Notable Historical Events on May 25th
May 25th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1085 |
King Alfonso VI of Castily/Leon occupy Toledo on Moren |
1241 |
1st attack on Jewish community of Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
1420 |
Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of Christ. |
1521 |
Edict of Worms outlaws Martin Luther & his followers |
1522 |
Emperor Karel I returns to Spain |
1632 |
Albrecht von Wallenstein recaptures Prague on Saksen |
1659 |
Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England. Many pubs in England have since been called "Tumbeldown Dick" in his memory. |
1660 |
King Charles II of England lands in Dover |
1720 |
The Ship "Le Grand St Antoine" reaches Marseille, bringing Europe's last major plague outbreak. Kills around 100,000 |
1721 |
John Copson becomes America's 1st insurance agent |
1738 |
A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners. |
1784 |
Jews are expelled from Warsaw by Marshall Mniszek |
1787 |
Constitutional convention opens at Phila, G Washington presiding |
1793 |
Father Stephen Theodore Badin is 1st US Roman Catholic priest ordained |
1810 |
The Primera Junta (local government) is established in Argentina |
1810 |
In the May Revolution, citizens of Buenos Aires expel the Spanish Viceroy Cisneros during Semana de Mayo. |
1825 |
American Unitarian Association founded |
1837 |
The Patriots of Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the British for freedom. |
1842 |
Christian Doppler presents his idea, now known as the Doppler Effect, to the Royal Bohemian Society, Prague |
1844 |
1st telegraphed news dispatch is published in Baltimore Patriot |
1861 |
John Merryman is arrested under suspension of writ of habeas corpus it later sparks a supreme court decision protecting writ |
1862 |
Battle of Winchester VA |
1864 |
Battle of New Hope Church, GA |
1868 |
Australian Aboriginal Cricket tour of England begins v Surrey Gentlemen |
1870 |
Irish Fenians raid Eccles Hill, Quebec |
1876 |
1st tie in NL history (Athletics & Louisville, 2-2 in 14) |
1876 |
4th Preakness: G Barbee aboard Shirley wins in 2:44.75 |
1878 |
Gilbert & Sullivan's opera "HMS Pinafore" premieres in London |
1887 |
Gas lamp at Paris Opera catches fire; 200 die |
1895 |
20th Preakness: Fred Taral aboard Belmar wins in 1:50.5 |
1895 |
Oscar Wilde sentenced to 2 years imprisonment for gross indecency |
1895 |
The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as the president. |
1898 |
1st US troop transport to Manila leaves SF |
1899 |
33rd Belmont: R Clawson aboard Jean Beraud wins in 2:23 |
1900 |
Eyre M Shaw, 78, becomes oldest gold medalist in Olympics |
1904 |
38th Belmont: George Odom aboard Delhi wins in 2:06.6 |
1906 |
After 20 straight wins, Boston Pilgrims lose to Chicago White Sox 3-0 |
1911 |
Revolution in Mexico overthrows President Jose Porfirio Diaz |
1914 |
British House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule Bill |
1915 |
2nd Battle of Ypres ends with 105,000 casualties |
1915 |
Chicago Claude Hendrix no-hits Pitts (Federal League), 10-0 |
1919 |
Casey Stengel releases a sparrow from under his baseball cap |
1922 |
Babe Ruth suspended 1 day & fined $200 for throwing dirt on an ump |
1923 |
Britain recognizes Transjordan with Abdullah as its leader |
1926 |
Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the Paris-based government-in-exile of Ukrainian People's Republic. |
1927 |
Henry Ford announces that he is ending production of the Model T Ford |
1932 |
Goofy, aka Dippy Dawg, 1st appears in 'Mickey's Revue' by Walt Disney |
1934 |
Béla Bartòk's "Enchanted Deer" premieres |
1935 |
Babe Ruth hits his last 3 home runs, Boston Braves vs Pirates |
1935 |
Track and field athlete Jesse Owens equals or breaks 6 world records in 45 minutes at Big Ten meet at Ferry Field in Ann Arbor US |
1936 |
The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins. |
1937 |
1st airmail letter to circle globe returns to NY |
1938 |
Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante takes place, with 313 deaths. |
1939 |
Carl Storck becomes 2nd NFL president |
1940 |
German troops conquer Boulogne |
1940 |
Golden Gate International Exposition reopens |
1941 |
5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India |
1941 |
Ted Williams raises his batting average over .400 for 1st time in 1941 |
1943 |
Riot at Mobile, Alabama, shipyard over upgrading 12 black workers |
1943 |
Trident conference in Washington, DC (operation plan '43 against Japan) |
1944 |
Partisan leader Tito escapes Germans surrounding Bosnia |
1945 |
Arthur C Clark proposes relay satellites in geosynchronous orbit |
1946 |
Jordan gains independence from Britain (National Day); Abdullah ibn Hussein becomes king of Jordan |
1947 |
Coal dust explosion rocks Centralia Coal Co's Mine #5 killing 111 |
1948 |
30th PGA Championship: Ben Hogan at Norwood Hills CC St Louis |
1948 |
SF receives its 1st telecast |
1949 |
Chinese Red army occupies Shanghai |
1950 |
Brooklyn Battery Tunnel opens in NYC |
1951 |
NY Giant Willie Mays 1st major league game (goes 0 for 5) |
1953 |
1st atomic cannon electronically fired, Frenchman Flat, Nevada |
1953 |
1st non-commercial educational television station-Houston, Texas |
1953 |
Braves Max Surkont strikes out record 8 Reds in a row |
1955 |
Series of 19 twisters destroy Udall Kansas & most of Blackwell Okla |
1956 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Haurietis aquas |
1957 |
"Shinbone Alley" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 49 performances |
1959 |
Khrushchev visits Angola |
1959 |
US Supreme Courtt rules Louisiana prohibiting black-white boxing unconstitutional |
1960 |
George Crowe's record 11th pinch-hit HR |
1961 |
JFK sets goal of putting a man on Moon before the end of decade |
1961 |
NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,770 m |
1961 |
President Kennedy announces US goal to reach Moon |
1962 |
Isley Brothers release "Twist & Shout" |
1962 |
US performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric) |
1962 |
US unions AFL-CIO starts campaign for 35-hour work week |
1963 |
"Hot Spot" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 43 performances |
1963 |
Early Wynn wins his 300th baseball game |
1963 |
Great Britain ends its amateur-professional classes in cricket |
1963 |
Organization for African Unity formed by Chad, Mauritania & Zambia |
1964 |
16th Emmy Awards: Dick Van Dyke Show, Dick Van Dyke & Mary Tyler Moore win |
1964 |
Frank Gilroy's "Subject is Roses" premieres in NYC |
1964 |
Ground is broken for a new stadium in St Louis |
1964 |
Supreme Court rules closing schools to avoid desegregation unconstitut |
1965 |
Dave Davies of The Kinks stumbles & is knocked unconscious on stage |
1965 |
India & Pakistan border fights |
1965 |
Muhammad Ali KOs Sonny Liston in 1 for heavyweight boxing title rematch |
1965 |
Roel van Duyn, Martijn Ananar & Rob Faado align in Provo |
1966 |
Peru & Argentina soccer fans fight in Lima; 248 die |
1967 |
Celtic wins 12th Europe Cup 1 in Lisbon |
1967 |
John Lennon takes delivery of his psychedelically painted Rolls Royce |
1968 |
BPAA All-Star Bowling Tournament won by Jim Stefanich |
1968 |
BPAA US Women's Bowling Open won by Dotty Fothergill |
1968 |
Gateway Arch in St Louis dedicated |
1968 |
Rolling Stones release "Jumping Jack Flash" |
1968 |
Unicorn by The Irish Rovers hits #7 |
1969 |
"Midnight Cowboy" released with an X rating |
1969 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational |
1969 |
Sudanese government is overthrown in a military coup |
1970 |
3rd ABA Championship: Indiana Pacers beat LA Stars, 4 games to 2 |
1971 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1971 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army throw a time bomb into Springfield Road British Army base in Belfast, killing British Army Sergeant Michael Willetts and wounding seven officers |
1972 |
Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Ron Stander |
1972 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1973 |
Peronist Hector Campora installed as president of Argentina |
1973 |
Borussia Mönchengladbach wins 2nd UEFA Cup at Enschede |
1973 |
George Harrison releases "Give Me Love" in UK |
1973 |
US launches 1st Skylab crew Kerwin, Conrad, Weitz |
1975 |
29th NBA Championship: Golden Warriors sweep Wash Bullets in 4 games |
1975 |
Cleve's Dennis Eckersley, debuts shuting out the A's 6-0 |
1975 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA American DefenderGolf Classic |
1975 |
Indianapolis 500: Bobby Unser wins in 2:54:55.064 (240.135 km/h) |
1977 |
"Beatles Live! At Star-Club in Hamburg Germany" released |
1977 |
"Brady Bunch Hour" last airs on ABC-TV |
1977 |
Dutch social democratic party wins parliamentary election |
1977 |
Liverpool wins 22nd Europe Cup 1 in Rome |
1977 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1977 |
Original "Star Wars" movie ("part IV") released |
1978 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 2 |
1979 |
American Airlines DC-10 crashes on takeoff from Chicago killing 273 including 2 on the ground |
1979 |
Israel begins to return Sinai to Egypt |
1979 |
Raul Gonzales of Mexico completes 50,000 m walk in record 3:41:38.4 |
1979 |
"Alien", starring Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley, is released |
1980 |
"Musical Chairs" closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 15 performances |
1980 |
Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
1980 |
Jacek Wszoka of Poland sets high jump record (7'8") |
1980 |
Indianapolis 500: Johnny Rutherford wins in 3:29:59.572 (229.914 km/h) |
1981 |
Bobby Unser becomes 1st Indy 500 winner to be disqualified |
1981 |
Carl Yastrzemski is 4th to get 3,000 hits (Cobb, Musial & Aaron) |
1981 |
Daniel Goodwin scales outside of Chicago's Sears Tower in 7 hours |
1981 |
Rangers' Bill Stein sets AL record with 7 consecutive pinch hits |
1982 |
Ferguson Jenkins becomes 7th pitcher to strike out 3,000 batters |
1982 |
Iranian troops reconquer Khorramshar |
1982 |
STS-4 vehicle moves to launch pad |
1983 |
"Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars part VI) released |
1983 |
1st US National Missing Children's Day is proclaimed |
1983 |
Fire in Nassermeer, Egypt, kills 357 |
1983 |
France performs nuclear test |
1983 |
Kirk Gibson (Tigers) & Jorge Orta (Blue Jays) hit inside park HRs |
1984 |
Det Tigers lose to Seattle 7-3 ends record tying 17 consecutive wins |
1984 |
Red Sox trade pitcher Dennis Eckersley to Cubs for Bill Buckner |
1985 |
Allan Border scores 4th successive 1st class 100 (v Derbyshire) |
1985 |
Cyclone ravages Bangladesh; 11,000 killed |
1986 |
30,000,000 people watch "Live Aid", a benefit concert for the Ethiopian famine |
1986 |
95-year-old woman scores a hole-in-one in Florida |
1986 |
Ferry boat Shamia sinks on Maghna River Bangladesh, 600 killed |
1986 |
Hands Across America - 6.5 million people hold hands from California to NY |
1986 |
KC Royal George Brett gets his 2,000th hit |
1986 |
Laurie Rinker wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
1986 |
Virgilio Barco elected president of Colombia |
1988 |
PSV wins Europe Cup |
1989 |
Eastern Airlines graduates it 1st class of non-union pilots |
1989 |
Mariners trade Mark Langston to Montreal for Randy Johnson |
1989 |
Mikhail Gorbachev elected Executive President in the Soviet Union |
1989 |
Stanley Cup: Calgary Flames beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 2 |
1989 |
Weird Al Yankovic records "She Drives Like Crazy" |
1991 |
"People Are Still Having Sex" by LaTour hits #35 |
1991 |
Israel evacuates 14,000 Ethiopian Jews |
1991 |
Stanley Cup: Pittsburgh Penguins beat Minn North Star, 4 games to 2 |
1992 |
Jay Leno becomes permanent host of "Tonight Show" |
1992 |
NY Yankees score 9 runs before 1st out in 8th inn, beat Brewers 13-7 |
1992 |
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro elected president of Italy |
1994 |
Emmy 21st Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci not nominated |
1994 |
Mark Messier guarantees his New York Rangers will beat the New Jersey Devils in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals, which he would help deliver on by scoring a natural hat trick in the game |
1995 |
The Bosnian Serb Army kills 72 youngsters in the Bosnian city of Tuzla. |
1996 |
Jennifer Maria Holsten, 18, crowned Miss Filipino-American |
1997 |
Bell Atlantic Senior Golf Classic |
1997 |
David Frost wins Golf's Colonial Final in Fort Worth Texas |
1997 |
Minnesota Twins retire Kirby Puckett's uniform # |
1997 |
Rosie Jones wins LPGA Corning Classic |
1997 |
Todd & Mel Stottlemyre become 1st father & son to win 100 games |
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 |
A train crash in Tenga, Mozambique kills 197 people. |
2002 |
China Airlines Flight 611: A Boeing 747-200 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 economic crisis. |
2003 |
Indianapolis 500: Gil de Ferran wins in 3:11:56.989 (251.526 km/h) |
2007 |
The Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire for the second time. |
2008 |
Indianapolis 500: Scott Dixon wins in 3:28:57.6792 (231.049 km/h) |
2009 |
North Korea allegedly tests its second nuclear device. Following the nuclear test, Pyongyang also conducted several missile tests bulding tensions in the international community. |
2009 |
Thailand's economy shrank more than expected in the first quarter of 2009, contracting the most in a decade and plunging the nation into recession |
2011 |
Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty five year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show. |
2011 |
46th Academy of Country Music Awards: Taylor Swift, Miranda Lambert & Brad Paisley wins |
2012 |
Up to 116 people are massacred, including women and children, by the Syrian army in Houla, in the Homs province |
2012 |
A SpaceX Dragon becomes the first commercial spacecraft to dock at the International Space Station |
2013 |
17 children are killed by a gas cylinder explosion on a school bus in Gujrat, Pakistan |
2013 |
Bayern Munich defeat Borussia Dortmund 2-1 in the UEFA Champions League Final |
2013 |
Yuichiro Miura of Japan becomes the oldest person to climb Mount Everest at 80 |
2014 |
Petro Poroshenk is elected President of the Ukraine |
2014 |
Dalia Grybauskaitė is re-elected President of Lithuania |
2016 |
Asia Pacific|Taliban Confirm Death of Leader, Mullah Mansour, in US Drone Strike |
2016 |
Protesters Throw Rocks at Police Horses Outside Trump Rally in Albuquerque |
2016 |
Ten killed in suicide attack near Afghan capital |
2016 |
Obama urges Vietnam youth to tackle climate change |
2016 |
Afghan Taliban appoint new leader after Mansour's death |
2016 |
Monsanto rejects $62bn offer from Bayer |
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