Important Events From This day in History – 25 March

Today in History

• 1995 WikiWikiWeb, the world’s first wiki, is launched

  Ward Cunningham pioneered the wiki, also known as a user-editable website. Today, Wikipedia is the most well-known and widely used wiki in the world.

• 1988 Thousands of people join the first peaceful demonstrations against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia

  The police brutally dispersed the Candle Demonstration, but it was the first step towards the Velvet Revolution, which resulted in the establishment of democracy in the country.

• 1975 King Faisal of Saudi Arabia is assassinated by his nephew

  Faisal bin Musaid was publicly executed on June 18, 1975, despite the king’s dying wish that the assassin’s life be spared.

• 1957 6 countries found the European Economic Community

  The EEC’s establishment was an important step towards European integration and the creation of the European Union (EU).

• 1949 The Soviet Union begins deporting some 90,000 Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians to some of Russia’s most inhospitable areas

  The goal of Operation Priboi, also known as the March deportation, was to weaken the Baltic nationalist movement. The Soviet authorities labeled the majority of the deportees as “enemies of the people.”