Today in History for 25th March 2024

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Historical Events

421 - Friday at 12 PM - city of Venice founded
1961 - 3rd place game is one of the wildest contests in NCAA Tournament history as St Joseph's defeats Utah, 127-120 in quadruple overtime
1968 - Members of the Derry Housing Action Committee (DHAC) disrupt a meeting of Londonderry Corporation to protest at the lack of housing provision in the city, Northern Ireland
1979 - Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova retains her WTA Tour Championship with a 6–3, 3–6, 6–2 win over American teenager Tracey Austin in NYC
1985 - Edwin Meese III takes office as US Attorney General
2019 - Further power blackouts in Caracas, Venezuela, prompt government to tell workers and students to stay at home

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Famous Birthdays

1532 - Pietro Pontio, Italian composer (Ragionamento di Musica), born in Parma, Duchy of Milan (d. 1596)
1762 - Francesco Giuseppe Pollini, Italian composer, singer, and pupil of Mozart, born in Ljubljana , Habsburg Empire (d. 1846)
1903 - Gertrude "Binnie" Barnes, actress (Last of the Mohicans, 3 Musketeers), born in London, England (d. 1998)
1930 - David Burge, American pianist, composer and conductor, born in Evanston, Illinois (d. 2013)
1960 - Idy Chan Yuk-Lin, Hong Kong actress
1982 - Álvaro Saborío, Costa Rican footballer

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Famous Deaths

1223 - Afonso II, 3rd King of Portugal (1211-23), dies at 36
1692 - Gerardus Blasius, Flemish anatomist, dies at about 66
1712 - Nehemiah Grew, English naturalist (b. 1641)
1983 - Martha Sleeper, actress (Spitfire), dies of a heart attack at 72
1991 - Marcel Lefebvre, French Catholic prelate (b. 1905)
2020 - Mark Blum, American actor (Desperately Seeking Susan, Blind Date, Presidio), dies of COVID-19 complications at 69

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