WHAT HAPPENED ON 25. MARCH
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The Belarusian People's Republic is established. (25. March 1918)

On the anniversary of Greek Independence, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the Second Hellenic Republic. (25. March 1924)

The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape. (25. March 1931)

The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact. (25. March 1941)

An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111. (25. March 1947)

The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. (25. March 1948)

The extensive deportation campaign known as March deportation is conducted in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to force collectivisation by way of terror. The Soviet authorities deport more than 92,000 people from the Baltics to remote areas of the Soviet Union. (25. March 1949)

United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on the grounds of obscenity. (25. March 1957)

The European Economic Community is established (West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg). (25. March 1957)

Canada's Avro Arrow makes its first flight. (25. March 1958)

Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama. (25. March 1965)

During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31). (25. March 1969)

Bangladesh Liberation War: Beginning of Operation Searchlight by the Pakistani Armed Forces against East Pakistani civilians. (25. March 1971)

The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandon an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos. (25. March 1971)

Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew. (25. March 1975)

The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch. (25. March 1979)

The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. (25. March 1988)

The Happy Land fire was an arson fire that kills 87 people trapped inside an illegal nightclub in the New York City borough of The Bronx. (25. March 1990)

Pakistan national cricket team won the 1992 Cricket World Cup first time in the history of cricket, Final was played at Melbourne Cricket Ground . (25. March 1992)

Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station. (25. March 1992)

   
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