History for March 25

History for March 25 - On-This-Day.com

Gloria Steinem 1934 - Feminist author

• 0421 - The city of Venice was founded.
• 1901 - The Mercedes was introduced by Daimler at the five-day "Week of Nice" in Nice, France.
• 1902 - In Russia, 567 students were found guilty of "political disaffection." 95 students were exiled to Siberia.
• 1911 - In New York City, 146 women were killed in fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York City. The owners of the company were indicted on manslaughter charges because some of the employees had been behind locked doors in the factory. The owners were later acquitted and in 1914 they were ordered to pay damages to each of the twenty-three families that had sued.
• 1954 - RCA manufactured its first color TV set and began mass production
• 1983 - The U.S. Congress passed legislation to rescue the U.S. social security system from bankruptcy.