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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