Today in History for 25th March 2022:
Historical Events
1895 – Italian troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1919 – Woodrow Wilson’s dream of a League of Nations becomes a reality after the League Covenant is adopted at the Paris Peace Conference
1951 – E Purcell and EM Ewen detect 21-cm radiation at Harvard physics lab
1979 – PGA Tournament Players Championship, Sawgrass CC: Lanny Wadkins wins in windy conditions, 5 strokes ahead of runner-up Tom Watson
1997 – “Life After Death” second studio album by The Notorious B.I.G. is released (Billboard Song of the Year 1997)
2006 – Protesters demanding a re-election in Belarus following the rigged Belarusian presidential election, 2006 clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested.
Famous Birthdays
1909 – Dutch (Emil) Leonard, baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox, 1.01 ERA 1914)
1949 – Kaja Danczowska, Polish classical violinist, and teacher, born in Krakow, Poland
1960 – Haywood Nelson, American actor (Haywood-Grady, Dwayne-What’s Happening), born in NYC, New York
1965 – Avery Johnson, NBA guard (San Antonio Spurs)
1976 – Wladimir Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer (2-time world heavyweight champion; Olympic gold super-heavyweight 1996), born in Semey, Kazakhstan
1980 – Joe King, American rock guitarist and songwriter (The Fray), born in Colorado
Famous Deaths
1914 – Frederic Mistral, French poet (Nobel Prize for Literature 1904), dies at 83
1957 – Max Ophüls, German director (The Earrings of Madame de…), dies at 54
1995 – Peter Herbert Penwarden, English priest, dies at 73
2007 – Andranik Margaryan, 14th Prime Minister of Armenia (2000-07), dies at 57
2009 – Johnny Blanchard, American baseball player (b. 1933)
2013 – Anthony Lewis, American journalist (Pulitzer Prize 195,1963) and author, dies from kidney and heart failure at 85