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March 25 is the 84th day of the year (85th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 281 days remain until the end of the year. Until 1752 it was the official date of the beginning of the year in England (in Julian calendar ).
In England, Lady Day was New Year's Day (i.e., the new year began on 25 March) from 1155 [6] until 1752, when the Gregorian calendar was adopted in Great Britain and its Empire and with it the first of January as the official start of the year in England, Wales and Ireland. [6] (Scotland changed its new year's day to 1 January in 1600, but ...
From the earliest recorded history, the feast has been celebrated on 25 March, commemorating both the belief that the spring equinox was not only the day of God's act of Creation but also the beginning of Christ's redemption of that same Creation. Christian antiquity held 25 March as the actual day of Jesus' death. [7]
Aretha Louise Franklin (/ ə ˈ r iː θ ə / ə-REE-thə; March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. [2] Honored as the "Queen of Soul", she was twice named by Rolling Stone magazine as the greatest singer of all time.
Women's History Month. World Music Therapy Day. Zero Discrimination Day. ... American Chocolate Week, National Anonymous Giving Week - March 19 to 25: National Introverts Week - March 20 to 26.
1894 - Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C. 1911 - In New York City the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers. 1931 - The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape. 1947 - An explosion in a coalmine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
Aquamarine stones for March birthstone. As winter’s chill gives way to spring’s optimism, March babies have not one but two glittering birthstone options: aquamarine and bloodstone.
The International Day of the Unborn Child is an annual commemoration of unborn children, observed as a day of opposition to abortion, on March 25. It was established by Pope John Paul II to coincide with the Feast of the Annunciation. John Paul II viewed the day as "a positive option in favour of life and the spread of a culture for life to ...