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
- 567 BC –Servius Tullius, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
- 1085 –Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo, Spain back from the Moors.
- 1420 –Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of Christ.
- 1521 –The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.
- 1798 –United Irishmen Rebellion: The Carnew massacre, Dunlavin massacre and Carlow massacre takes place.
- 1809 –Chuquisaca Revolution: a group of patriots in Chuquisaca (modern day Sucre) revolt against the Spanish Empire, starting the South American Wars of Independence.
- 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.
- 1895 –The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as its president.
- 1926 –Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the Paris-based government-in-exile of Ukrainian People’s Republic.
- 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.
- 1955 –First ascent of Kangchenjunga (8,586 m.), the third highest mountain in the world, by a British expedition led by Joe Brown and George Band.
- 1966 –Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.
- 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.
- 1997 –A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.
- 2000 –Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first invasion in 1978.
- 2002 –A train crash in Tenga, Mozambique kills 197 people.
- 2011 –Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty five year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
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