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May 25
is the 145th day of the year (146th in
leap years
) in the
Gregorian calendar
. There are 220 days remaining until the end of the year.
- 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
.
- 1524
?
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
issues the Edict of
Worms
, which declares
Martin Luther
an outlaw.
- 1644
-
Ming Dynasty
general
Wu Sangui
forms an alliance with the invading
Manchus
and opens the gates of the
Great Wall of China
at Shanhaiguan Pass, letting the Manchus through towards the capital,
Beijing
.
- 1659
?
Richard Cromwell
resigns as Lord Protector of
England
.
- 1809
? The
South American Wars of Independence
begin.
- 1810
?
May Revolution
: The
Argentine War of Independence
begins.
- 1837
- Rebels in
Lower Canada
(
Quebec
) rebel against the British for freedom.
- 1865
? 300 people are killed in
Mobile, Alabama
when an ordnance depot explodes.
- 1878
? The
Gilbert and Sullivan
comic
opera
H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in
London
.
- 1895
? The
Republic of Formosa
is founded.
- 1895
- The
playwright
,
novelist
and
poet
Oscar Wilde
is convicted of "Committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to two years in
prison
.
- 1914
- The
United Kingdom
House of Commons
passes the
Home Rule
Act of
1914
for
devolution
to
Ireland
.
- 1923
- A magnitude 5.7
earthquake
strikes
Iran
, killing around 2,200 people.
- 1925
?
John T. Scopes
is indicted for teaching
Evolution
.
- 1935
?
Jesse Owens
of
Ohio State University
breaks three world records and ties one, in
track and field athletics
in
Ann Arbor, Michigan
.
- 1938
?
Spanish Civil War
: 313 people are killed in
Alicante
.
- 1946
?
Abdullah I of Jordan
is declared
Emir
by the
Parliament
of
Transjordan
.
- 1953
? The
US
conducts its only nuclear artillery test in
Nevada
.
- 1955
? A night-time Force 5
tornado
strikes the small city in
Udall
,
Kansas
, killing 80 people; it is the deadliest
tornado
ever to strike
Kansas
.
- 1955
? First successful climb of
Kanchenjunga
(8,586
metres
), the third-highest
mountain
in the world on the
India
-
Nepal
border, by a British expedition led by
Joe Brown
and
George Band
.
- 1961
- The Bukit Ho Swee
Fire
occurs in
Singapore
.
- 1961
?
John F. Kennedy
announces before the
United States Congress
that the
United States
should set the target of landing a man on the
Moon
by the end of the
1960s
decade.
- 1962
- In
England
, the new
Coventry Cathedral
is
consecrated
. The original one had been badly damaged by German bombs in
World War II
.
- 1963
? The
Organisation of African Unity
is founded in
Addis Ababa
,
Ethiopia
.
- 1966
-
Explorer program
: Explorer 32 launches.
- 1967
?
Celtic F.C.
from
Glasgow
,
Scotland
, becomes the first football team from the
UK
to win the
European cup
.
- 1968
- The
Gateway Arch
in
Saint Louis
,
Missouri
is dedicated.
- 1969
-
Thor Heyerdahl
sets off from
Morocco
on his
Papyrus
boat
Ra
, in an attempt to prove that America was directly settled from
Africa
.
- 1977
?
Star Wars
is released in
theatres
.
- 1977
- The
People's Republic of China
's
government
removes its 10-year ban on the work of
William Shakespeare
.
- 1979
?
American Airlines
Flight 191
, a McDonnell Douglas C-10, crashes during take-off from
Chicago
O'Hare International Airport
, killing 273 people (271 on the plane and 2 on the ground).
- 1979
? 6-year-old
Etan Patz
disappears on his way to
school
near his home in
New York City
. This becomes one of the most notorious missing-
child
cases in US history and leads to
Ronald Reagan
declaring May 25 National Missing Children's Day in
1983
.
- 1981
? In
Riyadh
the Guld Cooperation Council is created between
Bahrain
,
Kuwait
,
Oman
,
Qatar
,
Saudi Arabia
and the
United Arab Emirates
.
- 1982
? British ship
HMS
Coventry
is sunk by Argentine forces during the
Falklands War
.
- 1985
? A
cyclone
in
Bangladesh
kills 10,000 people and many more are made homeless.
- 1997
? A coup in
Sierra Leone
removes
Ahmad Tejan Kabbah
and replaces him with
Johnny Paul Koromah
as leader.
- 2000
?
Israel
withdraws most of its army from
Lebanon
.
- 2001
?
Erik Weihenmayer
of
Boulder
,
Colorado
becomes the first person with a
visual impairment
to reach the top of
Mount Everest
.
- 2002
?
China Airlines
Flight 611
, a
Boeing 747
-200, breaks apart in mid-flight and plunges into the
Taiwan
Strait, killing 225 people.
- 2002
? A
train
crash kills 197 people in Tenga,
Mozambique
.
- 2003
-
Nestor Kirchner
becomes
President of Argentina
.
- 2005
?
Liverpool F.C.
win the
UEFA Champions League
, defeating
AC Milan
in a penalty shoot-out.
- 2009
?
North Korea
is believed to have tested its second nuclear device.
- 2011
? The
Oprah Winfrey Show
airs for the last time.
- 2013
- Suspected
Maoist
rebels kill at least 28 people and injure 32 others in an attack on a convoy of
Indian National Congress
politicians in
Chhattisgarh
,
India
.
- 2013
-
FC Bayern Munich
defeat
Borussia Dortmund
2-1 in the first
UEFA Champions League
final to be contested by two German teams.
- 2014
- Elections are held to the
European Parliament
. Far-right parties make strong gains and finish in the lead in some countries, such as
Nigel Farage
's
UKIP
(
UK
),
Marine Le Pen
's
National Front
(
France
) and
Danish People's Party
(
Denmark
). In
Greece
, the left-wing
SYRIZA
Party finishes first.
- 2014
-
Petro Poroshenko
is elected
President of Ukraine
.
- 2018
- The
European Union
's
General Data Protection Regulation
enters into force.
- 2018
- A
referendum
in the
Republic of Ireland
results in an-almost two-thirds majority (66.4%) voting to change the country's strict
abortion
laws.
- 1048
?
Emperor Shenzong
of China (d.
1085
)
- 1271
?
Shah Jalal
of Bengal (d.
1346
)
- 1334
?
Emperor Suko
of
Japan
(d.
1398
)
- 1458
?
Mahmud Begada
, Sultan of Gujarat (d.
1511
)
- 1572
-
Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
(d.
1632
)
- 1606
?
Charles Garnier
, French Jesuit missionary (d.
1649
)
- 1661
?
Claude Buffier
, French philosopher and historian (d.
1737
)
- 1677
-
Francoise-Marie de Bourbon
, Duchess of Orleans (d.
1749
)
- 1713
?
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute
,
Prime Minister of Great Britain
(d.
1792
)
- 1725
?
Samuel Ward
, American politician (d.
1776
)
- 1762
-
Walter Leake
,
Governor
of
Mississippi
(d.
1825
)
- 1783
?
Philip Pendleton Barbour
, American politician (d.
1841
)
- 1791
-
Ming Mang
,
Vietnamese
Emperor
(d.
1841
)
- 1803
?
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
, English novelist and playwright (d.
1873
)
- 1803
?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
, American essayist and philosopher (d.
1882
)
- 1815
-
Giovanni Caselli
, Italian
physicist
(d.
1891
)
- 1818
-
Jacob Burckhardt
, Swiss
historian
(d.
1897
)
- 1820
?
Anne Bronte
, English writer (d.
1849
)
- 1845
?
Lip Pike
, baseball player (d.
1883
)
- 1846
?
Princess Helena of the United Kingdom
(d.
1923
)
- 1846
?
Naim Frasheri
,
Albanian
poet
and
writer
(d.
1900
)
- 1848
-
Johann Baptist Singenberger
, Swiss
composer
,
education
and publisher (d.
1924
)
- 1860
?
James McKeen Cattell
, American psychologist (d.
1944
)
- 1863
-
Camille Erlanger
, French composer (d.
1919
)
- 1865
?
John Mott
, American YMCA leader, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize
(d.
1955
)
- 1865
?
Pieter Zeeman
, Dutch physicist,
Nobel Prize
laureate (d.
1943
)
- 1868
-
Charles Hitchcock Adams
, American
chemist
and
astronomer
(d.
1961
)
- 1877
?
Billy Murray
, American singer (d.
1954
)
- 1878
-
Bill Robinson
, American tap dancer and actor (d.
1949
)
- 1879
?
Lord Beaverbrook
, English publisher (d.
1964
)
- 1880
?
Jean Alexandre Barre
, French neurologist (d.
1967
)
- 1882
?
Marie Doro
, American actress (d.
1956
)
- 1883
-
Carl Johan Lind
, Swedish hammer thrower (d.
1965
)
- 1886
?
Philip Murray
, Scottish-American
labor
leader (d.
1952
)
- 1886
?
Rash Behari Bose
, Indian revolutionary (d.
1945
)
- 1887
?
Francesco Forgione
, better known as Padre Pio and also Saint Pius of Pietrelcina, Italian Franciscan Capuchin friar, priest and Saint in the Catholic Church (d.
1968
)
- 1888
?
Miles Malleson
, English actor (d.
1969
)
- 1889
?
Igor Sikorsky
, Russian inventor (d.
1972
)
- 1897
-
Gene Tunney
, American boxer (d.
1978
)
- 1898
-
Bennett Cerf
, American publisher (d.
1971
)
- 1903
-
Binnie Barnes
, English-American
actress
and
singer
(d.
1998
)
- 1907
?
U Nu
, Burmese politician (d.
1995
)
- 1909
-
Marie Menken
, American
actress
,
director
and
painter
(d.
1970
)
- 1909
-
Alfred Kubel
, German politician (d.
1999
)
- 1912
?
Princess Dukhye of Korea
(d.
1989
)
- 1913
?
Richard Dimbleby
, British journalist and broadcaster (d.
1965
)
- 1913
-
Donald Maclean
, British secret agent (d.
1983
)
- 1916
-
Brian Dickinson
, Canadian politician (d.
1998
)
- 1917
-
Theodore Hesburgh
, American
priest
(d.
2015
)
- 1918
?
Claude Akins
, American actor (d.
1994
)
- 1921
?
Hal David
, American lyricist and songwriter (d.
2012
)
- 1921
?
Jack Steinberger
, German-born physicist,
Nobel Prize
laureate
- 1921
-
Giorgio Orelli
, Swiss writer (d.
2013
)
- 1922
?
Enrico Berlinguer
, Italian politician (d.
1984
)
- 1922
-
Kitty Kallen
, American singer (d.
2016
)
- 1924
?
Istvan Nyers
, Hungarian footballer (d.
2005
)
- 1925
?
Rosario Castellanos
, Mexican poet (d.
1974
)
- 1925
?
Jeanne Crain
, American actress (d.
2003
)
- 1925
-
Claude Pinoteau
, French
screenwriter
and
movie director
(d.
2012
)
- 1926
-
Bill Sharman
, American
basketball
player (d.
2013
)
- 1926
?
Miles Davis
, American jazz trumpeter (d.
1991
)
- 1927
?
Robert Ludlum
, writer (d.
2001
)
- 1927
-
Norman Petty
, American
singer-songwriter
,
pianist
and
producer
(d.
1984
)
- 1929
?
Beverly Sills
, American soprano (d.
2007
)
- 1931
?
Aili Jogi
,
Estonian
anti-
Communist
activist
(d.
2007
)
- 1931
?
Georgi Grechko
, Soviet cosmonaut (d.
2017
)
- 1931
-
Herb Gray
, former Deputy Prime Minister of
Canada
(d.
2014
)
- 1932
?
John Gregory Dunne
, American writer (d.
2003
)
- 1933
-
Jogvan Sundstein
, 7th
Prime Minister
of the
Faroe Islands
- 1933
-
Sarah Marshall
, English-American actress (d.
2014
)
- 1933
-
Basdeo Panday
, 5th
Prime Minister
of
Trinidad and Tobago
- 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 (d.
2010
)
- 1939
?
Ian McKellen
, English actor
- 1939
-
Ferdinand Bracke
, Belgian cyclist
- 1941
?
Vladimir Voronin
, former
President
of
Moldova
- 1943
?
Jessi Colter
, American singer
- 1944
?
Frank Oz
, English-born puppeteer and director
- 1947
-
Mitch Margo
, American singer (
The Tokens
) (d.
2017
)
- 1948
?
Klaus Meine
, German singer (
Scorpions
)
- 1949
?
Jamaica Kincaid
, Antiguan-born novelist
- 1951
-
Francois Bayrou
, French politician
- 1953
?
Daniel Passarella
, Argentine
footballer
- 1953
-
Gaetano Scirea
, Italian
footballer
(d.
1989
)
- 1953
?
Eve Ensler
, Jewish-American playwright and feminist activist
- 1954
-
Murali
, Indian actor (d.
2009
)
- 1955
?
Alistair Burt
, British politician
- 1956
?
Sugar Minott
, Jamaican singer (d.
2010
)
- 1957
?
Alastair Campbell
, British politician
- 1957
-
Robert Picard
, Canadian
ice hockey
player
- 1957
-
Mark McGhee
, Scottish
footballer
- 1958
?
Paul Weller
, English musician
- 1959
?
Julian Clary
, English comedian
- 1959
-
Vladimir Franz
, Czech composer and painter
- 1960
-
Amy Klobuchar
, American politician,
United States
Senator
from
Minnesota
- 1960
-
Anthea Turner
, English television presenter
- 1961
-
Robert Brylewski
, Polish
singer-songwriter
(d.
2018
)
- 1963
?
Mike Myers
, Canadian actor and comedian
- 1963
-
Anne Consigny
, French actress
- 1963
-
Torsten Albig
, German politician
- 1964
-
Ivan Bella
,
Slovakian
astronaut
- 1965
?
Simon Fowler
, English singer (
Ocean Colour Scene
)
- 1965
-
Yahya Jammeh
, former
President
of the
Gambia
- 1966
?
McLoud
, Swiss composer, musician, and multimedia artist
- 1966
-
Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands
- 1967
-
Luc Nilis
, Belgian
footballer
- 1967
?
Poppy Z. Brite
, American writer
- 1968
?
Kendall Gill
, American basketball player
- 1969
?
Anne Heche
, American actress
- 1969
?
Glen Drover
, Canadian musician (
Megadeth
)
- 1970
?
Jamie Kennedy
, American actor
- 1970
-
Octavia Spencer
, American actress
- 1971
?
Sonya Smith
, American actress
- 1972
-
Karan Johar
, Indian
director
,
producer
,
writer
and
actor
- 1973
-
Demetri Martin
, American actor, comedian and musician
- 1973
-
Molly Sims
, American model and actress
- 1974
-
Dougie Freedman
, Scottish
footballer
and manager
- 1974
?
Monica Keena
, American actress
- 1974
-
Frank Klepacki
, American musician
- 1975
-
Keiko Fujimori
, Peruvian politician
- 1975
?
Lauryn Hill
, American singer
- 1975
?
Blaise Nkufo
, Swiss
footballer
- 1976
?
Miguel Tejada
, Dominican
Major League Baseball
player
- 1976
-
Cillian Murphy
, Irish actor
- 1977
?
Pat Burrell
, baseball player
- 1978
?
Brian Urlacher
, American football player
- 1979
-
Sayed Moawad
, Egyptian
footballer
- 1979
?
Jonny Wilkinson
, English
rugby
player
- 1979
?
Carlos Bocanegra
, American
soccer
player
- 1979
-
Caroline Ouellette
, Canadian
ice hockey
player
- 1980
-
Alex Hofmann
, German
motorcycle
racer
- 1980
?
David Navarro
, Spanish footballer
- 1982
?
Adam Boyd
, English footballer
- 1982
?
Daniel Braaten
, Norwegian footballer
- 1982
?
Roger Guerreiro
, Brazilian-Polish footballer
- 1984
-
Emma Marrone
, Italian singer
- 1984
-
Marion Raven
, Norwegian
singer-songwriter
,
musician
and
actress
- 1984
?
Unnur Birna Vilhjalmsdottir
,
Icelandic
model (
Miss Iceland
), former
Miss World
- 1985
?
Demba Ba
,
Senegalese
footballer
- 1985
-
Joe Anoa'i
, American football player and wrestler
- 1986
?
Lauren Crace
, English actress
- 1986
-
Yoan Gouffran
, French
footballer
- 1986
-
Geraint Thomas
, Welsh cyclist
- 1987
-
Kamil Stoch
, Polish ski jumper
- 1988
-
Cameron van der Burgh
, South African swimmer
- 1990
-
Nikita Filatov
, Russian
ice hockey
player
- 1991
-
Jillian Wheeler
, American
singer-songwriter
and
actress
- 1992
-
Jon Dadi Bodvarsson
, Icelandic
footballer
- 1994
-
Aly Raisman
, American gymnast
- 1999
-
Brec Bassinger
, American actress
- 615
?
Pope Boniface IV
(b.
550
)
- 675
-
Li Hong
, Chinese
prince
(b.
550
)
- 709
?
Aldhelm
, English Christian saint (b.
639
)
- 967
?
Emperor Murakami
of
Japan
(b.
926
)
- 992
?
Mieszko I of Poland
(b.
935
)
- 1085
?
Pope Gregory VII
(b.
1020
)
- 1261
?
Pope Alexander IV
- 1452
?
John Stafford
,
Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1555
?
Gemma Frisius
, Dutch
mathematician
and
mapmaker
(b.
1508
)
- 1555
?
Henry II of Navarre
(b.
1503
)
- 1595
-
Philip Neri
, Italian priest and saint (b.
1515
)
- 1632
-
Adam Tanner
, Austrian
mathematician
and
philosopher
(b.
1572
)
- 1667
-
Gustaf Bonde
, Swedish
statesman
(b.
1620
)
- 1681
?
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
, Spanish
playwright
(b.
1600
)
- 1693
-
Madame de la Fayette
, French writer (b.
1634
)
- 1786
? King
Peter III of Portugal
(b.
1717
)
- 1789
-
Anders Dahl
, Swedish
botanist
(b.
1751
)
- 1805
?
William Paley
, English
philosopher
(b.
1743
)
- 1862
-
Johann Nestroy
, Austrian
playwright
,
actor
and
opera
singer (b.
1801
)
- 1895
-
Ahmed Cevdet Pasha
, Ottoman soldier, intellectual, bureaucrat, administrator and historian (b.
1822
)
- 1899
-
Rosa Bonheur
, French painter and sculptor (b.
1822
)
- 1899
-
Emilio Castelar y Ripoll
, Spanish politician and writer (b.
1832
)
- 1911
-
Vasily Klyuchevsky
, Russian
historian
(b.
1841
)
- 1912
-
Austin Lane Crothers
, 46th
Governor
of
Maryland
(b.
1860
)
- 1919
?
Madam C. J. Walker
, American philanthropist and tycoon (b.
1867
)
- 1924
-
Lyubov Popova
, Russian painter (b.
1889
)
- 1926
?
Symon Petliura
, Ukrainian politician and
statesman
(b.
1879
)
- 1930
?
Randall Thomas Davidson
,
Archbishop of Canterbury
(b.
1848
)
- 1934
?
Gustav Holst
, English composer (b.
1874
)
- 1939
-
Frank Watson Dyson
, English
astronomer
(b.
1858
)
- 1940
-
Joe De Grasse
, Canadian-American actor and director (b.
1873
)
- 1954
?
Robert Capa
, Hungarian-born photo
journalist
(b.
1913
)
- 1958
-
Steinn Steinarr
, Icelandic poet (b.
1908
)
- 1965
-
Sonny Boy Williamson II
, American
singer-songwriter
and
musician
(b.
1912
)
- 1970
-
Tom Patey
, Scottish
mountaineer
and writer (b.
1932
)
- 1977
?
Yevgenia Ginzburg
, Russian writer (b.
1904
)
- 1981
-
Ruby Payne-Scott
, Australian
physicist
and
astronomer
(b.
1912
)
- 1983
? King
Idris I
of
Libya
(b.
1890
)
- 1986
-
Chester Bowles
, 78th
Governor
of
Connecticut
(b.
1901
)
- 1988
?
Ernst Ruska
, German
physicist
(b.
1906
)
- 1993
-
Buddhadasa
, Thai
monk
and
philosopher
(b.
1906
)
- 1995
-
Dany Robin
, French
actress
(b.
1927
)
- 1996
-
Renzo De Felice
, Italian
historian
and
politician
(b.
1929
)
- 2002
?
Pat Coombs
, English actress (b.
1926
)
- 2005
-
Sunil Dutt
, Indian actor and politician (b.
1929
)
- 2006
?
Desmond Dekker
, Jamaican musician (b.
1941
)
- 2009
?
Haakon Lie
, Norwegian politician (b.
1906
)
- 2010
?
Siphiwo Ntshebe
, South African singer (b.
1975
)
- 2011
?
Leonora Carrington
, British-Mexican painter (b.
1917
)
- 2012
?
Edoardo Mangiarotti
, Italian
fencer
(b.
1919
)
- 2014
-
Wojciech Jaruzelski
, Polish
general
and
politician
, last
Communist
leader of
Poland
(b.
1923
)
- 2014
-
Bunny Yeager
, American model and photographer (b.
1929
)
- 2014
-
Herb Jeffries
, American
jazz
and
pop
singer (b.
1913
)
- 2014
-
David Allen
, English
cricketer
(b.
1935
)
- 2014
-
Tommy Blom
, Swedish
radio
host and
singer
(b.
1947
)
- 2014
-
Malcolm Simmons
, English
motorcycle
speedway
racer (b.
1946
)
- 2015
-
John M. Murphy
, American politician (b.
1926
)
- 2015
-
Mary Ellen Mark
, American
photographer
(b.
1940
)
- 2015
-
Bill O'Herlihy
, Irish broadcaster (b.
1938
)
- 2016
-
Yang Jiang
, Chinese playwright, author and translator (b.
1911
)
- 2016
-
Gyula Kosice
, Czechoslovakian-Argentine poet and sculptor (b.
1924
)
- 2016
-
Nancy Dow
, American actress and model (b.
1936
)
- 2016
-
John Webster
, British
theologian
(b.
1955
)
- 2017
-
Alistair Horne
, British historian, journalist and spy (b.
1925
)
- 2017
-
Eva Estrada Kalaw
, Filipino politician (b.
1920
)
- 2017
-
Frederick Leboyer
, French
obstetrician
and author (b.
1918
)
- 2017
-
Saucy Sylvia
, Canadian-American radio personality and singer (b.
1920
)
- 2018
-
Piet Kee
, Dutch composer and organist (b.
1927
)
- 2018
-
Sergio Graziani
, Italian actor (b.
1930
)
- 2018
-
Naser Malek Motiei
, Iranian actor (b.
1930
)
- 2019
-
Margaret-Ann Armour
, Scottish-Canadian chemist (b.
1939
)
- 2019
-
Jean Burns
, Australian
aviatrix
(b.
1919
)
- 2019
-
Anthony Graziano
, American mobster (b.
1940
)
- 2019
-
Dmytro Kremin
, Ukrainian poet, journalist and translator (b.
1953
)
- 2019
-
Thembinkosi Mbamba
, South African
footballer
(b.
1995
)