March 25

1306 – Robert the Bruce, one of the great grandsons of King David I, is crowned King of Scots at the Abbey at Scone, Scotland, the capitol at the time.

1584 – Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.

1655 – Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.

1911 – A fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers in New York City.

1917 – The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly – basically being independent from a higher religious authority – that had been abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.

1947 – An explosion at the No. 5 coal mine Centralia, Illinois kills 111 of the 142 miners working there.

1948 – The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.

1957 – The beginning of the European Union (EU) , the European Economic Community is established with West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg as the first members.

1965 – Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King Jr. successfully complete their march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.

1979 – The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.

1996 – The European Union’s Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its byproducts as a result of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy commonly called ‘mad cow disease’.

2006 –  A gunman kills 6 people and wounds 2 more at a party in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, before committing suicide