Hitler
March 25, 1933
No recorded history for Hitler, however, he likely spent the day traveling, by train, from Berlin, Germany to Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany, where he would be recorded meeting with Joseph Goebbel and Otto Dietrich at Haus Wachenfeld. HitlerArchive
Trump
March 15, 2025
On his 55th day in office Donald Trump...
Signed a bill funding the government for 6 months, avoiding a shutdown. Included in the bill is a motion to reduce Congress’s in-session calendar down to one calendar day, preventing the body from a vote of no confidence wrt Trump’s tariffs which had a deadline of 15 days from date of filing, and required congress to vote either in favor of the tariffs or against the tariffs. APNews BostonGlobe
Orders deadly strikes on Iran-backed Houthi rebels in 4 separate locations in Yemen and issues new warning. APNews DerSpiegel DW BostonGlobe Reuters AlJazeera
Invoked the 18th Century Law (Alien Enemies Act of 1798) to speed deportations. HuffPost APNews
Announced possibility of blanket entry ban that could impact 43 nations.DerSpiegel NYTimes AlJazeera
Withdraws his envoy, limiting role to Ukraine envoy after Russia complains, saying General Keith Kellogg's is responsible for Russia’s dismay. DerSpiegel Reuters
Signed order to gut staff at Voice of America, Radio Free Europe and other US-funded media organizations. APNews DW
Additional News
The Alien Enemies Act: What to know about a 1798 law that Trump has invoked for deportations. APNews
After Columbia arrests, international college students fall silent. APNews
How a Columbia student fled to Canada after ICE came looking for her. BostonGlobe
Arlington cemetery website loses pages on Black veterans, women, and Civil War. BostonGlobe
Resurrecting the forgotten history of the first enslaved Africans in America. BostonGlobe
In Murrow’s empty shoes, a warning for American democracy. Few newsrooms have the courage to hire another Edward R. Murrow, who championed truth over lies when he challenged the powerful Senator Joseph McCarthy. BostonGlobe
Trump grant freeze threatens groups fighting violence and helping victims in Boston. BostonGlobe
'Scum,' 'Crooked' Elections And 'Corrupt' Media. What Trump Said Inside The Justice Department. HuffPost
Why Trump is singling out South Africa and accusing it of being anti-white and anti-American. APNews
US Administration
Elon Musk Shares Post Saying Hitler 'Didn't Murder Millions Of People’. HuffPost
No military or political logic’ to US attacks on Houthis. AlJazeera
The last Houthi attack on a US ship was in December. AlJazeera
Trump administration announces the death of ‘One of the most dangerous terrorists in the world" IS leader in Iraq. DerSpiegel
Trump administration rejects 'impractical' Hamas demands as Gaza truce hangs in balance. BBCNews
Trump administration demands Hamas free hostages under ceasefire 'bridge' plan. DW
Trump administration imposes sanctions on Thai officials after Uyghur men are deported to China. APNews
Trump administration moves to dismiss lawsuits against Iowa and Oklahoma over immigration laws. APNews
Trump Administration sends 36 questions to UN aid groups, asking if they have 'communist links’. BBCNews
Trump Administration prepares to deport about 300 alleged gang members to El Salvador. APNews
Judges/Courts
Trump’s order (to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798) stalled by judge after using wartime deportation law. DW
The Justice Department is investigating whether Columbia University hid students sought by the US. APNews BDTNews
California man wins $50 million in lawsuit over burns from Starbucks tea. APNewes
Cabinet
Congress
Divided Democrats Give Away Their Leverage As Trump Celebrates. HuffPost
US States
Business/Finance
Swedish payment service: Klarna goes public in the USA. DerSpiegel
The German debt package and Donald Trump are making real estate loans more expensive. DerSpiegel
Punitive tariffs on US motorcycles: Without Harley, everything is nothing. DerSpiegel
Health
Again, Health Secretary Kennedy proposes vitamin A and cod liver oil against measles. DerSpiegel
Can an aspirin a day keep cancer at bay? A new study finds that aspirin may disrupt the protective shield cancer cells use to evade the immune system. AlJazeera
Science/Technology
Weather
At least 32 dead in massive US storm after new fatalities reported in Kansas and Mississippi. APNews BBCNews DerSpiegel
Saturday’s extreme weather gets rarely used ‘high risk’ designation. APNews
EU/EN/NATO
UN Security Council calls on transitional government to protect all Syrians after massacres of Alawites. DerSpiegel
UN Secretary-General: Guterres warns of catastrophic situation for Rohingya refugees. DerSpiegel
UN report: Iran monitors "hijab laws" with drones and reporting app. DerSpiegel
EU's Syria conference, what can be expected? DW
Human Rights Watch (HRW) group urges probe into Burkina Faso civilian massacre. DW
Canada
Canadian comedian calls for Pornhub ban for Americans. DerSpiegel
Mexico
Mexico's president attacks the USA: "It's not on the table, not on the chair, not on the floor, nowhere”. DerSpiegel
Drug cartel apparently used ranch: UN calls for investigation after discovery of alleged death camp in Mexico. DerSpiegel DW
Every year, children meet at the border between Mexico and the USA and hug each other. DerSpiegel
Facts, not fear: Inside Mexico’s pioneering drug harm reduction programs. APNews
China
China lashes out at G7 over statements on maritime security. APNews
Europe
Greenland: Hundreds protest against Trump's takeover plans. DW
Russian captain, Vladimir Motin, in North Sea ship collision charged with manslaughter appears in court over the death of a crew member after his cargo ship crashed into a US fuel tanker. AlJazeera
Starmer's ad hoc alliance could still struggle to materialize. BBCNews
Military planning for Ukraine peace to begin, says UK’s Starmer. BBCNews
Putin of playing games with ceasefire proposal, UK Starmer accuses. DerSpiegel
Putin will have to 'come to the table': UK PM. DW
Severe storms in Tuscany: Locks prevent flooding in Florence. DerSpiegel
Tens of thousands join pro-Europe rally in Rome, amid worries over European Union’s plan to rearm. APNews
Germany debates issue of nuclear weapons. DW
Agreement on billions in investments: Draft bill for financial package is finalized. derSpiegel
Consequences of the election debacle: Woidke calls for personnel renewal of the SPD. DerSpiegel
Financial package: FDP parliamentary group leader Dürr is disappointed by Merz. DerSpiegel
Claudia Roth and Katrin Göring-Eckardt are also interested: Green politician Nouripour wants to become Vice President of the Bundestag. DerSpiegel
Extreme right: Now the AfD dilemma is coming back with a vengeance. DerSpiegel
Right-wing extremism: In the end, the most radical members of the AfD always win – even in NRW. DerSpiegel
How the far-right AfD creates divisions in society. DW
How Germany is fighting over inheritance. DerSpiegel
Alleged bribery in Munich: Did a “relocator” bribe the employees of the immigration office? DerSpiegel
Volkswagen apparently wants to sell currywurst in supermarkets too. DerSpiegel
New government in Austria: Will the anti-Kickl coalition hold? DerSpiegel
Hungarian Prime Minister: Viktor Orbán insults political opponents as “bugs”. DerSpiegel
Hungary's Orban vows crackdown on media, NGOs. DW
Are Polish attitudes to Ukrainian refugees souring? DW
Should Poland really return to nuclear power? DW
Romania’s election body rejects far-right Diana Sosoaca’s presidential bid, approves George Simion. APNews
Albanian opposition protests TikTok ban alleging censorship ahead of election. APNews
Tens of thousands join antigovernment protest in Serbia’s capital, Belgrade. Protests began after 15 people killed in November’s Novi Sad railway station roof collapse. AlJazeera DerSpiegel
Russia and Ukraine trade overnight aerial attacks after Putin sets out conditions for ceasefire. APNews
‘Coalition of the willing’ vows Ukraine protection. AlJazeera
Asia/Asia Pacific
Mass protests after Novi Sad train station accident: EU and UN warn Serbia against violence against demonstrators. DerSpiegel DW
'Their untold stories need to be told': Teens capture India's labourers in pictures. BBCNews
What is hindering permanent peace in Manipur? DW
An airstrike in Myanmar kills nearly 30 people, an opposition group says. APNews
Rival rallies erupt in South Korea before ruling on president’s impeachment. AlJazeera
US sanctions Thai officials over deportation of Uighurs to China. AlJazeera
Myanmar rebels close in on key military base in Chin State. AlJazeera
Producer of coconut and cashew nuts: In Sri Lanka they now count all monkeys, squirrels and peacocks. DerSpiegel
Indonesia’s cocoa farmers work with businesses to fight the bitter impact of climate change. APNews
Middle East
Hamas says it will only release American-Israeli hostage if ceasefire deal is implemented. APNews
Aid workers killed in Israeli air strike in Gaza, charity tells BBC. BBCNews
Trial of alleged “torture doctor” from Syria: Assad is gone, the fear remains. DerSpiegel
Pastor on massacre in Syria: "They were heavily armed, with Kalashnikovs and rocket launchers”. DerSpiegel
Fighting in Syria: Two dead in drone attack on pro-Turkish militia. DerSpiegel
Syrians mark 14th anniversary of civil war uprising by celebrating the ouster of Bashar Assad. APNews
Africa
Australia
Why Dutton is a ‘risk’ ‘to the nation. A powerful teachers’ union has warned a Dutton government “is the biggest risk to the future of this nation” as a $4.8bn education deal hangs in the balance. NewsAU
‘Stop’: Qantas boss’ dark warning to Aussies. Qantas chairman John Mullen has issued a stark warning that our way of life could simply “stop” in a serious international emergency. NewsAU
Twist after Senator drops out of event. There has been a huge twist after Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price cancelled a community event in a regional NSW town after claims she was being harassed by “angry” protesters. NewsAU
Albo’s honour guard after Labor cash promise. The Prime Minister has been welcomed by large crowds in a Labor heartland days after a $1bn infrastructure promise. NewsAU
Latin America/Caribbean
Why are Caribbean leaders fighting Trump to keep Cuban doctors? AlJazeera
Cuba's national grid fails, leaving millions without power. Latest grid collapse follows a string of nationwide blackouts in recent months. DW AlJazeera
Fight against drug cartels: Ecuador forms alliance with Blackwater founder. DerSpiegel
Why are Caribbean leaders fighting Trump to keep Cuban doctors? AlJazeera
474 BC – Roman consul Aulus Manlius Vulso celebrates an ovation for concluding the war
against Veii and securing a forty years truce.
44 BC – The assassination of Julius Caesar, the dictator of the Roman Republic, by a group of
senators takes place on the Ides of March.
493 – Odoacer, the first barbarian King of Italy after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, is
slain by Theoderic the Great, king of the Ostrogoths, while the two kings were feasting
together.
856 – Michael III, emperor of the Byzantine Empire, overthrows the regency of his mother,
empress Theodora (wife of Theophilos) with support of the Byzantine nobility.
897 – Al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq Yahya enters Sa'dah and founds the Zaydi Imamate of Yemen.
933 – After a ten-year truce, German King Henry the Fowler defeats a Hungarian army at the
Battle of Riade near the Unstrut river.
1311 – Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V, Count of Brienne to take
control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece.
1564 – Mughal Emperor Akbar abolishes the jizya tax on non-Muslim subjects.
1672 – King Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence, granting limited
religious freedom to all Christians.
1783 – In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers
not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful, and the threatened
coup d'état never takes place.
1820 – Maine is admitted as the twenty-third U.S. state.
1848 – A revolution breaks out in Hungary, and the Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the
demands of the reform party.
1874 – France and Vietnam sign the Second Treaty of Saigon, further recognizing the full
sovereignty of France over Cochinchina.
1888 – Start of the Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888.
1907 – The first parliamentary elections of Finland (at the time the Grand Duchy of Finland) are
held.
1917 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne, ending the 304-year Romanov
dynasty.
1918 – Finnish Civil War: The battle of Tampere begins.
1919 – Ukrainian War of Independence: The Kontrrazvedka is established as the
counterintelligence division of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine.
1919 – The American Legion is founded.
1921 – Talaat Pasha, former Grand Vizir of the Ottoman Empire and chief architect of the
Armenian genocide is assassinated in Berlin by a 23-year-old Armenian, Soghomon
Tehlirian.
1922 – After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes
King of Egypt.
1933 - Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss kept members of the Austrian Parliament from
reconvening, starting the Austrofascist dictatorship.
1933 - The Soviet Union halted the further seizure of grain from farmers in the Ukrainian SSR,
and ordered some stocks returned from army reserves to the villages.
1933 - Clarence Cannon and Milton A. Romjue, both Democrats and U.S. Representatives
from Missouri, engaged in a fist fight in the House Office Building. Minnesota
Congressman Ernest Lundeen separated the two, shoving Cannon into an elevator and
then taking Romjue to a first-aid station.
1933 - New German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels gave his first press conference,
instructing journalists on their responsibilities. He painted the ideal media as a press "so
finely tuned that it is, as it were, like a piano in the hands of the government on which
the government can play".
1933 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1993–2020); in Brooklyn (d. 2020)
1939 – Germany occupies Czechoslovakia.
1939 – Carpatho-Ukraine declares itself an independent republic, but is annexed by Hungary
the next day.
1943 – World War II: Third Battle of Kharkiv: The Germans retake the city of Kharkiv from the
Soviet armies.
1951 – Iranian oil industry is nationalized.
1961 – At the 1961 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference, South Africa announces that
it will withdraw from the Commonwealth when the South African Constitution of 1961
comes into effect.
1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress "We
shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act.
1978 – Somalia and Ethiopia signed a truce to end the Ethio-Somali War.
1990 – Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union.
1991 – Cold War: The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany comes into
effect, granting full sovereignty to the Federal Republic of Germany.
2011 – Beginning of the Syrian Civil War.
2019 – Beginning of the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests.
2019 – Approximately 1.4 million young people in 123 countries go on strike to protest climate
change.
2022 – The 2022 Sri Lankan protests begins amidst Sri Lanka's economic collapse.
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