March 25
1634 - Maryland was founded by English colonists set by the second Lord Baltimore.
1807 - Britain abolished its slave trade.
1894 - Jacob S. Coxey began leading an "army" of the unemployed from Massillon, Ohio to Washington, D.C. to demand help from the federal government.
1957 - The Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community.
1965 - The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 marchers to the state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks.
1975 - King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot to death by a nephew with a history of mental illness.
1988 - Robert E. Chambers Jr. pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the death of 18-year-old Jennifer Levin in New York City's so-called "preppie murder case".
1992 - Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returned to Earth from the Mir space station after a 10-month stay, during which his native country, the Soviet Union, ceased to exist.
1994 - American troops completed their withdrawal from Somalia.
1996 - An 81-day standoff by the antigovernment Freemen began at a ranch near Jordan, Montana.
1996 - The redesigned $100 bill went into circulation.
1998 - President Bill Clinton acknowledged during his Africa tour that "we did not act quickly enough" to stop the slaughter of 1 million Rwandans four years earlier.
2002 - A powerful earthquake rocked Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan, killing as many as 1,000 people.
Birthdays
31 - Katharine McPhee (pop singer)
33 - Danica Patrick (race car driver)
36 - Lee Pace (actor)
39 - Vladimir Klitschko (boxer)
41 - Lark Voorhies (actress)
50 - Sarah Jessica Parker (actress)
53 - Marcia Cross (actress)
68 - Elton John (singer/musician)
73 - Aretha Franklin (R&B singer)
81 - Gloria Steinem (author)
87 - James Lovell (astronaut)
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Today in Sports History - March 25
1934 - Horton Smith won the first Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Georgia.
1947 - Holy Cross defeated Oklahoma 58-47 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1958 - Sugar Ray Robinson regained the middleweight boxing championship for the fifth time, defeating Carmen Basilio in Chicago.
1961 - Cincinnati put an end to Ohio State's 32-game winning streak with a 70-65 win in the championship game of the NCAA Tournament.
1967 - UCLA defeated Dayton 79-64 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1972 - Maryland defeated Niagara 100-69 to win the NIT Tournament, the first time a college team scored 100 or more points in the finals of a major postseason tournament.
1972 - Bobby Hull joined Gordie Howe to become only the second NHL player to score 600 career goals.
1972 - UCLA defeated Florida State 81-76 to win the NCAA Tournament. The win concluded a perfect 30-0 season for the Bruins and extended a 45-game winning streak.
1982 - Wayne Gretzky became the first player in NHL history to score 200 points in a season.
1995 - Mike Tyson was released from prison after serving three years for rape.
1997 - The Hartford Whalers announced that they would move from Connecticut following the 1996-97 season and become the Carolina Hurricanes.
1997 - The San Antonio Spurs defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 64-59 in the second lowest scoring game in NBA history since the inception of the shot clock.
2013 - George Mason University left the Colonial Athletic Association to join the Atlantic-10 Conference.
2014 - Longtime Buffalo Bills owner Ralph Wilson died at the age of 95.
1634 - Maryland was founded by English colonists set by the second Lord Baltimore.
1807 - Britain abolished its slave trade.
1894 - Jacob S. Coxey began leading an "army" of the unemployed from Massillon, Ohio to Washington, D.C. to demand help from the federal government.
1957 - The Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community.
1965 - The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 marchers to the state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks.
1975 - King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot to death by a nephew with a history of mental illness.
1988 - Robert E. Chambers Jr. pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the death of 18-year-old Jennifer Levin in New York City's so-called "preppie murder case".
1992 - Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returned to Earth from the Mir space station after a 10-month stay, during which his native country, the Soviet Union, ceased to exist.
1994 - American troops completed their withdrawal from Somalia.
1996 - An 81-day standoff by the antigovernment Freemen began at a ranch near Jordan, Montana.
1996 - The redesigned $100 bill went into circulation.
1998 - President Bill Clinton acknowledged during his Africa tour that "we did not act quickly enough" to stop the slaughter of 1 million Rwandans four years earlier.
2002 - A powerful earthquake rocked Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan, killing as many as 1,000 people.
Birthdays
31 - Katharine McPhee (pop singer)
33 - Danica Patrick (race car driver)
36 - Lee Pace (actor)
39 - Vladimir Klitschko (boxer)
41 - Lark Voorhies (actress)
50 - Sarah Jessica Parker (actress)
53 - Marcia Cross (actress)
68 - Elton John (singer/musician)
73 - Aretha Franklin (R&B singer)
81 - Gloria Steinem (author)
87 - James Lovell (astronaut)
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Today in Sports History - March 25
1934 - Horton Smith won the first Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Georgia.
1947 - Holy Cross defeated Oklahoma 58-47 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1958 - Sugar Ray Robinson regained the middleweight boxing championship for the fifth time, defeating Carmen Basilio in Chicago.
1961 - Cincinnati put an end to Ohio State's 32-game winning streak with a 70-65 win in the championship game of the NCAA Tournament.
1967 - UCLA defeated Dayton 79-64 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1972 - Maryland defeated Niagara 100-69 to win the NIT Tournament, the first time a college team scored 100 or more points in the finals of a major postseason tournament.
1972 - Bobby Hull joined Gordie Howe to become only the second NHL player to score 600 career goals.
1972 - UCLA defeated Florida State 81-76 to win the NCAA Tournament. The win concluded a perfect 30-0 season for the Bruins and extended a 45-game winning streak.
1982 - Wayne Gretzky became the first player in NHL history to score 200 points in a season.
1995 - Mike Tyson was released from prison after serving three years for rape.
1997 - The Hartford Whalers announced that they would move from Connecticut following the 1996-97 season and become the Carolina Hurricanes.
1997 - The San Antonio Spurs defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 64-59 in the second lowest scoring game in NBA history since the inception of the shot clock.
2013 - George Mason University left the Colonial Athletic Association to join the Atlantic-10 Conference.
2014 - Longtime Buffalo Bills owner Ralph Wilson died at the age of 95.
