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| Science Boy
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|  On This Day (March 25)
- 1306 – Robert the Bruce was crowned King of Scotland at Scone Palace in Perth.
- 1634 – Lord Baltimore, his younger brother Leonard Calvert, and a group of Catholic settlers founded the English colony of Maryland.
- 1655 – Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens (pictured) discovered Titan, the largest natural satellite of the planet Saturn.
Christiaan Huygens
- 1802 – France and the United Kingdom signed the Treaty of Amiens, temporarily ending the hostilities between the two during the French Revolutionary Wars.
- 1807 – The Slave Trade Act became law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.
- 1881 - Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer born. (d. 1945) (Romanian Folk Dance - Listen)
- 1918 – The Belarusian People's Republic was established during World War I, when Belarus was occupied by the German Empire according to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
- 1918 - Claude Debussy, French composer died. (b. 1862)
- 1988 - Robert Joffrey, American dancer, teacher, and choreographer died. (b. 1930) (An American dancer, teacher, producer, and choreographer, known for his highly imaginative modern ballets.)
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