This Day in History
25 Mar 1150
Tichborne family of Hampshire England start tradition of giving gallon of flour to residents to keep deathbed promise
25 Mar 1409
Council of Pisa opens - elects Antipope Alexander V
25 Mar 1436
Florentine cathedral Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore with dome by Filippo Brunelleschi consecrated by Pope Eugene IV (begun 1296)
25 Mar 1571
Catholic Italian businessman Roberto Ridolfi leaves England
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The settlement of Maryland
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King Faisal of Saudi Arabia assassinated
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Europes Common Market founded in major step toward economic unity
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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Kills 146 in New York City
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Yugoslavia joins the Axis Powers
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Martin Luther King leads march against the war
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Wise Men advise President Johnson to negotiate peace in Vietnam
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Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Basilio for middleweight title
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Cheyenne Chief Little Wolf surrenders
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U.S. Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsbergs Howl
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Verdict is announced in Scottsboro case
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Confederate forces attack Fort Stedman in final weeks of Civil War
On this day in 1865 Confederate General Robert E. Lee makes Fort Stedman his last attack of the war in a desperate attempt to break out of Petersburg Virginia...
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