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May 25th, 2008 (May 25 2008) | Death | J. R. Simplot, American potato farmer (born in 1909) | |
May 25th, 2007 (May 25 2007) | Event | The Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire for the second time. | |
May 25th, 2007 (May 25 2007) | Death | Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor and host (born in 1931) | |
May 25th, 2006 (May 25 2006) | Death | Desmond Dekker, Jamaican ska musician (born in 1941) | |
May 25th, 2005 (May 25 2005) | Death | Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician (born in 1929) | |
May 25th, 2005 (May 25 2005) | Death | Robert Jankel, British coachbuilder (born in 1938) | |
May 25th, 2005 (May 25 2005) | Death | Graham Kennedy, Australian television personality (born in 1934) | |
May 25th, 2005 (May 25 2005) | Death | Ruth Laredo, American pianist (born in 1937) | |
May 25th, 2005 (May 25 2005) | Death | Gregory Scott Johnson, American murderer (born in 1965) | John Scott Quotes |
May 25th, 2004 (May 25 2004) | Death | Roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher (born in 1917) | |
May 25th, 2003 (May 25 2003) | Event | Nestor Kirchner becomes President of Argentina after defeating Carlos Menem. He is the first elected President since the economic crisis. | |
May 25th, 2003 (May 25 2003) | Death | Jeremy Michael Ward, American musician (The Mars Volta) (born in 1976) | |
May 25th, 2002 (May 25 2002) | Event | China Airlines Flight 611: A Boeing 747-200 breaks apart in mid-air and plunges into the Taiwan Strait killing 225 people. | |
May 25th, 2002 (May 25 2002) | Event | A train crash in Tenga, Mozambique kills 197 people. | |
May 25th, 2002 (May 25 2002) | Death | Pat Coombs, English actress (born in 1926) | |
May 25th, 2001 (May 25 2001) | Event | 32-year-old Erik Weihenmayer, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest. | |
May 25th, 2000 (May 25 2000) | Event | Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first invasion in 1978. | |
May 25th, 2000 (May 25 2000) | Death | Nicholas Clay, British actor (born in 1946) | |
May 25th, 1999 (May 25 1999) | Event | 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. | |
May 25th, 1999 (May 25 1999) | Birth | Maisy McLeod-Riera, New Zealand actress | |
May 25th, 1997 (May 25 1997) | Event | A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah. | John Major Quotes |
May 25th, 1996 (May 25 1996) | Death | Renzo De Felice, Italian historian (born in 1929) | |
May 25th, 1996 (May 25 1996) | Death | Bradley Nowell, American singer and guitarist (Sublime) (born in 1968) | |
May 25th, 1995 (May 25 1995) | Event | The Bosnian Serb Army kills 72 youngsters in the Bosnian city of Tuzla. | |
May 25th, 1995 (May 25 1995) | Death | Dany Robin, French actress (born in 1927) | |
May 25th, 1994 (May 25 1994) | Death | Sonny Sharrock, American jazz guitarist (born in 1940) | |
May 25th, 1993 (May 25 1993) | Birth | Dilley sextuplets, American sextuplets | |
May 25th, 1988 (May 25 1988) | Death | Ernst Ruska, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1906) | |
May 25th, 1987 (May 25 1987) | Birth | Timothy Derijck, Belgian football player | |
May 25th, 1986 (May 25 1986) | Birth | Yoan Gouffran, French football player | |
May 25th, 1986 (May 25 1986) | Birth | Juri Ueno, Japanese actress | |
May 25th, 1986 (May 25 1986) | Death | Chester Bowles, American politician (born in 1901) | Chester Bowles Quotes |
May 25th, 1985 (May 25 1985) | Event | Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people. | |
May 25th, 1985 (May 25 1985) | Birth | Luciana Abreu, Portuguese singer and actress | |
May 25th, 1984 (May 25 1984) | Birth | Marion Raven, Norwegian Singer-Songwritter (M2M) | |
May 25th, 1984 (May 25 1984) | Birth | Unnur Birna Vilhjalmsdottir, 2005 Miss World | |
May 25th, 1984 (May 25 1984) | Birth | Kyle Brodziak, Canadian ice hockey player | |
May 25th, 1984 (May 25 1984) | Birth | Shawne Merriman, American football Player for the San Diego Chargers | |
May 25th, 1984 (May 25 1984) | Birth | Kostas Martakis, Greek singer | |
May 25th, 1983 (May 25 1983) | Birth | Kunal Khemu, Indian actor | |
May 25th, 1983 (May 25 1983) | Death | Jean Rougeau, French Canadian professional wrestler (born in 1925) | |
May 25th, 1983 (May 25 1983) | Death | Black Jack Stewart,Canadian NHL hockey player (born in 1917) | |
May 25th, 1982 (May 25 1982) | Event | HMS Coventry is sunk during the Falklands War. | |
May 25th, 1982 (May 25 1982) | Birth | Adam Boyd, English footballer | |
May 25th, 1982 (May 25 1982) | Birth | Daniel Braaten, Norwegian footballer | |
May 25th, 1982 (May 25 1982) | Birth | Ryan Gallant, American skateboarder | |
May 25th, 1981 (May 25 1981) | Event | In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. | |
May 25th, 1981 (May 25 1981) | Death | Fredric Warburg, British publisher and author (born in 1898) | |
May 25th, 1980 (May 25 1980) | Birth | Jae Hee, South Korean actor | |
May 25th, 1980 (May 25 1980) | Birth | David Navarro, Spanish footballer | |
May 25th, 1979 (May 25 1979) | Event | 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. | |
May 25th, 1979 (May 25 1979) | Birth | Carlos Bocanegra, American soccer player | |
May 25th, 1979 (May 25 1979) | Birth | Jonny Wilkinson, English international and Newcastle Falcons rugby player | |
May 25th, 1979 (May 25 1979) | Birth | Caroline Ouellette, French Canadian ice hockey player | |
May 25th, 1979 (May 25 1979) | Birth | Sam Sodje, Nigerian footballer | |
May 25th, 1979 (May 25 1979) | Death | John Arthur Spenkelink, American murderer (born in 1949) | |
May 25th, 1978 (May 25 1978) | Birth | Brian Urlacher, American football player | |
May 25th, 1977 (May 25 1977) | Event | Star Wars is releasedied in It rapidly becomes a cult classic and is the start of a six-movie franchise. | |
May 25th, 1977 (May 25 1977) | Birth | Giel Beelen, Dutch radio DJ | |
May 25th, 1977 (May 25 1977) | Death | Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian writer (born in 1904) | |
May 25th, 1976 (May 25 1976) | Birth | Tarik Glenn, National Football League offensive lineman | |
May 25th, 1976 (May 25 1976) | Birth | Cillian Murphy, Irish actor | |
May 25th, 1976 (May 25 1976) | Birth | Ethan Suplee, American actor | |
May 25th, 1975 (May 25 1975) | Birth | Lauryn Hill, American singer | |
May 25th, 1974 (May 25 1974) | Birth | Frank Klepacki, American musician | |
May 25th, 1974 (May 25 1974) | Birth | Miguel Tejada, Dominican baseball player | |
May 25th, 1973 (May 25 1973) | Birth | Demetri Martin, American comedian | |
May 25th, 1973 (May 25 1973) | Birth | Molly Sims, American supermodel and actress | |
May 25th, 1973 (May 25 1973) | Birth | Daz Dillinger, American hip-hop performer | |
May 25th, 1972 (May 25 1972) | Birth | Octavia Spencer, American actress | |
May 25th, 1971 (May 25 1971) | Birth | Marco Cappato, Italian politician | |
May 25th, 1971 (May 25 1971) | Birth | Justin Henry, American actor | |
May 25th, 1970 (May 25 1970) | Birth | Joey Eischen, baseball player | |
May 25th, 1970 (May 25 1970) | Birth | Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush, American actresses | |
May 25th, 1970 (May 25 1970) | Birth | Jamie Kennedy, American actor | |
May 25th, 1970 (May 25 1970) | Birth | Satsuki Yukino, Seiyuu | |
May 25th, 1969 (May 25 1969) | Birth | Anne Heche, American actress | |
May 25th, 1969 (May 25 1969) | Birth | Stacy London, American fashion consultant | |
May 25th, 1969 (May 25 1969) | Birth | Glen Drover, Canadian guitar player (Megadeth) | |
May 25th, 1968 (May 25 1968) | Birth | Kendall Gill, American basketball player | Eric Gill Quotes |
May 25th, 1968 (May 25 1968) | Death | Georg von Kuchler, German field marshal (born in 1881) | |
May 25th, 1967 (May 25 1967) | Event | Celtic F.C. (Scotland) become the first northern European team to win the European Champions Cup, which had previously been the preserve of Italian, Portuguese and Spanish clubs by beating F.C. Internazionale Milano 2 - 1. | |
May 25th, 1967 (May 25 1967) | Birth | Poppy Z. Brite, American author | |
May 25th, 1966 (May 25 1966) | Event | Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches. | |
May 25th, 1966 (May 25 1966) | Event | The first prominent DaZiBao during the Cultural Revolution in China is posted at Peking University. | |
May 25th, 1966 (May 25 1966) | Birth | Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands | |
May 25th, 1965 (May 25 1965) | Birth | George Hickenlooper, American documentary film-maker | |
May 25th, 1965 (May 25 1965) | Death | Sonny Boy Williamson, (Alec "Rice" Miller) American Blues singer, songwriter, and musician (born in 1899) | William Miller Quotes |
May 25th, 1964 (May 25 1964) | Birth | Ivan Bella, Slovak cosmonaut | |
May 25th, 1964 (May 25 1964) | Birth | David Shaw, Canadian ice hockey player | |
May 25th, 1963 (May 25 1963) | Event | In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organisation of African Unity is established. | |
May 25th, 1963 (May 25 1963) | Birth | Mike Myers, Canadian actor and comedian | Mike Myers Quotes |
May 25th, 1962 (May 25 1962) | Birth | Rick Nattress, Canadian ice hockey player | |
May 25th, 1961 (May 25 1961) | Event | 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. | John F. Kennedy Quotes |
May 25th, 1961 (May 25 1961) | Event | King Hussein of Jordan marries Princess Muna al-Hussein (Antoinette Gardiner). | Hussein of Jordan Quotes |
May 25th, 1960 (May 25 1960) | Birth | Amy Klobuchar, American politician, junior senator from Minnesota | |
May 25th, 1959 (May 25 1959) | Birth | Manolis Kefalogiannis, Greek politician | |
May 25th, 1959 (May 25 1959) | Birth | Rick Wamsley, Canadian ice hockey player | |
May 25th, 1959 (May 25 1959) | Birth | Julian Clary, British television personality | Julian Quotes |
May 25th, 1958 (May 25 1958) | Birth | Paul Weller, British musician | |
May 25th, 1957 (May 25 1957) | Birth | Edward Lee, American writer | |
May 25th, 1957 (May 25 1957) | Birth | Robert Picard, French Canadian ice hockey player | |
May 25th, 1956 (May 25 1956) | Birth | Sugar Minott, Jamaican singer | |
May 25th, 1956 (May 25 1956) | Birth | David P. Sartor, American music composer | |
May 25th, 1956 (May 25 1956) | Birth | Tatsutoshi Goto, Japanese professional wrestler | |
May 25th, 1955 (May 25 1955) | Event | 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. | |
May 25th, 1955 (May 25 1955) | Birth | Alistair Burt, British politician | |
May 25th, 1954 (May 25 1954) | Death | Robert Capa, Hungarian-born photojournalist (born in 1913) | |
May 25th, 1953 (May 25 1953) | Event | Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test. | |
May 25th, 1953 (May 25 1953) | Birth | Eve Ensler, American playwright | |
May 25th, 1953 (May 25 1953) | Birth | Daniel Passarella, Argentine football player | |
May 25th, 1953 (May 25 1953) | Birth | Stan Sakai, Japanese-American cartoonist (Usagi Yojimbo) | |
May 25th, 1952 (May 25 1952) | Birth | Al Sarrantonio, American writer | |
May 25th, 1952 (May 25 1952) | Birth | Gordon Smith, American politician | Gordon Smith Quotes |
May 25th, 1952 (May 25 1952) | Birth | Jeffrey Bewkes, American media executive | |
May 25th, 1951 (May 25 1951) | Birth | Bob Gale, American screenwriter | |
May 25th, 1951 (May 25 1951) | Death | Paula von Preradovic, Croatian-born writer (born in 1887) | |
May 25th, 1949 (May 25 1949) | Birth | Jamaica Kincaid, Antiguan-born novelist | |
May 25th, 1948 (May 25 1948) | Birth | Sgt. Slaughter, American professional wrestler | |
May 25th, 1948 (May 25 1948) | Birth | Klaus Meine, German musician (Scorpions) | |
May 25th, 1946 (May 25 1946) | Event | The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their king. | |
May 25th, 1946 (May 25 1946) | Birth | David A. Hargrave, RPG designer | |
May 25th, 1944 (May 25 1944) | Birth | Frank Oz, English-born puppeteer and director | |
May 25th, 1944 (May 25 1944) | Birth | Pierre Bachelet, French singer and songwriter (died in 2005) | |
May 25th, 1944 (May 25 1944) | Birth | John Bunnell, former Sheriff of Multnomah County, Oregon and TV personality | |
May 25th, 1944 (May 25 1944) | Birth | Robert MacPherson, American mathematician | |
May 25th, 1943 (May 25 1943) | Birth | Jessi Colter, American singer | |
May 25th, 1943 (May 25 1943) | Birth | John "Poli" Palmer, British rock musician (Family) | |
May 25th, 1943 (May 25 1943) | Death | Nils von Dardel, Swedish post-impressionist painter (born in 1888) | |
May 25th, 1940 (May 25 1940) | Event | World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk begins. | |
May 25th, 1940 (May 25 1940) | Death | Joe De Grasse, American film director (born in 1873) | |
May 25th, 1939 (May 25 1939) | Birth | Dixie Carter, American actress | |
May 25th, 1939 (May 25 1939) | Birth | Ian McKellen, English actor | |
May 25th, 1938 (May 25 1938) | Event | Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante takes place, with 313 deaths. | |
May 25th, 1938 (May 25 1938) | Birth | Raymond Carver, American writer (died in 1988) | |
May 25th, 1936 (May 25 1936) | Event | The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins. | |
May 25th, 1936 (May 25 1936) | Birth | Tom T. Hall, American singer and songwriter | |
May 25th, 1935 (May 25 1935) | Event | 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. | Jesse Owens Quotes |
May 25th, 1935 (May 25 1935) | Birth | Cookie Gilchrist, American football player | |
May 25th, 1935 (May 25 1935) | Birth | Victoria Shaw, Australian-born American actress (died in 1988) | |
May 25th, 1935 (May 25 1935) | Death | Sir Frank Watson Dyson, English astronomer (born in 1868) | |
May 25th, 1934 (May 25 1934) | Death | Gustav Holst, English composer (born in 1874) | Gustav Holst Quotes |
May 25th, 1933 (May 25 1933) | Birth | Ray Spencer, English footballer | |
May 25th, 1932 (May 25 1932) | Birth | John Gregory Dunne, American writer (died in 2003) | |
May 25th, 1931 (May 25 1931) | Birth | Georgi Grechko, cosmonaut | |
May 25th, 1931 (May 25 1931) | Birth | Aili Jogi, Estonian freedom fighter | |
May 25th, 1931 (May 25 1931) | Birth | Irwin Winkler, American film producer and director | |
May 25th, 1930 (May 25 1930) | Death | Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (born in 1848) | |
May 25th, 1929 (May 25 1929) | Birth | Beverly Sills, American soprano (died in 2007) | |
May 25th, 1929 (May 25 1929) | Birth | Warren Frost, American actor | |
May 25th, 1927 (May 25 1927) | Birth | Robert Ludlum, American writer (died in 2001) | |
May 25th, 1927 (May 25 1927) | Death | Payne Whitney, American businessman (born in 1876) | |
May 25th, 1926 (May 25 1926) | Event | Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the Paris-based government-in-exile of Ukrainian People s Republic. | |
May 25th, 1926 (May 25 1926) | Birth | Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter (died in 1991) | Miles Davis Quotes |
May 25th, 1926 (May 25 1926) | Death | Symon Petlura, Ukrainian politician and statesman (born in 1879) | |
May 25th, 1925 (May 25 1925) | Event | Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin s theory of evolution. | Charles Darwin Quotes |
May 25th, 1925 (May 25 1925) | Birth | Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet (died in 1974) | |
May 25th, 1925 (May 25 1925) | Birth | Jeanne Crain, American actress (died in 2003) | |
May 25th, 1925 (May 25 1925) | Birth | Don Liddle, baseball player (died in 2000) | |
May 25th, 1924 (May 25 1924) | Birth | Istvan Nyers, Hungarian footballer (died in 2005) | |
May 25th, 1924 (May 25 1924) | Death | Lyubov Popova, Russian painter (born in 1889) | |
May 25th, 1922 (May 25 1922) | Birth | Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (died in 1984) | |
May 25th, 1922 (May 25 1922) | Birth | Kitty Kallen, American big band singer | |
May 25th, 1921 (May 25 1921) | Birth | Jack Steinberger, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate | |
May 25th, 1921 (May 25 1921) | Birth | Hal David, American lyricist and songwriter | |
May 25th, 1919 (May 25 1919) | Death | Madame C.J. Walker, African American philanthropist and tycoon (born in 1867) | |
May 25th, 1918 (May 25 1918) | Birth | Claude Akins, American actor (died in 1994) | |
May 25th, 1917 (May 25 1917) | Birth | Theodore Hesburgh, American educator and theologian | |
May 25th, 1917 (May 25 1917) | Birth | Steve Cochran, American actor (died in 1965) | |
May 25th, 1917 (May 25 1917) | Death | Maksim Bahdanovic, Belarusian poet (born in 1891) | |
May 25th, 1914 (May 25 1914) | Event | The United Kingdom s House of Commons passes the Home Rule Act for devolution in Ireland. | Devo Quotes |
May 25th, 1913 (May 25 1913) | Birth | Richard Dimbleby, British journalist and broadcaster (died in 1965) | |
May 25th, 1912 (May 25 1912) | Birth | Princess Dukhye of Korea (died in 1989) | |
May 25th, 1912 (May 25 1912) | Death | Austin Lane Crothers, American politician (born in 1860) | |
May 25th, 1909 (May 25 1909) | Birth | Alfred Kubel, German politician (died in 1999) | |
May 25th, 1909 (May 25 1909) | Birth | Marie Menken, American experimental filmmaker and socialite (died in 1970) | |
May 25th, 1908 (May 25 1908) | Birth | Theodore Roethke, American poet (died in 1963) | |
May 25th, 1907 (May 25 1907) | Birth | U Nu, Burmese politician (died in 1995) | |
May 25th, 1903 (May 25 1903) | Birth | Binnie Barnes, British actress (died in 1998) | |
May 25th, 1900 (May 25 1900) | Birth | Alain Grandbois, French Canadian poet (died in 1975) | |
May 25th, 1899 (May 25 1899) | Birth | Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher (died in 1976) | Philo Quotes |
May 25th, 1899 (May 25 1899) | Death | Rosa Bonheur, French realist painter and sculptor (died in 1822) | |
May 25th, 1898 (May 25 1898) | Birth | Bennett Cerf, American publisher, TV personality (died in 1971) | |
May 25th, 1897 (May 25 1897) | Birth | Gene Tunney, American heavyweight champion (died in 1978) | |
May 25th, 1895 (May 25 1895) | Event | 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. | Oscar Wilde Quotes |
May 25th, 1895 (May 25 1895) | Event | The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as the president. | |
May 25th, 1892 (May 25 1892) | Birth | Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav resistance leader and later president (died in 1980) | Josip Broz Tito Quotes |
May 25th, 1889 (May 25 1889) | Birth | Igor Sikorsky, Russian inventor (died in 1972) | |
May 25th, 1888 (May 25 1888) | Birth | Miles Malleson, English actor (died in 1969) | |
May 25th, 1887 (May 25 1887) | Birth | Pio of Pietrelcina, Catholic saint (died in 1968) | |
May 25th, 1886 (May 25 1886) | Birth | Philip Murray, U.S. (Scottish-born) labor leader (died in 1952) | |
May 25th, 1886 (May 25 1886) | Birth | Rash Behari Bose, leader against the British Raj in India (died in 1945) | |
May 25th, 1882 (May 25 1882) | Birth | Marie Doro, American actress (died in 1956) | |
May 25th, 1880 (May 25 1880) | Birth | Jean Alexandre Barre, French neurologist (died in 1967) | |
May 25th, 1879 (May 25 1879) | Birth | Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-born publisher (died in 1964) | 1st Baron Beaverbrook Quotes |
May 25th, 1878 (May 25 1878) | Birth | Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, African American entertainer (died in 1949) | |
May 25th, 1877 (May 25 1877) | Birth | Billy Murray, American singer (died in 1954) | |
May 25th, 1865 (May 25 1865) | Event | In Mobile, Alabama, 300 are killed when an ordnance depot explodes. | |
May 25th, 1865 (May 25 1865) | Birth | John Mott, American YMCA leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died in 1955) | |
May 25th, 1865 (May 25 1865) | Birth | Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1943) | |
May 25th, 1860 (May 25 1860) | Birth | James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (died in 1944) | |
May 25th, 1856 (May 25 1856) | Birth | Louis Franchet d Esperey, French general (died in 1942) | |
May 25th, 1852 (May 25 1852) | Birth | William Muldoon, wrestler (died in 1933) | |
May 25th, 1849 (May 25 1849) | Death | Benjamin d Urban, British general and colonial administrator (born in 1777) | |
May 25th, 1848 (May 25 1848) | Death | Annette von Droste-Hulshoff, German writer (born in 1797) | |
May 25th, 1846 (May 25 1846) | Birth | Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (died in 1923) | |
May 25th, 1846 (May 25 1846) | Birth | Naim Frasheri, Albanian poet and writer(died in 1900) | |
May 25th, 1845 (May 25 1845) | Birth | Lip Pike, baseball player (died in 1883) | |
May 25th, 1837 (May 25 1837) | Event | The Patriots of Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the British for freedom. | |
May 25th, 1818 (May 25 1818) | Birth | Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian (died in 1897) | |
May 25th, 1810 (May 25 1810) | Event | In the May Revolution, citizens of Buenos Aires expel the Viceroy during the Semana de Mayo. | |
May 25th, 1805 (May 25 1805) | Death | William Paley, English philosopher (born in 1743) | Philo Quotes |
May 25th, 1803 (May 25 1803) | Birth | Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English novelist and playwright (died in 1873) | |
May 25th, 1803 (May 25 1803) | Birth | Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher (died in 1882) | Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
May 25th, 1797 (May 25 1797) | Death | John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (born in 1719) | |
May 25th, 1789 (May 25 1789) | Death | Anders Dahl, Swedish botanist (born in 1751) | |
May 25th, 1787 (May 25 1787) | Event | In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States. George Washington presides. | George Washington Quotes |
May 25th, 1786 (May 25 1786) | Death | Peter III of Portugal, consort of Queen Maria I of Portugal (born in 1717) | |
May 25th, 1783 (May 25 1783) | Birth | Philip Pendleton Barbour, Virginia politician and U.S. Supreme Court justice (died in 1841) | |
May 25th, 1741 (May 25 1741) | Death | Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (born in 1660) | |
May 25th, 1738 (May 25 1738) | Event | A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners. | |
May 25th, 1725 (May 25 1725) | Birth | Samuel Ward, American politician (died in 1776) | |
May 25th, 1713 (May 25 1713) | Birth | John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died in 1792) | |
May 25th, 1693 (May 25 1693) | Death | Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette, French writer (born in 1634) | |
May 25th, 1681 (May 25 1681) | Death | Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Spanish playwright (born in 1600) | Pedro Calderon de la Barca Quotes |
May 25th, 1667 (May 25 1667) | Death | Gustaf Bonde, Swedish statesman (born in 1620) | |
May 25th, 1661 (May 25 1661) | Birth | Claude Buffier, French philosopher and historian (died in 1737) | Philo Quotes |
May 25th, 1659 (May 25 1659) | Event | 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. | |
May 25th, 1632 (May 25 1632) | Death | Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (born in 1572) | Philo Quotes |
May 25th, 1606 (May 25 1606) | Birth | Charles Garnier, French Jesuit missionary (died in 1649) | |
May 25th, 1595 (May 25 1595) | Death | Valens Acidalius, German critic and poet (born in 1567) | |
May 25th, 1555 (May 25 1555) | Death | Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (born in 1508) | |
May 25th, 1555 (May 25 1555) | Death | Henry II of Navarre (born in 1503) | |
May 25th, 1521 (May 25 1521) | Event | The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw. | Martin Luther Quotes |
May 25th, 1458 (May 25 1458) | Birth | Mahmud Begada, Sultan of Gujarat (died in 1511) | |
May 25th, 1452 (May 25 1452) | Death | John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury | |
May 25th, 1420 (May 25 1420) | Event | Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of Christ. | |
May 25th, 1334 (May 25 1334) | Birth | Emperor Suko (died in 1398) | |
May 25th, 1261 (May 25 1261) | Death | Pope Alexander IV | Alexander Pope Quotes |
May 25th, 1085 (May 25 1085) | Event | Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo, Spain back from the Moors. | |
May 25th, 1085 (May 25 1085) | Death | Pope Gregory VII | |
May 25th, 1048 (May 25 1048) | Birth | Emperor Shenzong of China (died in 1085) | |
May 25th, 0992 (May 25 0992) | Death | Mieszko I first lord and knight of Poland, duke of Polans (born in circa 935) | |
May 25th, 0967 (May 25 0967) | Death | Murakami, Emperor of Japan (born in 926) | |
May 25th, 0735 (May 25 0735) | Death | Bede, English historian and monk (born in circa 672 or 673) | Bede Quotes |
May 25th, 0709 (May 25 0709) | Death | Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne (born in cica 639) | |