May
25
Independence
Day
Jordan : May 25 1946
May
25
Argentina
First Patriotic Government, the Spanish viceroy is removed and
replaced by the Primera Junta during the May RevolutionEvents
567 BC – Servius Tullius, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph
for his victory over the Etruscans.
240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo, Spain 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 of England.
1738 – A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular
War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
1798 – United Irishmen Rebellion: The Carnew massacre, Dunlavin
massacre and Carlow massacre takes place.
1809 – Chuquisaca Revolution: a group of patriots in Chuquisaca
(modern day Sucre) revolt against the Spanish Empire, starting
the South American Wars of Independence.
1810 – May Revolution: citizens of Buenos Aires expel Viceroy
Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros during the May week, starting the
Argentine War of Independence.
1819 – The Argentine Constitution of 1819 is promulgated.
1833 – The Chilean Constitution of 1833 is promulgated.
1837 – The Rebels of Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the
British for freedom.
1865 – In Mobile, Alabama, 300 are killed when an ordnance depot
explodes.
1878 – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens
at the Opera Comique in London.
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 its president.
1914 – The United Kingdom's House of Commons passes the Home
Rule Act for devolution in Ireland.
1925 – Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching
Charles 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 – Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world
records and ties a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and
Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1936 – The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation
of Labor, begins.
1938 – Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante takes place,
with 313 deaths.
1946 – The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan
their Emir.
1951 – Future Hall of Famer Willie Mays was called up by the
New York Giants from their farm team Minneapolis Millers. We
went 0-5 in his first major league game.
1953 – Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United
States conduct their first and only nuclear artillery test.
1953 – The first public television station in the United States
officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the
University of Houston.
1955 – In the United States, a night time F5 tornado strikes
the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273.
It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the
23rd deadliest in the U.S.
1955 – First ascent of Kangchenjunga (8,586 m.), the third highest
mountain in the world, by a British expedition led by Joe Brown
and George Band.
1961 – Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces
before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate
a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end
of the decade.
1962 – The Old Bay Line, the last overnight steamboat service
in the United States, goes out of business.
1963 – In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organisation of African
Unity is established.
1966 – Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.
1966 – The first prominent dàzìbào during the Cultural Revolution
in China is posted at Peking University.
1967 – Celtic F.C. from Glasgow, Scotland becomes the first
ever Northern European team to win the European Cup; with previous
winners being from Spain, Italy and Portugal.
1973 – HNS Velos (D-16), while participating in a NATO exercise
and in order to protest against the dictatorship in Greece,
anchored at Fiumicino, Italy, refusing to return to Greece.
1977 – Star Wars (retitled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
in 1981) is released in theaters, inspiring the Jediism religion
and Geek Pride Day holiday.
1979 – American Airlines Flight 191: In Chicago, a McDonnell
Douglas DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O'Hare International
Airport killing 271 on board and two people on the ground.
1979 – Six-year-old Etan Patz disappears from the street just
two blocks away from his New York City home, prompting an international
search for the child, and causing U.S. President Ronald Reagan
to designate May 25th as National Missing Children's Day (in
1983).
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 takes place.
1997 – A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad
Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.
1999 – The United States House of Representatives releases the
Cox Report which details 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.
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.
2009 – North Korea allegedly tests its second nuclear device.
Following the nuclear test, Pyongyang also conducted several
missile tests building tensions in the international community.
2011 – Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty five
year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Holidays
and observances
Africa
Day (African Union)
African Liberation Day (African Union)
Christian Feast Day:
Bede
Gerard of Lunel
Mary Magdalene de Pazzi
Pope Gregory VII
Pope Urban I
May 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day of Youth, celebrated on Josip Broz Tito's birthday (the
former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia)
Geek Pride Day and its related observances:
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Jordan from
the United Kingdom in 1946.
Last bell in Russia
Liberation Day (Lebanon)
First National Government / National Day (Argentina)
National Missing Children's Day (United States)
National Tap Dance Day (United States)
Towel Day (Douglas Adams fans)
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