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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_25" title="March 25">March 25</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Genocide_Remembrance_Day" title="Bangladesh Genocide Remembrance Day">Bangladesh Genocide Remembrance Day</a></b>;
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1484" title="1484">1484</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Caxton" title="William Caxton">William Caxton</a></b> printed the first English translation of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesop%27s_Fables" title="Aesop's Fables">Aesop's Fables</a></i>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1873" title="1873">1873</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Aceh_Expedition" title="First Aceh Expedition">A Dutch military expedition</a> was launched to bombard <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banda_Aceh" title="Banda Aceh">Banda Aceh</a>, the capital of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aceh_Sultanate" title="Aceh Sultanate">Aceh Sultanate</a> in present-day Indonesia, beginning the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aceh_War" title="Aceh War">Aceh War</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1896" title="1896">1896</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunner_Mine_disaster" title="Brunner Mine disaster">An explosion</a></b> at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunner_Mine" title="Brunner Mine">Brunner Mine</a> in New Zealand killed 65 coal miners in the country's deadliest mining accident.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1917" title="1917">1917</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">First World War</a>: Attempting to advance into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_(region)" title="Palestine (region)">Palestine</a>, the British were defeated by Ottoman troops at the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Gaza" title="First Battle of Gaza">First Battle of Gaza</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953" title="1953">1953</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Salk" title="Jonas Salk">Jonas Salk</a> announced the successful test of his <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine" title="Polio vaccine">polio vaccine</a></b> on a small group of adults and children.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_van_Eyck" title="Jacob van Eyck">Jacob van Eyck</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1657); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hutton" title="James Hutton">James Hutton</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1797); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_Stampacchia" title="Guido Stampacchia">Guido Stampacchia</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1922); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._M._Thomas" title="D. M. Thomas">D. M. Thomas</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2023)</p>
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