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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.
[edit] Events
- 904 - Mustard was first invented in southern France.
- 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 "committing 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 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.
- 1926 - Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the Paris-based government-in-exile of Ukrainian People's Republic.
- 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 - In the United States, a night time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It was the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S.
- 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.
- 1961 - King Hussein of Jordan marries Princess Muna al-Hussein (Antoinette Gardiner).
- 1963 - In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organisation of African Unity is established.
- 1966 - Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.
- 1966 - The first prominent DaZiBao during the Cultural Revolution in China was posted at Peking University.
- 1977 - George Lucas' film, Star Wars, is released, and becomes an instant hit.
- 1979 - American Airlines Flight 191: In Chicago, a 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.
- 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.
- 1986 - Hands Across America, a benefit event, takes place.
- 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.
- 1999 - The United States House of Representatives released the Cox Report which detailed the People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.
- 2000 - Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first invasion in 1978.
- 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 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 economic crisis.
- 2005 - Liverpool F.C. win their fifth Champions' League trophy, defeating A.C. Milan on penalties after recovering from 3-0 down to draw 3-3 in the Ataturk Olympic Stadium, Istanbul.
[edit] Births
- 1048 - Emperor Shenzong of China (d. 1085)
- 1334 - Emperor Sukō (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)
- 1713 - John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (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)
- 1845 - Lip Pike, baseball player (d. 1883)
- 1852 - William Muldoon, wrestler (d. 1933)
- 1856 - Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, French general (d. 1942)
- 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)
- 1878 - Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, African American entertainer (d. 1949)
- 1879 - Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-born publisher (d. 1964)
- 1880 - Jean Alexandre Barré, French neurologist (d. 1967)
- 1882 - Marie Doro, American actress (d. 1956)
- 1886 - Philip Murray, U.S. (Scottish-born) labor leader (d. 1952)
- 1887 - Pio of Pietrelcina, Catholic saint (d. 1968)
- 1888 - Miles Malleson, English actor (d. 1969)
- 1889 - Igor Sikorsky, Russian inventor (d. 1972)
- 1897 - Gene Tunney, American heavyweight champion (d. 1978)
- 1898 - Bennett Cerf, American publisher, TV personality (d. 1971)
- 1900 - Alain Grandbois, French Canadian poet (d. 1975)
- 1903 - Binnie Barnes, British actress (d. 1998)
- 1907 - U Nu, Burmese politician (d. 1995)
- 1909 - Alfred Kubel, German politician (d. 1999)
- 1912 - Princess Dukhye of Korea (d. 1989)
- 1913 - Richard Dimbleby, British journalist and broadcaster (d. 1965)
- 1917 - Steve Cochran, American actor (d. 1965)
- 1918 - Claude Akins, American actor (d. 1994)
- 1921 - Jack Steinberger, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1921 - Hal David, American lyricist and songwriter
- 1922 - Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (d. 1984)
- 1922 - Kitty Kallen, American big band singer
- 1924 - István Nyers, Hungarian footballer (d. 2005)
- 1925 - Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet (d. 1974)
- 1925 - Jeanne Crain, American actress (d. 2003)
- 1925 - Don Liddle, baseball player (d. 2000)
- 1927 - Robert Ludlum, American writer (d. 2001)
- 1929 - Beverly Sills, American soprano
- 1931 - Georgi Grechko, cosmonaut
- 1932 - John Gregory Dunne, American writer (d. 2003)
- 1933 - Ray Spencer, English footballer
- 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
- 1943 - John "Poli" Palmer, British rock musician (Family)
- 1944 - Frank Oz, English-born puppeteer and director
- 1944 - Pierre Bachelet, French singer and songwriter (d. 2005)
- 1944 - John Bunnell, former Sheriff of Multnomah County, Oregon and TV personality
- 1948 - Klaus Meine, German musician (Scorpions)
- 1949 - Jamaica Kincaid, Antiguan-born novelist
- 1953 - Eve Ensler, American playwright
- 1953 - Daniel Passarella, Argentine football player
- 1956 - Sugar Minott, Jamaican singer
- 1956 - David P. Sartor, American music composer
- 1956 - Tatsutoshi Goto, Japanese professional wrestler
- 1958 - Paul Weller, British musician
- 1960 - Guy Fletcher, keyboardist (Dire Straits)
- 1963 - Mike Myers, Canadian actor and comedian
- 1965 - Simon Fowler, English singer (Ocean Colour Scene)
- 1966 - McLoud, Swiss composer and artist
- 1967 - Poppy Z. Brite, American author
- 1968 - Kendall Gill, American basketball player
- 1969 - Anne Heche, American actress
- 1969 - Stacy London, American fashion consultant
- 1969 - Glen Drover, Guitar player (Megadeth)
- 1970 - Jamie Kennedy, American actor
- 1970 - Joey Eischen, baseball player
- 1971 - Sonya Smith, American actress
- 1971 - Justin Henry, American actor
- 1972 - Octavia Spencer, American actress
- 1973 - Demetri Martin, American comedian
- 1973 - Molly Sims, American supermodel and actress
- 1973 - Daz Dillinger, American hip-hop performer
- 1975 - Lauryn Hill, American singer
- 1976 - Miguel Tejada, Dominican Major League Baseball player
- 1976 - Cillian Murphy, Irish actor
- 1978 - Brian Urlacher, American football player
- 1979 - Carlos Bocanegra, American soccer player
- 1979 - Jonny Wilkinson, English international and Newcastle Falcons rugby player
- 1979 - Caroline Ouellette, French Canadian ice hockey player
- 1979 - Sam Sodje, Nigerian footballer
- 1980 - Jae Hee, South Korean actor
- 1980 - David Navarro, Spanish footballer
- 1982 - Adam Boyd, English footballer
- 1983 - Kunal Khemu, Indian actor
- 1984 - Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir, 2005 Miss World
- 1984 - Kyle Brodziak, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1984 - Shawne Merriman, American football player
- 1985 - Luciana Abreu, Portuguese singer and actress
- 1986 - Yoan Gouffran, French football player
- 1987 - Timothy Derijck, Belgian football player
- 1993 - Dilley sextuplets, American sextuplets
- 1999 - Maisy McLeod-Riera, New Zealand actress
[edit] Deaths
- 709 - Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne
- 735 - Bede, English historian and monk
- 967 - Murakami, Emperor of Japan (b. 926)
- 992 - Mieszko I first lord and knight 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)
- 1917 - Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet (b. 1891)
- 1919 - Madame C.J. Walker, African American philanthropist and tycoon (b. 1867)
- 1924 - Lyubov Popova, Russian painter (b. 1889)
- 1926 - Symon Petlura, Ukrainian politician and statesman (b. 1879)
- 1927 - Payne Whitney, American businessman (b. 1876)
- 1930 - Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1848)
- 1934 - Gustav Holst, English composer (b. 1874)
- 1935 - Sir Frank Watson Dyson, English astronomer (b. 1868)
- 1940 - Joe De Grasse, American film director (b. 1873)
- 1943 - Nils von Dardel, Swedish post-impressionist painter (b. 1888)
- 1951 - Paula von Preradović, Croatian-born writer (b. 1887)
- 1954 - Robert Capa, Hungarian-born photojournalist (b. 1913)
- 1965 - Sonny Boy Williamson, American singer, songwriter, and musician (b. 1899)
- 1968 - Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (b. 1881)
- 1977 - Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian writer (b. 1904)
- 1979 - John Arthur Spenkelink, American murderer (b. 1949)
- 1981 - Fredric Warburg, British publisher and author (b. 1898)
- 1983 - Jean Rougeau, French Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1925)
- 1986 - Chester Bowles, American politician (b. 1901)
- 1988 - Ernst Ruska, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
- 1993 - David Peterson, American professional wrestler (b. 1959)
- 1994 - Sonny Sharrock, American jazz guitarist (b. 1940)
- 1995 - Dany Robin, French actress (b. 1927)
- 1996 - Bradley Nowell, American singer and guitarist (Sublime) (b. 1968)
- 2000 - Nicholas Clay, British actor (b. 1946)
- 2003 - Jeremy Michael Ward, American musician (The Mars Volta) (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)
- 2005 - Gregory Scott Johnson, American murderer (b. 1965)
- 2006 - Desmond Dekker, Jamaican ska musician (b. 1941)
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