About May 25
May 25, 2024 is the 146th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 220 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Gemini is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 249 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 25
- 1085 –Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo, Spain back from the Moors.
- 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.
- 1809 –Chuquisaca Revolution: a group of patriots in Chuquisaca (modern day Sucre) revolt against the Spanish Empire, starting the South American Wars of Independence.
- 1810 –May Revolution: citizens of Buenos Aires expel Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros during the May week, starting the Argentine War of Independence.
- 1819 –The Argentine Constitution of 1819 is promulgated.
- 1837 –The Rebels of Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the British for freedom.
- 1865 –In Mobile, Alabama, 300 are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
- 1895 –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.
- 1936 –The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins.
- 1946 –The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their Emir.
- 1951 –Future Hall of Famer Willie Mays was called up by the New York Giants from their farm team Minneapolis Millers. We went 0-5 in his first major league game.
- 1953 –Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conduct their first and only nuclear artillery test.
- 1953 –The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1966 –The first prominent dàzìbào during the Cultural Revolution in China is posted at Peking University.
- 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.
- 1973 –HNS Velos (D-16), 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.
- 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.
- 2011 –Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty five year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
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