Today in history 75 #

Here are some historical events that occurred on this day, March 25th, throughout history:

1755: The Lisbon earthquake, one of the deadliest earthquakes in history, strikes Lisbon, Portugal, killing an estimated 10,000 to 100,000 people.

1787: The first of the Federalist Papers, a series of essays arguing for the ratification of the United States Constitution, is published.

1865: The SS Sultana, a steamboat carrying over 2,000 passengers, including many Union prisoners of war, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing an estimated 1,800 people.

1915: The RMS Lusitania, a British passenger liner, is torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland, killing over 1,000 people, including many women and children.

1947: Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American player in Major League Baseball, playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

1965: The first spacewalk is performed by Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who spends 12 minutes outside the Voskhod 2 spacecraft.

1975: The Vietnam War ends as North Vietnamese forces capture Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, and the country is reunified under communist rule.

1990: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched into orbit around the Earth, beginning a new era of space exploration and scientific discovery.

These are just a few of the many historical events that have occurred on this day.