May 25
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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.
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Births [change]
- 1048 – Emperor Shenzong of China (d. 1085)
- 1334 – Emperor Suko of Japan (d. 1398)
- 1458 – Mahmud Begada, Sultan of Gujarat (d. 1511)
- 1606 – Charles Garnier, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
- 1661 – Claude Buffier, French philosopher and historian (d. 1737)
- 1713 – John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1792)
- 1725 – Samuel Ward, American politician (d. 1776)
- 1783 – Philip Pendleton Barbour, American politician (d. 1841)
- 1803 – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English novelist and playwright (d. 1873)
- 1803 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher (d. 1882)
- 1820 – Anne Brontë, 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)
- 1860 – James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (d. 1944)
- 1865 – John Mott, American YMCA leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1955)
- 1865 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943)
- 1877 – Billy Murray, American singer (d. 1954)
- 1879 – Lord Beaverbrook, English publisher (d. 1964)
- 1880 – Jean Alexandre Barré, French neurologist (d. 1967)
- 1882 – Marie Doro, American actress (d. 1956)
- 1886 – Philip Murray, Scottish-American labor leader (d. 1952)
- 1886 – Rash Behari Bose, Indian revolutionary (d. 1945)
- 1887 – Francesco Forgione, Italian priest (d. 1968)
- 1888 – Miles Malleson, English actor (d. 1969)
- 1889 – Igor Sikorsky, Russian inventor (d. 1972)
- 1907 – U Nu, Burmese politician (d. 1995)
- 1912 – Princess Dukhye of Korea (d. 1989)
- 1913 – Richard Dimbleby, British journalist and broadcaster (d. 1965)
- 1918 – Claude Akins, American actor (d. 1994)
- 1921 – Hal David, American lyricist and songwriter
- 1921 – Jack Steinberger, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1922 – Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (d. 1984)
- 1924 – István Nyers, Hungarian footballer (d. 2005)
- 1925 – Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet (d. 1974)
- 1925 – Jeanne Crain, American actress (d. 2003)
- 1926 – Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1991)
- 1927 – Robert Ludlum, writer (d. 2001)
- 1929 – Beverly Sills, American soprano (d. 2007)
- 1931 – Aili Jogi, Estonian anti-Communist activist (d. 2007)
- 1931 – Georgi Grechko, cosmonaut
- 1932 – John Gregory Dunne, American writer (d. 2003)
- 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
- 1941 – Vladimir Voronin, former President of Moldova
- 1943 – Jessi Colter, American singer
- 1944 – Frank Oz, English-born puppeteer and director
- 1948 – Klaus Meine, German singer (Scorpions)
- 1949 – Jamaica Kincaid, Antiguan-born novelist
- 1953 – Daniel Passarella, Argentine football player
- 1953 – Eve Ensler, Jewish-American playwright and feminist activist.
- 1955 – Alistair Burt, British politician
- 1956 – Sugar Minott, Jamaican singer (d. 2010)
- 1957 – Alastair Campbell, British politician
- 1958 – Paul Weller, British musician
- 1959 – Julian Clary, British comedian
- 1963 – Mike Myers, Canadian actor and comedian
- 1964 – Yahya Jammeh, President of the Gambia
- 1965 – Simon Fowler, English singer (Ocean Colour Scene)
- 1966 – McLoud, Swiss composer, musician, and multimedia artist
- 1967 – Poppy Z. Brite, American author
- 1968 – Kendall Gill, American basketball player
- 1969 – Anne Heche, American actress
- 1969 – Glen Drover, Canadian musician (Megadeth)
- 1970 – Jamie Kennedy, American actor
- 1971 – Sonya Smith, American actress
- 1974 – Monica Keena, American actress
- 1975 – Lauryn Hill, American singer
- 1975 – Blaise Nkufo, Swiss footballer
- 1976 – Miguel Tejada, Dominican Major League Baseball player
- 1977 – Pat Burrell, baseball player
- 1978 – Brian Urlacher, American football player
- 1979 – Jonny Wilkinson, English rugby player
- 1979 – Carlos Bocanegra, American soccer player
- 1980 – David Navarro, Spanish footballer
- 1982 – Adam Boyd, English footballer.
- 1982 – Daniel Braaten, Norwegian footballer
- 1982 – Roger Guerreiro, Brazilian-Polish footballer
- 1984 – Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir, Icelandic model (Miss Iceland), former Miss World
- 1985 – Demba Ba, Senegalese footballer
- 1986 – Lauren Crace, English actress
Deaths [change]
- 615 – Pope Boniface IV (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)
- 1681 – Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Spanish playwright (b. 1600)
- 1786 – King Peter III of Portugal (b. 1717)
- 1805 – William Paley, English philosopher (b. 1743)
- 1919 – Madam C. J. Walker, American philanthropist and tycoon (b. 1867)
- 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)
- 1954 – Robert Capa, Hungarian-born photojournalist (b. 1913)
- 1977 – Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian writer (b. 1904)
- 1983 – King Idris I of Libya (b. 1890)
- 1988 – Ernst Ruska, German physicist (b. 1906)
- 2002 – Pat Coombs, English actress (b. 1926)
- 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)
Events [change]
- 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.
- 1524 – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor issues the Edict of Worms, which declares Martin Luther an outlaw.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 – 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.
- 1963 – The Organisation of African Unity is founded in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
- 1967 – Celtic F.C. from Glasgow, Scotland becomes the first football team from the UK to win the European cup.
- 1977 – Star Wars is released in theatres.
- 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.
- 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.
