What happened on May 25? There are more than 299 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About May 25
May 25 is the 146th day of the year 2024. There are 220 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday. This day falls under the 21st week of the year 2024.
On this day in Tallassee, Tennessee 37878 sunrise will occur at 06:22 AM and sunset will occur at 08:43 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Gemini. The modern birthstone for this month is Emerald while the mystical birthstone is Sapphire.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 249 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For May 25
- 240 BCFirst recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet.
- 567 BCServius Tullius, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
- 1085Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo, Spain back from the Moors.
- 1420Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of Christ.
- 1521The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.
- 1659Richard 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.
- 1738A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
- 1798United Irishmen Rebellion: The Carnew massacre, Dunlavin massacre and Carlow massacre takes place.
- 1809Chuquisaca Revolution: a group of patriots in Chuquisaca (modern day Sucre) revolt against the Spanish Empire, starting the South American Wars of Independence.
- 1810May Revolution: citizens of Buenos Aires expel Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros during the May week, starting the Argentine War of Independence.
- 1819The Argentine Constitution of 1819 is promulgated.
- 1833The Chilean Constitution of 1833 is promulgated.
- 1837The Rebels of Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the British for freedom.
- 1865In Mobile, Alabama, 300 are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
- 1878Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
- 1895Playwright, 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.
- 1895The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as its president.
- 1914The United Kingdom’s House of Commons passes the Home Rule Act for devolution in Ireland.
- 1925Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.
- 1926Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the Paris-based government-in-exile of Ukrainian People’s Republic.
- 1935Jesse 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.
- 1936The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins.
- 1938Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante takes place, with 313 deaths.
- 1946The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their Emir.
- 1951Future 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.
- 1953Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conduct their first and only nuclear artillery test.
- 1953The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
- 1955First ascent of Kangchenjunga (8,586 m.), the third highest mountain in the world, by a British expedition led by Joe Brown and George Band.
- 1955In 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.
- 1961Apollo 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.
- 1962The Old Bay Line, the last overnight steamboat service in the United States, goes out of business.
- 1963In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organisation of African Unity is established.
- 1966Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.
- 1966The first prominent dàzìbào during the Cultural Revolution in China is posted at Peking University.
- 1967Celtic 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.
- 1973HNS 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.
- 1977Star Wars (retitled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope in 1981) is released in theaters, inspiring the Jediism religion and Geek Pride Day holiday.
- 1979American 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.
- 1979Six-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).
- 1981In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
- 1982HMS Coventry is sunk during the Falklands War.
- 1985Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
- 1997A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.
- 1999The 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.
- 2000Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first invasion in 1978.
- 200132-year-old Erik Weihenmayer, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
- 2002A train crash in Tenga, Mozambique kills 197 people.
- 2002China Airlines Flight 611: A Boeing 747-200 breaks apart in mid-air and plunges into the Taiwan Strait killing 225 people.
- 2009North Korea allegedly tests its second nuclear device. Following the nuclear test, Pyongyang also conducted several missile tests building tensions in the international community.
- 2011Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty five year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Who Were Born On May 25?
- 1048Emperor Shenzong of Song China (d. 1085)
- 1334Emperor Sukō, Japanese Pretender (d. 1398)
- 1458Sultan Mahmud Begada of Gujarat (d. 1511)
- 1606Charles Garnier, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
- 1661Claude Buffier, French philosopher and historian (d. 1737)
- 1713John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1792)
- 1725Samuel Ward, American politician (d. 1776)
- 1749Gregorio Funes, Argentine clergyman, politician and Junta Grande figure (d. 1829)
- 1783Philip Pendleton Barbour, American politician and Supreme Court justice (d. 1841)
- 1803Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English novelist and playwright (d. 1873)
- 1803Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher (d. 1882)
- 1818Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian (d. 1897)
- 1845Lip Pike, American baseball player (d. 1893)
- 1846Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet and writer (d. 1900)
- 1846Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (d. 1923)
- 1848Johann Baptist Singenberger, Swiss composer, editor and publisher (d. 1924)
- 1852William Muldoon, American Greco-Roman wrestler (d. 1933)
- 1856Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, French general (d. 1942)
- 1860James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (d. 1944)
- 1865John Mott, American evangelical; Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1955)
- 1865Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943)
- 1877Billy Murray, American singer (d. 1954)
- 1878Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, American tap dancer and actor (d. 1949)
- 1879Lord Beaverbrook, Canadian-born British publisher (d. 1964)
- 1880Jean Alexandre Barré, French neurologist (d. 1967)
- 1882Marie Doro, American actress (d. 1956)
- 1886Philip Murray, Scottish-born American labor leader (d. 1952)
- 1886Rash Behari Bose, Indian revolutionary (d. 1945)
- 1887Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, Italian Catholic priest (d. 1968)
- 1888Miles Malleson, English actor (d. 1969)
- 1889Igor Sikorsky, Russian-born American aviation designer (d. 1972)
- 1897Gene Tunney, American boxer(d. 1978)
- 1898Bennett Cerf, American publisher and TV personality (d. 1971)
- 1899Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet and musician (d. 1976)
- 1900Alain Grandbois, French Canadian poet (d. 1975)
- 1903Binnie Barnes, British actress (d. 1998)
- 1907U Nu, Burmese politician (d. 1995)
- 1908Theodore Roethke, American poet (d. 1963)
- 1909Alfred Kubel, German politician (d. 1999)
- 1909Marie Menken, American filmmaker and socialite (d. 1970)
- 1912Dean Rockwell, American wrestling and football coach (d. 2005)
- 1912Princess Deokhye of Korea (d. 1989)
- 1913Heinz “Pritzl” Bär, German fighter pilot (d. 1957)
- 1913Richard Dimbleby, British journalist and broadcaster (d. 1965)
- 1917Steve Cochran, American actor (d. 1965)
- 1917Theodore Hesburgh, American educator and theologian
- 1918Claude Akins, American actor (d. 1994)
- 1921Hal David, American lyricist and songwriter
- 1921Jack Steinberger, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1922Enrico Berlinguer, Italian P.C.I. politician (d. 1984)
- 1922Kitty Kallen, American big band singer
- 1924István Nyers, Hungarian footballer (d. 2005)
- 1925Don Liddle, American baseball player (d. 2000)
- 1925Jeanne Crain, American actress (d. 2003)
- 1925Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet (d. 1974)
- 1927Robert Ludlum, American writer (d. 2001)
- 1929Beverly Sills, American soprano (d. 2007)
- 1929Warren Frost, American actor
- 1931Aili Jõgi, Estonian anti-Soviet occupation figure
- 1931Georgy Grechko, Russian cosmonaut
- 1931Irwin Winkler, American film producer and director
- 1932John Gregory Dunne, American writer (d. 2003)
- 1932K. C. Jones, American professional basketball player and coach
- 1932W. P. Kinsella, Canadian writer
- 1933Basdeo Panday, Trinidadian statesman
- 1933Ray Spencer, English footballer
- 1935Cookie Gilchrist, American football player
- 1935Victoria Shaw, Australian-born American actress (d. 1988)
- 1936Tom T. Hall, American singer and songwriter
- 1938Raymond Carver, American writer (d. 1988)
- 1939Dixie Carter, American actress (d. 2010)
- 1939Ian McKellen, English actor
- 1941Vladimir Voronin, Moldovan statesman
- 1943Jessi Colter, American country singer
- 1943John Palmer, British musician (Family)
- 1944Frank Oz, British-born American puppeteer and director
- 1944John Bunnell, American law enforcement official and TV personality
- 1944Pierre Bachelet, French singer and songwriter (d. 2005)
- 1944Robert MacPherson, American mathematician
- 1946Bill Adam, Scottish-born Canadian racing driver
- 1946David A. Hargrave, American writer and role-playing games designer (d. 1988)
- 1947Karen Valentine, American actress
- 1948Klaus Meine, German singer (Scorpions)
- 1949Jamaica Kincaid, Antiguan-born novelist
- 1951Bob Gale, American screenwriter
- 1952Al Sarrantonio, American writer
- 1952Gordon Smith, American politician
- 1952Jeffrey Bewkes, American media executive
- 1953Daniel Passarella, Argentine footballer
- 1953Eve Ensler, American playwright
- 1953Stan Sakai, Japanese-American cartoonist (Usagi Yojimbo)
- 1955Alistair Burt, British politician
- 1956David P. Sartor, American composer
- 1956Stavros Arnaoutakis, Greek politician
- 1956Sugar Minott, Jamaican reggae singer
- 1956Tatsutoshi Goto, Japanese professional wrestler
- 1957Edward Lee, American writer
- 1957Hillary B. Smith, American actress
- 1957Robert Picard, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1958Aikaterini Batzeli, Greek politician
- 1958Carrie Newcomer, American folksinger
- 1958Paul Weller, English musician
- 1959Julian Clary, British television personality
- 1959Manolis Kefalogiannis, Greek politician
- 1959Rick Wamsley, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1960Amy Klobuchar, American politician
- 1960Anthea Turner, British television personality
- 1962Rick Nattress, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1963Eha Rünne, Estonian shot putter and discus thrower
- 1963Mike Myers, Canadian actor and comedian
- 1964David Shaw, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1964Ivan Bella, Slovak cosmonaut
- 1964Ray Stevenson, British actor
- 1965George Hickenlooper, American documentary film-maker
- 1966Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands
- 1967Poppy Z. Brite, American author
- 1968Kendall Gill, American basketball player
- 1969Anne Heche, American actress
- 1969Glen Drover, Canadian guitarist (Megadeth)
- 1969Stacy London, American fashion consultant
- 1970Jamie Kennedy, American actor
- 1970Joey Eischen, American baseball player
- 1970Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush, American actresses
- 1970Satsuki Yukino, Japanese voice actress
- 1971Justin Henry, American actor
- 1971Marco Cappato, Italian politician
- 1972Karan Johar, Indian director, producer, writer, actor
- 1972Octavia Spencer, American actress
- 1973Daz Dillinger, American rapper
- 1973Demetri Martin, American comedian
- 1973Molly Sims, American model and actress
- 1974Frank Klepacki, American musician
- 1974Miguel Tejada, Dominican baseball player
- 1975Blaise Nkufo, Swiss footballer
- 1975Lauryn Hill, American singer
- 1976Cillian Murphy, Irish actor
- 1976Clifton Williams, American Designer of TripIt
- 1976Ethan Suplee, American actor
- 1976Marcelo Silva, Brazilian footballer
- 1976Sandra Nasic, German singer (Guano Apes)
- 1976Tarik Glenn, American football player
- 1977Alberto Del Rio, Mexican wrestler
- 1977Karthik Sivakumar, Indian actor
- 1978Brian Urlacher, American football player
- 1979Carlos Bocanegra, American footballer
- 1979Caroline Ouellette, French Canadian ice-hockey player
- 1979Jonny Wilkinson, English rugby player
- 1979Sam Sodje, Nigerian footballer
- 1980David Navarro, Spanish footballer
- 1980Jae Hee, South Korean actor
- 1980Joe King, American musician (The Fray)
- 1981Michalis Pelekanos, Greek basketball player
- 1982Adam Boyd, English footballer
- 1982Daniel Braaten, Norwegian footballer
- 1982Jason Kubel, American baseball player
- 1982Luke Webster, Australian rules footballer
- 1982Ryan Gallant, American skateboarder
- 1983Kunal Khemu, Indian actor
- 1983Tiaguinho Brazilian footballer
- 1984A. J. Foyt IV, American race car driver
- 1984Kostas Martakis, Greek singer
- 1984Kyle Brodziak, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1984Luke Ball, Australian rules footballer
- 1984Marion Raven, Norwegian singer-songwriter (M2M)
- 1984Shawne Merriman, American football player
- 1984Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir, Icelandic beauty pageant constestant (Miss World 2005)
- 1985Demba Ba, Senegalese footballer
- 1985Luciana Abreu, Portuguese singer and actress
- 1986Edewin Fanini, Brazilian footballer
- 1986Geraint Thomas, Welsh cyclist
- 1986Juri Ueno, Japanese actress
- 1986Lauren Crace, English actress
- 1986Yoan Gouffran, French footballer
- 1987Timothy Derijck, Belgian footballer
- 1987Yves De Winter, Belgian footballer
- 1988Cameron van der Burgh, South African swimmer
- 1990Nikita Filatov, Russian ice hockey player
- 1991Jillian Wheeler, American musician
- 1994Alexandra Raisman, American gymnast
- 1995Gabby Soleil, American actress
Who Died On May 25?
- 615Pope Boniface IV (b. c. 550)
- 709Aldhelm, English Christian saint, Latin poet and Anglo-Saxon literature scholar (b. c. 639)
- 967Murakami, Emperor of Japan (b. 926)
- 992Mieszko I first lord and knight of Poland, duke of Poland (b. c. 935)
- 1085Pope Gregory VII (b. c. 1020)
- 1261Pope Alexander IV
- 1452John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1555Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (b. 1508)
- 1555King Henry II of Navarre (b. 1503)
- 1595Valens Acidalius, German critic and poet (b. 1567)
- 1632Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1572)
- 1667Gustaf Bonde, Swedish statesman (b. 1620)
- 1681Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish playwright (b. 1600)
- 1693Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette, French writer (b. 1634)
- 1741Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (b. 1660)
- 1786Peter III of Portugal, consort of Queen Maria I of Portugal (b. 1717)
- 1789Anders Dahl, Swedish botanist (b. 1751)
- 1797John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (b. 1719)
- 1805William Paley, English philosopher (b. 1743)
- 1848Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (b. 1797)
- 1849Benjamin d'Urban, British general and colonial administrator (b. 1777)
- 1899Rosa Bonheur, French realist painter and sculptor (b. 1822)
- 1912Austin Lane Crothers, American politician (b. 1860)
- 1917Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet (b. 1891)
- 1919Madam C. J. Walker, American philanthropist and tycoon (b. 1867)
- 1924Lyubov Popova, Russian painter (b. 1889)
- 1926Symon Petliura, Ukrainian politician and statesman (b. 1879)
- 1927Payne Whitney, American businessman (b. 1876)
- 1930Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1848)
- 1934Gustav Holst, English composer (b. 1874)
- 1939Sir Frank Watson Dyson, English astronomer (b. 1868)
- 1940Joe De Grasse, American film director (b. 1873)
- 1942Emanuel Feuermann, Austrian-American cellist (b. 1902)
- 1943Nils von Dardel, Swedish post-impressionist painter (b. 1888)
- 1951Paula von Preradović, Croatian-born writer (b. 1887)
- 1954Robert Capa, Hungarian-born photojournalist (b. 1913)
- 1965Aleck “Rice” Miller, American blues singer, songwriter and harmonica player, known as Sonny Boy Williamson (II) (b. 1908)
- 1968Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (b. 1881)
- 1970Tom Patey, Scottish mountaineer (b. 1932)
- 1977Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian writer (b. 1904)
- 1979John Arthur Spenkelink, American murderer (b. 1949)
- 1981Fredric Warburg, British publisher and author (b. 1898)
- 1983Black Jack Stewart, Canadian NHL hockey player (b. 1917)
- 1983Jean Rougeau, French Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1925)
- 1983King Idris I, of Libya (b. 1889)
- 1986Chester Bowles, American Democratic politician (b. 1901)
- 1988Ernst Ruska, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
- 1994Sonny Sharrock, American jazz guitarist (b. 1940)
- 1995Dany Robin, French actress (b. 1927)
- 1996Bradley Nowell, American singer and guitarist (Sublime) (b. 1968)
- 1996Renzo De Felice, Italian historian (b. 1929)
- 2000Nicholas Clay, British actor (b. 1946)
- 2002Pat Coombs, English actress (b. 1926)
- 2003Jeremy Michael Ward, American sound technician and vocal operator (The Mars Volta) (b. 1976)
- 2004Roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher (b. 1917)
- 2005Graham Kennedy, Australian television personality (b. 1934)
- 2005Gregory Scott Johnson, American murderer (b. 1965)
- 2005Robert Jankel, British coachbuilder (b. 1938)
- 2005Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician (b. 1929)
- 2006Desmond Dekker, Jamaican ska musician (b. 1941)
- 2007Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor and TV host (b. 1931)
- 2008Camu Tao, American rapper and producer (b. 1977)
- 2008J. R. Simplot, American potato farmer (b. 1909)
- 2009Haakon Lie, Norwegian Labour politician (b. 1905)
- 2010Alan Hickinbotham, Australian businessman, football player & football coach (b. 1925)
- 2010Alexander Belostenny, Ukrainian basketball player (b. 1959)
- 2010Gabriel Vargas, Mexican cartoonist (b. 1915)
- 2010Michael H. Jordan, American businessman and Chief Executive Officer (b. 1936)
- 2010Silvius Magnago, Italian politician (b. 1914)
- 2010Siphiwo Ntshebe, South African opera singer (b. 1975)
- 2011Terry Jenner, Australian cricketer (b. 1944)
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