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25 March

🇮🇳 In India
1898 Sister Nivedita (born Margaret Elizabeth Noble), Irish teacher, author and social activist became Swami Vivekananda's disciple.
1920 Usha Mehta, Gandhian and freedom fighter of India, was born in Gujarat. She is also remembered for organizing the Congress Radio, also called the Secret Congress Radio, an underground radio station, which functioned for few months during the Quit India Movement of 1942. She was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 1998.
🌎 Elsewhere
1655 Dutch mathematician and astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovered Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.
1807 British Parliament abolishes slave trade throughout the British Empire.
1898 Writer O Henry sentenced to 5 years in prison for embezzling $854 from a bank reportedly to pay for his sick wife's medical bills. He goes on to write many classics while in jail.
1995 WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, or user-editable website, is launched by Ward Cunningham. Today, Wikipedia is the world's most well known and widely used wiki.
2021 American children's author Beverly Cleary, whose books included the hugely popular Ramona series, died at age 104.


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