WillDekkard
05-25-2010, 03:27 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- May 25th
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* 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.
* 1787 In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States. George Washington presides.
* 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.
* 1837 The Patriots 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 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 the 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 five world records and ties a sixth 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.
* 1940 World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk begins.
* 1946 The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their king.
* 1953 Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its 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.
* 1961 Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of 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 DaZiBao during the Cultural Revolution in China is posted at Peking University.
* 1967 Celtic Football Club become the first Scottish, British and northern European team to win the European Cup, beating Inter 21 in the Estαdio Nacional, in Lisbon, Portugal.
* 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 home, prompting an International search for the child, and causing 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.
* 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.
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- May 25th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 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.
* 1787 In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States. George Washington presides.
* 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.
* 1837 The Patriots 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 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 the 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 five world records and ties a sixth 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.
* 1940 World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk begins.
* 1946 The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their king.
* 1953 Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its 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.
* 1961 Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of 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 DaZiBao during the Cultural Revolution in China is posted at Peking University.
* 1967 Celtic Football Club become the first Scottish, British and northern European team to win the European Cup, beating Inter 21 in the Estαdio Nacional, in Lisbon, Portugal.
* 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 home, prompting an International search for the child, and causing 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.
* 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.
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