On March 25th in U S Political History
On March 25th in 1584 Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer, courtier, and writer, renewed Humphrey Gilbert's patent to explore North America. He went on to settle the Virginia colony on Roanoke Island, naming it after the virgin queen.
On March 25th in 1609 Henry Hudson embarked on an exploration for Dutch East India Co.
On March 25th in 1634 English colonists sent by Cecil Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore, arrived in present-day Maryland. Maryland was founded as a Catholic colony.
On March 25th in 1655 Puritans jailed Governor Stone after a military victory over Catholic forces in the colony of Maryland.
On March 25th in 1774 English Parliament passed the Boston Port Bill.
On March 25th in 1776 The Continental Congress authorized a medal for General George Washington.
On March 25th in 1813 The first U.S. flag flown in battle was on the frigate Essex in the Pacific.
On March 25th in 1863 US Sec. of War Edward Stanton awarded Corp. William Pittenger of the 2nd Ohio Regiment and 5 other Union soldiers the first US Medals of Honor. Pittenger had been a member of Andrews Raiders who stole the locomotive General in Georgia on April 12, 1862.
On March 25th in 1894 Jacob S. Coxey began leading an "army" of unemployed from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington, D.C., to demand help from the federal government. Coxey advocated, as a way to provide jobs and increase the amount of money in circulation, a public works program of road construction and local improvements to be financed by the issuance of $500 million in legal tender notes. Coxey's Army of unemployed disbanded when Coxey and two other leaders were arrested for trespassing on the White House lawn in 1894.
On March 25th in 1905 Rebel battle flags that were captured during the civil war were returned to the South.
On March 25th in 1915 The first submarine disaster occurred when a U.S. F-4 sank off the Hawaiian coast. 21 people were killed.
On March 25th in 1936 the U.S. and France signed a naval accord in London.
On March 25th in 1940 The U.S. agreed to give Britain and France access to all
American warplanes.
On March 25th in 1952 The United States, Britain, and France rejected the Soviet proposal
for an armed, reunified, neutral Germany.
On March 25th in 1953 The USS Missouri fired on targets at Kojo, North Korea, the
last time her guns would fire until the Persian Gulf War of 1992.
On March 25th in 1965 Martin Luther King Jr. led a group of 25,000 to the state
capital in Montgomery Ala. to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks.
Civil Rights pressures increased in the US and blacks and whites marched in
Selma and Montgomery.
On March 25th in 1981 The US Embassy in San Salvador was damaged when gunmen
attacked, firing rocket propelled grenades and machine guns.
On March 25th in 1986 President Ronald Reagan ordered emergency aid for the
Honduran army. U.S. helicopters took Honduran troops to the Nicaraguan border.
On March 25th in 1986 US Supreme Court ruled that the Air Force could ban wearing
of yarmulkes.
On March 25th in 1987 The US Supreme Court ruled employers may sometimes favor
women and members of minority groups over men and whites in hiring and promoting
in order to achieve better balance in the work force.
On March 25th in 1990 Eighty-seven people, most of them Honduran and Dominican
immigrants, were killed when an arson fire raced through the illegal Happy Land
Social Club in New York City. Julio Gonzalez, 36, was charged with arson and
murder. Gonzalez was convicted in August 1991 and was sentenced to 174
twenty-five-year sentences (a total of 4,350 years), the longest sentence ever
handed down in New York. He is eligible for parole in 2015.
On March 25th in 1993 The Senate approved an outline of President Clinton's plan
to spark the economy and trim the budget deficit by a vote of 54-45.
On March 25th in 1994 The US Senate approved a $1.51 trillion budget.
On March 25th in 1994 American troops completed their withdrawal from Somalia
following a largely unsuccessful fifteen-month mission. 20,000 U.N. troops were
left behind to keep the peace and facilitate "nation building."
On March 25th in 1997 The Federal Reserve nudged interest rates higher for the
first time in two years, hoping to stifle any threat of rising inflation.
On March 25th in 1997 Georgia Gov. Zell Miller signed into law a ban on a
controversial form of late-term abortion.
On March 25th in 1998 President Clinton visited Rwanda. Shaken by horror stories from
the worst genocide since World War II, President Clinton grimly acknowledged
during his Africa tour that "we did not act quickly enough" to stop the
slaughter of up to 1 million Rwandans four years earlier.
On March 25th in 1998 The FCC netted $578.6 million at auction for licenses for
new wireless technology.
On March 25th in 2000 President Clinton arrived in Pakistan under heavy security,
where he met with the new military ruler, General Pervez Musharraf. Clinton
urged the government to restore democracy, reduce its nuclear arsenal, fight
terrorism and find a peaceful solution to the Kashmir crises with India.
On March 25th in 2002 The US pushed for Ariel Sharon to allow Yasser Arafat to
attend an Arab summit in Beirut.
On March 25th in 2002 The Bush administration released thousands of documents on
its energy task force just before a midnight deadline. They showed that Spencer
Abraham, Sec. of Energy, had relied almost exclusively on industry
representatives with no input from conservation or environmental groups.
On March 25th in 2002 the National Parks Conservation Association released its
annual list of “America’s Ten Most Endangered National Parks.”
On March 25th in 2003 President Bush issued an Executive Order to delay the release of millions
of historical documents for more than 3 years and to ease reclassification of
data deemed of possible harm to national security.
On March 25th in 2003 The Senate voted to slash President Bush's proposed $726
billion tax-cutting package in half, handing the President a defeat on the
foundation of his plan to awaken the nation's slumbering economy.
On March 25th in 2003 In the 7th day of Operation Iraqi Freedom US aircraft
dropped more than 2,000 precision-guided bombs on Iraq since the war's start.
The "smart" bombs were produced for a relatively cheap $20,000 each. Sandstorms
slowed coalition movement and air missions. US officials reported 150-200 Iraqi
soldiers were killed near Najaf. Six satellite jamming devices, which Iraq was using to try to thwart American
precision guided weapons, were destroyed in the last 2 nights.
On March 25th in 2004 The United States used its veto power to quash a U.N.
Security Council resolution condemning Israel for killing Hamas leader Ahmed
Yassin in a missile strike.
On March 25th in 2004 A U.S. soldier died in a bombing north of Baghdad amid
warnings that attacks will likely increase with fewer than 100 days left before
the coalition hands over sovereignty.
On March 25th in 2004 US Congress passed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act,
making it a separate offense to harm a fetus during violent federal crime.
On March 25th in 2005 Washington announced it would sell F-16 fighters to
Pakistan.
On March 25th in 2006 Some 500,000 people rallied in Los Angeles to protest
legislation in Congress that would tighten enforcement against undocumented
immigrants and erect more walls along the southern border.
On March 25th in 2008 The US Supreme Court ruled that US ratification of certain
treaties isn’t enforceable unless Congress takes additional steps.
On March 25th in 2008 US home prices fell 11.4 percent
in January, its steepest drop since data for the indicator was first collected
in 1987. The decline reported in the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller index
means prices have been growing more slowly or dropping for 19 consecutive
months.
On March 25th in 2009 The US House voted to set aside over 2 million acres in 9
states as protected wilderness. Legislators also approved a $400 million project
to restore a 3-mile stretch of the San Joaquin River in central California.
On March 25th in 2009 One of the US Air Force's F-22 fighter jets
crashed in Southern California, killing test pilot David
Cooley (49), an employee of prime contractor Lockheed Martin Corp.
On March 25th in 2009 In Mexico US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
pledged to stand "shoulder to shoulder" with Mexico in its violent struggle
against drug cartels, and acknowledged the US shares blame because of its demand
for drugs and supply of weapons.
On March 25th in 2010 The US Dept. of Defense announced stricter guidelines for
discharging gay and lesbian service members allowing only generals to approve
discharges.
On March 25th in 2010 Maine Gov. John Baldacci signed into law America’s first
blanket “extended producer responsibility” (EPR) framework law. It ordered
manufacturers to assume the cost of disposing their products following consumer
use.
On March 25th in 2010 Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden threatened in a new audio
recording released to kill any captured Americans if the US executes the
self-professed mastermind of the Sept.11 attacks or any other al-Qaida
suspects.
On March 25th in 2011 The World Trade Organization ruled that some anti-dumping
duties imposed by the United States on imports of Brazilian orange juice
violated international trade rules.
On March 25th in 2011 Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed a teacher merit-pay bill. The
bill also ended tenure-like job protections.
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