Do you know so much about a game of hockey? If so, did you know that on this day in 1982 Wayne Gretzky became the first player in the NHL to score 200 points in a season? To learn even more interesting facts, check out this list of historic events of March 25.
- 1669 -Mount Etna in Sicily erupted, destroying Nicolosi while 20,000 lives were lost.
- 1807 -The first railway passenger service began in England.
- 1814 -The Netherlands Bank was established.
- 1857 -Frederick Laggenheim took the first photo of a solar eclipse.
- 1900 -The U.S. Socialist Party was formed in Indianapolis.
- 1902 -Irving W. Colburn patented the sheet glass drawing machine.
- 1905 -Russia received Japan’s terms for peace.
- 1931 -The Scottsboro Boys were arrested in Alabama.
- 1941 -The first paprika mill was incorporated in Dillon, SC.
- 1954 -RCA manufactured its first color TV set and began mass production.
- 1960 -A guided missile was launched from a nuclear-powered submarine for the first time.
- 1970 -The Concorde made its first supersonic flight.
- 1982 -Wayne Gretzky became the first player in the NHL to score 200 points in a season.
- 1989 -In Paris, the Louvre reopened with I.M. Pei’s new courtyard pyramid.
- 1990 -Estonia voted for independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1994 -The United States troops completed their withdrawal from Somalia.
- 1996 -The U.S. issued a newly redesigned $100 bill for circulation.
- 1998 -First cancer patient to die under Oregon’s doctor-assisted suicide law.
- 2002 -The Federal Communications Commission dismissed complaints against Walt Disney Co.’s ABC network broadcast of Victoria’s Secret fashion show in November 2001.
- 2019 -British Airways flight from London mistakenly flew to Edinburgh, Scotland instead of Düsseldorf, Germany when wrong flight plan was submitted.