These historical events took place on March 25th:
31: The first Easter according to the calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus.
1524: English explorer Walter Raleigh renews Humphrey Gilbert’s patent to explore North America.
1634: Under charter was granted to Lord Baltimore and led by his brother Leonard Calvert to be the first settlers to have founded the Catholic colony of Maryland.
1740: Construction began on evangelist George Whitefield’s Bethesda Orphanage in Georgia.
1776: Continental Congress authorized a medal for the First United States President George Washington.
1851: Yosemite Valley discovery was made public by Major James D. Savage and Captain John Boling after being shown by Indian guides in California.
1863: The first United States Army Medal of Honor was awarded to six army soldiers by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton in Washington.
1864-1865: Multiple battles came through the United States such as: Battle of Paducah, Battle of Bluff, Battle of Mobile,and Battle of Petersburg.
1894: Coxey’s Army of the unemployed set out from Massillon, Ohio to Washington, D.C.
1898: Writer O. Henry was sentenced to five years in prison for embezzling $854 from a bank that was reported to pay for his sick wife’s medical bills. He continued to write many classics while in jail including “Whistling Dick’s Christmas Stocking”.
1989: NASA canceled a planned, historic, all-female spacewalk because it didn’t have enough space suits to fit women.