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Events

• 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.

Births

• 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

Deaths

• 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)

All 418 events, births and deaths of March 25