Historical Events on May 25

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• 1085 Alfonso VI of León and Castile captures the Muslim taifa of Toledo
• 1241 1st attack on Jewish community of Frankfurt am Main, Germany
• 1420 Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of Christ

• 1522 Holy Roman Emperor Charles V returns to Spain

• 1716 Great Britain and Holy Roman Empire sign the Treaty of Westminster, a defensive pact [1]
• 1720 The Ship "Le Grand St Antoine" reaches Marseille, bringing Europe's last major plague outbreak. Kills around 100,000.
• 1721 John Copson becomes America's 1st insurance agent
• 1738 A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
• 1784 Jews are expelled from Warsaw by Marshall Mniszek

• 1793 Father Stephen Theodore Badin is 1st US Roman Catholic priest ordained
• 1810 In the May Revolution, citizens of Buenos Aires expel the Spanish Viceroy Cisneros during Semana de Mayo
• 1810 The Primera Junta (local government) is established in Argentina

• 1825 American Unitarian Association founded
• 1837 The Patriots of Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the British for freedom.

• 1844 1st telegraphed news dispatch is published in Baltimore Patriot
• 1861 John Merryman is arrested under suspension of writ of habeas corpus it later sparks a supreme court decision protecting writ

• 1868 Australian Aboriginal Cricket tour of England begins v Surrey Gentlemen
• 1870 Irish Fenians raid Eccles Hill, Quebec
• 1876 1st tie in NL history (Athletics & Louisville, 2-2 in 14)

• 1887 Gas lamp at Paris Opera catches fire; 200 die

• 1895 The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as the president
• 1900 Retired London fire master Eyre Massey Shaw aged 70 reputedly becomes oldest gold medalist in Olympics for sailing (disputed)
• 1906 After 20 straight wins, Boston Pilgrims lose to Chicago White Sox 3-0
• 1911 Revolution in Mexico overthrows President Jose Porfirio Diaz
• 1914 British House of Commons passes the Irish Home Rule Bill
• 1915 Chicago Whales' Claude Hendrix no-hits Pittsburgh Rebels (Federal League), 10-0
• 1915 Second Battle of Ypres on the Western Front ends with 105,000 casualties

• 1923 Britain recognizes Transjordan with Abdullah as its leader
• 1926 Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the Paris-based government-in-exile of the Ukrainian People's Republic

• 1932 Goofy, aka Dippy Dawg, 1st appears in 'Mickey's Revue' by Walt Disney
• 1933 Spanish piano virtuoso José Iturbi makes his conducting debut, leading an orchestra at the Teatro Hidalgo in Mexico City, Mexico

• 1935 Babe Ruth hits his last 3 home runs in Pittsburgh, Boston Braves still lose the game 11–7 to the Pirates

• 1936 The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins
• 1937 1st airmail letter to circle globe returns to NY
• 1938 Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante takes place, with 313 deaths
• 1939 Carl Storck becomes 2nd NFL president
• 1940 German troops conquer Boulogne
• 1940 Golden Gate International Exposition reopens
• 1941 5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India

• 1942 First commercial fluid catalytic cracking facility begins production at Exxon - now produces half the world's gasoline, developed by the "Four Horsemen” research team at Exxon [1]

• 1943 Riot at Mobile, Alabama, shipyard over upgrading 12 black workers
• 1943 Trident conference in Washington, D.C. (operation plan '43 against Japan)

• 1945 Arthur C. Clark proposes relay satellites in geosynchronous orbit
• 1946 Jordan gains independence from Britain (National Day); Abdullah ibn Hussein becomes King of Jordan
• 1947 Coal dust explosion rocks Centralia Coal Co's Mine #5 killing 111 in Illinois

• 1948 San Francisco receives its 1st telecast
• 1949 Chinese Red army occupies Shanghai
• 1950 Brooklyn Battery Tunnel opens in NYC

• 1953 1st atomic cannon electronically fired at Frenchman Flat, Nevada
• 1953 1st non-commercial educational television station - Houston, Texas
• 1953 Braves Max Surkont strikes out record 8 Reds in a row
• 1955 Series of 19 twisters destroy Udall, Kansas and most of Blackwell, Oklahoma

• 1959 US Supreme Courtt rules Louisiana prohibiting black-white boxing unconstitutional
• 1960 George Crowe's record 11th pinch-hit HR

• 1962 US performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric)
• 1962 US unions AFL-CIO starts campaign for 35-hour work week
• 1962 Wand Records releases The Isley Brothers' cover single "Twist & Shout"; it becomes their first top-20 hit, peaking at #17
• 1963 Great Britain ends its amateur-professional classes in cricket
• 1963 Organization for African Unity formed by Chad, Mauritania and Zambia

• 1964 Ground is broken for new Busch Memorial Stadium in St Louis; opens in 1966, demolished in 2005
• 1964 US Supreme Court rules closing schools to avoid desegregation is unconstitutional
• 1965 Dave Davies of The Kinks knocked unconscious in an on stage scuffle with drummer Mick Avory at Cardiff’s Capital Theatre
• 1965 Fighting along the Indian and Pakistan border

• 1965 Roel van Duyn, Martijn Ananar & Rob Faado align in Provo
• 1966 "Au Hasard Balthazar", French film directed by Robert Bresson, starring Anne Wiazemsky and François Lafarge, is released
• 1966 Peru & Argentina soccer fans fight in Lima; 248 die

• 1968 BPAA All-Star Bowling Tournament won by Jim Stefanich
• 1968 BPAA US Women's Bowling Open won by Dotty Fothergill
• 1968 Gateway Arch in St Louis dedicated
• 1968 Rolling Stones release song "Jumping Jack Flash"
• 1968 Unicorn by The Irish Rovers hits #7

• 1969 Sudanese government is overthrown in a military coup
• 1971 The Provisional Irish Republican Army throw a time bomb into Springfield Road British Army base in Belfast, killing British Army Sergeant Michael Willetts and wounding seven officers
• 1971 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

• 1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1973 26th Cannes Film Festival: "The Hireling" directed by Alan Bridges and "Scarecrow" directed by Jerry Schatzberg jointly awarded the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film

• 1973 Peronist Hector Campora installed as President of Argentina
• 1973 US launches 1st Skylab crew Kerwin, Conrad, Weitz
• 1975 Cleveland's Dennis Eckersley, debuts shutting out the A's 6-0
• 1977 "Beatles Live! At Star-Club in Hamburg Germany" released

• 1977 Dutch social democratic party wins parliamentary election

• 1977 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1978 Stanley Cup Final, Boston Garden, Boston, MA: 3-peat for Montreal Canadiens; beat Boston Bruins, 4-1 as Mario Tremblay scores twice; 4-2 series victory
• 1979 American Airlines DC-10 crashes on takeoff from Chicago killing 273 including 2 on the ground

• 1979 Israel begins to return Sinai to Egypt
• 1979 Raul Gonzales of Mexico completes 50,000 m walk in record 3:41:38.4

• 1980 Jacek Wszoka of Poland sets high jump record (7'8")

• 1981 Daniel Goodwin scales outside of Chicago's Sears Tower in 7 hours
• 1981 Rangers' Bill Stein sets AL record with 7 consecutive pinch hits

• 1982 Iranian troops reconquer Khorramshar
• 1982 STS-4 vehicle moves to launch pad

• 1983 1st US National Missing Children's Day is proclaimed
• 1983 Fire in Nassermeer, Egypt, kills 357
• 1983 France performs nuclear test
• 1983 Kirk Gibson (Tigers) & Jorge Orta (Blue Jays) hit inside park HRs
• 1984 Detroit Tigers lose to Seattle 7-3 ends record tying 17 consecutive wins
• 1984 Red Sox trade pitcher Dennis Eckersley to Cubs for Bill Buckner

• 1985 Cyclone ravages Bangladesh; 11,000 killed
• 1986 95-year-old woman scores a hole-in-one in Florida
• 1986 Ferry boat Shamia sinks on Maghna River Bangladesh, 600 killed
• 1986 Hands Across America - 6.5 million people hold hands from California to NY

• 1986 Virgilio Barco elected president of Colombia
• 1989 Eastern Airlines graduates it 1st class of non-union pilots
• 1989 Mariners trade Mark Langston to Montreal for Randy Johnson

• 1989 Stanley Cup Final, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec: Calgary Flames beat Montreal Canadiens, 4-2 to win series 4 games to 2; Flames' first SC title

• 1991 "People Are Still Having Sex" by LaTour hits #35
• 1991 Israel evacuates 14,000 Ethiopian Jews
• 1991 Stanley Cup Final, Metropolitan Sports Center, Bloomington, MN: Pittsburgh Penguins beat Minnesota North Stars, 8-0 for a 4-2 series win; Penguins' first Final series appearance

• 1992 NY Yankees score 9 runs before 1st out in 8th inn, beat Brewers 13-7
• 1992 Oscar Luigi Scalfaro elected President of Italy
• 1995 The Bosnian Serb Army kills 72 youngsters in the Bosnian city of Tuzla
• 1996 1st Super Rugby Final, Eden Park, Auckland: Blues win inaugural title with a 45-21 victory over the Natal Sharks; fullback Adrian Cashmore lands 3 penalties & 3 conversions for the home team
• 1996 Jennifer Maria Holsten, 18, crowned Miss Filipino-American
• 1997 Military coup d'etat in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with army Major Johnny Paul Koromah; Kabbah restored to office after 9 months

• 1999 The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report detailing People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over 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
• 2001 54th Cannes Film Festival: "The Son's Room" directed by Nanni Moretti wins the Palme d'Or
• 2002 A train crash in Tenga, Mozambique, kills 197 people
• 2002 China Airlines Flight 611: A Boeing 747-200 breaks apart in mid-air and plunges into the Taiwan Strait killing 225 people
• 2002 Super Rugby Final, Jade Stadium, Christchurch: Crusaders win 4th title with a 31-13 thumping of the ACT Brumbies; flyhalf Andrew Mehrtens boots 3 penalties, 2 conversions and a dropped goal for the winners
• 2003 56th Cannes Film Festival: "Elephant" directed by Gus Van Sant wins the Palme d'Or
• 2003 Néstor Kirchner becomes President of Argentina after defeating Carlos Menem. He is the first elected President since the economic crisis.

• 2008 61st Cannes Film Festival: "The Class" directed by Laurent Cantet wins the Palme d'Or
• 2009 North Korea conducts its second nuclear test while also conducting several missile tests
• 2009 Thailand’s economy shrank more than expected in the first quarter of 2009, contracting the most in a decade and plunging the nation into recession

• 2012 Up to 116 people are massacred, including women and children, by the Syrian army in Houla, in the Homs province
• 2013 17 children are killed by a gas cylinder explosion on a school bus in Gujrat, Pakistan
• 2013  Yuichiro Miura of Japan becomes the oldest person to climb Mount Everest at 80
• 2014 67th Cannes Film Festival: "Winter Sleep" directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan wins the Palme d'Or
• 2014 Dalia Grybauskaitė is re-elected President of Lithuania

• 2017 Pitched battles between Islamic State-linked militants and Philippine government troops in and around Marawi, leave 43 dead, with thousands fleeing
• 2018 Barbados elects its first female Prime Minister Mia Mottley, who leads the Barbados Labour Party to victory

• 2019 72nd Cannes Film Festival: Bong Joon-ho's South Korean film "Parasite" wins the Palme d'Or, Mati Diop, first black woman in competition wins Grand Prix award for "Atlantics"
• 2019 Boat capsizes on Lake Mai-Ndombe, western Democratic Republic of Congo, drowning at least 45 with 200 missing
• 2019 First ever albino panda footage in the wild released (taken in April) from China's Wolong National Nature Reserve
• 2019 Tornado tears through El Reno, Oklahoma. killing two and injuring dozens

• 2021 Coup in Mali as military Colonel Assimi Goïta ousts country's civilian President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane arresting and detaining them
• 2021 New research show impact of 'climate racism' in the US, with black people facing double (+3.12C) the amount of heat stress in urban areas [1]
• 2021 US CDC says half of all US adults are now fully vaccinated, with 61% having had their first shot
• 2022 Russian forces pound eastern Ukrainian cities of Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk in attempt to take whole province of Luhansk, with at least 150 deaths [1]

• 2023 Oath Keepers militia founder Stewart Rhodes sentenced to 18 years in prison for organizing Jan 6 attack on the US Capitol - first person to be sentenced for seditious conspiracy and longest sentence so far [1]

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