This Day in History - March 25

1911 - in a tragedy that galvanized America's labor movement, 146 immigrant workers were killed when fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York.

1634 - Maryland was founded by English colonists sent by the second Lord Baltimore.

1865 - during the Civil War, Confederate forces captured Fort Stedman in Virginia.

1894 - Jacob S. Coxey began leading an "army" of unemployed from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington DC to demand help from the federal government.

1913 - the home of vaudeville, the Palace Theatre, opened in New York City.

1918 - French composer Claude Debussy died in Paris.

1947 - a coal mine explosion in Centralia, Illinois, claimed 111 lives.

1957 - the Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community.

1965 - the Reverend Martin Luther King Junior led 25,000 marchers to the state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks.

1975 - King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot to death by a nephew with a history of mental illness. (The nephew was beheaded the following June.)

1994 - American troops completed their withdrawal from Somalia.