100 years anniversary |
25 May 1925
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birth
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Aldo Clementi: Composer
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25 May 1925
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birth
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Jeanne Crain: Barstow, California -- Actress (Man Without a Star)
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25 May 1925
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birth
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Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet and author (d. 1974) |
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25 May 1925
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birth
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Jeanne Crain, American actress and singer (d. 2003) |
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25 May 1925
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birth
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Eldon Griffiths, English journalist and politician (d. 2014) |
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25 May 1925
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birth
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Don Liddle, American baseball player (d. 2000) |
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25 May 1925
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event
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Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in Tennessee. |
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25 May 1925
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birth
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Aldo Clementi composer
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25 May 1925
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birth
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Jeanne Crain Barstow CA, actress (Man Without a Star)
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75 years anniversary |
25 May 1950
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event
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Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel opens in New York City
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25 May 1950
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event
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Public transport: Green Hornet disaster. A Chicago Surface Lines streetcar crashes into a fuel truck, killing 33. |
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25 May 1950
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music
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birth Jean Millington, all girl group Fanny, (1975 US No. 29 single 'Butter Boy'.).
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25 May 1950
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music
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birth Robert Steinhardt, Kansas, (1978 US No.3 single 'Dust In The Wind', UK No.59 single 'Carry On Wayward Son').
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25 May 1950
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event
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Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel opens in NYC
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50 years anniversary |
25 May 1975
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birth
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Adam Saathoff: Tuscon, Arizona -- Running target (1996 Olympics)
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25 May 1975
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event
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29th NBA Championship: Golden Warriors sweep Washington Bullets in 4 games
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25 May 1975
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event
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Joanne Carner wins LPGA American DefenderGolf Classic
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25 May 1975
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birth
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Blaise Nkufo, Congolese-Swiss footballer |
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25 May 1975
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music
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birth Lauryn Hill, singer, The Fugees, (1996 UK No.1 single 'Killing Me Softly'), solo, (1998 UK No.3 single 'Doo Wop, That Thing', 1998 US No.1 & UK No.2 album 'The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill').
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25 May 1975
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birth
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Adam Saathoff Tuscon AZ, running target (Olympics-1996)
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25 May 1975
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event
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29th NBA Championship: Golden State Warriors sweep Washington Bullets in 4 games
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25 May 1975
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event
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Cleveland's Dennis Eckersley, debuts shuting out the A's 6-0
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25 May 1975
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event
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Joanne Carner wins LPGA American DefenderGolf Classic
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25 years anniversary |
25 May 2000
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death
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Nicholas Clay, English actor (b. 1946) |
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25 May 2000
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event
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Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first invasion in 1978. |
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25 May 2000
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music
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UK Supermarket chain ASDA decided to cancel a signing tour planned to promote Boyzone's Mikey Graham's debut solo single 'Like An Angel' after he admitted that he had used cannabis and gone on alcohol benders with his fellow Boyz.
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20 years anniversary |
25 May 2005
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death
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Sunil Dutt, Indian actor, director, producer, and politician (b. 1929) |
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25 May 2005
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death
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Robert Jankel, English businessman, founded Panther Westwinds (b. 1938) |
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25 May 2005
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death
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Gregory Scott Johnson, American murderer (b. 1965) |
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25 May 2005
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death
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Graham Kennedy, Australian actor and game show host (b. 1934) |
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25 May 2005
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death
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Zoran Mušič, Slovene painter and illustrator (b. 1909) |
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25 May 2005
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music
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The Alameda County Sheriff's Office in California announced that it was officially closing the stabbing case of Meredith Hunter, the 18-year-old American who was killed at the 1969 Rolling Stones Altamont Free Concert. Investigators, concluding a renewed two-year investigation, dismissed the theory that a second Hell's Angel took part in the stabbing.
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15 years anniversary |
25 May 2010
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death
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Alexander Belostenny, Ukrainian basketball player (b. 1959) |
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25 May 2010
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death
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Michael H. Jordan, American businessman (b. 1936) |
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25 May 2010
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death
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Alan Hickinbotham, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1925) |
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25 May 2010
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death
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Siphiwo Ntshebe, South African tenor (b. 1975) |
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25 May 2010
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death
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Gabriel Vargas, Mexican painter and illustrator (b. 1915) |
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25 May 2010
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death
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Jarvis Williams, American football player and coach (b. 1965) |
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10 years anniversary |
25 May 2015
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death
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Mary Ellen Mark, American photographer and journalist (b. 1940) |
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