^B{^#!16!25 March^N! National Day of Greece. Feast day of St Barontius, St Alfwold, St Dismus, St Lucy Filippini, St Hermenland, and St Margaret Clitherow.
^B{1306^B} Robert I 'the Bruce' was crowned king of Scots. ^B{1609^B} English explorer Henry Hudson set off from Amsterdam, on behalf of the Dutch East India Company, in search of the North West Passage. ^B{1807^B} The British parliament abolished the slave trade. ^B{1843^B} A pedestrian tunnel was opened beneath the Thames in London, UK, linking Wapping with Rotherhithe. ^B{1876^B} In the first football international between Wales and Scotland, played in Glasgow, Scotland won 4-0. ^B{1957^B} Six European countries (France, Belgium, Luxembourg, West Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands) signed the Treaty of Rome, establishing the European Community.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Henry II, ^B{1133^B}; Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor, ^B{1867^B}; BΘla Bartok, Hungarian composer, ^B{1881^B}; A J P Taylor, English historian, ^B{1906^B}; David Lean, English film director, ^B{1908^B}; Aretha Franklin, US singer, ^B{1942^B}; Elton John, English pop singer and songwriter, ^B{1947^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Anna Seward, English novelist who wrote ^I{Black Beauty^I}, ^B{1809^B}; Nicholas Hawksmoor, English architect, ^B{1836^B}; FrΘdΘric Mistral, French poet, ^B{1914^B}; Claude Debussy, French composer, ^B{1918^B}; King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, assassinated by his nephew, ^B{1975^B}.
