RPT-Reuters historical calendar - March 25
March 18 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major events to have occurred on March 25 in history:
1911 - New York's worst industrial fire swept through a factory owned by the Triangle Shirtwaist Company, killing 146 immigrant women.
1918 - Claude Debussy, French composer, died.
1924 - King George of Greece was deposed and a republic proclaimed.
1949 - Laurence Olivier's "Hamlet" won five Oscars and was the first British film to win an Academy Award.
1957 - Six European countries signed the Treaty of Rome, pledging to set up a Common Market from January 1, 1958. The organisation developed into the European Union.
1975 - King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was murdered by his nephew Prince Faisal. He was succeeded by his brother, Khaled ibn Abdul-Aziz.
1990 - A fire swept through a packed, unlicensed nightclub in New York, killing 87 people.
1994 - The last U.S. troops left Somalia after a 15-month peace mission, leaving only a depleted U.N. force behind.
1996 - Abel Goodman, the world's first patient to receive a permanent electric heart, died in Britain.
1999 - Fire trapped at least 30 vehicles in the tunnel under Mont Blanc connecting France and Italy, killing 40 people.
2003 - Serbian police arrested Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic's suspected assassin, identified as Zvezdan Jovanovic, a deputy commander of the JSO, a war-hardened special police unit set up during the rule of Slobodan Milosevic.
2005 - The United States decided to allow the sale of F-16 fighters to Pakistan, which had been blocked for 15 years over Islamabad's nuclear weapons programme.
2006 - U.S. singer Buck Owens, who sold more than 16 million albums and popularised country entertainment on television as host of "Hee Haw," died.
2008 - The people of the reclusive Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan delivered a stunning verdict in their first ever parliamentary polls, embracing democracy but overwhelmingly rejecting the king's relatives.
2008 - Abby Mann, who won an Oscar for writing the 1961 drama "Judgment at Nuremberg" and devoted his career to exposing failings in the U.S. criminal justice system, died.
2009 - U.S. historian and civil rights advocate John Hope Franklin, credited with helping create the field of African-American history, died aged 94.
2009 - Former catcher Johnny Blanchard, who played in five consecutive World Series for the New York Yankees, died.
REUTERS
