Subj : This Day in History To : All From : Northern Realms Date : Wed Mar 25 2026 08:05:04 This Day in History ------------------- 2018 - Syrian civil war: Following the completion of the Afrin offensive, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) initiate an insurgency against the Turkish occupation of the Afrin District. 2006 - Protesters demanding a new election in Belarus, following the rigged 2006 Belarusian presidential election, clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested. 2006 - Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. 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). 1995 - WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham. 1988 - The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. 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. 1975 - Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by his nephew. 1971 - The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandon an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos. 1965 - Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile (80 km) march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama. 1959 - Chain Island is sold by the State of California to Russell Gallaway III, a Sacramento businessman who plans to use it as a "hunting and fishing retreat", for $5,258.20 ($58,072 in 2025). 1957 - The European Economic Community is established with West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg as the first members. 1957 - United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds. 1949 - More than 92,000 kulaks are suddenly deported from the Baltic states to Siberia. 1948 - The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. 1947 - An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111. 1941 - The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact. 1932 - The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is unveiled in Athens. 1931 - The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape. 1924 - On the anniversary of Greek Independence, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the Second Hellenic Republic. 1919 - The Tetiev pogrom occurs in Ukraine, becoming the prototype of mass murder during the Holocaust. 1918 - The Belarusian People's Republic is established. 1917 - The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811. 1914 - The Greek multi-sport club Aris Thessaloniki is founded in Thessaloniki. 1911 - Andrey Yushchinsky is murdered in Kiev, leading to the Beilis affair. 1911 - In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers. 1905 - The Greek football club P.A.E. G.S. Diagoras is founded in the city of Rhodes. 1894 - Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C. 1878 - Last issue of the Bulletin de la Federation jurassienne, the first or one of the first anarchist newspapers. 1865 - American Civil War: In Virginia during the Siege of Petersburg, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union before being repulsed. 1845 - New Zealand Legislative Council pass the first Militia Act constituting the New Zealand Army. 1821 - Greek War of Independence: Traditional date of the start of the Greek War of Independence. The war had actually begun on 23 February 1821 (Julian calendar). 1811 - Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism. 1807 - The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger-carrying railway in the world. 1802 - The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace" between France and the United Kingdom. 1776 - American Revolutionary War - American Patriots conduct a Raid on Tybee Island, primarily seeking to capture runaway slaves who sought refuge with British forces stationed there. 1770 - Daskalogiannis leads the people of Sfakia in the first Greek uprising against the Ottoman rule 1725 - Bach's chorale cantata "Wie schon leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1", is first performed on the Feast of the Annunciation, coinciding with Palm Sunday. 1708 - A French fleet anchors nears Fife Ness as part of the planned French invasion of Britain. 1655 - Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens. 1584 - Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia. 1576 - Jerome Savage takes out a sub-lease to start the Newington Butts Theatre outside London. 1519 - Hernan Cortes, entering province of Tabasco, defeats Tabascan Indians. 1410 - The Yongle Emperor of Ming China launches the first of his military campaigns against the Mongols, resulting in the fall of the Mongol khan Bunyashiri. 1409 - The Council of Pisa convenes, in an attempt to heal the Western Schism. 1306 - Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scots (Scotland). 1065 - The Great German Pilgrimage is attacked on Good Friday by Beduin bandits, suffering heavy losses. 1000 - Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah assassinates the eunuch chief minister Barjawan and assumes control of the government. 919 - Romanos Lekapenos seizes the Boukoleon Palace in Constantinople and becomes regent of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII. 717 - Theodosius III resigns the throne to the Byzantine Empire to enter the clergy allowing Leo III to take the throne and begin the Isaurian dynasty. 708 - Pope Constantine becomes the 88th pope. He would be the last pope to visit Constantinople until 1967. 421 - Italian city Venice is founded with the dedication of the first church, that of San Giacomo di Rialto on the islet of Rialto. 410 - The Southern Yan capital of Guanggu falls to the Jin dynasty general Liu Yu, ending the Southern Yan dynasty. --- Binbrook, ON: Partly cloudy -3øC, UV Index: 0 * Origin: Northern Realms (618:400/23) .