Independence
day
Jordan
UN
Day
Week
of Solidarity with the Peoples of Non-Self-Governing
Territories, 25-31 May
Events
of the day
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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