5 Farvardin 1373 | Friday 25 March 1994

This day in four calendars

1655 (371 years ago) Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
1911 (115 years ago) Andrey Yushchinsky is murdered in Kiev, leading to the Beilis affair.
1932 (94 years ago) The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is unveiled in Athens.
1957 (69 years ago) The European Economic Community is established with West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg as the first members.
1959 (67 years ago) Chain Island is sold by the State of California to Russell Gallaway III, a Sacramento businessman who plans to use it as a "hunting and fishing retreat", for $5,258.20 ($58,072 in 2025).
1971 (55 years ago) The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandon an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos.
1996 (30 years ago) The European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy).
2006 (20 years ago) Protesters demanding a new election in Belarus, following the rigged 2006 Belarusian presidential election, clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested.

1347 (679 years ago) Catherine of Siena, Italian philosopher, theologian, and saint (died 1380)
1881 (145 years ago) Béla Bartók, Hungarian pianist and composer (died 1945)
1914 (112 years ago) Norman Borlaug, American agronomist and humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2009)
1934 (92 years ago) Gloria Steinem, American feminist activist, co-founded the Women's Media Center (died 2026)
1942 (84 years ago) Aretha Franklin, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 2018)
1947 (79 years ago) Elton John, English singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor
1965 (61 years ago) Sarah Jessica Parker, American actress, producer, and designer
1972 (54 years ago) Naftali Bennett, Israeli politician, 13th Prime Minister of Israel

1223 (803 years ago) Alfonso II, king of Portugal (born 1185)
1801 (225 years ago) Novalis, German poet and author (born 1772)
1914 (112 years ago) Frédéric Mistral, French lexicographer and poet, 1904 Nobel Prize laureate (born 1830)
1918 (108 years ago) Claude Debussy, French composer (born 1862)
1931 (95 years ago) Ida B. Wells, American journalist and activist (born 1862)
1975 (51 years ago) Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabian king (born 1906)
1976 (50 years ago) Josef Albers, German-American painter and educator (born 1888)
2012 (14 years ago) Antonio Tabucchi, Italian author and academic (born 1943)