Today is Tuesday, March 25, the 84th day of 2014. There are 281 days left in the year.
1 ― Origin of Dionysian Incarnation of the Word
1133 ― William the Conqueror orders first Domesday Survey of England
1807 ― First railway passenger service began in England
1896 ― Modern Olympics begin in Athens, Greece
1916 ― Women are allowed to attend a boxing match
1957 ― Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community (Common Market)
1958 ― Sugar Ray Robinson is first boxing champion to win five times
1961 ― Sputnik 10 carries a dog into Earth orbit; later recovered
1965 ― Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 to state capitol in Montgomery, Al.
1970 ― Concorde makes its first supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH)