Cup .. 1992 Russian manned space craft TM-14, lands .. 1993 "Candida" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances .. 1994 Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3 km (4:09.32) .. 1994 Yasunori Miyabe skates world record 1000 m (1:12.37) .. 1995 Boxer Mike Tyson released from jail after serving 3 years .. 1995 WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham. .. 1996 68th Academy Awards, "Braveheart," Nicholas Cage & Susan Sarandon win .. 1996 An 81-day-long standoff between the anti-government group Montana Freemen and law enforcement near Jordan, Montana, begins. .. 1996 Comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) approaches within 0.1018 AUs of Earth .. 1996 Freedom Shoemakers on Maryport's Solway Estate closes .. 1996 Ice Dance Championship at Edmonton won by Gritshuk & Platov (RUS) .. 1996 Ice Pairs Championship at Edmonton won by Eltsova & Bushkov (RUS) .. 1996 Ladies Fig Skating Championship in Edmonton won by Michelle Kwan (USA) .. 1996 Men's Fig Skating Championship in Edmonton won by Todd Eldredge (USA) .. 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). .. 1996 US issues newly-redesigned $100 bill .. 1997 "Barrymore," opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 240 performances .. 2006 Capitol Hill massacre, A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. .. 2006 Protesters demanding a new election in Belarus, following the rigged Belarusian presidential election, 2006, clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested. .. 2013 The European Union agrees to a €10 billion economic bailout for Cyprus. The bailout loan will be equally split between the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism, the European Financial Stability Facility, and the International Monetary Fund. The deal precipitates a banking crisis in the island nation.

SCOTTY's QUOTE OF THE DAY

"I went to my nephew's birthday party and they had a pinata of that Shrek donkey. And I thought... you know what would be awesome is to take down that pinata, take out all that disgusting candy, and go to the store and instead buy real chicken hearts and intestines, put it in there so that when the kid hits it and all that shit falls out of it I get to run up to him and yell, 'Oh my God, what did you do?!'" - Christina Pazsitsky PADDY's BEER OF THE DAY

Drop Top Amber Ale, Brewed by Widmer Brothers Brewing Co. in Portland, Oregon, USA. It is a Bitter with an ABV of 5%. LILLY's WINE OF THE DAY

Rio Real 2008 Reserva. from Vinho Regional Lisboa, priced at approximately $18 per bottle. FAMOUS BIRTHS ON MARCH 25th

1133 Henry II, King of England (1154-89) .. 1252 Conradin, Duke of Swabia (d. 1268) .. 1252 Konradijn Hohenstaufen, [Koenrad van Zwaben], son of Konrad IV .. 1259 Andronikos II Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1332) .. 1297 Andronicus III Palaeologus, Byzantine emperor (d. 1341) .. 1297 Arnost of Pardubice, Archbishop of Prague (d. 1364) .. 1345 Blanche of Lancaster, wife of John of Gaunt (d. 1369) .. 1347 Catherine of Siena, Italian saint (d. 1380) .. 1404 John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (d. 1444) .. 1479 Vasili III, Grand Prince of Moscow (d. 1533) .. 1495 Leonhard Paminger, composer .. 1532 Pietro Pontio, composer .. 1539 Christopher Clavius, German mathematician (d. 1612) .. 1541 Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1587) .. 1593 Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649) .. 1594 Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher, Dutch writer .. 1643 Louis Moréri, French encylopedist (d. 1680) .. 1653 Joseph Sauveur, French physicist/mathematician .. 1661 Paul de Rapin, French historian (d. 1725) .. 1688 Johann Gotthilf Ziegler, composer .. 1699 Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (d. 1783) .. 1702 Christian Gottlieb Ziegler, composer .. 1702 Pieter Teyler Van der Hulst, Dutch silk merchant (Teyler's Museum) .. 1713 Jean-Baptiste Canavas, composer .. 1723 Kaat Mussel, [Catharina Mulder], Dutch demonstrater .. 1745 Nicolas Etienne Framery, composer .. 1762 Francesco Giuseppi Pollini, composer .. 1767 Joachim Murat, King of Naples (1808-15) (d. 1815) .. 1769 Salvatore Vigano, composer .. 1770 Carl Friedrich Ebers, composer .. 1782 Carolina (Maria A) Bonaparte, (countess Lipona), Sister of Napoleon, Queen of Naples (d. 1839) .. 1786 Giovanni B Amia, Italian astronomer/physicist/botanist .. 1797 John Winebrenner, US, clergyman, founded Church of God .. 1800 Heinrich von Dechsen, German geologist (d. 1889) .. 1800 Paulin Paris, French historian .. 1808 Jose de Espronceda y Delgado, Spanish revolutionary/poet (Cortes) .. 1818 Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862 .. 1820 Xavier F M G, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister to Pope (in Rome) .. 1823 William Thompson Martin, Mjr General (Confederate Army), died in 1910 .. 1824 Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (d. 1900) .. 1830 Julius Caesar, cricketer (prominent batsman for Surrey) .. 1839 William Bell Wait, US, educated the blind .. 1840 Myles Keogh, U.S. Soldier in U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment & Irish Soldier of Fortune (d. 1876) .. 1863 Simon Flexner, American pathologist (d. 1946) .. 1867 Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor (NBC) (d. 1957) .. 1867 Gutzon Borglum, sculptor (Mt Rushmore) .. 1868 William Lockwood, English cricketer (1893-1902) (d. 1932) .. 1869 Gustaaf DFL Schamelhout, Flemish physician/writer .. 1871 John Gutzon Borglum, sculptor (Mt Rushmore) .. 1872 Vito Pardo, Italian sculptor (Columbus monument in Argentina) .. 1873 Rudolf Rocker, German anarchist (d. 1958) .. 1875 Spencer Charters, Duncannon PA, actor (3 Faces West) .. 1877 Walter Little, Canadian politician (d. 1961) .. 1878 Henry graaf de Baillet-Latour, Belgian pres of IOC (1925-42) .. 1878 Theodore Samuel Holland, composer .. 1879 Otakar Zich, composer .. 1881 Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer (Concerto for Orchestra) (d. 1945) .. 1881 Louis Dosfel, Flemish lawyer/writer (Assault!) .. 1881 Mary Gladys Webb, English writer (d. 1927) .. 1882 Haydn Wood, composer .. 1884 Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (d. 1950) .. 1885 Veit Valentin, German/US historian (Deutsche Revolution) .. 1886 Athenagoras, Patriarch of Constantinople (d. 1972) .. 1890 Marten Baersma, [MH Bottema], Friesan author (De ljochte kimen) .. 1892 Andy Clyde, Scottish actor (George-Real McCoys, Cully-Lassie) (d. 1967) .. 1893 Edward Hart, (Rep-D-NJ)/1st chairman of Com on Un-American Activities .. 1894 Erik William Gustav Leidzen, composer .. 1895 Siegfried Handloser, German physician (d. 1954) .. 1897 John Laurie, Scottish actor (Jericho, Island of Desire) (d. 1980) .. 1899 Bella Spewack, Hungary, playwright (Kiss Me Kate) .. 1899 Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (d. 1978) .. 1899 Jacques Audiberti, French poet (Race of Men) .. 1901 Ed Begley, American actor (Mr Koppel-Leave it to Larry) (d. 1970) .. 1902 Sten Broman, composer .. 1903 Frankie Carle, American pianist and bandleader (Golden Touch) (d. 2001) .. 1903 Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (d. 1990) .. 1905 Binnie Barnes, London, actress (Last of the Mohicans, 3 Musketeers) .. 1906 Alan J P Taylor, British historian (English history 1914-1915) (d. 1990) .. 1906 Howard Pyle, (Gov-R-Az, 1951-55) .. 1906 Jean Sablon, French singer (d. 1994) .. 1908 Bridget D'Oyly Carte, British theater & hotel director .. 1908 David Lean, English film director (Dr Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter) (d. 1991) .. 1908 Helmut Käutner, German actor and director (d. 1980) .. 1909 Dutch (Emil) Leonard, baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox, 1.01 ERA 1914) .. 1909 Jay Blackton, NYC, conductor/arranger (Guys & Dolls) .. 1910 Magda Olivero, Italian soprano .. 1910 Mario Peragallo, Italian composer .. 1911 Jack Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (d. 1967) .. 1911 Willy Anthoons, Flemish sculptor (Mystic verheffing) .. 1912 Jean Vilar, French stage and film actor (d. 1971) .. 1913 Sir Reo Stakis, Anglo-Cypriot hotel magnate (d. 2001) .. 1914 Marthe Robert, essayist/translator .. 1914 Norman E Borlaug, American agriculturalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Nobel 1970) (d. 2009) .. 1916 Nikolay Ivanovich Peyko, composer .. 1918 Howard Cosell, American sports reporter (Monday Night Football) (d. 1995) .. 1919 Jeanne Cagney, actress (Lion is in the Streets, Quicksand) .. 1920 Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner (d. 1992) .. 1920 Patrick Troughton, English actor (Doctor Who) (d. 1987) .. 1921 Alexandra of Greece and Denmark, Queen of Yugoslavia (d. 1993) .. 1921 Nancy Kelly, American actress (Double Exposure, Jesse James) (d. 1995) .. 1921 Simone Signoret, French actress (Casque d'Or, Room at the Top) (d. 1985) .. 1922 Bruno VeSota, Ill, actor/director (Chopper, Teenage Doll, Wild Rovers) .. 1922 Eileen Ford, American model agency executive (Ford Modeling Agency) .. 1922 Tobias Schneebaum, New York City, American writer, anthropologist and explorer (d. 2005) .. 1923 Bonnie Guitar, American singer .. 1923 Lee Hale, Tacoma Wash, choral director (The Entertainers) .. 1923 Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist (d. 2003) .. 1924 Julia A Perry, American composer (Cask of Amontillado, Selfish Giant) .. 1924 Machiko Kyô, Japanese actress (Gate of Hell, Rashomon, Ugetsu) .. 1925 Flannery O'Connor, American author (A Good Man is Hard to Find) (d. 1964) .. 1926 Hans Rausing, Swedish/British industrial/billionaire (Tetra Pak) .. 1926 Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (d. 1999) .. 1926 Laszlo Papp, Hungarian Olympic Boxer (Gold-1948, 1952, 1956) (d. 2003) .. 1927 Leslie Claudius, India, field hockey (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56) .. 1928 James A Lovell Jr, American astronaut (Gemini 7, 12, Apollo 8, 13) .. 1929 Harris W Fawell, (Rep-R-IL, 1985) .. 1929 Kenneth Haigh, Yorkshire England, actor (Search for the Nile) .. 1929 Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist (d. 2003) .. 1930 David Russell Burge, composer .. 1931 Paul Motian, American jazz drummer and composer .. 1932 Gene Shalit, American film critic .. 1932 Penelope Gilliatt, English writer (d. 1993) .. 1932 Wes Santee, miler .. 1932 Woody (Woodson) Held, baseball player .. 1934 Bernard King, Australian chef and television personality (d. 2002) .. 1934 Gloria Steinem, American feminist and publisher (Ms Magazine) .. 1934 Johnny Burnette, American singer (Trains Kept A-Rollin, You're 16) (d. 1964) .. 1935 Flash Elorde, Filipino boxer .. 1935 Susan Engel, Vienna Austria, actress (Ascendancy) .. 1936 Lawrence Bernard "Larry" Gales, bassist .. 1937 Tom Monaghan, American fast-food industry entrepreneur, founder of Dominos pizza .. 1938 Fritz d'Orey, Brazilian racing driver .. 1938 Hoyt Axton, American country music singer-songwriter and actor (Black Stallion, Junkman, Rousters) (d. 1999) .. 1939 Toni Cade Bambara, American author (d. 1995) .. 1940 Anita Bryant, American singer (George Gobel Show) .. 1941 Gudmund Hernes, Norwegian politician .. 1942 Aretha Franklin, American singer (Respect), Soul Sister #1, Widely hailed as the greatest rock singer of all time. .. 1942 Jacqueline Lichtenberg, US, sci-fi author (Star Trek Lives!, Dreamspy) .. 1942 Kim Woodburn, English television personality .. 1942 Paul Michael Glaser, Cambridge Mass, actor (Starsky-Starsky & Hutch) .. 1942 Richard O'Brien, English actor and writer (Rocky Horror Show) .. 1943 Paul Michael Glaser, American actor .. 1943 Pavel Lednev, USSR, pentathelete (Olympic-gold-1980) .. 1943 Ronald Jeffers, composer .. 1944 Ross Duncan, cricketer (one Test Australia v England 1971, 0-30) .. 1944 Terry L Bruce, (Rep-D-IL, 1985) .. 1946 Bonnie Bedelia, [Culkin], NYC, actress (Die Hard, Heart Like a Wheel) .. 1946 Cliff Balsam, English footballer .. 1946 Daniel Bensaid, French philosopher (d. 2010) .. 1946 Gerard John Schaefer, American serial killer (d. 1995) .. 1946 Maurice Krafft, French vulcanologist (d. 1991) .. 1946 Stephen Hunter, American author .. 1947 Claudine Schneider, (Rep-R-RI, 1981) .. 1947 Elton John (Reginald Kenneth Dwight), English singer (Rocketman) .. 1948 Bonnie Bedelia, American actress .. 1948 Kelly Garrett, actress/singer (Holdin) .. 1948 Lynn Faulds Wood, Scottish television presenter .. 1948 Michael Stanley, Cleveland OH, musician (Michael Stanley Band) .. 1948 Richard Lundy, horse trainer .. 1949 Jean Potvin, NHLer .. 1949 Neil Jones, musician (Bend Me Shape Me) .. 1950 Chuck Greenberg, American musician (Shadowfax) (d. 1995) .. 1951 Bob Pelander, rock keyboardist/vocalist (Michael Stanley Band) .. 1951 Jumbo Tsuruta, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 2000) .. 1951 Maisie Williams, Montserrat, rock vocalist (Boney M) .. 1952 Antanas Mockus, Colombian mathematician .. 1952 Ken Boyd, basketball .. 1953 Haroon Rashid, cricketer (Pakistani & WSC batsman late 70's) .. 1953 Mary Gross, Chicago Ill, actress/comedian (SNL, Club Paradise, Feds) .. 1954 Elli Stai, Greek journalist and TV presenter .. 1954 Thom Loverro, American sportswriter .. 1955 Daniel Boulud, French chef and restaurateur .. 1955 Lee Mazzilli, American baseball player .. 1956 Matthew Garber, English actor (d. 1977) .. 1956 Sonia M Lannaman, England, 4X100m relayer (Olympic-bronze-1980) .. 1957 Jim Uhls, American screenwriter .. 1958 James McDaniel, American actor (Arthur Fancy-NYPD Blue) .. 1958 John Ensign, American politician .. 1958 Maria Caridad Colón, Cuba, javelin thrower, (Olympic-gold-1980) .. 1958 Ray Tanner, American college baseball coach .. 1958 Sisy Chen, Taiwanese politician and television commentator .. 1958 Susie Bright, American feminist and sex writer .. 1958 Yograj Singh, cricketer (Indian pace bowler early 80's) .. 1958 Åsa Torstensson, Swedish politician .. 1959 Vince Guerra, jockey .. 1960 Brenda Strong, American actress .. 1960 Haywood Nelson, American actor (Haywood-Grady, Dwayne-What's Happening) .. 1960 Idy Chan Yuk-Lin, Hong Kong actress .. 1960 Peter O'Brien, Australian actor .. 1960 Robert Green, Omaha Neb, tennis star .. 1960 Steve Norman, British saxophonist (Spandau Ballet) .. 1961 Fred Goss, American actor, comedian, and writer .. 1961 John Stockwell, Galveston TX, actor (Born to Ride, City Limits) .. 1961 Mark David Brooks, American golfer, PGA tour (1994 Kemper Open) .. 1962 Marcia Cross, American actress .. 1964 Alex Solis, Panamanian jockey .. 1964 Eric Woods, California, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Xerox BC Open) .. 1964 Kate DiCamillo, American children's author .. 1964 Ken Wregget, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL goalie (Pitts Penguins) .. 1964 Lisa Gay Hamilton, American actress .. 1965 Avery Johnson, American basketball player and coach, NBA guard (San Antonio Spurs) .. 1965 Sarah Jessica Parker, American actress (Square Pegs, Sex and the City) .. 1965 Sean "Hollywood" Hamilton, DJ (Hangin' With Hollywood, Z-100) .. 1965 Stefka Kostadinova, Bulgarian high jumper .. 1966 Anton Rogan, Irish footballer .. 1966 David Hohl, Winnipeg Manitoba, freestyle wrestler (Olympics-9-92, 96) .. 1966 Jeff Cross, NFL defensive end (Miami Dolphins) .. 1966 Jeff Healey, Canadian guitarist, blind guitarist (See the Light) (d. 2008) .. 1966 Tatjana Patitz, German supermodel .. 1966 Tom Glavine, American baseball player, MLB pitcher (Atlanta Braves, Cy Young 1991) .. 1967 Debi Thomas, American figure skater (Olympic-bronze-1988) .. 1967 Doug Stanhope, American comedian .. 1967 Matthew Barney, American media artist .. 1967 Takayuki Miura, hockey defenseman (Team Japan 1998) .. 1968 Dixon Edwards, NFL linebacker (Dallas Cowboys, Minnesota Vikings) .. 1968 Errol Martin, CFL linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos) .. 1968 Peter Blackburn, Australia, badminton player (Olympics-96) .. 1969 Cathy Dennis, English singer, songwriter, and actress .. 1969 Dale Davis, American basketball player, NBA forward (Indiana Pacers) .. 1969 Dan Wilson, Arlington Height IL, catcher (Seattle Mariners) .. 1969 Guy Newman, Australian water polo goalie (Olympics-96) .. 1969 Jeffrey Walker, British Musician (Carcass) .. 1969 Scott Sanders, Hannibal MO, pitcher (San Diego Padres) .. 1970 Kari Matchett, Canadian actress .. 1970 Magnus Larsson, Sweden, tennis star .. 1970 Shawn Antoski, Brantford, NHL left wing (Phila Flyers) .. 1970 Teri Moïse, American singer .. 1971 Aashish Kapoor, cricketer (Indian off-spin batsman 1994) .. 1971 Andre Bolduc, CFL slot back (Edmonton Eskimos) .. 1971 Cammi Granato, American ice hockey player (USA, Oly-98) .. 1971 Perry Klein, NFL quarterback (Atlanta Falcons) .. 1971 Sheryl Swoopes, American basketball player, WNBA forward (Houston Comets. Oly-gold-96) .. 1971 Stacy Dragila, American pole vaulter .. 1972 Demet Edwards, WLAF defensive tackle (Barcelona Dragons) .. 1972 Giniel de Villiers, South African racing driver .. 1972 Howard Battle, Biloxi MS, infielder (Philadelphia Phillies) .. 1972 Lawrence Moten, NBA guard (Vancouver Grizzlies) .. 1973 Anders Fridén, Swedish singer (In Flames) .. 1973 Andrei Nikolishin, Vorkuta Russia, NHL center (Hartford Whalers) .. 1973 Anthony Barness, English footballer .. 1973 Bob Sura, American basketball player, NBA guard (Cleveland Cavaliers) .. 1973 Ray Zellars, NFL fullback (NO Saints) .. 1974 Lark Voorhies, American actress .. 1974 Mike Adams, wide reciever (Pittsburgh Steelers) .. 1974 Vyninka Arlow, Australia, diver (Olympics-96) .. 1975 Ladislav Benýšek, Czech ice hockey player .. 1975 Melanie Blatt, British singer (All Saints) .. 1975 Miguel Mejia, San Pedro de Macoris, outfielder (St Louis Cardinals) .. 1976 Baek Ji Young, South Korean singer .. 1976 Cha Tae-hyun, South Korean actor .. 1976 Francis Bellew, Irish Gaelic footballer .. 1976 Gigi Leung, Hong Kong singer/actress .. 1976 Juvenile, American rapper .. 1976 Monica Croscicka-Wnetrzak, Miss Universe-Poland (1996) .. 1976 Wladimir Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer .. 1978 Teanna Kai, American porn star .. 1979 Lee Pace, American actor .. 1979 Natasha Yi, American supermodel .. 1980 Carrie Lam, Hong Kong actress .. 1980 Joe King, Guitarist and Co-Founder for the band The Fray .. 1982 Danica Patrick, American race car driver .. 1982 Jenny Slate, American comedienne .. 1982 Sean Faris, American actor and model .. 1982 Sergey Yakovlev, russian musical artist and painter .. 1982 Álvaro Saborío, Costa Rican footballer .. 1984 Katharine McPhee, American singer and actress .. 1985 Carmen Rasmusen, Canadian-American singer .. 1986 Kyle Lowry, American basketball player .. 1986 Marco Belinelli, Italian basketball player .. 1986 Megan Gibson, American softball player .. 1987 Jacob Bagersted, Danish handballer .. 1987 Jason Castro, American Idol contestant .. 1987 Nobunari Oda, Japanese figure skater .. 1987 Victor Obinna, Nigerian footballer .. 1988 Erik Knudsen, Canadian actor .. 1989 Alyson Michalka, American actress and singer .. 1989 Chicken Kentucky, 1st partial birth in space (chicken) .. 1989 Scott Sinclair, English footballer .. 1990 Kiowa Gordon, American actor .. 2184 Pavel Andreivich Chekov, Leningrad, USSR (Star Trek-character).

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Tullamore Dew Black 43, this special Heritage blend of Tullamore Dew was launched in 2000 to mark the opening of the Tullamore Dew Heritage Centre in County Offaly. FAMOUS DEATHS ON MARCH 25th

752 Pope-elect Stephen, Italian priest and elected successor to Pope Zachary .. 1223 Afonso II, 3rd King of Portugal (1211-23) (b. 1185) .. 1345 Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, English politician (b. 1281) .. 1458 Íñigo López de Mendoza, Marqués de Santillana, Spanish poet (b. 1398) .. 1510 Georges d'amboise, French archbishop of Narbonne/Rouen, dies at 49 .. 1558 Marcos de Niza, French Franciscan explorer .. 1561 Conrad Lycosthenes, French-born German philosopher and encyclopedist (b. 1518) .. 1603 Ikoma Chikamasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1526) .. 1609 Olaus Martini, Swedish Archbishop of Uppsala (b. 1557) .. 1620 Johannes Nucius, German composer .. 1625 Giambattista Marini, Italian poet (b. 1569) .. 1692 Gerardus L Blasius, Flemish anatomist .. 1697 Hendrik Casimir II, King of Nassau-Dietzstadhouder .. 1712 Nehemiah Grew, English naturalist (b. 1641) .. 1736 Nicholas Hawksmoor, British architect .. 1738 Turlough O'Carolan, Irish harper and composer (b. 1670) .. 1751 Frederik I of Hessen Kassel, King of Sweden (1720-51) (b. 1676) .. 1766 Johannes Ritschel, composer .. 1799 Constantin Reindl, composer .. 1801 Anthony Ziesenis, architect/sculptor (Camper) .. 1801 Novalis, German poet (b. 1772) .. 1818 Caspar Wessel, Danish mathematician (b. 1745) .. 1823 Coelestin Jungbauer, composer .. 1825 Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck, Dutch patriot/earl .. 1835 Friederike Blum, writer .. 1852 Alexis Garaude, composer .. 1860 James Braid, Scottish surgeon (b. 1795) .. 1873 Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter (b. 1810) .. 1880 Joseph Rummel, composer .. 1880 Ludmilla Assing, writer .. 1908 Durham Stevens, American diplomat (b. 1851) .. 1909 Ruperto Chapi y Lorente, composer .. 1914 Frederic Mistral, French poet (Nobel-1904) (b. 1830) .. 1917 Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American educator (b. 1832) .. 1917 Spyridon Samaras, Greek composer (b. 1861) .. 1918 Claude Debussy, French composer (Iberia/La mer) (b. 1862) .. 1918 Peter Martin, Australian rules footballer (b. 1875) .. 1924 John Reedman, cricketer (Test for Aust 1894, 17 & 4, 1 for 24) .. 1931 Ida Wells, American civil rights activist (b. 1862) .. 1937 John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Bird in Hand) .. 1940 Ion Nonna Otescu, composer .. 1948 Warren Hymer, actor (Show Them No Mercy) .. 1949 Hanns A Rauter, German SS-commandant in Netherland, executed .. 1951 Eddie Collins, American baseball player, Hall of Fame infielder (White Sox, A's) (b. 1887) .. 1956 George Luther Foote, composer .. 1956 Robert Newton, actor (Henry V, Odd Man Out) .. 1957 Fud Livingston, composer .. 1957 Max Ophüls, German director and writer (b. 1902) .. 1958 Emerson Whithorne, composer .. 1958 Tom Brown, American musician (b. 1888) .. 1959 Billy Mayerl, composer .. 1962 Auguste Piccard, Swiss explorer/balloonist .. 1963 David Moore, US feather weight boxer .. 1965 Giorgio Federico Ghedini, composer .. 1965 Viola Gregg Liuzzo, US civil rights activist, murdered .. 1966 Colin Campbell, actor (Leather Boys) .. 1967 Renato Cellini, Italian conductor (b.c.1913) .. 1968 Douglas Evans, actor (South Pacific Trail) .. 1969 Alan Mowbray, actor (Dante, Colonel Flack) .. 1969 Billy Cotton, British bandleader & entertainer (b. 1889) .. 1969 Max Eastman, American writer (Love and Revolution) (b. 1883) .. 1969 Norman Gallichan, cricketer (one Test for NZ, 30 & 2, 3-113) .. 1973 Edward Steichen, pioneer of US photography .. 1974 Otto Waldis, actor (Unknown World, Whip Hand) .. 1975 Deiva Zivarattinam, Indian politician (b. 1894) .. 1975 Juan Gaudino, Argentine racing driver (b. 1893) .. 1975 King Faisal of Saudi Arabia (b. 1906) .. 1978 Jack Hulbert, actor (Bulldog Jack) .. 1979 Sykes, British ambassador in The Hague, murdered .. 1979 Anton Heiller, composer .. 1980 James Wright, American poet (b. 1927) .. 1980 Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist (b. 1901) .. 1980 Roland Barthes, French literary critic and writer (b. 1915) .. 1980 Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (b. 1913) .. 1983 Bob Waterfield, American football player (b. 1920) .. 1983 Martha Sleeper, actress (Spitfire) .. 1987 Henry R LaBouisse, headed UNICEF (1965-79) .. 1988 Robert Joffrey, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1930) .. 1991 Eileen Joyce, pianist .. 1991 Lee Donn, pianist, .. 1991 Marcel Lefebvre, French Catholic prelate (b. 1905) .. 1992 Nancy Walker, American actress (Ida Morgenstern-Rhoda) (b. 1922) .. 1994 David Miles Bensuan Economist-Butt .. 1994 Max Petitpierre, Swiss politician and jurist (b. 1899) .. 1994 Michel R Vassallucci, French/Neth publisher (Arena) .. 1995 James Coleman, American sociologist (b. 1926) .. 1995 James Gardner, designer .. 1995 John Hugenholtz, Dutch race track designer (b. 1914) .. 1995 Krešimir Cosic, Croatian basketball player (b. 1948) .. 1995 Peter Herbert Penwarden, priest .. 1995 Warren E Burger, chief justice of US (1969-86) .. 1996 John Derrick Mordaunt Snagge, news commentator (BBC) .. 1996 John Snagge, British radio personality (b. 1904) .. 1997 Roberto Sanchez Vilella, governor of Puerto Rico in (1965-69), .. 1998 Max Green, Australian lawyer (b. 1952) .. 1998 Steve Schiff, United States Congressman (b. 1947) .. 1999 Cal Ripken, Sr., American baseball manager (b. 1936) .. 2000 Helen Martin, American actress (b. 1909) .. 2001 Brian Trubshaw, British Concorde test pilot (b. 1924) .. 2002 Kenneth Wolstenholme, English football commentator (b. 1920) .. 2005 Paul Henning, American TV/film producer and writer (b. 1911) .. 2006 Buck Owens, American singer and television personality (b. 1929) .. 2006 Richard Fleischer, American film director (b. 1916) .. 2006 Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944) .. 2007 Andranik Margaryan, Armenian politician (b. 1951) .. 2008 Ben Carnevale, American basketball coach (b. 1915) .. 2008 Gene Puerling, American vocalist and arranger (b. 1929) .. 2008 Rafael Azcona, Spanish screenwriter (b. 1926) .. 2008 Thierry Gilardi, French football and rugby commentator (b. 1958) .. 2009 Giovanni Parisi, Italian boxer (b. 1967) .. 2009 Gábor Ocskay, Hungarian hockey player (b. 1975) .. 2009 Johnny Blanchard, American baseball player (b. 1933) .. 2009 Kosuke Koyama, Japanese theologian (b. 1929) .. 2010 Pål Bang-Hansen, Norwegian film critic and television personality (b. 1937) .. 2012 Larry Stevenson [Richard], American skateboard innovator.