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Events on the 25th of May in history

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25 May 0240 First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
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25 May 0567 Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
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25 May 0585 -BC- 1st known prediction of a solar eclipse
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25 May 1085 Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo, Spain, back from the Moors.
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25 May 1085 King Alfonso VI of Castily/Le
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25 May 1241 1st attack on Jewish community of Frankfort-on-the-Main Germany
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25 May 1420 Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of Christ.
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25 May 1521 The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.
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25 May 1522 Emperor Karel I returns to Spain
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25 May 1632 Albrecht von Wallenstein recaptures Prague on Saksen
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25 May 1644 Ming general Wu Sangui forms an alliance with the invading Manchus and opens the gates of the Great Wall of China at Shanhaiguan pass, letting the Manchus through towards the capital Beijing.
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25 May 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.
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25 May 1659 Richard Cromwell resigns as English Lord Protector
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25 May 1660 English King Charles II lands in Dover
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25 May 1661 King Charles II marries Portuguese princess Catherina the Bragan
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25 May 1720 "Le Grand St. Antoine" reaches Marseille, plague kills 80,000
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25 May 1721 John Copson becomes America's 1st insurance agent
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25 May 1738 A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
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25 May 1784 Jews are expelled from Warsaw by Marshall Mniszek
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25 May 1787 Constitutional convention opens at Philadelphia, George Washington presiding
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25 May 1793 Father Stephen Theodore Badin is 1st US Roman Catholic priest ordained
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25 May 1798 United Irishmen Rebellion: Battle of Carlow begins; executions of suspected rebels at Carnew and at Dunlavin Green take place.
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25 May 1809 Chuquisaca Revolution: Patriot revolt in Chuquisaca (modern day Sucre) against the Spanish Empire, sparking the Latin American wars of independence.
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25 May 1810 May Revolution: citizens of Buenos Aires expel Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros during the May week, starting the Argentine War of Independence.
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25 May 1810 Argentina declares independence from Napoleonic Spain (National Day)
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25 May 1812 Earthquake destroys Caracas Venezuela
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25 May 1819 The Argentine Constitution of 1819 is promulgated.
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25 May 1825 American Unitarian Association founded
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25 May 1833 The Chilean Constitution of 1833 is promulgated.
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25 May 1837 The Rebels of Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the British for freedom.
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25 May 1844 1st telegraphed news dispatch is published in Baltimore Patriot
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25 May 1861 John Merryman is arrested under suspension of writ of habeas corpus it later sparks a supreme court decision protecting the writ
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25 May 1862 Battle of Winchester VA
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25 May 1864 Battle of New Hope Church, Georgia
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25 May 1865 In Mobile, Alabama, 300 are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
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25 May 1868 Australian Aboriginal Cricket tour of England begins vs Surrey Gentlemen
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25 May 1870 Irish Fenians raid Eccles Hill, Qu
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25 May 1876 1st tie in National League history (Athletics & Louisville, 2-2 in 14)
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25 May 1876 4th Preakness: G Barbee aboard Shirley wins in 2:44.75
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25 May 1878 Gilbert / Sullivans opera "HMS Pinafore, " premieres in London
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25 May 1878 Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
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25 May 1887 Gas lamp at Paris Opera catches fire; 200 die
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25 May 1895 The 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.
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25 May 1895 The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as its president.
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25 May 1895 20th Preakness: Fred Taral aboard Belmar wins in 1:50
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25 May 1895 Oscar Wilde sentenced to 2 years hard labor for being a sodomite
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25 May 1898 1st US troop transport to Manila leaves San Fransisco
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25 May 1899 33rd Belmont Stakes: R Clawson aboard Jean Beraud wins in 2:23
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25 May 1900 Eyre M Shaw, 78, becomes oldest gold medalist in the Olympics
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25 May 1904 38th Belmont Stakes: George Odom aboard Delhi wins in 2:06.6
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25 May 1906 After 20 straight wins, Boston Pilgrims lose to Chicago White Sox 3-0
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25 May 1911 Revolution in M
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25 May 1914 The House of Commons of the United Kingdom passes the Home Rule Act for devolution in Ireland.
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25 May 1914 British House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule
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25 May 1915 2nd Battle of Ypres ends with 105,000 casualties
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25 May 1915 Chicago Claude Hendrix no-hits Pittsburgh (Federal League), 10-0
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25 May 1919 Casey Stengel releases a sparrow from under his baseball cap
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25 May 1922 Babe Ruth suspended 1 day & fined $200 for throwing dirt on an umpire
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25 May 1923 Britain recognizes Transjordan with Abdullah as its leader
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25 May 1925 Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in Tennessee.
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25 May 1926 Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which is in government-in-exile in Paris.
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25 May 1927 Henry Ford stops producing Model T car (begins Model A)
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25 May 1928 Amelia Earhart (as a passenger) is 1st woman to fly Atlantic Ocean
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25 May 1934 B
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25 May 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.
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25 May 1935 Babe Ruth hits his last 3 home runs, Boston Braves vs Pirates
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25 May 1935 Jesse Owens equals or breaks 6 world records in one hour
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25 May 1936 The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins.
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25 May 1937 1st airmail letter to circle the globe returns to New York
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25 May 1938 Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante takes place, with 313 deaths.
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25 May 1939 Carl Storck becomes the 2nd NFL president
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25 May 1940 World War II: The German 2nd Panzer Division captures the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer; the surrender of the last French and British troops marks the end of the Battle of Boulogne.
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25 May 1940 German troops conquer Boulogne
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25 May 1940 Golden Gate International Expo reopens
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25 May 1941 5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India
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25 May 1941 Ted Williams raises his batting average over .400 for 1st time in 1941
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25 May 1943 Riot at Mobile AL shipyard over upgrading 12 black workers
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25 May 1943 Trident conference in Washington DC (operation plan '43 against Japan)
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25 May 1944 Partisan leader Tito escapes Germans surrounding Bosnia
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25 May 1945 Arther C Clark proposes relay satellites in geosynchronous orbit
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25 May 1946 The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their Emir.
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25 May 1946 Abdullah ibn Hussein becomes king of Jordan
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25 May 1946 Jordan gains independence from Britain (National Day)
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25 May 1947 Coal dust explosion rocks Centralia Coal Company's Mine #5 killing 111
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25 May 1948 30th PGA Championship: Ben Hogan at Norwood Hills Country Club - St. Louis
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25 May 1948 San Fransisco receives its 1st telecast
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25 May 1949 Chinese Red army occupies Shanghai
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25 May 1950 Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel opens in New York City
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25 May 1950 Public transport: Green Hornet disaster. A Chicago Surface Lines streetcar crashes into a fuel truck, killing 33.
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25 May 1951 New York Giant Willie Mays 1st major league game (goes 0 for 5)
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25 May 1953 1st atomic cannon electronically fired, Frenchman Flat, Nevada
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25 May 1953 1st non-commercial educational television station - Houston, Texas
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25 May 1953 Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conduct their first and only nuclear artillery test.
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25 May 1953 The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
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25 May 1953 Braves Max Surkont strikes out record 8 Reds in a row
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25 May 1955 Series of 19 twisters destroy Udall Kansas and most of Blackwell Okla
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25 May 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.
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25 May 1955 First ascent of Kangchenjunga (8,586 m.), the third-highest mountain in the world, by a British expedition led by Charles Evans. Joe Brown and George Band reached the summit on May 25, followed by Norman Hardie and Tony Streather the next day.
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25 May 1956 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Haurietis aquas
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25 May 1957 "Shinbone Alley" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 49 performances
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25 May 1959 Khrushchev visits Angola
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25 May 1959 Supreme Court rules that Louisiana prohibiting black-white boxing is unconstitutional
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25 May 1960 George Crowe's record 11th pinch-hit homerun
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25 May 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.
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25 May 1961 The Bukit Ho Swee Fire, the biggest fire in Singapore history.
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25 May 1961 JFK sets goal of putting a man on Moon before the end of decade
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25 May 1961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,770 meters
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25 May 1962 Isley Brothers release "Twist & Shout"
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25 May 1962 The Old Bay Line, the last overnight steamboat service in the United States, goes out of business.
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25 May 1962 Isley Brothers release "Twist & Shout"
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25 May 1962 US performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric)
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25 May 1962 US unions AFL-CIO starts campaign for 35-hour work week
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25 May 1963 "Hot Spot" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 43 performances
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25 May 1963 In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organisation of African Unity is established.
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25 May 1963 Early Wynn wins his 300th baseball game
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25 May 1963 Great Britain ends its amateur-professional classes in cricket
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25 May 1963 Organization for African Unity formed by Chad, Mauritania & Zambia
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25 May 1964 16th Emmy Awards: Dick Van Dyke Show, Dick Van Dyke & Mary Tyler Moore
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25 May 1964 Frank Gilroy's "Subject is Roses" premieres in NYC
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25 May 1964 Ground is broken for a new stadium in St Louis
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25 May 1964 Supreme Court rules closing schools to avoid desegregation unconstitut
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25 May 1965 Dave Davies of the Kinks stumbles & is knocked unconscious on stage
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25 May 1965 India & Pakistan border fights
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25 May 1965 Muhammad Ali KOs Sonny Liston in 1st round for heavyweight boxing title
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25 May 1965 Roel van Duyn, Martijn Ananar & Rob Faado align in Provo
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25 May 1966 Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.
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25 May 1966 The first prominent dàzìbào during the Cultural Revolution in China is posted at Peking University.
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25 May 1966 Peru & Argentina soccer fans fight in Lima; 248 die
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25 May 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.
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25 May 1967 Celtic wins 12th Europe Cup 1 in Lisbon
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25 May 1967 John Lennon takes delivery of his psychedelic painted Rolls Royce
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25 May 1968 Rolling Stones release "Jumping Jack Flash"
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25 May 1968 Gateway Arch Saint Louis Gateway Arch is dedicated.
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25 May 1968 "Unicorn" by The Irish Rovers hits #7
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25 May 1968 BPAA All-Star Bowling Tournament won by Jim Stefanich
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25 May 1968 BPAA US Women's Bowling Open won by Dotty Fothergill
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25 May 1968 Gateway Arch in St Louis dedicated
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25 May 1969 "Midnight Cowboy" released with an X rating
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25 May 1969 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational
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25 May 1969 Sudanese government is overthrown in a military coup
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25 May 1970 3rd ABA Championship: Indiana Pacers beat Los Angeles Stars, 4 games to 2
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25 May 1971 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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25 May 1972 Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Ron Stander
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25 May 1973 George Harrison releases "Give Me Love" in the UK
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25 May 1973 HNS Velos, 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.
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25 May 1973 Argentine Peronist Hector C
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25 May 1973 Borussia M
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25 May 1973 George Harrison releases "Give Me Love" in UK
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25 May 1973 US launches 1st Skylab; crew Kerwin, Conrad, Weitz
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25 May 1975 29th NBA Championship: Golden State Warriors sweep Washington Bullets in 4 games
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25 May 1975 Cleveland's Dennis Eckersley, debuts shuting out the A's 6-0
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25 May 1975 Joanne Carner wins LPGA American DefenderGolf Classic
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25 May 1976 Heavyweight Muhammad Ali KOs Richard Dunn in Munich
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25 May 1977 "Beatles Live! At Star-Club in Hamburg Germany" released
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25 May 1977 "Brady Bunch Hour, " last airs on ABC-TV
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25 May 1977 Star Wars is released in theaters, inspiring the Jediism religion and Geek Pride Day holiday.
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25 May 1977 Chinese government removes a decade old ban on William Shakespeare's work, effectively ending the Cultural Revolution started in 1966.
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25 May 1977 "Brady Bunch Hour" last airs on ABC-TV
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25 May 1977 Dutch social democratic party wins parliamentary election
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25 May 1977 Liverpool wins 22nd Europe Cup 1 in Rome
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25 May 1977 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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25 May 1978 "Star Wars" released
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25 May 1978 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 2
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25 May 1978 "Star Wars" released
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25 May 1978 Stanley Cup: Montr
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25 May 1979 American Airlines Flight 191: In Chicago, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O'Hare International Airport killing all 271 on board and two people on the ground.
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25 May 1979 Etan Patz, who is six years old, disappears from the street just two blocks away from his home in New York City, prompting an international search for the child, and causing the U.S. President Ronald Reagan to designate May 25 as National Missing Children's Day (in 1983).
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25 May 1979 American Airlines DC-10 crashes in Chicago killing 275
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25 May 1979 Israel begins to return Sinai to Egypt
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25 May 1979 Raul Gonz
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25 May 1980 "Musical Chairs" closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 15 performances
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25 May 1980 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
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25 May 1980 Jacek Wszoka of Poland sets high jump record (7'8")
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25 May 1981 Carl Yastrzemski is 4th to get 3,000 hits (Cobb, Musial & Aaron)
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25 May 1981 In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
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25 May 1981 Al Unser becomes 1st Indianapolis 500 winner to be disqualified
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25 May 1981 Daniel Goodwin, scales outside of Chicago's Sears Tower in 7 hours
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25 May 1981 Rangers' Bill Stein sets American League record with 7 consecutive pinch hits
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25 May 1982 HMS Coventry is sunk during the Falklands War.
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25 May 1982 Ferguson Jenkins becomes the 7th pitcher to strike out 3,000 batters
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25 May 1982 Iranian troops reconquer Khorramshar
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25 May 1982 STS-4 vehicle moves to launch pad
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25 May 1983 "Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars 3) released
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25 May 1983 "Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars 3) released
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25 May 1983 1st National Missing Children's Day is proclaimed
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25 May 1983 Fire in Nassermeer Egypt kills 357
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25 May 1983 France performs nuclear test
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25 May 1983 Kirk Gibson (Tigers) & Jorge Orta (Blue Jays) hit inside park homeruns
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25 May 1984 Boston Red Sox trade pitcher Dennis Eckersley to Chicago Cubs for Bill Buckner
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25 May 1984 Detroit Tigers lose to Seattle 7-3 ends record tying 17 consecutive wins
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25 May 1985 Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
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25 May 1985 Allan Border scores 4th successive 1st class 100 (v Derbyshire)
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25 May 1985 Cyclone ravages Bangladesh; 11,000 killed
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25 May 1986 30,000,000 watch "Live Aid, " a massive benefit concert
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25 May 1986 7,000,000 Americans form "Hands Across America"
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25 May 1986 Hands Across America takes place.
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25 May 1986 95-year-old woman scores a hole-in-one in Florida
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25 May 1986 Ferry boat Shamia sinks on Maghna River Bangladesh, 600 killed
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25 May 1986 Hands Across America - 7 million people hold hands from California to New York
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25 May 1986 Kansas City Royal George Brett gets his 2,000th hit
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25 May 1986 Laurie Rinker wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
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25 May 1986 Virgilio Barco elected President of Colombia
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25 May 1988 PSV wins Europe Cup
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25 May 1989 Mariners trade Mark Langston to Montreal for Randy Johnson
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25 May 1989 Stanley Cup: Calgary Flames beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 2
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25 May 1989 Weird Al Yankovic records "She Drives Like Crazy"
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25 May 1989 Eastern Airlines graduates its 1st class of non-union pilots
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25 May 1989 Mariners trade Mark Langston to Montr
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25 May 1989 Mikhail Gorbachev elected Executive President in the Soviet Union
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25 May 1989 Stanley Cup: Calgary Flames beat Montr
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25 May 1991 "People Are Still Having Sex, " by LaTour hits #35
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25 May 1991 Israel evacuates 14,000 Ethiopian Jews
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25 May 1991 Stanley Cup: Pittsburgh Penguins beat Minnesota North Stars, 4 games to 2
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25 May 1992 Jay Leno becomes permanent host of "Tonight Show"
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25 May 1992 New York Yankees score 9 runs before 1st out in 8th inning, beat Milwaukee Brewers 13-7
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25 May 1992 Oscar Luigi Scalfaro elected President of Italy
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25 May 1994 Emmy 21st Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci not nominated
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25 May 1996 Jennifer Maria Holsten, 18, crowned Miss Filipino-American
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25 May 1997 Indianapolis 500 race
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25 May 1997 Todd and Mel Stottlemyre become 1st father and son to win 100 games
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25 May 1997 A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.
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25 May 1997 Bell Atlantic Senior Golf Classic
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25 May 1997 David Frost wins Golf's Colonial Final in Fort Worth TX
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25 May 1997 Minnesota Twins retire Kirby Puckett's uniform #
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25 May 1997 Rosie Jones wins LPGA Corning Classic
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25 May 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.
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25 May 2000 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 2001 Erik Weihenmayer, 32 years old, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
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25 May 2002 China Airlines Flight 611 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes into the Taiwan Strait. All 225 people on board are killed.
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25 May 2008 NASA's Phoenix lander lands in Green Valley region of Mars to search for environments suitable for water and microbial life.
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25 May 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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25 May 2011 Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty-five-year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
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25 May 2012 The Dragon became the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous with the International Space Station.
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25 May 2013 Suspected Maoist rebels kill at least 28 people and injure 32 others in an attack on a convoy of Indian National Congress politicians in Chhattisgarh, India.
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