Return to home The Catholic Feast of the Annunciation.
(HFA, '96, p.26)
Feast of St. Dismas, the patron of undertakers and prisoners.
Dismas was the repentant thief crucified with Christ.
(WSJ, 11/2/98, p.B1) 31CE Mar 25,
The 1st Easter, according to calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus.
(MC, 3/25/02)
421 Mar 25, Venice was founded
on a Friday at 12 PM.
(MC, 3/25/02)
708 Mar 25, Constantine began
his reign as Catholic Pope.
(HN, 3/24/98)
1133 Mar 25, Henry II, King of
England (1154-1189), was born.
(HN, 3/24/98)
1306 Mar 25, Robert the Bruce
(1274-1329) was crowned king of Scotland as the successor to King
John.
(HN, 7/11/01)(ON, 2/08, p.6)
1532 Mar 25, Pietro Pontio,
composer, was born.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1537 Mar 25, The 5th Lithuanian
war with Russia (1534-1537) ended with a peace treaty. It lasted
until the start of war with the Livonian Order (1562-1582).
(LHC, 3/25/03)
1584 Mar 25, Sir Walter
Raleigh, English explorer, courtier, and writer, renewed Humphrey
Gilbert's patent to explore North America. He went on to settle the
Virginia colony on Roanoke Island, naming it after the virgin queen.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.23)(MC, 3/25/02)
1609 Mar 25, Henry Hudson
embarked on an exploration for Dutch East India Co.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1634 Mar 25, English colonists
sent by Cecil Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore, arrived in
present-day Maryland. Maryland was founded as a Catholic colony.
(HN, 3/24/98)(AP, 3/25/08)(AH, 4/07, p.30)
1655 Mar 25, Puritans jailed
Governor Stone after a military victory over Catholic forces in the
colony of Maryland.
(HN, 3/25/99)
1655 Mar 25, Christiaan
Huygens, Dutch inventor and astronomer, discovered Titan, Saturn's
largest satellite.
(www.xs4all.nl/~carlkop/huyglens.html)
1668 Mar 25, The first horse
race in America took place.
(HN, 3/24/98)
1741 Mar 25, The London
Foundling Hospital opened in temporary accommodations in Hatton
Garden following extensive efforts by former sea captain Thomas
Coram (1668-1751).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundling_Hospital)
1752 Mar 25, The first issue of
the Halifax Gazette appeared.
(CFA, '96, p.42)
1753 Mar 25, Voltaire left the
court of Frederik II of Prussia.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1762 Mar 25, Francesco Giuseppi
Pollini, composer, was born.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1767 Mar 25, Joachim Murat
(d.1815), Napoleon's brother in law, was born in Labastide-Murat. He
was a French marshal and became king of Naples (1808-1815).
(WUD, 1994, p.941)(HN, 3/25/99)(HN, 3/25/99)
1774 Mar 25, English Parliament
passed the Boston Port Bill.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1776 Mar 25, The Continental
Congress authorized a medal for General George Washington.
(HN, 3/24/98)
1782 Mar 25, Carolina [Maria A]
Bonaparte, (countess Lipona), sister of Napoleon), was born.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1797 Mar 25, John Winebrenner,
U.S. clergyman who founded the Church of God, was born.
(HN, 3/24/98)
1801 Mar 25, Anthony Ziesenis
(69), architect, sculptor (Camper), died.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1807 Mar 25, William
Wilberforce (1759-1833), evangelical member of Parliament, piloted a
slave-trade abolition bill through the British House of Commons.
This led to a labor problem in South Africa. In 1833 Britain
abolished slavery throughout the British Empire when the Slavery
Abolition Bill was read a third time
(HN, 3/24/98)(WSJ, 5/26/04,
p.A8)(www.anti-slaverysociety.addr.com/huk-wilberforce.htm)
1807 Mar 25, 1st railway
passenger service began in England.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1811 Mar 25, A comet, dubbed
the Great Comet of 1811, was discovered by Honoré Flaugergues at 2.7
AU from the sun in the now-defunct constellation of Argo Navis. In
October 1811, at its brightest, it displayed an apparent magnitude
of 0, with an easily visible coma.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Comet_of_1811)(http://koolkreations.wix.com/kalopins-legacy)
1812 Mar 25, (OS) Alexander
Herzen (d.1870), Russian author, was born. "Life has taught me to
think, but thinking has not taught me how to live."
(AP,
8/15/99)(www.bookrags.com/biography/aleksandr-ivanovich-herzen/)
1813 Mar 25, The first U.S.
flag flown in battle was on the frigate Essex in the Pacific.
(HN, 3/24/98)
1817 Mar 25, Tsar Alexander I
recommended the formation of Society of Israeli Christians.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1821 Mar 25, Greece gained
independence from Turkey (National Day). [see Mar 28]
(MC, 3/25/02)
1823 Mar 25, Coelestin
Jungbauer (75), composer, died.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1825 Mar 25, The first
Brazilian Constitution was promulgated by Peter I and solemnly sworn
in the Cathedral of the Empire.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Brazil)
1839 Mar 25, William Bell Wait,
educator of the blind, was born.
(HN, 3/24/98)
1843 Mar 25, Seventeen Texans,
who picked black beans from a jar otherwise filled with white beans,
were executed by a Mexican firing squad. After months of raiding,
captivity and escapes in Northern Mexico, Mexican president Antonio
Lopez de Santa Anna ordered the execution of one tenth of the 176
Texas freebooters of the Mier Expedition. The event was later
depicted by artist Theodore Gentilz.
(HNPD, 3/27/00)
1843 Mar 25, England’s Thames
Tunnel opened 18 years after construction began. It was completed
under engineer Isambard Brunel, the son of Marc Brunel, who began
the project in 1824.
(ON, 4/06,
p.9)(www.bris.ac.uk/is/services/specialcollections/brunelchronology.html)
1856 Mar 25, A.E. Burnside
patented the Burnside carbine.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1857 Mar 25, Frederick
Laggenheim took the 1st photo of a solar eclipse.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1863 Mar 25, US Sec. of War
Edward Stanton awarded Corp. William Pittenger of the 2nd Ohio
Regiment and 5 other Union soldiers the first US Medals of Honor.
Pittenger had been a member of Andrews Raiders who stole the
locomotive General in Georgia on April 12, 1862. Civilian spy James
Andrews and 7 other were hanged in 1862 following a Confederate
court martial.
(ON, 8/08, p.12)
1863 Mar 25, There was a
skirmish at Brentwood, Tennessee.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1864 Mar 25, Battle of Paducah,
KY (Forrest's raid).
(MC, 3/25/02)
1865 Mar 25, Battle of Mobile,
AL (Spanish Fort, Fort Morgan, Fort Blakely).
(MC, 3/25/02)
1865 Mar 25, Battle of Bluff
Spring, FL.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1865 Mar 25, Confederate forces
captured Fort Stedman during the siege of Petersburg, Va., but were
forced to withdraw by counterattacking Union troops.
(AP, 3/25/97)(HN, 3/24/01)
1867 Mar 25, Gutzon Borglum,
sculptor of Mount Rushmore, was born.
(HN, 3/25/01)
1867 Mar 25, Arturo Toscanini
(d.1957), Italian-US temperamental conductor (NBC), was born in
Parma, Italy.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1872 Mar 25, Vito Pardo,
Italian sculptor (Columbus monument in Argentina), was born.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1877 Mar 25, Alphonse de
Chateaubriand, French writer (Instantanes aux Pays-Bas), was born.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1879 Mar 25, Japan invaded the
kingdom of Liuqiu (Ryukyu) Islands, formerly a vassal of China. The
Ruykyuan monarchy was abolished and the islands were annexed to
create the Okinawa Prefecture. Prior to this Okinawa had paid
tribute to both Japan and China. Okinawa became imperial Japan’s
first colony.
(SSFC, 3/11/01, Par p.5)(NH, 9/01, p.56)(Econ,
12/22/12, p.55)
1880 Mar 25, Joseph Rummel
(61), composer, died.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1882 Mar 25, 1st demonstration
of pancake making was in a NYC Dept store.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1894 Mar 25 Jacob S. Coxey
began leading an "army" of unemployed from Massillon, Ohio, to
Washington, D.C., to demand help from the federal government.
Coxey advocated, as a way to provide jobs and increase the amount of
money in circulation, a public works program of road construction
and local improvements to be financed by the issuance of $500
million in legal tender notes. Coxey's Army of unemployed disbanded
when Coxey and two other leaders were arrested for trespassing on
the White House lawn in 1894.
(AP, 3/23/97)(HNQ, 8/24/99)
1896 Mar 25, The 1st modern
Olympic Games officially opened in Athens. Greece was on the old
Julian calendar at this time. The revival was masterminded by Baron
Pierre de Coubertin of France. [see Apr 6]
(Econ, 5/29/04, p.81)(www.forthnet.gr/olympics)
1902 Mar 25, Irving W. Colburn
patented a sheet glass drawing machine.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1905 Mar 25, Rebel battle flags
that were captured during the war were returned to the South.
(HN, 3/24/98)
1906 Mar 25, Alan John
Percivale Taylor (d.1990), English historian, was born. He pioneered
the presentation of the history lecture on British television.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._J._P._Taylor)
1906 Mar 25, Jean Sablon,
French crooner, was born.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1908 Mar 25, Bridget D'Oyly
Carte, British theater and hotel director, was born.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1908 Mar 25, David Lean
(d.1991), British film director (Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence
of Arabia), was born in Croydon, England.
(HN, 3/25/01)(AP, 3/25/08)
1911 Mar 25, The Triangle
Shirtwaist Factory Fire killed 146 immigrant workers. 13 girls
survived the fire that broke out on the top three floors of the
10-story New York’s Asch Building as the workday was ending. No one
knows what caused the fire, but it spread quickly, fueled by the
fabric scraps and sewing machine oil used in the manufacture women’s
blouses. The three avenues of escape were almost immediately clogged
with panicked workers, mostly young immigrant women. Then, to the
horror of spectators seven stories below, the desperate women began
to jump to their deaths. Appalled by the tragedy, the New York State
legislature formed a commission whose findings led to the creation
of new fire and building codes that were soon adopted in cities
throughout America.
(HNPD, 3/25/00)(SFC, 4/27/98, p.A8)(SFC, 2/24/99,
p.C4)(AP, 3/23/08)
1913 Mar 25, The home of
vaudeville, the Palace Theatre, opened in New York City starring Ed
Wynn.
(AP, 3/24/98)(MC, 3/25/02)
1913 Mar 25, Great Dayton,
Ohio, flood. [see Mar 25]
(MC, 3/25/02)
1914 Mar 25, Norman Borlaug
(d.2009), later agricultural scientist and Nobel Prize winner
(1970), was born on a farm near Cresco, Iowa.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug)(WSJ, 9/5/06,
p.D8)(SFC, 9/14/09, p.A7)
1914 Mar 25, Frederic Mistral,
French poet (Nobel-1904), died.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1915 Mar 25, The first
submarine disaster occurred when a U.S. F-4 sank off the Hawaiian
coast. 21 people were killed.
(HN, 3/24/98)(MC, 3/25/02)
1916 Mar 25, Ishi, the last
Yahi Indian in California, died of tuberculosis at the Univ. of
California Hospital. His body was cremated but his brain was removed
and shipped to the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC. The
documentary film "Ishi, the Last Yahi" was made by John Harrison
Quinn (d.2000 at 59). In 2004 Orin Starn authored "Ishi's Brain: In
search of the Last "Wild" Indian."
(SFC, 1/26/00, p.A24)(SSFC, 2/8/04, p.M1)(SSFC,
3/20/16, DB p.50)
1918 Mar 25, Howard Cosell,
sportscaster (Monday Night Football), was born in Winston-Salem, NC.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Cosell)
1918 Mar 25, Claude Debussy
(55), French composer, died in Paris. In 1962 Edward Lockspeiser
authored “Debussy," a look at how the composer shaped the work of
Symbolist writers.
(AP, 3/25/97)(WSJ, 3/1/08, p.W8)
1918 Mar 25, Belarus proclaimed
independence from Russia. The Belarusian People's Republic lasted
until 1919.
(LHC, 3/25/03)(AP, 3/25/18)
1919 Mar 25, Jeanne Cagney,
actress (Lion is in the Streets, Quicksand), was born.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1919 Mar 25, The Paris Peace
Commission adopted a plan to protect nations from the influx of
foreign labor.
(HN, 3/24/98)
1920 Mar 25, Howard Cosell
(Cohen), was born. He came to be the most liked, and the most
disliked, sports journalist across America.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1920 Mar 25, Greek Independence
Day.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1921 Mar 25, The US Navy tug
Conestoga sailed out the Golden Gate bound for Hawaii with a 56 man
crew and was never heard from again. Its suspected wreckage was
spotted near the Farallon Islands in 2009. In 2016 government
scientists confirmed the find.
(SFC, 3/24/16, p.D1)
1921 Mar 25, Simone Signoret,
(Casque d'Or, Room at the Top), was born in Wiesbaden, Germany.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1924 Mar 25, Greece was made a
republic and King George II (1890-1947) was deposed in favor of a
non-royal government. King George was king from 1922-1923 and from
1935-1947.
(HN, 3/24/98)(WUD, 1994, p.593)
1925 Mar 25, Flannery O'Connor
(d.1964), novelist and short story writer, was born in Savannah,
Georgia.
(www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-498)(WUD, 1994
p.997)
1928 Mar 25, James A. Lovell
Jr, USN, astronaut (Gemini 7, 12, Apollo 8, 13), was born in
Cleveland, Oh.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1931 Mar 25, In Alabama 9 young
black men, arrested at Paint Rock after riding a freight train, were
taken to Scottsboro. Victoria Price (21) and Ruby Bates (17), who
had worked as prostitutes in Huntsville, were also found on the
train dressed as boys. The 9 men were soon charged with raping the 2
white woman, while riding on the freight train.
(WSJ, 6/20/07,
p.A17)(www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_chron.html)
1931 Mar 25, Ida Wells-Barnett
(b.1862), black journalist, died. In 1893 she investigated the
Kentucky lynching of a black man accused of murdering 2 white girls.
In 2008 Paula J. Giddings authored “Ida: A Sword among Lions."
(WSJ, 3/8/08,
p.W8)(www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWwells.htm)
1931 Mar 25, Fifty people were
killed in riots that broke out in India. Gandhi was one of many
people assaulted.
(HN, 3/24/98)
1934 Mar 25, Gloria Steinem,
political activist, editor, was born.
(HN, 3/25/01)
1935 Mar 25, Hitler declared
that the Soviets endangered peace in Europe.
(HN, 3/24/98)
1936 Mar 25, Britain, the U.S.
and France signed a naval accord in London.
(HN, 3/24/98)
1939 Mar 25, Billboard Magazine
introduced the hillbilly (country) music chart.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1940 Mar 25, Anita Bryant,
homophobe, singer (George Gobel Show), was born in Barnsdall, Okla.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1940 Mar 25, The U.S. agreed to
give Britain and France access to all American warplanes.
(HN, 3/24/98)
1941 Mar 25, Carolina Paprika
Mills in Dillon, SC, was incorporated.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1941 Mar 25, Yugoslavia joined
the Axis powers.
(HN, 3/24/98)
1942 Mar 25, Aretha Franklin,
American singer, the "Queen of Soul," was born in Memphis, Tenn.
(HN, 3/25/01)(SSFC, 6/30/02, Par p.30)
1942 Mar 25-26, The 1st 700
Jews from Polish Lvov-district reached concentration camp Belzec.
The Germans began sending Jews to Auschwitz in Poland.
(HN, 3/25/98)(MC, 3/25/02)(SS, 3/26/02)
1943 Mar 25, Jimmy Durante and
Garry Moore premiered on radio.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1944 Mar 25, RAF Sgt. Nickolas
Alkemade survived a jump from his Lancaster bomber from 18,000 feet
without a parachute. [see Mar 23]
(MC, 3/25/02)
1945 Mar 25, US 1st army broke
out bridgehead near Remagen.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1947 Mar 25, Elton John,
[Reginald Kenneth Dwight], English singer (Rocketman), was born.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1947 Mar 25, A coal mine
explosion in Centralia, Ill., claimed 111 lives.
(AP, 3/25/97)
1948 Mar 25, The Italians
banned a compromise with Yugoslavia and demanded the return of
Trieste.
(HN, 3/24/98)
1949 Mar 25, UC Pres. Robert
Gordon Sproul proposed a faculty loyalty oath. The Univ. of Calif.
Board of Regents later voted to require all employees to sign a
loyalty oath.
(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F2)
1949 Mar 25, Hanns A. Rauter
(54), German SS-commandant in Netherlands, was executed.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1949 Mar 25, Soviet occupiers
of Lithuania began Operation “Priboj," a 2nd major deportation
program (Mar 25-28).
(LHC, 3/25/03)
1952 Mar 25, The U.S., Britain,
and France rejected the Soviet proposal for an armed, reunified,
neutral Germany.
(HN, 3/24/98)
1953 Mar 25, The USS Missouri
fired on targets at Kojo, North Korea, the last time her guns fire
until the Persian Gulf War of 1992.
(HN, 3/25/99)
1954 Mar 25, RCA manufactured
its first color TV set and began mass production. The 1953 RCA
design for color TV was adopted as the national standard. The 12"
screen TV was priced at $1000. Westinghouse had introduced a color
model a few weeks earlier, but only 1 set was sold in the 1st month.
(HN, 3/24/98)(WSJ, 11/4/99, p.B6)(MC,
3/25/02)(SFC, 2/18/04, p.E1)
1954 Mar 25, At the Academy
Awards, "From Here to Eternity" won eight Oscars, including best
picture, best director (Fred Zinnemann), best supporting actor
(Frank Sinatra) and best supporting actress (Donna Reed). Audrey
Hepburn won best actress for "Roman Holiday" and William Holden best
actor for "Stalag 17."
(AP, 3/25/04)
1955 Mar 25, E. Germany was
granted full sovereignty by occupying power, USSR.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1957 Mar 25, US Police and
customs agents seized copies of “Howl" by Allen Ginsberg. In May
Ferlinghetti was arrested along with City Lights manager Shigeyoshi
Murao (d.1999) on obscenity charges. The defending attorneys were
J.W. Ehrlich and Albert Bendich (1929-2015). By the Fall Judge
Clayton Horn found the poem of "redeeming social importance." Shig
later managed City Lights and authored the occasional "Shig's
Review." In 2006 Bill Morgan and Nancy J. Peters edited “Howl On
Trial: The Battle for Free Expression."
(SFEC, 11/28/99, BR
p.10)(www.citylights.com/His/CLhowlhist.html)(SSFC, 11/5/06,
p.M3)(SFC, 1/14/15, p.D3)
1957 Mar 25, The Treaties
establishing the European Economic Community and the European Atomic
Energy Community were signed in Rome by six member countries. The
Treaty of Rome enabled people, goods, services and money to move
unchecked throughout the Union. The Council of Ministers represents
the governments of the members. Major decisions are made by the
Council of Foreign Ministers. A 20-member Commission composed of
appointed representatives of each member state serves as the
administrative arm and members represent the Union. The Commission
proposes and executes laws and policies. A European Parliament is
composed of 626 members elected by the electorates of the member
states and they sit in party groups. The Commission proposes, the
Parliament advises, and the Council decides. The goal was to create
a common market for all products but especially coal and steel.
(http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/eec.htm)(AP,
3/25/97)(HN, 3/24/98)
1957 Mar 25, The Euratom Treaty
established the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom).
The international organization was founded with the purpose of
creating a specialist market for nuclear power in Europe, developing
nuclear energy and distributing it to its member states while
selling the surplus to non-member states.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Atomic_Energy_Community)
1958 Mar 25, Canada’s era of
supersonic flight began, when pilot Jan Zurakowski took off from
Malton Airport near Toronto in an Avro CF-105 Arrow for a 35-minute
maiden flight. Less than a month later, Zurakowski flew the Arrow at
Mach 1.5 at an altitude of 50,000 feet. In spite of the aircraft’s
early promise, the Canadian government scrapped the project before
the Arrow could be put into production.
(HNPD, 8/21/00)
1960 Mar 25, The 1st guided
missile was launched from a nuclear powered sub, the Halibut.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1961 Mar 25, "Gypsy" closed at
Broadway Theater in NYC after 702 performances.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1961 Mar 25, Elvis Presley (26)
performed live on the USS Arizona, a fund raiser for a memorial.
Col. Parker, Presley's manager, came up with the brilliant idea to
have Elvis Presley give the benefit concert in the 4,000-seat Bloch
Arena next to the entrance to Pearl Harbor.
(Internet)(MC, 3/25/02)
1961 Mar 25, Sputnik 10 carried
a dog into Earth orbit; later recovered.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1962 Mar 25, French OAS-leader
ex-general Jouhaud was arrested.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1962 Mar 25, Auguste Piccard
(78), Swiss explorer, balloonist, died.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1964 Mar 25, Egypt ended a
state of siege (1952-64).
(MC, 3/25/02)
1965 Mar 25, The opera “Lizzie
Borden" premiered in NYC. It was composed by Jack Beeson with a
libretto by Kenward Elmslie. The initial scenario was written by
Richard Plant (d.1997 at 87).
(SFC, 3/17/98, p.A20)
1965 Mar 25, Martin Luther King
Jr. led a group of 25,000 to the state capital in Montgomery Ala. to
protest the denial of voting rights to blacks. Civil Rights
pressures increased in the US and blacks and whites marched in Selma
and Montgomery.
(TMC, 1994, p.1965)(AP, 3/25/97)(HN, 3/24/98)
1965 Mar 25, Viola Liuzzo
(b.1925), a white civil rights worker from Detroit, was shot and
killed by the Ku Klux Klan on a road near Selma, Ala. The later
trial of Collie Leroy Jenkins, one of 3 men charged in the killing,
ended in a hung jury. Jenkins was also acquitted at a 2nd trial but
was later convicted along with Eugene Thomas of civil rights
violations in federal court and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_Liuzzo)(SSFC,
7/20/08, p.B6)
1965 Mar 25, West German
Bondsdag extended war crimes retribution.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1969 Mar 25, John and Yoko Ono
staged a bed-in for peace in Amsterdam.
(HN, 3/24/98)
1969 Mar 25, Max Forrester
Eastman (b.1883), US critic and essayist, died. His books included
“Love and Revolution: My Journey Through an Epoch" (1964).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Eastman)
1970 Mar 25, The Concorde, an
Anglo-French airplane, made its first supersonic flight.
(HN,
3/24/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde)
1971 Mar 25, Sheik Mujibur
Rahman was arrested in Dhaka. Pakistani forces started Operation
Searchlight, a systematic plan to eliminate any resistance.
Thousands of people were killed in student dormitories and police
barracks in Dhaka.
(WUD, 1994, p.
1688)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Pakistani_War_of_1971)
1972 Mar 25, In El Salvador a
group of young army officers, led by Colonel Benjamin Mejia,
launched a coup. Their immediate goal was the establishment of a
"revolutionary junta." It seemed clear, however, that the officers
favored the installation of Jose Duarte as president.
(http://countrystudies.us/el-salvador/11.htm)
1973 Mar 25, Edward Steichen
(b.1879), pioneer US photographer, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Steichen)
1975 Mar 25, Hue was lost and
Da Nang was endangered. The U.S. ordered a refugee airlift to remove
those in danger.
(HN, 3/24/98)
1975 Mar 25, In Maryland
sisters Sheila (12) and Katharine Lyon (10) vanished from the
Wheaton Plaza Mall. On July 15, 2015, authorities announced an
indictment on first-degree felony murder charges in the
disappearances. Lloyd Michael Welch Jr. (58) said he was with the
girls when they were abducted but denied any role in their deaths.
Welch told investigators that he left the mall with the two girls
and that he saw his uncle sexually assaulting one of them at his
home the next day. On Sep 12, 2017, Lloyd Michael Welch Jr. was
sentenced to 48 years in prison after pleading guilty to two counts
of first-degree felony murder. On September 21 Welch pleaded guilty
to sexually assaulting two girls in 1996.
(http://tinyurl.com/phqudb7)(SFC, 7/16/15,
p.A5)(SFC, 9/13/17 p.A8)(SFC, 9/22/17 p.A5)
1975 Mar 25, King Faisal ibn
Abd al-Aziz (68) of Saudi Arabia was shot to death by a nephew with
a history of mental illness. The nephew was beheaded the following
June. In 2008 Joseph A. Kechichian authored “Faisal: Saudi Arabia’s
King for All Seasons." In 2013 Alexei Vassiliev authored “King
Faisal of Saudi Arabia: Personality, Faith and Times." (AP,
3/25/00)(Econ, 10/04/08, p.92)(Econ, 1/26/12, p.74)
1977 Mar 25, In Argentina
political writer Rodolfo Walsh was murdered one day after writing
the “Open Letter to the Military Junta" on the first anniversary of
the military coup. He had reported on tortures, mass killings, and
thousands of disappearances. In 2011 Alfredo Astiz (59), a former
navy spy known as "the Angel of Death," was convicted in the
kidnapping and disappearing of Rodolfo Walsh.
(http://americas.irc-online.org/am/3170)(AP,
10/26/11)
1977 Mar 25, Philippines’
President Marcos, on March 25, 1977, signed Presidential
Proclamation No. 1628 forming an autonomous region in Southern
Philippines.
(http://www.armm.gov.ph/armm-history/)
1979 Mar 25, In Northern
Ireland Gerard Evans (24) disappeared after leaving a dance. His
body was found in 2010. He had been abducted, executed and secretly
buried by the IRA for passing information on IRA activities to the
police.
(AP,
10/17/10)(www.tribune.ie/article/2009/jan/18/put-that-family-out-of-its-misery/)
1981 Mar 25, The US Embassy in
San Salvador was damaged when gunmen attacked, firing rocket
propelled grenades and machine guns.
(http://tinyurl.com/2s8s7h)
1982 Mar 25, The TV show
“Cagney and Lacey" featured Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly as female
police detectives. The show continued to 1988.
(LSA, Spring, 2009,
p.44)(www.imdb.com/title/tt0083395/)
1985 Mar 25, 57th Academy
Awards "Amadeus," F. Murray Abraham and Sally Field won.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/57th_Academy_Awards)
1985 Mar 25, British journalist
Alec Collett (64) was abducted in Beirut as he covered Lebanon’s
civil war. His remains were found in 2009 in the eastern Bekaa
Valley. The following year a group belonging to Palestinian
guerrilla leader Abu Nidal said it killed him in retaliation for US
air raids on Libya.
(www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-3752719.html)(Reuters, 11/23/09)
1986 Mar 25, President Ronald
Reagan ordered emergency aid for the Honduran army. U.S. helicopters
took Honduran troops to the Nicaraguan border.
(HN, 3/24/98)
1986 Mar 25, US Supreme Court
ruled that the Air Force could ban wearing of yarmulkes.
(www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/goldman.html)
1987 Mar 25, The US Supreme
Court ruled employers may sometimes favor women and members of
minority groups over men and whites in hiring and promoting in order
to achieve better balance in the work force.
(AP, 3/25/97)
1988 Mar 25, In New York
City's so-called "preppie murder case," Robert E. Chambers Jr.
pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the death of
18-year-old Jennifer Levin. Chambers was convicted of the killing
after what he described as a session of rough sex. Chambers received
a sentence of five to 15 years in prison. He walked out of the
Auburn Correctional Facility in Auburn, N.Y, Feb, 2003, after
serving a full 15-year maximum sentence for the 1986 Central Park
killing.
(AP, 3/24/08)
1988 Mar 25, Robert Joffrey
(b.1930), founder of the Joffrey Ballet Company, died. In 1996 Sasha
Anawalt wrote: "The Joffrey Ballet: Robert Joffrey and the Making of
an American Dance Company."
(SFEC, 12/15/96, BR
p.4)(www.answers.com/topic/joffrey-robert)
1989 Mar 25, In the wake of the
Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska's chief
environmental officer, Dennis Kelso, criticized cleanup efforts as
too slow.
(AP, 3/25/99)
1990 Mar 25, Star Trek V won as
worst picture in the 10th Golden Raspberry Awards.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Golden_Raspberry_Awards)
1990 Mar 25, Eighty-seven
people, most of them Honduran and Dominican immigrants, were killed
when an arson fire raced through the illegal Happy Land Social Club
in New York City. Julio Gonzalez, 36, was charged with arson and
murder. Gonzalez was convicted in August 1991 and was sentenced to
174 twenty-five-year sentences (a total of 4,350 years), the longest
sentence ever handed down in New York. He is eligible for parole in
2015.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_Gonz%C3%A1lez_(arsonist))
1991 Mar 25, “Dances With
Wolves" won seven Oscars, including best picture, at the 63rd annual
Academy Awards. Kathy Bates won best actress for “Misery" and Jeremy
Irons won best actor for his role in “Reversal of Fortune."
(AP, 3/25/01)
1991 Mar 25, Archbishop Marcel
Lefebvre, a rebellious conservative in the Roman Catholic Church,
died in Martigny, Switzerland, at age 85.
(AP, 3/25/01)
1992 Mar 25, Libyan leader Col.
Moammar Gadhafi backed away from an offer to turn over two suspects
in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 to the Arab League.
(AP, 3/25/97)
1992 Mar 25, Soviet cosmonaut
Sergei Krikalev, who'd spent 10 months aboard the orbiting Mir space
station, thereby missing the upheaval in his homeland, finally
returned to Earth.
(AP, 3/24/98)
1993 Mar 25, The Senate
approved an outline of President Clinton's plan to spark the economy
and trim the budget deficit by a vote of 54-45.
(AP, 3/24/98)
1994 Mar 25, The US Senate
approved a $1.51 trillion budget.
(AP, 3/25/04)
1994 Mar 25, American troops
completed their withdrawal from Somalia following a largely
unsuccessful fifteen-month mission. 20,000 U.N. troops were left
behind to keep the peace and facilitate "nation building."
(AP, 3/25/99)
1995 Mar 25, Mike Tyson was
released from the Indiana Youth Center after serving three years for
the 1992 rape of Desiree Washington, a beauty pageant contestant.
(AP, 3/25/00)
1995 Mar 25, Two Americans who
had strayed across the Kuwaiti border into Iraq were sentenced to
eight years in prison. However, David Daliberti and William Barloon
were released by Iraq the following July.
(AP, 3/25/00)
1996 Mar 25, "Braveheart" won
Academy Awards for best picture and best director Mel Gibson;
Nicolas Cage won best actor for "Leaving Las Vegas," Susan Sarandon
best actress for "Dead Man Walking."
(AP, 3/25/97)
1996 Mar 25, The redesigned
$100 bill went into circulation.
(AP, 3/25/97)
1996 Mar 25, First Lady Hillary
Rodham Clinton, accompanied by her daughter, Chelsea, visited U.S.
troops in Bosnia.
(AP, 3/25/97)
1996 Mar 25, A group of 18
people including 3 children, who call themselves the Freeman, shut
themselves up on a 960 acre farm near Jordan, Montana. Many of them
are wanted on state and federal charges that include writing bad
checks and threatening a federal judge. Ongoing negotiations have
proved fruitless and the FBI ordered in 3 armored vehicles and a
helicopter. The standoff by the anti-government Freemen lasted 81
days.
(SFC, 6/1/96, p.A3)(AP, 3/25/01)
1996 Mar 25, China halted its
18-day intimidating naval exercises around Taiwan led by the new
guided-missile destroyer Harbin.
(SFC, 3/22/97, p.A3)
1996 Mar 25, France, Britain
and the US signed a treaty to ban nuclear weapons from the South
Pacific.
(WSJ, 3/25/96, p.A-15)
1996 Mar 25, In Germany Jan
Philipp Reemtsma was attacked, beaten and abducted as he entered his
office in Hamburg. For 33 days he was chained to a cellar wall with
a ransom set at 30 million marks ($17.6 million). In 1999 he
published "In the Cellar," a chronicle of his captivity.
(WSJ, 2/26/99, p.W11)
1997 Mar 25, The Federal
Reserve nudged interest rates higher for the first time in two
years, hoping to stifle any threat of rising inflation.
(AP, 3/24/98)
1997 Mar 25, Georgia Gov. Zell
Miller signed into law a ban on a controversial form of late-term
abortion.
(AP, 3/24/98)
1997 Mar 25, Former President
George Bush, 73, parachuted from a plane over the Arizona desert.
(AP, 3/24/98)
1997 Mar 25, In Montenegro
Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic was given a vote of no confidence by
his party of hard-line supporters of Serbian Pres. Milosevic.
(SFC, 3/26/97, p.C2)
1997 Mar 25, In the Netherlands
an arson attack left a Turkish woman and 5 children dead in the
Hague.
(SFC, 3/29/97, p.A9)
1998 Mar 25, Pres. Clinton
visited Rwanda. Shaken by horror stories from the worst genocide
since World War II, President Clinton grimly acknowledged during his
Africa tour that "we did not act quickly enough" to stop the
slaughter of up to 1 million Rwandans four years earlier.
(SFC, 3/21/98, p.A13)(AP, 3/25/99)
1998 Mar 25, The FCC netted
$578.6 million at auction for licenses for new wireless technology.
(AP, 3/25/99)
1998 Mar 25, The executive body
of the EU endorsed a proposal for 11 nations to be part of the new
system. These included Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the
Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Finland, Ireland, Austria and
Luxembourg.
(SFC, 3/26/98, p.B3)
1998 Mar 25, Russia promised to
support a comprehensive arms embargo against Yugoslavia, but did not
support new sanctions urged by the US.
(SFC, 3/26/98, p.B2)
1998 Mar 25, In Tajikistan
Islamic rebels killed over 60 government troops and held another 60
hostage after a 2-day battle near the capital.
(WSJ, 3/26/98, p.A1)
1999 Mar 25, Alexei Yagudin won
the men's title for the second time at the World Figure Skating
Championships held in Helsinki, Finland.
(AP, 3/25/00)
1999 Mar 25, NATO forces struck
Serbian air defenses and other sites for a second night as Serb
forces stepped up their efforts to crush resistance in Kosovo. The
village of Goden was burned by Serb forces and 174 residents were
forced to leave. 20 men were kept back and presumed killed.
(SFC, 3/26/99, p.A1)(SFEC, 4/4/99, p.A1,8)(AP,
3/25/00)
1999 Mar 25, Some 70 men were
reported massacred at the village Bellacerk in Kosovo. In the
village of Velika Krusa 14 ethnic Albanians were killed and burned
by Serb police and paramilitaries. Selami Elshani played dead
escaped to tell the story. Investigators in Bela Crkva later
found the bodies of 12 people including 7 children, all shot in the
back of the head, killed during the rampage. Serb paramilitaries
along with the Serb army attacked the village of Krushe e Vogel, 90
km (55 miles) southwest of Pristina.
(SFC, 4/6/99, p.A8)(SFEC, 4/18/99, p.1,4)(AP,
4/26/18)
1999 Mar 25, In Nerodimlje,
Kosovo, 8 male members of the Berisha family were executed in front
of a wall by a Serb gunman.
(SFC, 6/21/99, p.A8)
1999 Mar 25, In Colombia an
arrest warrant was issued for German Briceno, aka Grannobles, for
the kidnapping and killing of 3 Americans. Briceno was the brother
of Jorge Briceno, No. 2 leader of FARC.
(SFC, 3/27/99, p.C1)
1999 Mar 25, In Kosovo Serbian
police officers took away Bajram Kelmendi, a human rights lawyer,
and his 2 sons. Their bodies were found the next day.
(SFEC, 3/28/99, p.A17)
1999 Mar 25, In Haiti Pres.
Preval appointed a new government by decree.
(WSJ, 3/26/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 25, In South Africa
Wouter Basson, the former head of chemical and biological warfare
dubbed "Doctor Death," was indicted on 64 charges that included
murder, theft and fraud. Conspiracy charges for offenses in Namibia,
Swaziland, Mozambique and Britain were later dismissed. 61 charges
remained. Basson was acquitted of 46 counts of murder, fraud and
drug dealing in 2002.
(SFC, 3/26/99, p.A16)(SFC, 10/13/99, p.A12)(SFC,
4/12/02, p.A8)
2000 Mar 25, Pres. Clinton
arrived in Pakistan under heavy security, where he met with the new
military ruler, General Pervez Musharraf. Clinton urged the
government to restore democracy, reduce its nuclear arsenal, fight
terrorism and find a peaceful solution to the Kashmir crises with
India.
(SFEC, 3/26/00, p.A1)(AP, 3/25/01)
2000 Mar 25, In Belarus
thousands of people demonstrated in Minsk against the rule of Pres.
Lukashenko and clashed with police.
(SFC, 3/27/00, p.A13)
2000 Mar 25, In Colombia
guerrilla attacks began in Antioquia state and 30 people were killed
over the next 2 days.
(SFC, 3/28/00, p.A14)
2000 Mar 25, In Israel Pope
John Paul II said Mass at the Basilica of the Annunciation in
Nazareth, where Catholics believe that archangel Gabriel told Mary
that she would bear the son of God.
(SFEC, 3/26/00, p.A19)(AP, 3/25/01)
2000 Mar 25, In Mozambique it
was reported that the Messalo river burst its banks after a week of
rain. The Limpopo was expected to flood again and the city of Chokwe
was again threatened.
(SFC, 3/25/00, p.A8)
2000 Mar 25, In Northern
Ireland David Trimble defeated Rev. Martin Smyth with 57% of the
vote of the ruling Ulster Party Council. Henry MacDonald was the
author of a new biography on Trimble.
(SFEC, 3/26/00, p.A21)
2000 Mar 25, In South Africa a
flashflood down the Storms River Gorge left 7 dead and 6 missing
from a group of 24 whitewater enthusiasts.
(SFC, 3/27/00, p.A12)
2001 Mar 25, In the Academy
Awards “Gladiator" won 5 Oscars including best picture and best
actor for Russell Crowe. Julia Roberts won best actress for “Erin
Brockovich." “Crouching Tiger" won for best foreign film and best
music score. Steven Soderbergh won best director for “Traffic,"
which also featured Benicio Del Toro who won the best supporting
actor. Marcia Gay Harden won best supporting actress for her role in
“Pollock."
(SFC, 3/26/01, p.E5)
2001 Mar 25, In Macedonia the
government sent infantry troops backed by tanks and helicopters into
the hills above Tetovo to push back ethnic Albanian insurgents.
(SFC, 3/26/01, p.A8)
2001 Mar 25, In Saudi Arabia
the Higher Committee for Scientific Research and Islamic Law claimed
that Pokemon games and cards have “possessed the minds" of Saudi
children.
(SFC, 3/27/01, p.F2)
2002 Mar 25, The Bush
administration released thousands of documents on its energy task
force just before a midnight deadline. They showed that Spencer
Abraham, Sec. of Energy, had relied almost exclusively on industry
representatives with no input from conservation or environmental
groups.
(SFC, 3/26/02, p.A3)(SFC, 3/27/02, p.A3)
2002 Mar 25, The US pushed for
Ariel Sharon to allow Yasser Arafat to attend an Arab summit in
Beirut.
(SFC, 3/26/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 25, the National Parks
Conservation Association released its annual list of “America’s Ten
Most Endangered National Parks."
(SFC, 3/26/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 25, A 5.8-6.1
earthquake in Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan was centered 105
miles north of Kabul and early reports of deaths reached to 1,800.
The city of Nahrin was reported destroyed. Deaths in Baghlan
province were reduced to 600-800 with 100,000 left homeless.
(SFC, 3/26/02, p.A6)(SFC, 3/27/02, p.A1)(SFC,
3/29/02, p.A9)(SFC, 3/30/02, p.A10)(AP, 6/22/02)(AP, 3/25/03)
2002 Mar 25, The Argentine peso
fell to 3.4-3.8 to the dollar. Long lines formed outside banks and
exchange houses in Buenos Aires.
(SFC, 3/26/02, p.B3)(WSJ, 3/26/02, p.A14)
2002 Mar 25, It was reported
that educational changes for younger students in Japan included
every Saturday off, a 30% decrease in rote learning, and new
integral study classes to foster thinking.
(WSJ, 3/25/02, p.A12)
2002 Mar 25, North and South
Korea issued a joint statement with plans to resume dialogue to
improve relations.
(SFC, 3/25/02, p.A8)
2002 Mar 25, In Madagascar
opposition supporters thwarted an attempt by the military to seize
control of Parliament.
(SFC, 3/26/02, p.A6)
2003 Mar 25, Celine Dion opened
a three-year gig in the new $95 million Colosseum theater at Caesars
Palace.
(AP, 3/26/03)
2003 Mar 25, Pres. Bush issued
an order to delay the release of millions of historical documents
for more than 3 years and to ease reclassification of data deemed of
possible harm to national security.
(WSJ, 3/26/03, p.A1)
2003 Mar 25, The Senate voted
to slash President Bush's proposed $726 billion tax-cutting package
in half, handing the president a defeat on the foundation of his
plan to awaken the nation's slumbering economy.
(AP, 3/25/04)
2003 Mar 25, Former Waterbury,
Conn., Mayor Philip Giordano was convicted by a federal jury of
violating the civil rights of two preteen girls by sexually abusing
them. Giordano was later sentenced to 37 years in federal prison.
(AP, 3/25/04)
2003 Mar 25, The US Navy
brought in 2 specially trained bottle-nosed Atlantic dolphins to
help ferret out mines in the approaches of the port of Umm Qasr.
(AP, 3/26/03)
2003 Mar 25, In the 7th day of
Operation Iraqi Freedom US aircraft dropped more than 2,000
precision-guided bombs on Iraq since the war's start. The "smart"
bombs were produced for a relatively cheap $20,000 each. Sandstorms
slowed coalition movement and air missions. US officials reported
150-200 Iraqi soldiers were killed near Najaf.
(AP, 3/25/03)(SSFC, 3/30/03, p.W12)(SSFC, 5/4/03,
p.C2)
2003 Mar 25, Six satellite
jamming devices, which Iraq was using to try to thwart American
precision guided weapons, were destroyed in the last 2 nights.
(AP, 3/25/03)
2003 Mar 25, Some 150-500 Iraqi
fighters were killed in fighting east of Najaf.
(AP, 3/25/03)(SFC, 3/26/03, p.W1)
2003 Mar 25, A light plane
carrying 3 Americans crashed in southern Colombia while searching
for 3 other Americans captured by rebels last month.
(AP, 3/26/03)
2003 Mar 25, Muhamed
Sacirbegovic (46), former Bosnia ambassador to the US (1992-2000)
was arrested in NYC. The Bosnian government has accused him of
stealing more than $2.4 million, about $1.8 million from the
nation's Investment Fund Ministry and more than $600,000 from the
account of Bosnia's representation at the UN.
(AP, 3/26/03)
2003 Mar 25, Israeli troops
killed 2 wanted Hamas militants. Sprayed bullets also killed a girl
(10). A West Bank boy (14) throwing stones was shot dead.
(SFC, 3/26/03, p.A1)
2003 Mar 25, Philippine troops
killed a senior commander of the Muslim extremist Abu Sayyaf group
in a raid on his hideout.
(AP, 3/26/03)
2003 Mar 25, Saudi Arabia
contacted the United States and Iraq with a peace proposal and was
still awaiting a response.
(AP, 3/25/03)
2003 Mar 25, In Thailand police
said they shot and killed 42 people during a 7-week-old crackdown on
drugs that has drawn protest from human rights groups. Nearly 400
drug makers and more than 12,000 dealers were arrested.
(AP, 3/26/03)
2003 Mar 25, In Uganda a gang
of ivory poachers killed six adult elephants and one calf in a
"gruesome massacre" in Queen Elizabeth National Park. The poachers
used acid to remove the tusks.
(AP, 4/4/03)
2004 Mar 25, The United States
used its veto power to quash a U.N. Security Council resolution
condemning Israel for killing Hamas leader Ahmed Yassin in a missile
strike.
(AP, 3/26/04)
2004 Mar 25, Howard Dean
endorsed John Kerry as the Democratic presidential candidate.
(WSJ, 11/3/04, p.A6)
2004 Mar 25, British PM Tony
Blair and Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi greeted each other with
smiles and handshakes in a meeting that marked a major step back
into the international mainstream for the North African state.
(AP, 3/25/04)
2004 Mar 25, A military truck
drove out of a Russian military base in Chechnya after curfew and
hit a mine planted outside to deter a rebel attack, killing 10
soldiers.
(AP, 3/26/04)
2004 Mar 25, China's Foreign
Minister Li Zhaoxing, arriving home from North Korea, saying his
three-day trip yielded an agreement from that country's reclusive
leader to "push forward" toward a third round of talks on its
nuclear program.
(AP, 3/25/04)
2004 Mar 25, In Colombia
attackers shot and killed three retired police officers, at least
two of whom were suspected of having links to drug traffickers.
(AP, 3/26/04)
2004 Mar 25, The Olympic torch
was lit in Ilida, Greece, and began its journey to herald the summer
Olympiad, Aug 13-29. A 6-continent tour was planned using 2 747s
named Zeus and Hera with a bill of $50 million.
(AP, 3/26/04)(WSJ, 7/19/04, p.A1)
2004 Mar 25, An Indian court
sentenced four Pakistanis to death for "waging war" against India
after they were caught smuggling the deadly explosive RDX into the
country in 1999.
(AP, 3/25/04)
2004 Mar 25, A U.S. soldier
died in a bombing north of Baghdad amid warnings that attacks will
likely increase with fewer than 100 days left before the coalition
hands over sovereignty.
(AP, 3/25/04)
2004 Mar 25, Rebels and the
main opposition party, Rally of Republicans, withdrew from Ivory
Coast's power-sharing government after security forces in Abidjan
fired on protesters demanding implementation of a peace deal. At
least 25 people were killed.
(AP, 3/25/04)(SFC, 3/26/04, p.A2)(SFC, 3/27/04,
p.A1)
2004 Mar 25, A Norwegian
Academy awarded the Abel Prize in Mathematics to Isadore M. Singer
of MIT and Sir Michael F. Atiyah of the Univ. of Edinburgh for
discovering and proving the mathematical concept called the "index
theorem."
(SFC, 3/26/04, p.A15)
2004 Mar 25, Armed Palestinians
in wetsuits and flippers emerged from the Mediterranean and fired
toward a beachfront Israeli settlement of Tel Katifa in Gaza. Two
attackers were killed and a third was wounded and fled.
(AP, 3/26/04)
2004 Mar 25, In eastern Turkey
a 5.1 earthquake centered at Cat left at least 9 people dead.
(AP, 3/26/04)
2004 Mar 25, US Congress passed
the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, making it a separate offense to
harm a fetus during violent federal crime.
(AP, 3/25/05)
2004 Mar 25, The US used its
veto power to quash a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning
Israel for killing Hamas leader Ahmed Yassin in a missile strike.
(AP, 3/26/04)
2004 Mar 25, Howard Dean
endorsed John Kerry as the Democratic presidential candidate.
(WSJ, 11/3/04, p.A6)
2004 Mar 25, British PM Tony
Blair and Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi greeted each other with
smiles and handshakes in a meeting that marked a major step back
into the international mainstream for the North African state.
(AP, 3/25/04)
2004 Mar 25, A military truck
drove out of a Russian military base in Chechnya after curfew and
hit a mine planted outside to deter a rebel attack, killing 10
soldiers.
(AP, 3/26/04)
2004 Mar 25, China's Foreign
Minister Li Zhaoxing, arriving home from North Korea, saying his
three-day trip yielded an agreement from that country's reclusive
leader to "push forward" toward a third round of talks on its
nuclear program.
(AP, 3/25/04)
2004 Mar 25, In Colombia
attackers shot and killed three retired police officers, at least
two of whom were suspected of having links to drug traffickers.
(AP, 3/26/04)
2004 Mar 25, The Olympic torch
was lit in Ilida, Greece, and began its journey to herald the summer
Olympiad, Aug 13-29. A 6-continent tour was planned using 2 747s
named Zeus and Hera with a bill of $50 million.
(AP, 3/26/04)(WSJ, 7/19/04, p.A1)
2004 Mar 25, An Indian court
sentenced four Pakistanis to death for "waging war" against India
after they were caught smuggling the deadly explosive RDX into the
country in 1999.
(AP, 3/25/04)
2004 Mar 25, A U.S. soldier
died in a bombing north of Baghdad amid warnings that attacks will
likely increase with fewer than 100 days left before the coalition
hands over sovereignty.
(AP, 3/25/04)
2004 Mar 25, Rebels and the
main opposition party, Rally of Republicans, withdrew from Ivory
Coast's power-sharing government after security forces in Abidjan
fired on protesters demanding implementation of a peace deal. At
least 25 people were killed.
(AP, 3/25/04)(SFC, 3/26/04, p.A2)(SFC, 3/27/04,
p.A1)
2004 Mar 25, A Norwegian
Academy awarded the Abel Prize in Mathematics to Isadore M. Singer
of MIT and Sir Michael F. Atiyah of the Univ. of Edinburgh for
discovering and proving the mathematical concept called the "index
theorem."
(SFC, 3/26/04, p.A15)
2004 Mar 25, Armed Palestinians
in wetsuits and flippers emerged from the Mediterranean and fired
toward a beachfront Israeli settlement of Tel Katifa in Gaza. Two
attackers were killed and a third was wounded and fled.
(AP, 3/26/04)
2004 Mar 25, In eastern Turkey
a 5.1 earthquake centered at Cat left at least 9 people dead.
(AP, 3/26/04)
2005 Mar 25, Washington
announced it would sell F-16 fighters to Pakistan.
(Reuters, 3/26/05)
2005 Mar 25, Losing still more
legal appeals, Terri Schiavo's father, Bob Schindler, said his
severely brain-damaged daughter was "down to her last hours" as she
entered her second week without the feeding tube that had sustained
her life for 15 years.
(AP, 3/25/06)
2005 Mar 25, Paul Henning (93),
producer of the TV series “The Beverly Hillbillies" (1962-1971) died
in Burbank, Ca. Henning also wrote the show’s theme song.
(SFC, 3/26/05, p.B5)
2005 Mar 25, Some 1000
Belarusian demonstrators tried to rally outside the office of
authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko to demand his ouster,
but they were beaten back by riot police swinging truncheons.
(AP, 3/25/05)
2005 Mar 25, Cambodia and
Vietnam each confirmed an additional death from bird flu, raising
Southeast Asia's death toll to 48.
(AP, 3/25/05)
2005 Mar 25, In Cairo, Egypt,
the new $30 million, 74-acre Al-Azhar, was to be inaugurated under
the auspices of Aga Khan.
(SFC, 3/12/05, p.F1)
2005 Mar 25, In Ghana sparks
from a welder's torch ignited a raging fire on MV Polaris, a Greek
tanker moored in Tema, killing three people and leaving 12 others
feared dead.
(AP, 3/25/05)
2005 Mar 25, India announced
that it has agreed with the United States to a series of steps to
boost defense and energy ties.
(Reuters, 3/26/05)
2005 Mar 25, In Iraq Maj. Gen.
Salman Muhammad, head of an Iraqi national guard division in Basra,
was assassinated on route to a funeral. One of 2 sons was also
killed.
(SFC, 3/26/05, p.A11)
2005 Mar 25, Japan’s world
fair, Aichi Expo 2005, opened. It ended on Sep 25.
(SSFC, 3/27/05,
p.F2)(http://www.expo2005.or.jp/en/)
2005 Mar 25, In Kyrgyzstan
Kurmanbek Bakiyev (55) was appointed acting president by parliament.
The opposition scrambled to restore order in Bishkek, a capital
described as "gone mad" with looting and vandalism, after driving
President Askar Akayev from power.
(AP, 3/25/05)(SFC, 3/26/05, p.A3)
2005 Mar 25, The UN Security
Council voted to send 10,700 peacekeepers to Sudan to monitor a
peace deal ending a 21-year-civil war.
(AP, 3/25/05)
2005 Mar 25, An ailing, silent
Pope John Paul appeared to the faithful via video for Good Friday
services at the Vatican.
(AP, 3/25/06)
2006 Mar 25, Some 500,000
people rallied in Los Angeles to protest legislation in Congress
that would tighten enforcement against undocumented immigrants and
erect more walls along the southern border.
(SSFC, 3/26/06, p.A1)
2006 Mar 25, In SF an
evangelical Christian concert, dubbed “Battle Cry for a Generation,"
drew some 25,000 teens to AT&T Park.
(SSFC, 3/26/06, p.B1)
2006 Mar 25, Aderian Gaines
(36) was shot and killed while hosting a party for teenagers in
Berkeley, Ca. On March 29 SWAT teams arrested James Freeman (29) in
Berkeley and Antonio Harris (18) in Oakland for the murder of
Gaines. On Nov 27 Harris was sentenced to 9 years in prison.
(SFC, 3/30/06, p.B3)(SFC, 10/26/06, p.B3)(SFC,
11/28/06, p.B3)
2006 Mar 25, In Seattle, Wa.,
Aaron Kyle Huff (28) fatally shot 6 people at a party and then
killed himself.
(SFC, 3/27/06, p.A3)
2006 Mar 25, Buck Owens, US
country singer, (76) died. The flashy rhinestone cowboy shaped the
sound of country music with hits like "Act Naturally" and brought
the genre to TV on the long-running "Hee Haw."
(AP, 3/25/06)
2006 Mar 25, Richard Fleischer
(b.1916), film director, died in Woodland Hills, Ca. His films
included “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" (1954) and “Conan the
Destroyer" (1984). His 1993 memoir was titled "Just Tell Me When to
Cry."
(http://tinyurl.com/mdyck)
2006 Mar 25, Afghan and US
troops backed by American aircraft fought suspected Taliban in
southern Afghanistan, leaving one US service member and seven
militants dead.
(AP, 3/25/06)
2006 Mar 25, Researchers said a
prototype scramjet engine, that could ultimately lead to two-hour
jet flights from Australia to Britain, was launched in the South
Australian outback.
(AFP, 3/25/06)
2006 Mar 25, In Belarus riot
police clashed with protesters in Minsk, forcing demonstrators back
and hitting several with truncheons. Four explosions were heard,
apparently percussion grenades set off by police.
(AP, 3/25/06)
2006 Mar 25, Kimmie Meissner
won the ladies' World Figure Skating Championships title in Calgary,
Alberta, Canada.
(AP, 3/25/07)
2006 Mar 25, Canadian hunters
started shooting and clubbing harp seal pups at the start of an
annual hunt that is the focus of a tech-savvy protest by animal
rights groups.
(Reuters, 3/25/06)
2006 Mar 25, It was reported
that Finnish 15-year-olds have the highest level of mathematical
skills, scientific knowledge and reading literacy of any rich
industrialized country.
(Econ, 3/25/06, p.58)
2006 Mar 25, In Haiti 17 human
skulls were found in a trash-strewn wooded lot outside
Port-au-Prince, including at least some discovered inside a
container that had been tossed from a passing car.
(AP, 3/25/06)
2006 Mar 25, In India PM
Manmohan Singh and Iranian Vice-President Rahim Mashaee held talks
in New Delhi during which they stressed the need to strengthen
bilateral ties, particularly in the energy sector.
(AP, 3/25/06)
2006 Mar 25, It was reported
that Indonesia was losing almost 2m hectares of forest a year, an
area the size of Massachusetts or Wales. Timber stock continued to
disappear at a rate of 3% a year and over the last 15 years has
resulted in a loss of a third of the country’s stock.
(Econ, 3/25/06, p.73)
2006 Mar 25, In Iraq more than
50 people were killed in violence, many in a gunbattle between
Shiite militia forces and insurgents south of Baghdad. A bomb
exploded in a booth for traffic police in north Baghdad, killing
four civilians.
(AP, 3/25/06)
2006 Mar 25, Morocco's King
Mohammed VI wrapped up a 6-day visit to Western Sahara with talks on
a plan to give the territory greater autonomy which will be
submitted soon to the UN.
(AFP, 3/25/06)
2006 Mar 25, Nigeria said it
will send back to Liberia exiled ex-president and one-time warlord
Charles Taylor, wanted for trial on war crimes by a UN-backed court.
(AP, 3/25/06)
2006 Mar 25, Nigeria announced
a two-day extension of a controversial census to allow for everyone
in Africa's most populous nation to be counted despite delays caused
by poor organization and violence.
(AP, 3/25/06)
2006 Mar 25, In Pakistan police
said they had arrested 57 renegade tribesmen over the last 24 hours
in connection with recent bomb and rocket attacks that have killed
several people in southwestern Pakistan.
(AP, 3/25/06)
2006 Mar 25, In Somalia
hundreds of heavily armed Islamic militiamen launched an offensive
to try to capture a key port and airstrip on the northeastern
outskirts of Mogadishu.
(AP, 3/25/06)
2006 Mar 25, Suspected Tamil
Tigers blew up their fishing boat to avoid capture by a navy patrol
off the west coast of Sri Lanka, leaving six rebels dead and eight
sailors missing.
(AP, 3/26/06)
2006 Mar 25, Taiwan’s annual
8-day Matsu festival began. Tradition says she originated in the
11th century in China's southern Fujian province, directly across
from Taiwan. Once revered as a protector of mariners and a guarantor
of bountiful harvests, she is now seen as an all-purpose purveyor of
health, wealth and happiness.
(AP, 3/31/06)
2006 Mar 25, Tens of thousands
rallied in Bangkok, begging their king to intervene in a last-ditch
effort to force PM Thaksin Shinawatra from office.
(AP, 3/25/06)
2006 Mar 25, The Vatican's
foreign minister said that the "time is ripe" for the Holy See and
Beijing to establish diplomatic relations, and confirmed it is ready
to move its embassy from Taiwan.
(AP, 3/26/06)
2007 Mar 25, In Ste. Genevieve,
Missouri, William Huck Sr. (60) was arrested on child sex charges
and has since told authorities he molested 40 children over a
30-year period.
(AP, 4/6/07)
2007 Mar 25, Lynn Merrick
(b.1921), leading lady in American Western films, died in Florida.
Her over 40 films included “Two Gun Sheriff" (1940) and “I Love
Trouble" (1948).
(SFC, 4/3/07, p.D5)
2007 Mar 25, In Afghanistan
suspected Taliban militants attacked a district office in Wardak
province in a clash that left 15 militants and two officers dead. In
Ghazni province Afghan police and soldiers launched a joint
operation against militants in Andar district, which left five
suspected Taliban dead and seven wounded.
(AP, 3/27/07)
2007 Mar 25, Armenia’s PM
Andranik Margarian (55) died of heart failure. Serzh Sarkisian
(Sargsyan), defense minister, was appointed prime minister.
(AP,
3/25/07)(www.eurasianet.org/armenia/parties/serzh.html)
2007 Mar 25, In Belarus
security forces prevented up to 1,500 opponents of President
Alexander Lukashenko from protesting in the same square where
unprecedented rallies shook the former Soviet republic a year ago.
(AFP, 3/25/07)
2007 Mar 25, British PM Tony
Blair said that the 15 British sailors and marines captured by Iran
as they searched for smugglers off the Iraqi coast were not in
Iranian waters and warned that Britain viewed their fate as a
"fundamental" issue.
(AP, 3/25/07)
2007 Mar 25, European Union
leaders celebrated half a century of unity by hailing the bloc's
achievements in bolstering peace, democracy and prosperity, then
pledged to end two years of deadlock over plans to radically
overhaul the way the EU does business.
(AP, 3/25/07)
2007 Mar 25, In Germany
Brigitte Mohnhaupt (57), a one-time leader Germany's Red Army
Faction, was released after a quarter-century in prison for her
involvement in some of the radical left-wing group's most notorious
murders.
(AP, 3/25/07)
2007 Mar 25, Incumbent Donald
Tsang trounced his challenger in Hong Kong's first contested
leadership race since it returned to Chinese rule, but the losing
candidate said the vote was rigged and demanded greater democracy.
Tsang beat pro-democracy lawmaker Alan Leong 649-123 in the vote by
an election committee loaded with tycoons and other elites.
(AP, 3/25/07)(AP, 3/26/07)
2007 Mar 25, Iran announced it
was partially suspending cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog
agency, citing what it called “illegal and bullying" Security
Council sanctions imposed on the country for its refusal to stop
enriching uranium.
(AP, 3/25/08)
2007 Mar 25, Suspected Shiite
militants bombed a Sunni mosque in Haswa in apparent retaliation for
a suicide attack the day before against a Shiite shrine in the same
city that killed 11 people. Gunmen and Iraqi security forces clashed
in a Sunni area in central Baghdad. At least two people were killed
in fighting. At least 27 Iraqis were reported killed. 5 US soldiers
were killed in roadside bombings.
(AP, 3/25/07)(SFC, 3/26/07, p.A5)
2007 Mar 25, A powerful
earthquake struck central Japan, killing at least one person and
injuring 170 others as it toppled buildings, triggered landslides
and generated a small tsunami along the coast. The quake was
followed throughout the day by aftershocks.
(AP, 3/25/07)
2007 Mar 25, Citizens of
Mauritania went to the polls for the second time this month,
choosing between two men vying to usher Mauritania into civilian
rule. Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi won Mauritania’s first free
presidential election.
(AP, 3/25/07)(AP, 3/25/08)
2007 Mar 25, In Nigeria a
diplomatic source said an Indian and a Lebanese man kidnapped in
volatile southern Nigeria last week amid disputes over oil revenues
have been released.
(AFP, 3/25/07)
2007 Mar 25, Fire broke out in
a Moscow striptease club in the early hours, killing 10 people.
(AP, 3/25/07)
2007 Mar 25, European leaders
called for new international sanctions on Sudan over its treatment
of civilians in Darfur, where the new UN humanitarian chief warned
that humanitarian efforts were at risk of collapse.
(AP, 3/25/07)
2007 Mar 25, UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, declaring the atmosphere "not fully
ripe," shunned officials from the Islamic militant Hamas group. Ban
Ki-Moon toured a Palestinian refugee camp and a stretch of Israel's
separation barrier in the West Bank, and said the visit strengthened
his resolve to work for Mideast peace.
(AP, 3/25/07)
2007 Mar 25, In Somalia one of
the elders involved in negotiations said talks between Ethiopian
military officials and elders of the dominant Hawiye clan in
Mogadishu have reached an impasse, threatening a two-day truce.
(AP, 3/25/07)
2007 Mar 25, In northern Sri
Lanka thousands of Tamil civilians were on the run as troops and
Tiger rebels traded artillery fire across a de facto border, with
both sides claiming heavy casualties.
(AP, 3/25/07)
2007 Mar 25, Venezuela’s
President Hugo Chavez said that his administration plans to create
"collective property" as part of sweeping reforms toward socialism,
and that officials would move to seize control of large ranches and
redistribute lands deemed "idle."
(AP, 3/25/07)
2008 Mar 25, The US Supreme
Court ruled that US ratification of certain treaties isn’t
enforceable unless Congress takes additional steps.
(WSJ, 3/26/08, p.A1)
2008 Mar 25, A widely watched
index of US home prices fell 11.4 percent in January, its steepest
drop since data for the indicator was first collected in 1987. The
decline reported in the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller index
means prices have been growing more slowly or dropping for 19
consecutive months.
(AP, 3/25/08)
2008 Mar 25, America’s baseball
season opened in Japan as the Boston Red Sox beat the Oakland
Athletics 6-5.
(Econ, 3/29/08, p.83)
2008 Mar 25, In Florida part of
a construction crane fell 30 floors at the site of a Miami condo
tower, killing 2 workers and injuring 5.
(WSJ, 3/26/08, p.A1)
2008 Mar 25, US researchers,
who have identified all 1,116 unique proteins found in human saliva
glands, said the discovery could usher in a wave of convenient,
spit-based diagnostic tests that could be done without the need for
a single drop of blood.
(Reuters, 3/25/08)
2008 Mar 25, In Afghanistan
gunmen have attacked a group of police along the border with Iran,
killing four police and two civilians.
(AP, 3/25/08)
2008 Mar 25, Argentina’s
President Cristina Fernandez refused to ease tax hikes on
agricultural exports, facing down angry farmers embroiled in a
nationwide strike that has all but halted production in one of the
world's biggest beef-exporting nations. The tax on soybeans had been
raised to 40%, up from 27% in 2007.
(AP, 3/26/08)(Econ, 3/29/08, p.49)
2008 Mar 25, In western Austria
some 70 vehicles were involved in a pileup on an autobahn killing
one person and injuring at least 37 others.
(AP, 3/25/08)
2008 Mar 25, Belarus said it
had uncovered a spy ring working for Washington, deepening a
diplomatic and human rights row between the countries. Police beat
demonstrators with truncheons and hauled them into waiting trucks as
thousands of opposition protesters turned out in defiance of a
government ban on the anniversary of the 1918 short-lived
declaration of independence.
(AP, 3/25/08)
2008 Mar 25, Director Koichiro
Matsuura said that Visegrad’s Mehmed Pasha Sokolovic bridge, a 16th
century stone bridge over the Drina River that links Bosnia and
Serbia, has been added to UNESCO's World Heritage List. A ceremony
in Sarajevo marked the event.
(AP, 3/26/08)
2008 Mar 25, Auctioneers said
the painting "La Surprise" (~1718) by French artist Jean-Antoine
Watteau, missing for 200 years, has been found in a British country
house and could now sell for up to five million pounds.
(AFP, 3/25/08)
2008 Mar 25, Troops from the
Indian Ocean archipelago nation of Comoros seized control of the
rebel island of Anjouan after a seaborne assault backed by the
African Union.
(Reuters, 3/25/08)
2008 Mar 25, In eastern
Guatemala at least nine people were killed and seven wounded in a
shootout that is likely tied to drug traffickers. Guatemalan drug
boss Juan Jose "Juancho" Leon was summoned by Mexican traffickers
for what he was told was business. Instead, dozens of attackers
ambushed his entourage with grenades and assault rifles, killing
Leon and 10 others in a brazen demonstration of power.
(AP, 3/25/08)(AP, 7/21/09)
2008 Mar 25, In western
Honduras a passenger bus plunged off a highway and rolled 500 yards
down a hillside, killing 26 people and injuring at least 19.
(AP, 3/26/08)
2008 Mar 25, Officials said
Indonesia plans to restrict access to pornographic and violent sites
on the Internet after the country's parliament passed a new
information bill.
(Reuters, 3/25/08)
2008 Mar 25, Iraqi forces
clashed with Shiite militiamen in the southern oil port of Basra and
least 22 people were killed. 5 suspected militants were killed in
Basra while attempting to place a roadside bomb. Gunmen patrolled
several Baghdad neighborhoods as followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada
al-Sadr ordered a nationwide civil disobedience campaign to demand
an end to the crackdown on their movement. 2 bombs exploded in
central Baghdad, killing one civilian and wounding eight others. A
US-allied Sunni fighter was killed in a drive-by shooting northeast
of the capital. In August it was reported that a secret deal with an
Iran-backed militia kept British forces out of the battle, leaving
US and Iraqi forces to fight alone. The Ministry of Defense denied
any deal was struck and said it held back to ensure that the
operation was seen as Iraqi-led. The effect was that 4,000 British
soldiers were kept out of action for six days until a deal brokered
in Iran ended heavy fighting.
(AP, 3/25/08)(AP, 8/5/08)
2008 Mar 25, In Nepal police
armed with bamboo sticks stopped a protest by Tibetan refugees and
monks in front of the Chinese Embassy and arrested about 100
participants.
(AP, 3/25/08)
2008 Mar 25, King Abdullah of
Saudi Arabia made a proposal for dialogue among the world’s
monotheistic religions. Abdullah said Saudi Arabia's top clerics
gave him a green light.
(AP, 3/26/08)
2008 Mar 25, In Sri Lanka
fighting across the war-ravaged northern district killed at least
one soldier and 19 rebels.
(AFP, 3/26/08)
2008 Mar 25, In Sudan a World
Food Program (WFP) driver was shot dead and his assistant seriously
wounded in South Darfur state.
(Reuters, 3/26/08)
2008 Mar 25, It was reported
that Syria is cracking down more on Internet use, imposing tighter
monitoring of citizens who link to the Web, as well as jailing
bloggers who criticize the government and blocking YouTube and other
Web sites deemed harmful to state security.
(AP, 3/25/08)
2009 Mar 25, Australia PM Kevin
Rudd visited the US and urged Americans not to view China as an
enemy but as a country offering huge economic opportunities, even
though its leaders have "done some bad things in the past."
(AP, 3/26/09)
2009 Mar 25, The US House voted
to set aside over 2 million acres in 9 states as protected
wilderness. Legislators also approved a $400 million project to
restore a 3-mile stretch of the San Joaquin River in central
California.
(SFC, 3/26/09, p.A1)(WSJ, 3/26/09, p.A5)
2009 Mar 25, One of the US Air
Force's top-of-the-line F-22 fighter jets crashed in the high desert
of Southern California, killing test pilot David Cooley (49), an
employee of prime contractor Lockheed Martin Corp.
(AP, 3/26/09)(WSJ, 3/26/09, p.A5)
2009 Mar 25, Arkansas Gov. Mike
Beebe signed 2 bills creating a state lottery, making his state the
43rd plus the district of Columbia to hold such contests.
(SFC, 3/26/09, p.A6)
2009 Mar 25, Conservation
International, a Washington D.C.-based conservation group, announced
the discovery of over 50 new animal species in a remote, mountainous
region of Papua New Guinea. The group spent the past several months
analyzing more than 600 animal species found during its expedition
to the South Pacific island nation in July and August.
(AP, 3/25/09)
2009 Mar 25, North Dakota
officials issued an urgent call for volunteers to help with
sandbagging as record amounts of water poured into the Missouri
River and evacuations were ordered in riverside areas.
(AP, 3/25/09)
2009 Mar 25, John Hope Franklin
(b.1915), revered Duke Univ. historian and scholar of the African
American experience, died in North Carolina. His books included
“From Slavery to Freedom" (1947).
(SFC, 3/26/09, p.B5)
2009 Mar 25, In eastern
Afghanistan a roadside bomb ripped through a van carrying civilians
on a road used by foreign troops, killing 10 and wounding 7 others
in Khost province.
(AP, 3/25/09)(SFC, 3/26/09, p.A3)
2009 Mar 25, Garth Drabinsky
and Myron Gottlieb, Canadian theater impresarios from a company
called Livent, were convicted of fraud. They had been indicted in
the US in 1999 and fled to Canada, where they were charged in 2002.
Six former Livent accountants testified in the trial, saying they
were ordered to inflate income and profit documentation.
(Econ, 4/4/09,
p.44)(http://news.yahoo.com/s/playbill/20090325/en_playbill/127701)
2009 Mar 25, China’s state
media said forestry officials in far western China have resorted to
scattering abortion pills near gerbil burrows in a bid to halt a
rodent plague threatening the desert region's fragile ecosystem.
(AP, 3/25/09)
2009 Mar 25, Czech PM Mirek
Topolanek, the current rotating president of the EU, slammed US
plans to spend its way out of recession as "a road to hell."
(AP, 3/25/09)
2009 Mar 25, An Ecuadorean air
force training jet crashed in a jungle area near the Colombian
border. The pilot and a member of the air force rescue team were
killed when a cable snapped as they were being lifted to a
helicopter.
(AP, 3/25/09)
2009 Mar 25, Egypt, one of the
strongest US allies in the Middle East, welcomed Sudan's president
despite an international warrant seeking his arrest on charges of
war crimes in Darfur. Egypt is not an ICC signatory and both it and
the Arab League have backed al-Bashir.
(AP, 3/25/09)
2009 Mar 25, The EU laid out
new labeling rules laid allowing Rose wine customers to know exactly
how their grapes were treated to turn their tipple a blushing pink.
(AP, 3/25/09)
2009 Mar 25, The MT Nipayia, a
Greek-owned and Panama registered ship with a crew of 19, was
hijacked 450 miles east of Somalia’s south coast.
(AP, 3/27/09)(WSJ, 3/27/09, p.A8)
2009 Mar 25, The Indian army
said it had killed 17 militants from Lashkar-e-Taiba in Kashmir.
Recent fighting has left at least 25 people dead.
(AP, 3/26/09)
2009 Mar 25, In Iraq an
American soldier has died of non-combat injuries.
(AP, 3/27/09)
2009 Mar 25, Incoming Israeli
PM Benjamin Netanyahu said his government would be a "partner for
peace with the Palestinians," softening his rhetoric a day after the
centrist Labor Party joined his coalition in exchange for vaguely
worded promises to pursue negotiations.
(AP, 3/25/09)
2009 Mar 25, In Mexico US
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pledged to stand "shoulder
to shoulder" with Mexico in its violent struggle against drug
cartels, and acknowledged the US shares blame because of its demand
for drugs and supply of weapons.
(AP, 3/26/09)
2009 Mar 25, In Pakistan a
suspected US missile attack killed 8 militants, including 4
foreigners, in the stronghold of Baitullah Mehsud, Pakistan's top
Taliban commander. The New York Times carried a report on its Web
site saying ISI operatives provide money, military supplies and
strategic planning guidance to Taliban commanders, with proof of the
ties coming from electronic surveillance and trusted informants. The
US State Department announced a $5 million bounty for Baitullah
Mehsud.
(AP, 3/25/09)(AP, 3/26/09)(SFC, 3/26/09, p.A3)
2009 Mar 25, Romania was given
a loan totaling 20 billion euros (27 billion dollars) by the IMF,
the EU, the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development (EBRD). An austerity program accompanied the loans.
(AP, 3/26/09)
2009 Mar 25, In northwestern
Russia Kirovsk mayor Ilya Kelmanzon was shot dead in his office. A
local utilities chief who was in Kelmanzon's office, then shot
himself dead.
(AP, 3/25/09)
2009 Mar 25, Fahad al-Ruwaily,
a senior al-Qaida leader, returned to Saudi Arabia voluntarily and
turned himself in. He was on a list of the kingdom's 85 most wanted
militants living abroad.
(AP, 3/26/09)
2009 Mar 25, In Edinburgh,
Scotland, vandals attacked the home of former Royal Bank of Scotland
head Fred Goodwin, smashing windows at the house of the ex-CEO whose
700,000 pound ($1.2 million) annual pension has prompted public
outrage.
(AP, 3/25/09)
2009 Mar 25, Hundreds of
Somalis demonstrated in Baidoa against Islamist fighters after they
imposed a ban on leaf qat, a popular narcotic.
(SFC, 3/26/09, p.A2)
2009 Mar 25, Sri Lanka's
military repulsed a Tamil Tiger counterattack in the north of the
island and killed at least 30 of the rebels.
(AP, 3/26/09)
2009 Mar 25, Sudanese officials
said at least 2 people were killed when attackers set fire overnight
to a camp for the internally displaced in Darfur, destroying
hundreds of shelters. A spokesman for the Darfur rebel group Justice
and Equality Movement (JEM) put the toll at three dead and three
injured and blamed a pro-government militia for the attack.
(AFP, 3/25/09)
2009 Mar 25, In Turkey a
helicopter crashed in the snow-covered mountains of southern Turkey.
Muhsin Yazicioglu, leader of the small conservative Great Unity
Party, was one of six people on board. Authorities the next day
released a recording of an emergency call made after the crash by
journalist Ismail Gunes, who said he thought he was the only
survivor. Rescue workers found the wreckage on March 27. All 6
people aboard were found dead.
(AP, 3/26/09)(AP, 3/27/09)
2010 Mar 25, The US Dept. of
Defense announced stricter guidelines for discharging gay and
lesbian service members allowing only generals to approve
discharges.
(SFC, 3/26/10, p.A6)
2010 Mar 25, Florida Int’l.
Univ. (FIU) running back Kendall Berry was stabbed late at night,
after the 22-year-old junior from Haines City, Fla., was involved in
an argument with another man outside the front doors of the school's
student recreation center in Miami.
(AP, 3/26/10)
2010 Mar 25, Maine Gov. John
Baldacci signed into law America’s first blanket “extended producer
responsibility" (EPR) framework law. It ordered manufacturers to
assume the cost of disposing their products following consumer use.
Maine’s EPR law for electronic waste went into effect in 2004.
(Econ, 4/3/10, p.67)(http://tinyurl.com/y5ew8vk)
2010 Mar 25, In western
Tennessee a medical helicopter crashed ion stormy weather killing
its crew of three.
(SFC, 3/26/10, p.A6)
2010 Mar 25, The top UN envoy
for Afghanistan, Staffan de Mistura, met with delegates from
Hezb-e-Islami, the country's second-biggest militant group, who are
in Kabul for talks on a possible peace deal. Hezb-e-Islami is headed
by warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who is black-listed as a terrorist
by the UN and the US.
(AFP, 3/25/10)
2010 Mar 25, Al-Qaida leader
Osama bin Laden threatened in a new audio recording released to kill
any captured Americans if the US executes the self-professed
mastermind of the Sept.11 attacks or any other al-Qaida suspects.
(AP, 3/25/10)
2010 Mar 25, A top Australian
official said about 100 Australian police are being investigated for
circulating racist and pornographic e-mails via the internal police
e-mail system, and one officer involved in the scandal has committed
suicide.
(AP, 3/25/10)
2010 Mar 25, Bangladesh set up
a war crimes tribunal for long-delayed trials of people accused of
murder, torture, rape and arson during its 1971 independence war.
(AP, 3/25/10)
2010 Mar 25, In Belarus some
2,000 opposition activists held a protest rally despite police
blocks that authorities explained were part of security measures
against an alleged bomb threat. March 25 has long been a traditional
day of opposition demonstration, marking what they call Freedom Day,
the anniversary of the 1918 declaration of the first, short-lived
independent Belarusian state.
(AP, 3/25/10)
2010 Mar 25, In London a
teenager (15) was stabbed in front of commuters during the evening
rush hour at Victoria station. Paramedics were unable to resuscitate
the boy. 20 detainees (14 to 17) and were being questioned in
connection with the incident.
(AFP, 3/26/10)
2010 Mar 25, Chinese officials
said emergency wells were being drilled and cloud-seeding operations
carried out in southern China, where the worst drought in decades
has left millions of people without water and caused more than 1,000
schools to close.
(AP, 3/25/10)
2010 Mar 25, China agreed to
share water level data at 2 dams to ease pressure from nations
downstream, including Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.
(SFC, 4/6/10, p.A3)
2010 Mar 25, In Colombia a
package bomb killed a 12-year-old boy who may have been given it to
take to a police station after school in the coca-growing southwest.
(AP, 3/26/10)
2010 Mar 25, Dubai said it
would inject 9.5 billion dollars into Dubai World, which announced
it was asking creditors to wait for up to eight years to be repaid
in full.
(AP, 3/25/10)
2010 Mar 25, Leaders of the 16
eurozone countries agreed to a plan to rescue Greece if it finds
itself unable to borrow.
(AP, 3/26/10)
2010 Mar 25, Former French PM
Dominique de Villepin announced the creation of a new center-right
party set to challenge bitter rival President Nicolas Sarkozy in
elections in two years' time.
(Reuters, 3/25/10)
2010 Mar 25, In Ireland a judge
in Limerick ruled that the city’s 110 pubs can open on April 2
because the city is hosting a major Irish rugby match. This will be
the 1st time that pubs anywhere in Ireland will open on Good Friday.
(SFC, 3/26/10, p.A2)
2010 Mar 25, Kenyan police
arrested an American of Somali origin who was on a terror watch list
as he and two associates attempted to fly to Somalia. American
Suleman Essa, Canadian Ahmed Ali Hassan and Kenyan Muhammed Hussein
Hash were about to board a plane ferrying aid to Somalia when they
were arrested. All 4 were released the next day.
(AP, 3/25/10)(AP, 3/26/10)
2010 Mar 25, In Mexico police
were searching for two prison guards and 40 prisoners who
disappeared after a pre-dawn jailbreak in the Mexican city of
Matamoros across the border from Brownsville, Texas. Gunmen killed a
deputy police chief and his bodyguard in Nogales, Sonora state.
(AP, 3/25/10)(AP, 3/27/10)
2010 Mar 25, A Netherlands
court fined the owner of what was the biggest marijuana-selling
"coffee shop" in the country almost euro10 million ($13.34 million)
for violating liberal Dutch drug laws, in what is seen as a test for
authorities seeking to rein in the growth of such cafes.
(AP, 3/25/10)
2010 Mar 25, Pirates attacked a
Turkish cargo ship off the coast of Nigeria, injuring three crew
members. Eight to 10 pirates with automatic weapons boarded the Ozay
5. They robbed the crew of money and cellphones but fled after the
ship began making distress calls.
(Reuters, 3/26/10)
2010 Mar 25, It was reported
that deaths from starvation in North Korea’s South Pyongan province
was in the thousands since January and that the bodies of
malnourished elderly people were being found in the streets of
Pyongyang.
(SFC, 3/25/10, p.A4)
2010 Mar 25, Pakistani military
airstrikes killed 61 suspected militants in an area near the Afghan
border, including dozens at a seminary where Taliban commanders were
believed to be meeting. Pakistani police said they had arrested two
of the men who kidnapped a British boy (5) for 12 days this month,
and paraded the hooded and shackled suspects before the media.
Taliban fighters seized a security checkpoint in the Orakzai tribal
region close to the Afghan border, sparking clashes that killed five
soldiers and 32 insurgents in a region where the army is pressing an
offensive.
(AP, 3/25/10)(AP, 3/26/10)
2010 Mar 25, In Qatar the CITES
UN wildlife meeting rejected efforts to regulate the trade in
overfished porbeagle sharks, reversing an earlier ruling at the
conference and leaving none of the proposed shark species with
protection. Asia nations managed to reopen the debate on the final
day of the conference and voted to kill the proposal.
(AP, 3/25/10)
2010 Mar 25, In Switzerland the
Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council (HRC) voted 20-17 for a text
that lists the “defamation of religion" as an infringement of
liberty.
(Econ, 4/3/10, p.62)
2010 Mar 25, In Venezuela
Guillermo Zuloaga, owner of Globovision, was arrested, raising
concerns the government is pursuing a widening crackdown to silence
opponents. Globovision is the country’s only remaining TV channel
that takes a critical line against Pres. Chavez.
(AP, 3/26/10)
2011 Mar 25, The World Trade
Organization ruled that some anti-dumping duties imposed by the
United States on imports of Brazilian orange juice violated
international trade rules.
(AFP, 3/25/11)
2011 Mar 25, Florida Gov. Rick
Scott signed a teacher merit-pay bill. The bill also ended
tenure-like job protections.
(SFC, 3/26/11, p.A5)
2011 Mar 25, NY state
information technology workers at the state Division of Housing and
Community Renewal hit the jackpot. They won $319 million in the
multistate Mega Millions game's fifth-largest prize in its history.
Each of the 7 winners will collect a check for $19.1 million, after
taxes.
(AP, 4/1/11)
2011 Mar 25, The Oregon
Province of Jesuit priests agreed to pay $166.1 million to over 450
Native Americans who were abused at the order’s schools around the
Pacific Northwest.
(SFC, 3/26/11, p.A5)
2011 Mar 25, Africa's highest
court on human rights ordered Libya to immediately cease any action
that would result in the loss of life. The order also compelled
Libya to report to the Tanzania-based court within two weeks. The
ruling was not made public until March 30.
(AP, 3/31/11)
2011 Mar 25, A global network
of conservationists said Africa's rhinos face their worst poaching
crisis in decades with organized crime syndicates killing more than
800 in the past three years alone.
(AP, 3/25/11)
2011 Mar 25, Thousands of
Bahrainis turned out for a sermon of a major Shi'ite cleric ahead of
"Day of Rage" protests planned across the Gulf Arab country despite
a ban imposed under martial law. Security forces fired tear gas and
pellets at anti-government protesters after a prominent Shiite
cleric vowed that their demands for the Sunni monarchy to loosen its
grip on power will not be silenced by "brutal force." Activists said
one person died.
(Reuters, 3/25/11)(AP, 3/25/11)
2011 Mar 25, In Belarus police
attacked hundreds of opposition activists who tried to hold an
anti-government rally. March 25 has long been a traditional day of
opposition rallies marking the anniversary of Belarus' short-lived
declaration of independence from Russia in 1918.
(AP, 3/26/11)
2011 Mar 25, Canadian
opposition parties toppled PM Harper on the grounds that his
government was tainted by sleaze, had managed the economy poorly and
was in contempt of Parliament. Canada's 40th Parliament ended with
cheers from opposition legislators as politicians voted along party
lines to drive the Conservatives out of office.
(Reuters, 3/26/11)
2011 Mar 25, Canadian Defense
Minister Peter MacKay said that Lt. Gen. Charles Bouchard has been
designated to lead the NATO alliance's military campaign in Libya.
Bouchard will be in charge of both the air campaign and the naval
task force implementing the arms embargo.
(AP, 3/25/11)(AP, 3/26/11)
2011 Mar 25, In China Ying
Jianguo, general manager of Taizhou Suqi Storage Battery Co. Ltd.,
was taken into custody in the city of Taizhou in Zhejiang province.
The official Xinhua News Agency reported 139 cases of lead poisoning
near the plant. More testing soon found at least 168 villagers,
including 53 children, had high lead levels.
(AP, 3/27/11)
2011 Mar 25, Croatia arrested
Bojan Milkovic, head of the INA, the country’s national oil company,
on corruption charges.
(Econ, 4/23/11, p.56)(http://tinyurl.com/3tnzyqm)
2011 Mar 25, El Salvador police
arrested Carlos Ernesto Teos Parada, a man accused of running a
human smuggling ring that transported some of the victims in the
massacre of 72 migrants in northern Mexico last August.
(AP, 3/26/11)
2011 Mar 25, European leaders
agreed a new package of anti-crisis measures at a two-day summit,
but were forced to delay increasing their rescue fund and
acknowledged they faced new threats from a government collapse in
Portugal.
(Reuters, 3/25/11)
2011 Mar 25, European Union
leaders called for worldwide stress testing of nuclear plants and
committed to putting their 143 reactors through the toughest
security checks possible.
(AP, 3/25/11)
2011 Mar 25, A Honduras supreme
court judge dismissed three arrest warrants for former President
Manuel Zelaya, allowing him to return without detention to the
country where he was deposed in a June 2009 coup. A day later Zelaya
said he won't return to Honduras for fear of being killed.
(AP, 3/25/11)(AP, 3/26/11)
2011 Mar 25, In India Pradeep
Kumar, a government aviation official, and 3 other people were
arrested in a widening investigation of corruption in awarding
flying licenses to airline pilots.
(AP, 3/26/11)
2011 Mar 25, In Iran two
members of the security forces were killed in two armed attacks in
Sanandaj, capital of Iran's Kurdistan province bordering Iraq. Two
of the rebels who were involved in the attacks were reported killed
on April 4.
(AFP, 4/4/11)
2011 Mar 25, Israel
deployed its newly developed "Iron Dome" rocket defense system for
the first time to defend its southern communities from attacks by
Gaza militants after a bloody week of Palestinian strikes and
Israeli reprisals.
(AP, 3/25/11)
2011 Mar 25, In Ivory Coast
about 1,000 people frantically crowded around buses rented by Mali
to evacuate its citizens, as the UN said up to 1 million have fled
their homes amid fears of civil war.
(AP, 3/25/11)
2011 Mar 25, Japanese officials
said a suspected breach in Unit 3 reactor at the stricken Fukushima
nuclear plant could mean more serious radioactive contamination, as
PM Naoto Kan called the country's ongoing fight to stabilize the
plant "very grave and serious." The official death toll jumped past
10,000. With the cleanup and recovery operations continuing and more
than 17,400 listed as missing, the final number of dead was expected
to surpass 18,000.
(AP, 3/25/11)
2011 Mar 25, In Jordan
pro-government supporters attacked a gathering of protesters in
central Amman demanding the dissolution of parliament and the firing
of the country's prime minister, pelting them with stones and
injuring six people.
(AP, 3/25/11)
2011 Mar 25, In eastern Libya
rebel gunners fought artillery duels with Muammar Gaddafi's forces.
Western warplanes struck at heavy armor used by the government to
crush the revolt. NATO said its no fly zone operation could last
three months, and France cautioned the conflict would not end soon.
(Reuters, 3/25/11)
2011 Mar 25, A boat left
Tripoli carrying 72 people. It drifted for more than two weeks after
it ran out of fuel, water and food. Only 9 people survived. The
survivors were arrested by pro-Gadhafi forces after their boat came
ashore in Libya, but managed to flee again.
(AFP, 5/13/11)(AP, 5/13/11)
2011 Mar 25, In northwestern
Pakistan gunmen attacked a minibus carrying mostly Shiite Muslims
and killed eight people in an area that has seen a recent peace deal
between rival Sunni and Shiite tribes.
(AP, 3/25/11)
2011 Mar 25, A Palestinian was
shot and wounded by Israeli police after he injured a soldier in the
West Bank.
(AP, 3/25/11)
2011 Mar 25, The Philippine
Catholic church led tens of thousands of Filipinos in one of the
biggest rallies against a proposed family planning law, saying it
will promote artificial contraception and lead to more abortions.
(AP, 3/25/11)
2011 Mar 25, Qatar flew its
first sortie after joining the forces of 10 other nations enforcing
the no-fly zone over Libya.
(AP, 3/26/11)
2011 Mar 25, A Saudi news
agency says several hundred Shiite Muslims have held protests in
eastern Saudi Arabia to demand the release of detainees and show
support for fellow Shiites protesting against the Sunni monarchy in
nearby Bahrain.
(AP, 3/25/11)
2011 Mar 25, In Syria
demonstrations took place in Daraa and throughout the country in
what organizers called a "Day of Dignity." Thousands took to the
streets demanding reforms and mourning dozens of protesters who were
killed during a violent, weeklong crackdown that has brought
extraordinary pressure on the country's autocratic regime.
Presidential adviser Buthaina Shaaban said 34 people have been
killed in the weeklong crackdown. 4 people were reported killed when
armed forces fired on protesters in Latakia. Troops and soldiers
opened fire in at least six places, killing some 15 protesters.
(AP, 3/25/11)(AP, 3/26/11)
2011 Mar 25, In Thailand a
court ordered leaders of the self-styled People' Alliance for
Democracy to pay millions of dollars to airport operators in
compensation for occupying Bangkok's airports for a week in 2008.
(AP, 3/25/11)
2011 Mar 25, Yemen's President
Ali Abdullah Saleh told tens of thousands of supporters that he's
ready to step down but only if he can leave the country in "safe
hands," while anti-government protesters massed for a rival rally.
(AP, 3/25/11)
2011 Mar 25, A Zimbabwean court
ordered Energy Minister Elton Mangoma, a top political ally of PM
Tsvangirai, to be held in jail after his second arrest this month.
The arrests have been criticized by the prime minister's party as
being politically motivated.
(AP, 3/25/11)
2012 Mar 25, Pres. Obama met
with Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead of a nuclear security
conference in South Korea. Obama other key allies considered
providing Syrian rebels with communications help, medical aid and
other "non-lethal" assistance.
(AP, 3/25/12)
2012 Mar 25, In Michigan the
bodies of two women, Abreeya Brown (18) and Ashley Conaway (22),
were discovered in shallow graves on Detroit’s west side. 5 men were
soon charged in their abduction and slaying.
(SSFC, 4/8/12, p.A10)
2012 Mar 25, "Titanic" director
James Cameron (57) made a solo submarine dive to the bottom of the
Mariana Trench in the western Pacific, the deepest point in the
world's oceans. On Jan 23, 1960, a two-man crew aboard the US Navy
submersible Trieste, then the only humans to have reached Challenger
Deep, spent just 20 minutes on the bottom.
(AFP, 3/26/12)(Econ, 3/31/12, p.90)
2012 Mar 25, Afghan officials
said the US paid $50,000 in compensation for each villager killed
and $11,000 for each person wounded in a shooting rampage allegedly
carried out by a rogue American soldier on March 11.
(AP, 3/25/12)
2012 Mar 25, Gabor Rakonczay
arrived in Antigua after canoeing across the Atlantic Ocean in 76
days. He had left Lagos, Portugal, on December 21, 2011.
(SFC, 3/27/12, p.A2)
2012 Mar 25, Four people died
when their small plane crashed shortly after taking off from a tiny
airport in the Bahamas en route to Florida.
(AP, 3/26/12)
2012 Mar 25, In Belarus several
thousand people joined an anti-government rally calling for the
release of political prisoners and for European-style democracy.
(SFC, 3/26/12, p.A2)
2012 Mar 25, British Tory
treasurer Peter Cruddas, a senior member of David Cameron's
Conservative party, resigned after he apparently offered access to
the British premier in return for party donations of £250,000.
(AFP, 3/25/12)
2012 Mar 25, A magnitude-7.1
earthquake struck central Chile, the strongest and longest that many
people said they had felt since a huge quake devastated the area two
years ago. There were no reports of major damage or deaths due to
quake-related accidents.
(AP, 3/26/12)
2012 Mar 25, Twenty people from
DR Congo drowned when their boats capsized while crossing the river
border with Zambia enroute to a soccer game.
(AFP, 3/27/12)
2012 Mar 25, Egypt's newly
empowered Islamists have tightened their grip, giving themselves a
majority on a 100-member panel tasked with drafting a constitution
that will define the shape of the government in the post-Hosni
Mubarak era. The panel will have nearly 60 Islamists, including 37
legislators selected the day before by parliament's two chambers.
(AP, 3/25/12)
2012 Mar 25, Hong Kong held
elections for a new chief executive. Only 1,200 people, handpicked
from the populations, were eligible to vote. Henry Tang Ying-Yen was
favored to win. Self-made millionaire property consultant Leung
Chun-ying (57) won the leadership election with 689 votes.
(Econ, 3/3/12, p.58)(AFP, 3/25/12)(SFC, 3/26/12,
p.A2)
2012 Mar 25, Bertie Ahern (60),
former Irish PM (1997-2008), announced he has resigned from the
Fianna Fail party rather than be expelled over an investigation into
secret payments he received while in office, but vowed to clear his
name.
(AFP, 3/25/12)
2012 Mar 25, France handed down
preliminary murder and terrorism charges against Abdelkader Merah
alleging he helped his brother Mohamed plan recent attacks against
Jewish schoolchildren and paratroopers.
(SFC, 3/26/12, p.A2)
2012 Mar 25, Malian soldiers
repelled a fresh attack by Tuareg rebels in the north following a
coup as the junta struggled to restore order after ousting the west
African nation's president. Mali's foreign minister and 13 others
being detained by the junta that took over Mali started a hunger
strike.
(AFP, 3/25/12)(AP, 3/25/12)
2012 Mar 25, In Mexico tens of
thousands of people gathered to attend the highlight of Pope
Benedict XVI's visit: an open-air Mass in the shadow of the Christ
the King monument in Guanajuato state.
(AP, 3/25/12)
2012 Mar 25, In Nigeria 3
suspected members of Boko Haram were killed overnight in the
northern city of Maiduguri in a shootout with soldiers deployed to
crush the Islamist sect. About 20 gunmen had attacked a police
station with rifles and explosives.
(AFP, 3/25/12)
2012 Mar 25, The Palestinian
Prisoners' Club reported that around 30 Palestinian prisoners have
taken up hunger strikes across the Israeli prison system. The club
said Israel is holding some 700 members of the Palestinian security
services, along with 27 Palestinian lawmakers, 24 of them from
Hamas.
(AFP, 3/25/12)
2012 Mar 25, Russian spacecraft
controllers intentionally plunged a defunct communications
satellite, called Express-AM4, into the ocean. The $265 million
satellite was launched into the wrong orbit on Aug 18, 2011, and had
been languishing in space ever since. The company Polar Broadband
Systems Ltd. tried in vain to save and recycle the Russian
satellite.
(SPACE.com, 3/28/12)
2012 Mar 25, Senegalese voted
in a run-off election in which incumbent Abdoulaye Wade (85) is
fighting off a mass opposition effort to foil his controversial bid
for a third term. Opposition candidate Macky Sall won the vote. Wade
conceded defeat just hours after results showed his opponent
winning.
(AFP, 3/25/12)(AP, 3/26/12)
2012 Mar 25, Six South African
rugby players from a local club in Port Elizabeth drowned after a
rip-current pulled 21 people out to sea. 7 lifeguards rescued 15
people.
(AFP, 3/26/12)
2012 Mar 25, Syrian forces
attacked flashpoint areas, carrying out raids and clashing with
rebels as President Bashar Assad's allies in Russia said the country
may be facing its last chance for peace. The LCC reported five
troops and three mutinous soldiers killed in the southern town of
Nawa.
(AP, 3/25/12)
2012 Mar 25, In Tunisia at
least 8,000 Islamists staged a mass demonstration in central Tunis
in the latest show of force to demand the adoption of Islamic law in
the north African country.
(AFP, 3/25/12)
2012 Mar 25, Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez was in Cuba to begin radiation therapy
treatment one month after undergoing surgery that removed a
cancerous tumor.
(AP, 3/25/12)
2013 Mar 25, Pres. Obama signed
a proclamation using the Antiquities Act to preserve some 1,000
acres of the San Juan Islands, Washington state, as a national
monument.
(SSFC, 4/7/13, p.P6)
2013 Mar 25, Abu Zubaydah, a
Guantanamo detainee who allegedly revealed valuable information
about 9-11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohamed, sued Poland. Lawyers
said he was held in a CIA black site in Poland (2002-2003), which
they say has withheld critical information needed to investigate his
case.
(AP, 3/27/13)
2013 Mar 25, In California
people celebrated the opening of the new Devil’s Slide Tunnel. It
opened to public traffic on March 26.
(SFC, 3/26/13, p.A1)
2013 Mar 25, In San Francisco
executives of the Palace Hotel changed their minds, amid ringing
outcry, and planned to return the Pied Piper painting by Maxfield
Parrish to the hotel following restoration work.
(SFC, 3/26/13, p.A1)
2013 Mar 25, New Jersey lottery
officials said Pedro Quezada (44), an immigrant from the Dominican
Rep., has won the $338.3 million Powerball jackpot.
(SFC, 3/26/13, p.A7)
2013 Mar 25, Yahoo acquired
Summly, a British startup, for some $30 million. Summly founder Nick
d’Aloisio (17) had created an iPhone app to summarize articles in
300-400 characters.
(SFC, 4/18/13, p.66)
2013 Mar 25, In Afghanistan the
US military gave control of its last local detention facility to
Kabul, a year after the two sides initially agreed on the transfer.
(AP, 3/25/13)
2013 Mar 25, A fishing boat
carrying nearly 100 asylum seekers capsized off Australia's west
coast. 2 people died and another 93 were rescued after the boat
overturned north of Christmas Island.
(Reuters, 3/25/13)
2013 Mar 25, In Canada waste
water from Suncor's oil sands operation north of Fort McMurray,
Alberta, escaped when a pipe broke after freezing. An estimated 350
cubic meters of contaminated water was released into the river over
a 10-hour period, the company said, adding that it did not contain
tar-like bitumen.
(Reuters, 3/27/13)
2013 Mar 25, Central African
Republic's President Francois Bozize fled to neighboring Cameroon.
Michel Djotodia, one of the leaders of the Seleka rebel coalition,
said that he plans to stay in power until 2016, the length of time
left in the term of Bozize.
(AP, 3/25/13)(AP, 3/26/13)
2013 Mar 25, Cyprus clinched a
last-minute solution to avert imminent financial meltdown early
today after it agreed to slash its oversized banking sector and
inflict hefty losses on wealthy depositors in troubled banks to
secure a 10 billion euro ($13 billion) bailout. Under the terms of
the bailout deal, the country' second largest bank, Laiki — which
sustained the most damaged from bad Greek debt and loans — is to be
split up, with its nonperforming loans and toxic assets going into a
"bad bank." The healthy side will be absorbed into the Bank of
Cyprus.
(AP, 3/25/13)(AP, 3/30/13)
2013 Mar 25, A Dubai court
convicted American businessman Zack Shahin for fraud and sentenced
him to 15 years' imprisonment after a nearly five-year legal battle
that included a hunger strike and a failed attempt to flee.
(AP, 3/25/13)
2013 Mar 25, Egypt’s top
prosecutor issued arrest warrants for 5 rights activists on
suspicion of inciting violence against members of the Muslim
Brotherhood.
(SFC, 3/26/13, p.A2)
2013 Mar 25, Israel's
government said it will resume transferring tax revenues to the
Palestinian Authority.
(AP, 3/25/13)
2013 Mar 25, Kenya’s Supreme
Court ordered the election commission to recount votes in 22 of the
country's 291 constituencies to see if any of the tallies exceed the
number of registered voters.
(AP, 3/25/13)
2013 Mar 25, Libya's foreign
minister said the widow of the late ruler Moammar Gadhafi and other
family members have been granted asylum in Oman.
(AP, 3/25/13)
2013 Mar 25, Malaysia’s PM
Najib Razak announced the creation of the Eastern Sabah Safety Zone.
Authorities said they will resettle people out of the area of Borneo
where fighting in Sabah has left 74 people dead.
(SFC, 3/26/13, p.A4)(SSFC, 3/31/13, p.A4)
2013 Mar 25, Myanmar's
government warned that religious violence could threaten democratic
reforms after anti-Muslim mobs rampaged through three more towns in
the country's predominantly Buddhist heartland.
(AP, 3/25/13)
2013 Mar 25, TNT Express NV, a
Dutch-based package delivery company, said it will restructure
operations, taking €150 million ($195 million) in charges and
cutting 4,000 jobs, or 6 percent of its work force, by the end of
2015. A takeover by UPS was blocked by European regulators in
January.
(AP, 3/25/13)
2013 Mar 25, Peru's government
declared an environmental state of emergency in a remote Amazon
jungle region it says has been affected by years of contamination at
the country's most productive oil fields, which are currently
operated by Argentina-based Pluspetrol.
(AP, 3/25/13)
2013 Mar 25, Russian
prosecutors and tax police searched the Moscow headquarters of
Amnesty International and several other rights groups, continuing a
wave of pressure that activists say is part of President Vladimir
Putin's attempt to stifle dissent.
(AP, 3/25/13)
2013 Mar 25, South Africa's
president said 13 South African soldiers were killed and 27 wounded
in weekend fighting in the Central African Republic.
(AP, 3/25/13)
2013 Mar 25, In Syria a series
of mortar strikes near a downtown traffic circle in Damascus killed
two people and wounded several others.
(AP, 3/25/13)
2013 Mar 25, Zimbabwe's High
Court ordered the immediate release of prominent rights lawyer
Beatrice Mtetwa, detained for eight days for obstructing the course
of justice. A free Mtetwa said her arrest was a ploy to intimidate
human rights activists and pro-democracy groups ahead of upcoming
elections expected in July.
(AP, 3/25/13)
2013 Mar 25, Zambia's former
president, Rupiah Banda (76), was arrested by police for alleged
abuse of authority and corruption. He was released on bail of Kwacha
500,000 ($100,000) and ordered to turn in his passport.
(AP, 3/26/13)
2014 Mar 25, The US Coast Guard
partially reopened the Houston Ship Channel following the March 22
collision between an oil barge and a bulk carrier near Texas City.
170,000 gallons of tar-like coal were spilled.
(SFC, 3/26/14, p.A6)
2014 Mar 25, Utah’s Gov. Gary
Herbert signed a law that allows parents of children with severe
epilepsy to obtain marijuana extract to help with seizures.
(SFC, 3/25/14, p.A6)
2014 Mar 25, Facebook said it
has agreed to purchase Oculus VR, a startup specializing in virtual
reality, for $2.3 billion in cash and stock.
(SFC, 3/26/14, p.A1)
2014 Mar 25, King Digital,
ticker KING, raised $500 million from the sale of 22.2 million
shares. Established in 2002, King's business has soared in the last
two years thanks to the spectacular popularity of Candy Crush Saga,
which boasts some 97 million players worldwide.
(AFP, 3/26/14)
2014 Mar 25, In Afghanistan
suicide bombers and gunmen attacked an election commission office
beside the home of presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani, less than
two weeks before a crucial election. 10 people were killed including
2 policemen, an election worker and a provincial council candidate.
3 suicide bombers entered a branch of Kabulbank in the eastern
province of Kunar, killing at least 3 security guards and injuring
two bank workers.
(Reuters, 3/25/14)(Reuters, 3/29/14)
2014 Mar 25, The Arab League
held a summit in Kuwait. UN peace mediator for Syria, Lakhdar
Brahimi, called for an end the flow of arms to the combatants in the
war.
(Reuters, 3/25/14)
2014 Mar 25, Royal Mail,
Britain's main postal operator, said it plans to axe 1,600 jobs
under a fresh cost-cutting program, six months after its
controversial part-privatization by the government.
(AFP, 3/25/14)
2014 Mar 25, China's eastern
city of Hangzhou said will start restricting car sales on March 26,
joining major cities, including Shanghai and Beijing, in the fight
against snarling traffic and heavy smog in the world's largest
automobile market.
(Reuters, 3/25/14)
2014 Mar 25, Egypt's leader of
the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie (70), and 682 others
went on trial on charges including murder. Defense lawyers boycotted
the court session, attended by 60 of the defendants, after
complaining of irregularities. Reporters were barred from the
courtroom.
(Reuters, 3/25/14)
2014 Mar 25, Indian police
arrested Tehseen Akhtar (23), the alleged head of militant group the
Indian Mujahideen. The group was blamed for a string of deadly
attacks including one at a rally in October by election frontrunner
Narendra Modi.
(AFP, 3/25/14)
2014 Mar 25, Ireland's police
chief Martin Callinan resigned following months of criticism of his
force's handling of allegations of illegal wire-tapping and corrupt
enforcement of traffic laws.
(AP, 3/25/14)
2014 Mar 25, Kenya’s wildlife
authority said it needs help to curb the killings of elephants and
rhinos for their tusks and horns. Poachers this year have killed 18
rhinos and 51 elephants.
(SFC, 3/26/14, p.A2)
2014 Mar 25, Myanmar said it
will ban the export of logs starting April 1 to reduce deforestation
and boost its wood-based industry by exporting only value-added
products. Myanmar's forest cover shrank from 57.9 percent of its
total land area in 1990 to 47.6 percent in 2005.
(AP, 3/25/14)
2014 Mar 25, NATO member Norway
suspended all joint activities with the Russian military through May
because of Moscow's annexation of Crimea.
(AP, 3/25/14)
2014 Mar 25, In the Netherlands
35 countries pledged to turn international guidelines on nuclear
security into national laws, a move aimed at preventing terrorists
from getting their hands on nuclear material.
(AP, 3/25/14)
2014 Mar 25, In the Netherlands
US President Barack Obama, Japanese PM Shinzo Abe and South Korean
President Park Geun-hye met to discuss North Korea's security
threat.
(AP, 3/26/14)
2014 Mar 25, Dutch police
detained 28 anti-nuclear demonstrators at a reactor ahead of a visit
by a delegation of energy sector bosses.
(Reuters, 3/25/14)
2014 Mar 25, In northeastern
Nigeria two explosions in Maiduguri killed 11 people, including 5
policemen who were believed to have been targeted.
(AFP, 3/25/14)
2014 Mar 25, In central Nigeria
police recovered 7 bodies following an attack on Agena village,
Benue state, in renewed violence between herdsmen and farmers.
(AFP, 3/26/14)
2014 Mar 25, Singapore
authorities intercepted about one ton of ivory worth $1.6 million in
a shipping container from Africa marked as carrying coffee berries.
(AFP, 4/3/14)
2014 Mar 25, Sudan said a
pro-government militia has killed 151 rebels in clashes this week in
the country's restive Darfur region.
(AP, 3/25/14)
2014 Mar 25, Syria's opposition
fighters seized Samra a Mediterranean coastal village as they pushed
to consolidate their presence in a key regime bastion near the
Turkish border.
(AFP, 3/25/14)
2014 Mar 25, Thai police seized
147 kg (323 pounds) of heroin they believe was from Myanmar and
destined for Australia. The single haul exceeded some of Thailand's
recent yearly seizure totals.
(AP, 3/26/14)
2014 Mar 25, Turkish special
forces raided buildings in Istanbul used by suspected members of an
Islamist militant group active in neighboring Syria and Iraq,
leaving three policemen and two suspects wounded.
(Reuters, 3/26/14)
2014 Mar 25, Ukraine lawmakers
accepted the resignation of the defense minister Igor Tenyukh as
thousands of troops began withdrawing from the Crimean Peninsula,
now controlled by Russia. Col. Gen. Mikhail Kovalyov was voted in as
his replacement.
(AP, 3/25/14)
2014 Mar 25, Oleksander
Muzychko, a prominent Ukrainian far-right activist, was shot dead by
police overnight as he tried to escape from a cafe in the western
region of Rivne. Police said he was wanted for "hooliganism" and an
attack on a local prosecutor.
(Reuters, 3/25/14)
2014 Mar 25, The United Nations
human rights office said an Egyptian court's decision to sentence
529 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to death contravened
international law.
(Reuters, 3/25/14)
2014 Mar 25, Venezuela’s Pres.
Maduro said officials have arrested three air force generals on
charges of plotting a coup.
(SFC, 3/26/14, p.A2)
2014 Mar 25, The World Health
Organization published a report saying air pollution kills about 7
million people worldwide every year, with more than half of the
fatalities due to fumes from indoor stoves.
(AP, 3/25/14)
2015 Mar 25, The US government
and major business leaders renewed their call on the Thai government
to crack down on slavery in its fishing fleets, and to punish people
who force migrant workers to catch seafood that can end up in the
United States.
(AP, 3/26/15)
2015 Mar 25, The US Supreme
Court in a 5-4 decision threw out a lower court ruling that upheld a
state legislature redistricting plan in Alabama that packed black
voters into certain districts in a way critics say diminished their
clout at the polls.
(Reuters, 3/25/15)
2015 Mar 25, The US Army
charged Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl with desertion and misbehavior before the
enemy for leaving his post in Afghanistan in June, 2009.
(SFC, 3/27/15, p.A7)
2015 Mar 25, The United States
and its allies staged 19 air strikes on Islamic State targets in
Syria and Iraq over the last 24 hours.
(Reuters, 3/25/15)
2015 Mar 25, California
announced legal action to suppress a "reprehensible" ballot
initiative to outlaw homosexuality -- on pain of execution. The
proposal was submitted by lawyer Matthew McLaughlin to the
California Attorney General's office late last month.
(AFP, 3/25/15)
2015 Mar 25, In southern
California Giseleangelique Rene D'Milian (47) was arrested for
plotting to kidnap two babies, including one found dead on January 4
in a dumpster, and attacking their mothers in a bizarre scheme to
fool her boyfriend into thinking she birthed their twins.
(Reuters, 3/25/15)(SFC, 3/28/15, p.A5)
2015 Mar 25, Facebook announced
that it has started to turn its Messenger service into a platform on
top of which other firms can develop content and apps.
(Econ., 3/28/15, p.68)
2015 Mar 25, In Afghanistan a
suicide bomber detonated a car full of explosives in downtown Kabul
killing at least 7 people.
(SFC, 3/26/15, p.A2)
2015 Mar 25, In Chile
communities in a northern desert region struggled to cope with
rain-provoked flooding. At least 24 people were killed as power was
knocked out and roadways cut off. The interior ministry declared a
state of emergency.
(AP, 3/26/15)(AFP, 3/27/15)(AP, 4/2/15)
2015 Mar 25, A number of pilots
at Lufthansa's low-cost subsidiary Germanwings refused to fly
following the deadly crash a day earlier in the French Alps, saying
they were mourning the victims of the doomed aircraft.
(AFP, 3/25/15)
2015 Mar 25, It was reported
that workers in Mexico’s state of Baja California have led a week of
violent protests over low pay, abuses and poor conditions at
large-export-oriented farms.
(SFC, 3/25/15, p.A2)
2015 Mar 25, Pakistani military
jets killed 30 militants in the Tirah Valley of the Khyber tribal
region. The army said 80 militants were killed in the area over the
weekend with 7 government soldiers also killed.
(SFC, 3/26/15, p.A2)
2015 Mar 25, A Polish court
sentenced former priest Wojciech Gill to seven years in prison for
abusing six minors in the Dominican Republic between 2009 and 2013,
as well as two in Poland in 2001-2002.
(SFC, 3/26/15, p.A2)
2015 Mar 25, Russian President
Vladimir Putin fired the governor of a far-flung region who has been
arrested on charges of corruption. Alexander Khoroshavin, governor
of the island of Sakhalin just north of Japan, was arrested earlier
this month on suspicion of receiving a bribe for building a power
station.
(AP, 3/25/15)
2015 Mar 25, The Saudi
ambassador to the United States announced that his country had
initiated airstrikes against the Houthi rebels in Yemen. The Saudi
operation was called “Decisive Storm." King Salman gathered a
10-country coalition of Sunni states to bomb the Houthis.
(AFP, 3/25/15)(SSFC, 4/5/15, p.A4)(Econ, 5/23/15,
p.18)
2015 Mar 25, Syrian rebels
seized an ancient town near the Jordan border that is a key
government stronghold, ousting Syrian soldiers and allied militiamen
from the region after four days of intense battles. 11 soldiers and
allied militia as well as 17 insurgents were killed as an alliance
of Islamist rebels including al Qaeda's Nusra Front overran 17
defense posts around Idlib in an offensive to take the city from the
army and allied militia.
(AP, 3/25/15) (Reuters,
3/26/15)
2015 Mar 25, Thailand security
forces killed 4 people when they raided a village in Pattani, one of
three Muslim-dominated provinces bordering Malaysia, as part of an
operation to arrest rebels. On April 8 an investigating team said
the four Muslim men were not members of any extremist group and
called for legal action against those responsible.
(Reuters, 4/7/15)
2015 Mar 25, A Uganda health
official said an outbreak of typhoid has infected hundreds of people
in the capital, Kampala.
(SFC, 3/26/15, p.A2)
2015 Mar 25, Ukraine President
Petro Poroshenko forced Igor Kolomoisky to step down as head of the
key industrial region of Dnipropetrovsk, after a dispute over
control of the main state oil and gas company ended up with armed
men storming two office blocks in Kiev.
(AFP, 3/25/15)(Econ., 3/28/15, p.55)
2015 Mar 25, Ukraine arrested
two top officials on graft charges at a televised cabinet meeting
hours after the president sacked a powerful oligarch as regional
governor. Police detained Sergiy Bochkovsky, director of Ukraine's
state emergencies service, and his deputy Vasyl Stoyetsky, accusing
them of "high-level" corruption.
(AFP, 3/26/15)
2015 Mar 25, In Vietnam least
14 people were killed and 30 injured late today when a huge
scaffolding collapsed at an industrial complex owned by Taiwan’s
Formosa Plastics group in the Vung Ang economic zone of Vietnam’s Ha
Tinh province. In December a court sentenced two South Koreans and
two Vietnamese to prison for committing safety violations in the
collapse that killed 13 people and injured 29 others.
(Reuters, 3/26/15)(AP, 12/21/15)
2015 Mar 25, Yemen Pres. Abed
Rabu Mansour Hadi fled the country by sea as Shiite rebels and their
allies moved on his last refuge in the south.
(SFC, 3/26/15, p.A4)
2016 Mar 25, The United States
and its allies targeted Islamic State militants in Iraq with 22
strikes and four in Syria.
(Reuters, 3/26/16)
2016 Mar 25, A federal judge in
San Diego sentenced Navy Capt. Daniel Dusek, who oversaw operations
in the US Pacific Fleet, to 46 months in prison for providing
classified information to a Malaysian defense contractor in exchange
for luxury hotel stays and the services of prostitutes.
(AP, 3/25/16)
2016 Mar 25, In Bangladesh
thousands of Muslims rallied in Dhaka to denounce a court petition
seeking to remove Islam as the country's official state religion.
(AP, 3/25/16)
2016 Mar 25, In the Congo DRC
UN helicopter gunships attacked Ugandan rebels active in the
volatile east, inflicting casualties.
(AFP, 3/25/16)
2016 Mar 25, In Cuba Mick
Jagger and the Rolling Stones performed a free concert for hundreds
of thousands in Havana.
(AFP, 3/26/16)
2016 Mar 25, Egypt's army
killed 60 gunmen in clashes in the Sinai Peninsula where it is
battling a jihadist insurgency.
(AFP, 3/25/16)
2016 Mar 25, In western
Indonesia rioting prisoners started a fire at the Malabero prison in
Bengkulu on Sumatra Island. Five inmates were killed.
(AP, 3/26/16)
2016 Mar 25, Iran's Pres.
Hassan Rouhani arrived in Pakistan on a landmark visit, his first
since becoming president. Rouhani and Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif
signed a five years strategic action plan aimed at boosting
bilateral trade to the level of US Dollars five billion by 2021.
(AP, 3/25/16) (Reuters,
3/26/16)
2016 Mar 25, Iran's official
IRNA news agency said that an air ambulance helicopter has crashed
in southern Iran, killing all seven onboard.
(AP, 3/25/16)
2016 Mar 25, In Iraq a suicide
attack ripped through a trophy ceremony after a football tournament
and killed 41 people in the Babil province village of Al-Asriya.
Mayor Ahmed Shaker was among the dead, as was one of his bodyguards
and at least 5 members of the security forces.
(AFP, 3/26/16)(AP, 3/26/16)
2016 Mar 25, In Iraq thousands
rallied in Baghdad in support of firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada
al-Sadr. Al-Sadr's associate, Sheik Asad al-Nasiri, delivered a
message from the cleric giving PM Haider al-Abadi 24 hours to
implement wide-ranging reforms.
(AP, 3/25/16)
2016 Mar 25, In Libya
authorities in control of Tripoli declared a "maximum state of
emergency" after a UN-backed unity government that they reject said
its members would head to Tripoli to begin work.
(AFP, 3/25/16)
2016 Mar 25, In Libya an Indian
nurse and her infant son were killed in a rocket attack on their
apartment in Zawiya, a town near Tripoli.
(AP, 3/26/16)
2016 Mar 25, In Myanmar the
Yangon Stock Exchange officially opened for business more than three
months after it was launched in December 2015.
(AP, 3/25/16)
2016 Mar 25, In North Korea
American Kim Tong Chol said he had spied for South Korean
intelligence in a plot to bring down the North’s leadership and
asked for forgiveness at a media presentation.
(AP, 3/25/16)(SFC, 3/26/16, p.A2)
2016 Mar 25, It was reported
that North Koreans are being mobilized en masse to boost production
and demonstrate their loyalty to leader Kim Jong Un in a 70-day
campaign aimed at wiping out "indolence and slackness." To show
their loyalty, workers are putting in extra hours to boost
production in everything from coal mining to fisheries.
(AP, 3/25/16)
2016 Mar 25, Palestinian
Christians and foreign pilgrims marked Good Friday with a procession
through Jerusalem's cobbled Old City amid increased security
measures during an ongoing wave of violence.
(AFP, 3/25/16)
2016 Mar 25, In the Philippines
a devotee was nailed to a cross for the 30th time in an annual Good
Friday ritual, which he dedicated to peace in Belgium and other
countries targeted by Islamic extremists. Ruben Enaje and 14 other
men, some screaming in pain, were nailed to wooden crosses by actors
dressed as Roman centurions in San Pedro Cutud and two other rice
farming villages in Pampanga province north of Manila.
(AP, 3/25/16)
2016 Mar 25, Poland's
environment minister said he has approved a much-protested plan to
allow extensive logging in Bialowieza Forest, Europe's last pristine
forest, arguing it's the way to save it from woodworms.
(AP, 3/25/16)
2016 Mar 25, Russian Defense
Minister Sergei Shoigu said Russia will deploy a range of coastal
missile systems on the far-eastern Kuril islands, claimed by Japan,
as part of its military build-up in the region.
(AFP, 3/25/16)
2016 Mar 25, Russian officials
said the body of a lawyer representing one of two Russian servicemen
on trial in Ukraine has been found buried in an abandoned farm. Two
men have been detained in connection with his murder. Yuri Grabovsky
was representing Alexander Alexandrov, a serviceman captured along
with another Russian, Yevgeny Yerofeyev, last year in rebel-held
eastern Ukraine.
(AP, 3/25/16)
2016 Mar 25, Syrian government
forces recaptured a Mamluk-era citadel in Palmyra from the extremist
Islamic State group, as the fierce battle for control of the
historic town entered its third day.
(AP, 3/25/16)
2016 Mar 25, News reports said
that Abd ar-Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli (aka Haji Imam), the Islamic
State group's second in command, was killed earlier this month. US
Defense Secretary Ash Carter said US forces killed Haji Imam, a
senior Islamic State leader described as the group's finance
minister, among several key members of the militant group eliminated
this week.
(AFP, 3/25/16)(AP, 3/25/16)
2016 Mar 25, In Yemen three
suicide bombings claimed by the Islamic State group struck
checkpoints of loyalist forces in Aden, killing 22 people, including
10 civilians.
(AFP, 3/26/16)
2017 Mar 25, In the SF Bay Area
the first day of full service opened at the new Warm Springs BART
station in Fremont.
(SSFC, 3/26/17, p.C1)
2017 Mar 25, In Nevada a
gunman, later identified as Rolando Cardenas (55), opened fire on a
double-decker bus on the Las Vegas Strip, killing one person and
wounding another before finally surrendering.
(AFP, 3/26/17)(SSFC, 3/26/17, p.A8)(SFC, 3/27/17,
p.A4)
2017 Mar 25, Sydney's Opera
House and Harbour Bridge plunged into darkness to mark Earth Hour,
as global landmarks began dimming their lights to draw attention to
climate change. Conservation group WWF started Earth Hour in 2007.
(AFP, 3/25/17)
2017 Mar 25, In eastern
Bangladesh six people, including two policemen, were killed in
explosions near a building in Sylhet. The Islamic State claimed
responsibility.
(AP, 3/26/17)(Econ, 4/1/17, p.32)
2017 Mar 25, Belarus
authorities detained some 400 people during an attempt to hold a
street protest in the capital Minsk, amid rising public anger over
falling living standards and an unpopular tax on the unemployed.
(Reuters, 3/25/17)(AP, 3/26/17)
2017 Mar 25, Thousands of
people marched through London to protest against Britain leaving the
European Union, just four days before PM Theresa May launches the
start of the formal divorce process from the bloc it joined 44 years
ago.
(Reuters, 3/25/17)
2017 Mar 25, Bulgarian
nationalists kept up their protests at the Turkish border against
Bulgarian citizens living permanently in Turkey who are coming in to
vote in Bulgaria's election.
(AP, 3/25/17)
2017 Mar 25, China’s official
Xinhua news agency reported that China has captured 2,566 fugitives
who had fled to more than 90 countries and regions and recovered 8.6
billion yuan ($1.25 billion) of illicit funds from 2014 to 2016.
(Reuters, 3/25/17)
2017 Mar 25, China prevented
Feng Chongyi, an associate professor at the University of Technology
Sydney, from returning to Sydney because he's suspected of
endangering national security. Feng had been wrapping up a
three-week trip researching human rights lawyers. Chinese
authorities have staged a wide-reaching crackdown on human rights
lawyers across the country since July 2015. On April 1 Feng Chongyi
was allowed to return to Australia.
(AP, 3/26/17)(AP, 4/2/17)
2017 Mar 25, In southern China
an operation platform collapsed at a power plant under construction
in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, killing nine people.
(Reuters, 3/25/17)
2017 Mar 25, Three Egyptian
soldiers were killed in an explosion that hit their armored vehicle
in the northern Sinai peninsula. Another officer managing a
checkpoint was killed by sniper fire.
(Reuters, 3/25/17)(SSFC, 3/26/17, p.A4)
2017 Mar 25, On the 60th
anniversary of the founding of the EU, 27 European leaders signed a
document in Rome enshrining a pledge to give member nations more
freedom to form partial alliances and set policy when unanimity is
out of reach.
(AP, 3/25/17)
2017 Mar 25, Hong Kong
pro-democracy activists and hundreds of supporters marched ahead of
a vote for the city's next leader which they reject as a sham.
(AFP, 3/25/17)
2017 Mar 25, In India one
person was killed and about 14 injured when violence erupted
following a scuffle between Muslim and Hindu school students in PM
Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat.
(Reuters, 3/26/17)
2017 Mar 25, In Italy a woman's
body was found stuffed in a suitcase that was floating at a marina
in the Adriatic port of Rimini.
(AP, 3/27/17)
2017 Mar 25, In Japan a
Vietnamese man held in an immigration detention center died, drawing
fresh attention to conditions in the country's detention system. Van
Huan Nguyen (aka Nguyen The Hung) was one of more than 11,000
refugees that the country took in over the three decades to 2005 in
the aftermath of the Vietnam War. Nguyen had complained of pain
throughout his detention for a week before his death. The death was
the 13th in Japan's detention system since 2006.
(Reuters, 3/26/17)(Reuters, 3/28/17)
2017 Mar 25, In Kyrgyzstan
about 250 people had gathered in Bishkek to demand the release of
Sadyr Japarov, who was arrested when trying to enter the country
earlier in the day. Supporters tried to break through a police
cordon outside the national security agency's headquarters, but
police turned them back with flash grenades. Dozens were arrested.
Japarov had lived the past few years in Cyprus after serving a
prison sentence for organizing a 2013 protest that turned violent.
(AP, 3/25/17)
2017 Mar 25, Maldives’ former
President Mohamed Nasheed said that he has signed an agreement with
his one-time archrival and former strongman to try to restore
democracy in the archipelago state.
(AP, 3/25/17)
2017 Mar 25, Mali's main Tuareg
separatist factions said they would boycott talks with the
government next week on implementing a nearly 2-year-old peace
accord that has been riven by quarrelling.
(Reuters, 3/25/17)
2017 Mar 25, In Mexico about
100 journalists and free-speech supporters demonstrated to protest
the March 23 killing of reporter Miroslava Breach gunned down in the
northern state of Chihuahua.
(AP, 3/25/17)
2017 Mar 25, Pakistan said it
has started building a fence along the Afghan border in areas where
it says militants have launched cross-border attacks.
(AP, 3/26/17)
2017 Mar 25, Philippine
soldiers rescued one of two Filipino cargo ship crewmen taken
captive just two days ago by suspected Abu Sayyaf militants. Aurelio
Agacac, the ship captain, was freed in the remote village of
Basakan, Basilan province.
(Reuters, 3/25/17)
2017 Mar 25, In the southern
Philippines at least four people were killed and 23 others wounded
in a grenade attack that appeared to be unrelated to terrorism. The
attacker was arrested following the blast in Busbus village near the
domestic airport in Sulu province's Jolo town.
(AP, 3/26/17)
2017 Mar 25, In South Sudan six
aid workers working for the Grass Roots Empowerment for Development
Organization (GREDO), were killed in an ambush while traveling from
the capital Juba towards the town of Pibor. The death toll soon rose
to seven after the driver, David Kim Choop, also died.
(Reuters, 3/27/17)(AFP, 3/27/17)(SFC, 3/28/17,
p.A2)
2017 Mar 25, In Syria
airstrikes hit a main street in the Damascus suburb of Hamouriyeh
killing at least 16 people and wounded more than 50. Airstrikes in
Idlib province hit several towns and villages as well as the
provincial capital the carries the same name. Syria's army and its
allies retook a village near Hama, as the government tried to turn
back a major insurgent offensive.
(AP, 3/25/17)(Reuters, 3/25/17)
2017 Mar 25, In Yemen 16 rebels
were killed and 24 wounded over the last 24 hours in air raids by a
Saudi-led coalition targeting the insurgents on an air base and arms
depot in the east of the rebel-held Hodeida province.
(AFP, 3/25/17)
2018 Mar 25, Linda Brown (75),
a key figure in the 1954 school segregation case (Brown vs Bosrd of
Education of Topeka), died in Topeka, Kansas. Her father, Oliver
Brown (d.1961), had tried to enroll her into an all-white school and
became the lead plaintiff in the Supreme Court case that struck down
racial segregation in public schools.
(SFC, 3/28/18, p.D2)
2018 Mar 25, Remington, a
company that began making flintlock rifles when there were only 19
United States, filed for bankruptcy protection in Delaware.
(AP, 3/26/18)(SFC, 3/27/18, p.D2)
2018 Mar 25, In West Virginia
two firefighters were killed then their fire truck hit a rock wall
while responding to another deadly accident that left three people
dead.
(SFC, 3/26/18, p.A5)
2018 Mar 25, In western
Afghanistan a suicide attack near a Shi'ite mosque in the city of
Herat killed at least one person and wounded eight others.
(Reuters, 3/25/18)
2018 Mar 25, Testing of
Albania's first ever toll road began and sparked complaints and
anger from drivers and from neighboring Kosovo over the cost of
using the 110-km (70-mile) highway linking Milot, near the Adriatic
coast, to the Morine border.
(AP, 3/26/18)
2018 Mar 25, In Belarus scores
of protesters were arrested in Minsk as supporters of the country's
repressed opposition tried to hold a march. President Alexander
Lukashenko allowed March 25 to be publicly celebrated this year for
the first time in his 24-year rule.
(AP, 3/25/18)(AFP, 3/25/18)
2018 Mar 25, The maiden flight
of a new non-stop regular passenger service between Australia and
Britain touched down at London's Heathrow Airport. The new link with
Perth, a 14,498-km (9,009-mile) journey, is around three hours
quicker than routes that involve stopovers in the Middle East to
change planes or refuel.
(AP, 3/25/18)
2018 Mar 25, Cameroon held
senate elections, as tensions continued to soar in the
French-majority country's anglophone regions where separatist rebels
have been fighting government forces for several months. Some 10,000
municipal councilors voted for 70 members of the upper house for a
duration of five years.
(AP, 3/25/18)
2018 Mar 25, China's new
central bank governor, Yi Gang, outlined sweeping plans to rein in
rising debt and financial risk, but expressed confidence that
Beijing can prevent potential dangers.
(AP, 3/25/18)
2018 Mar 25, A Dubai court
sentenced British journalist Francis Matthew (61) to 10 years in
jail followed by deportation for bludgeoning to death his wife with
a hammer last summer.
(Reuters, 3/25/18)
2018 Mar 25, Egyptian
authorities said police killed six militants believed to be involved
in a weekend bombing in the coastal city of Alexandria that killed
two policemen.
(AP, 3/26/18)
2018 Mar 25, The EU said it was
"extremely concerned" about DR Congo after the country announced it
would decline a $1.7 billion international aid package. The United
Nations has declared the humanitarian crisis in the DR Congo to be a
Level 3, the UN's highest-level emergency.
(AFP, 3/25/18)
2018 Mar 25, Carles Puigdemont,
the fugitive ex-leader of Catalonia and ardent separatist, was
arrested by German police on an international warrant as he tried to
enter the country from Denmark. Puigdemont faces charges in Spain
including rebellion that could put him in prison for up to 30 years.
(AP, 3/25/18)
2018 Mar 25, Israeli jets
pounded Hamas positions in Gaza overnight after Palestinians staged
a cross-border raid into southern Israel. The planes hit a base of
Hamas's armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, causing damage
but no injuries.
(AFP, 3/25/18)
2018 Mar 25, In Mexico gunfire
from a helicopter supporting marines against cartel gunmen killed a
female passerby and her two children during a confused series of
pre-dawn gun battles in the northern border city of Nuevo Laredo.
One marine was also killed and 12 were wounded. Four gunmen also
died.
(AP, 4/7/18)
2018 Mar 25, In southern Mexico
a "caravan" of more than 1,200 Central American migrants, organized
by the immigrant advocacy group Pueblo Sin Fronteras, began at
Tapachula and headed to the US border. Its members were
disproportionately from Honduras.
(Reuters, 4/3/18)
2018 Mar 25, In Moldova the
former president of Romania Traian Basescu joined more than 10,000
people in Chisinau to rally in support of reunification between
Romania and Moldova. The issue highlighted a divide in Moldova
between pro-Western and Moscow-backed political factions ahead of
elections in November.
(Reuters, 3/25/18)
2018 Mar 25, Japanese PM Shinzo
Abe, his ratings in a slump amid a suspected cronyism scandal and
cover-up, apologized again for causing anxiety and loss of
confidence in his government.
(Reuters, 3/25/18)
2018 Mar 25, In central Mali
six people were found dead in a mass grave. Villagers later said
they had been arrested by the military three days earlier.
(Reuters, 4/3/18)
2018 Mar 25, In Niger four
leading opposition and rights figure were among 23 people arrested
after a protest against new taxes degenerated into clashes between
demonstrators and police.
(AFP, 3/27/18)
2018 Mar 25, In Russia at least
64 people died in a fire that broke out in a multi-story shopping
center in the Siberian city of Kemerovo. Dozens of children were
feared to be among the dead.
(AP, 3/25/18)(Reuters, 3/26/18)
2018 Mar 25, In Somalia a car
bomb exploded near parliament headquarters in Mogadishu, killing at
least four people along with the driver. A few hours earlier,
another car bomb outside the capital killed one person plus the
driver.
(AP, 3/25/18)
2018 Mar 25, Nearly 2,000
Syrian rebels and civilians began leaving a ravaged pocket of
Eastern Ghouta, in fresh evacuations that further emptied the former
rebel bastion.
(AFP, 3/25/18)
2018 Mar 25, Turkmenistan held
parliamentary elections that included candidates from three parties
and some independents, but no real opposition to President
Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov (60). Serdar Berdymukhamedov (36), the
son of the authoritarian president, scored a huge victory in the
tightly controlled parliamentary elections. Turkmenistan has no
tradition of competitive elections or political opposition.
(AP, 3/25/18)(AFP, 3/30/18)
