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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.

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Events

• 1085 - Alfonso VI of Castile takes 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 to write a new 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 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 Taiwan is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as the president.
• 1914 - The United Kingdom's House of Commons passes Home Rule Act for devolution in Ireland.
• 1925 - Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.
• 1925 - The National Forensics League of the U.S. is founded.
• 1926 - Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the Parisased 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.
• 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: 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 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 (later retitled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope) opens a limited run in theaters before expanding to become the highest grossing movie to date.
• 1979 - American Airlines Flight 191: In Chicago, Illinois, a DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O'Hare International Airport killing 271 on board and two people on the ground.
• 1979 - The 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 is sunk during the Falklands War.
• 1985 - Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
• 1988 - The Berulsemann was born.
• 1995 - The 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.
• 2001 - 32-year-old Erik Weihenmayer, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first 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 Flight 611: A Boeing 74700 breaks apart in mid-air and plunges into the Taiwan Strait killing 225 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 is released on DVD.
• 2005 - Liverpool win the UEFA Champions League after beating AC Milan in the final.

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, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
• 1661 - Claude Buffier, French philosopher and historian (d. 1737)
• 1803 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher (d. 1882)
• 1803 - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English novelist and playwright (d. 1873)
• 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 laureate (d. 1943)
• 1877 - Billy Murray, American singer (d. 1954)
• 1879 - Lord Beaverbrook, English publisher (d. 1964)
• 1880 - Jean Alexandre Barré, French neurologist (d. 1967)
• 1882 - Marie Doro, American actress (d. 1956)
• 1887 - Francesco Forgione, Italian priest (d. 1968)
• 1888 - Miles Malleson, English actor (d. 1969)
• 1889 - Igor Sikorsky, Russian inventor (d. 1972)
• 1912 - Princess Dukhye of Korea (d. 1989)
• 1913 - Richard Dimbleby, British journalist and broadcaster (d. 1965)
• 1921 - Jack Steinberger, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1922 - Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (d. 1984)
• 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
• 1936 - Vladimir (Wally) Fekula, American financeer and raconteur
• 1938 - Raymond Carver, American writer (d. 1988)
• 1939 - Ian McKellen, English actor
• 1939 - Dixie Carter, American actress
• 1943 - Jessi Colter, American singer
• 1944 - Frank Oz, English-born puppeteer and director
• 1949 - Jamaica Kincaid, Antiguan-born novelist
• 1956 - Sugar Minott, Jamaican singer
• 1958 - Paul Weller, British musician
• 1963 - 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, Former American NBA player
• 1969 - Anne Heche, American actress
• 1970 - Jamie Kennedy, American actor
• 1971 - Sonya Smith, American actress
• 1975 - Lauryn Hill, American singer
• 1976 - Miguel Tejada, Dominican Major League Baseball player
• 1974 - Monica Keena, American actress
• 1976 - Jonny Wilkinson, English rugby player
• 1977 - Pat Burrell, baseball player
• 1978 - Brian Urlacher, American NFL player

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 - King Pedro III of Portugal (b. 1717)
• 1789 - Anders Dahl, Swedish botanist (b. 1751)
• 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)
• 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, 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 laureate (b. 1906)
• 1994 - Sonny Sharrock, American Jazz Guitarist (b. 1940)
• 1996 - Brad Nowell, American singer and guitarist (Sublime) (b. 1968)
• 2003 - Jeremy Michael Ward, musician (The Mars Volta)
• 2004 - Roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher (b. 1917)
• 2005 - Graham Kennedy, Australian television personality (b. 1934)
• 2005 - Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician (b. 1929)
• 2005 - Ruth Laredo, American classical pianist

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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