Today is Friday, March 25, the 85th day of 2016. There are 281 days left in the year.

On this date:

In 1911, 146 people, mostly young female immigrants, were killed when fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. in New York.

In 1954, RCA announced it had begun producing color television sets at its plant in Bloomington, Indiana.

In 1965, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 people to the Alabama state capitol in Montgomery after a five-day march from Selma to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks. Later that day, civil rights activist Viola Liuzzo, a white Detroit homemaker, was shot and killed by Ku Klux Klansmen.

In 1996, an 81-day standoff by the anti-government Freemen began at a ranch near Jordan, Montana.

In 2001, at the 73rd Academy Awards, “Gladiator” won best picture; its star, Russell Crowe, was named best actor; Julia Roberts received the best actress Oscar for “Erin Brockovich”; Steven Soderbergh won best director for “Traffic.”