What happend on 25th March

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1971

Bangladesh Liberation War: Beginning of Operation Searchlight of Pakistan Army against East Pakistani civilians.

1969

During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace in the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).

1965

Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. complete successfully their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery.

1960

In London, United Kingdom, Jacqueline Boyer wins the fifth Eurovision Song Contest for France singing "Tom Pillibi".

1957

The European Economic Community is established (West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg).

1955

United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" as obscene.

1949

The extensive deportation campaign was conducted in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The Soviet authorities deported more than 92,000 people from Baltics to remote areas of the Soviet Union.

1947

A explosion in a coalmine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.

1941

Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers.

1939

Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli becomes Pope Pius XII.