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Wednesday, 25 March 2026
1860 Second Maori War begins. 
1861 inaugural manned balloon from a ship used to observe Confederate artillery position at Hampton Roads, VA.
1861 Federal fleet bombs Galveston Texas
1863 Governor Seymour asks Lincoln to suspend draft in NY.
1864 Battle of Mobile AL.
1867 Stanley Baldwin, (C) British PM (1923-24, 1924-29, 1935-37)
1871 Vernon Louis Parrington, author (Romantic Revolution, Pulitzer 1928).
1872 Haakon VII, Charlottenlund Denmark, King of Norway (1905-57).
1873 Albert MLA de Bassompierre, Belgian ambassador to Tokyo (1921-39)
1874 Eugene Baie, Belgian author (Sub rosa et sub umbra)
1877 Karl Georg Lickl, composer, dies at 75.
1878 Constantino Gaito, composer.
1881 Boers signs Convention of Pretoria: Transvaal semi-autonomous.
1882 Congress passes inaugural law restricting immigration.
1882 Congress passes 1st law restricting immigration.
1882 Charles O'Neill, composer.
1884 Louis Gruenberg, near Brest Litovsk Poland, composer (Daniel Jazz)
1885 Naphtali Siegfried Salomon, composer.
1886 Per August Olander, composer, dies at 62.
1887 Rupert Brooke, British WW I poet (1914).
1890 Louise Ackermann-Choquet, French author (Journal), dies at 76
1892 Oscar van Hemel, composer
1894 Harry Heilmann, SF Cal, baseball hall of famer outfielder (Detroit).
1894 George Inness, US landscape painter (Delaware Water Gap), dies at 69
1897 John McNally's musical "Good Mr Best," premieres in NYC
1898 Brother Adam [Kehrle], benedictine monk/beekeeper.
1899 Sally Benson, novelist.
1900 Firestone Tire and Rubber Company founded.
1900 Arnoldus J N M Struycken, Dutch lawyer.
1901 Bernard Reichel, composer.
1902 Habib Bourguiba, 1st president of Tunisia (1957-87)
1902 August Friedrich Martin Klughardt, composer, dies at 54.
1904 British journalist Francis Younghusband visits forbidden city Lhasa.
1904 Clifford D[onald] Simak, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Empire, Way Station).
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