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'''
May 25''' is the 145th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar (146th in
leap years). There are 220 days remaining.
Events
*
1085 -
Alfonso VI of Castile takes
Toledo, Spain Toledo back from the
Moors.
*
1420 -
Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the
Order of Christ.
*
1521 - The
Diet of Worms ends when
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the
Edict of Worms, declaring
Martin Luther an
outlaw.
*
1659 -
Richard Cromwell resigns as
Lord Protector of
England following the restoration of the
Long Parliament, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the
Commonwealth.
*
1787 - In
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates convene a
Constitutional Convention (United States) Constitutional Convention to write a new
United States Constitution Constitution for the
United States.
George Washington presides.
*
1810 - In the
May Revolution, armed citizens of
Buenos Aires expel the Viceroy during the ''Semana de Mayo''.
*
1865 - In
Mobile, Alabama, 300 are killed when an
Mobile magazine explosion ordnance depot explodes.
*
1895 - Playwright, poet and novelist
Oscar Wilde is convicted of "commiting acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
*1895 - The
Republic of Formosa is formed, with
Tang Ching-sung as the president.
*
1914 - The
United Kingdom's
British House of Commons House of Commons passes
Home Rule Act 1914 Home Rule Act for
devolution in
Ireland.
*
1925 -
Scopes Trial:
John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching
Charles Darwin Darwin's theory of
evolution.
*1925 - The
National Forensics League of the
USA U.S. is founded.
*
1926 -
Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates
Symon Petliura, the head of the
Paris-based
government-in-exile of
Ukrainian People's Republic.
*
1935 - In a span of 45 minutes at the Big Ten meet in
Ann Arbor, Michigan,
Jesse Owens sets or ties four
track and field world records.
*1935 -
Babe Ruth hits his 714th and last
home run at
Forbes Field in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, setting a
baseball record that will stand for 39 years.
*
1938 -
Spanish Civil War: Bombing of
Alicante, 313 deaths.
*
1940 -
World War II: The
Battle of Dunkirk begins.
*
1946 - The parliament of
Transjordan makes
Abdullah I of Jordan their king.
*
1953 -
Nuclear testing: At the
Nevada Test Site, the
United States conducts its first and only
nuclear artillery test.
*
1955 -
Kanchenjunga, third highest peak in the world is scaled successfully for the first time.
*
1961 -
Apollo program:
USA U.S. president
John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the
moon" before the end of the decade.
*
1963 - In
Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia, the
Organisation of African Unity is established.
*
1966 -
Explorer program:
Explorer 32 launches.
*
1965 -
Muhammad Ali knocks out
Sonny Liston in the first minute of the first round of a boxing match.
*
1967 -
Celtic F.C. become the first British team to reach a
European Cup final and also to win it, beating
Internazionale Milano F.C. Inter Milan 2-1 in normal time.
*
1968 - In
St. Louis, Missouri, US Vice-President
Hubert Humphrey and US Secretary of the Interior
Stewart Udall dedicate the
Gateway Arch as part of the
Jefferson National Expansion Memorial.
*
1973 -
Mike Oldfield releases ''
Tubular Bells.''
*
1977 - ''
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope Star Wars'' (later retitled ''Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope'') opens a limited run in theaters before expanding to become the highest grossing
film movie to date.
*
1978 - In a performance used for
The Kids are Alright,
The Who play their last show with
Keith Moon
*
1979 -
American Airlines Flight 191: In
Chicago, Illinois, a
McDonnell Douglas DC-10 DC-10 crashes during takeoff at
O'Hare International Airport killing 271 on board and two people on the ground.
*1979 -
Florida executes
John Spenkelink, the first non-voluntary execution in the
United States in more than 10 years.
*1979 - The movie ''
Alien (movie) Alien'' opens in theaters.
*
1981 - In
Riyadh, the
Gulf Cooperation Council is created between
Bahrain,
Kuwait,
Oman,
Qatar,
Saudi Arabia and the
United Arab Emirates.
*
1982 -
HMS Coventry (D118) HMS ''Coventry'' is sunk during the
Falklands War.
*
1983 - ''
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi'' opens in theaters.
*
1985 -
Bangladesh is hit by a
tropical cyclone and
storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
*
1986 -
Hands Across America took place.
*
1993 - The
Dilley sextuplets are born, making them the first surviving sextuplets born in the United States.
*
1995 - The
Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnian Serb Army kills 72 youngsters in the Bosnian city of
Tuzla.
*
1997 - A military
coup in
Sierra Leone replaces President
Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major
Johnny Paul Koromah.
*1997 -
Strom Thurmond becomes the longest-serving member in the history of the
United States Senate, at 41 years and 10 months.
*
1999 - The two officers scapegoated after the 1941
Attack on Pearl Harbor, Rear Admiral
Husband E. Kimmel Kimmel and Lieutenant General
Walter Short Short were exonerated (posthumously) by the US Senate of all charges of dereliction of duty.
*
2001 - 32-year-old
Erik Weihenmayer, of
Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first
blindness blind person to reach the summit of
Mount Everest.
*2001 - 64-year-old
Sherman Bull, of
New Canaan, Connecticut, becomes the oldest person to reach the summit of
Mount Everest.
*
2002 -
China Airlines China_Airlines_Flight_611 Flight 611: A
Boeing 747-200 breaks apart in mid-air and plunges into the
Taiwan Strait killing 225 people.
*2002 - A train crash in
Tenga,
Mozambique kills 197 people.
*
2003 -
Néstor Kirchner becomes
President of Argentina after defeating
Carlos Menem. He is the first elected President since the
December 2001 economic crisis.
*
2004 - The theatrical version of ''
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (film) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'' is released on DVD.
Births
*
1048 -
Emperor Shenzong of China (d.
1085)
*
1334 -
Emperor Suko of Japan (d.
1398)
*
1458 -
Mahmud Begada, Sultan of Gujarat (d.
1511)
*
1606 -
Charles Garnier (missionary) Charles Garnier, French Jesuit missionary (d.
1649)
*
1661 -
Claude Buffier, French philosopher and historian (d.
1737)
*
1713 -
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute,
Prime Minister of Great Britain (d.
1792)
*
1725 -
Samuel Ward, American politician (d.
1776)
*
1803 -
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English novelist and playwright (d.
1873)
* 1803 -
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher (d.
1882)
*
1820 -
Anne Brontë, English writer (d.
1849)
*
1845 -
Lip Pike, baseball player (d.
1883)
*
1860 -
James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (d.
1944)
*
1865 -
John Mott, American YMCA leader, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
1955)
* 1865 -
Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1943)
*
1877 -
Billy Murray (singer) Billy Murray, American singer (d.
1954)
*
1878 -
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, African American entertainer (d.
1949)
*
1879 -
Max Aitken Lord Beaverbrook, English publisher (d.
1964)
*
1880 -
Jean Alexandre Barré, French neurologist (d.
1967)
*
1882 -
Marie Doro, American actress (d.
1956)
*
1887 -
Pio of Pietrelcina Francesco Forgione, Italian priest (d.
1968)
*
1888 -
Miles Malleson, English actor (d.
1969)
*
1889 -
Igor Sikorsky, Russian inventor (d.
1972)
*
1898 -
Bennett Cerf, American publisher, TV personality (d.
1971)
*
1907 -
U Nu, Burmese politician (d.
1995)
*
1912 -
Her Imperial Highness Princess Duk-hye Princess Dukhye of Korea (d.
1989)
*
1913 -
Richard Dimbleby, British journalist and broadcaster (d.
1965)
*
1918 -
Claude Akins, American actor (d.
1994)
*
1921 -
Jack Steinberger, German-born physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate
*
1922 -
Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (d.
1984)
*
1924 -
István Nyers, Hungarian footballer (d.
2005)
*
1925 -
Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet (d.
1974)
* 1925 -
Jeanne Crain, American actress (d.
2003)
*
1926 -
Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter (d.
1991)
*
1927 -
Robert Ludlum, writer (d.
2001)
*
1929 -
Beverly Sills, American soprano
*
1931 -
Georgi Grechko, cosmonaut
*
1932 -
John Gregory Dunne, American writer (d.
2003)
*
1935 -
Cookie Gilchrist, American football player
*
1936 -
Tom T. Hall, American singer and songwriter
*
1938 -
Raymond Carver, American writer (d.
1988)
*
1939 -
Dixie Carter, American actress
*1939 -
Ian McKellen, English actor
*
1943 -
Jessi Colter, American singer
*
1944 -
Frank Oz, English-born puppeteer and director
*
1949 -
Jamaica Kincaid, Antiguan-born novelist
*
1953 -
Daniel Passarella, Argentine football player
*
1956 -
Sugar Minott, Jamaican singer
*1956 -
David P. Sartor, American concert music composer
*
1958 -
Paul Weller, British musician
*
1963 -
Mike Myers (actor) Mike Myers, Canadian actor and comedian
*
1965 -
Simon Fowler, English singer (
Ocean Colour Scene)
*
1966 -
McLoud, Swiss composer, musician, and multimedia artist
*
1967 -
Poppy Z. Brite, American author
*
1968 -
Kendall Gill, American basketball player
*
1969 -
Anne Heche, American actress
* 1969 -
Stacy London, American fashion consultant and media personality
*
1970 -
Jamie Kennedy, American actor
*
1971 -
Sonya Smith, American actress
*
1973 -
Demetri Martin, American comedian
*
1974 -
Monica Keena, American actress
*
1975 -
Lauryn Hill, American singer
*
1976 -
Miguel Tejada, Dominican
Major League Baseball player
* 1976 -
Jonny Wilkinson, English rugby player
*
1977 -
Pat Burrell, baseball player
*
1978 -
Brian Urlacher, American football player
*
1979 -
Carlos Bocanegra, American soccer player
*
1982 -
Adam Boyd, English footballer.
*
1984 -
Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir,
Miss Iceland, crowned
Miss World in
2005.
*
1991 -
Julianna Rose Mauriello actor in
LazyTown.
*
1991 - Duane Alphonse Soubirous, American Concert Pianist and Organist
Deaths
*
709 -
Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne
*
735 -
Bede, English historian and monk
*
967 -
Murakami,
Emperor of Japan (b.
926)
*
992 -
Mieszko I of Poland
*
1085 -
Pope Gregory VII
*
1261 -
Pope Alexander IV
*
1452 -
John Stafford,
Archbishop of Canterbury
*
1555 -
Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (b.
1508)
*1555 -
Henry II of Navarre (b.
1503)
*
1595 -
Valens Acidalius, German critic and poet (b.
1567)
*
1632 -
Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (b.
1572)
*
1667 -
Gustaf Bonde, Swedish statesman (b.
1620)
*
1681 -
Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish playwright (b.
1600)
*
1693 -
Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette, French writer (b.
1634)
*
1741 -
Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (b.
1660)
*
1786 -
Peter III of Portugal, consort of Queen
Maria I of Portugal (b.
1717)
*
1789 -
Anders Dahl, Swedish botanist (b.
1751)
*
1797 -
John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (b.
1719)
*
1805 -
William Paley, English philosopher (b.
1743)
*
1848 -
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (b.
1797)
*
1849 -
Benjamin d'Urban, British general and colonial administrator (b.
1777)
*
1899 -
Rosa Bonheur, French realist painter and sculptor (d.
1822)
*
1912 -
Austin Lane Crothers, American politician (b.
1860)
*
1930 -
Randall Thomas Davidson,
Archbishop of Canterbury (b.
1848)
*
1934 -
Gustav Holst, English composer (b.
1874)
*
1935 - Sir
Frank Watson Dyson, English Astronomer Royal (b.
1868)
*
1940 -
Joe De Grasse, American film director (b.
1873)
*
1951 -
Paula von Preradovic, Croatian-born writer (b.
1887)
*
1965 -
Sonny Boy Williamson II Sonny Boy Williamson, American singer, songwriter, and musician (b.
1899)
*
1977 -
Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian writer (b.
1904)
*
1986 -
Chester Bowles, American politician (b.
1901)
*
1988 -
Ernst Ruska, German physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1906)
*
1994 -
Sonny Sharrock, American jazz guitarist (b.
1940)
*
1996 -
Brad Nowell, American singer and guitarist (
Sublime (band) Sublime) (drug overdose) (b.
1968)
*
2003 -
Jeremy Michael Ward, American musician (
The Mars Volta) (drug overdose) (b.
1976)
*
2004 -
Roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher (b.
1917)
*
2005 -
Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician (b.
1929)
*2005 -
Robert Jankel, British coachbuilder (b.
1938)
*2005 -
Graham Kennedy, Australian television personality (b.
1934)
*2005 -
Ruth Laredo, American pianist (b.
1937)
Holidays and observances
*Commemoration of the Venerable
Bede (
Anglican)
*
Argentina - Day of
May Revolution/
National Day (1810)
*
Chad,
Liberia,
Mali,
Mauritania,
Namibia,
Zambia and
Zimbabwe - African Freedom/Unity Day
*
Jordan -
National Day/
Arab Renaissance Day (1946)
*
Libya,
Sudan - Sudan National Day/May Revolution Day (1969)
*
United States -
Memorial Day/Decoration Day, a legal holiday (1868)
*
Virginia - Confederate Memorial Day (1868)
*
Lebanon, Liberation Day (1999)
*
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia -
Day of Youth
*Ancient
Latvia -
Urbanas Diena observed
*
Towel Day, in memory of
Douglas Adams, is observed
External links
-
BBC: On This Day
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May 24 -
May 26 -
April 25 -
June 25 –
historical anniversaries listing of all days
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