History for March 25

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

Gloria Steinem 1934 - Feminist author

• 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. 
• 1919 - The Paris Peace Commission adopted a plan to protect nations from the influx of foreign labor.
• 1954 - RCA manufactured its first color TV set and began mass production.
• 1957 - The European Economic Community was established with the signing of the Treaty of Rome.
• 1983 - The U.S. Congress passed legislation to rescue the U.S. social security system from bankruptcy.
• 1990 - Estonia voted for independence from the Soviet Union.
• 1998 - A cancer patient was the first known to die under Oregon's doctor-assisted suicide law.