March 25th

1st Easter, according to calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus.

A powerful earthquake rocked Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan, killing as many as 1,000 people.

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.

An 81-day standoff by the antigovernment Freemen began at a ranch near Jordan, Mont.

WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, is launched. Ward Cunningham introduced the wiki, or user-editable website. Today, Wikipedia is the world's most well known and widely used wiki.

American troops completed their withdrawal from Somalia.

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.

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.'.

King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot to death by a nephew with a history of mental illness.

The 25,000-person Alabama Freedom March to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks, led by Martin Luther King Jr., ended its journey from Selma on the steps of the State Capitol in Montgomery, Ala.

1st guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub (Halibut).

The European Economic Community was established by the Treaty of Rome.

The Soviet Union begins deporting some 90,000 Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians to some of Russia's most inhospitable areas. Operation Priboi, also known as March deportation, was designed to weaken the Baltic nationalist movement. Most of the deportees, labeled “enemies of the people” by the Soviet authorities, were women and children.

Horton Smith won the first Masters golf tournament at Augusta National in Georgia.

The Scottsboro boys were arrested in Alabama.

The home of vaudeville, the Palace Theatre, opened in New York City.

A fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. in New York City killed 145 workers.

Italian troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia).

Jacob S. Coxey began leading an 'army' of the unemployed from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington, D.C., to demand help from the federal government.

British Parliament abolishes slave trade throughout the British Empire; penalty of £120 per slave introduced for ship captains.

Maryland was founded by English colonists sent by the second Lord Baltimore.

Henry Hudson embarks on an exploration for Dutch East India Co.