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Historical Events on May 25

567 BC
Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
240 BC
First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
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.
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.
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.
1660
Charles II lands at Dover at the invitation of the Convention Parliament (England), which marks the end of the Cromwell-proclaimed Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland and begins the Restoration (1660) of the British monarchy.
1738
A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
1787
The United States Constitutional Convention formally convenes in Philadelphia, when a quorum of seven states is secured.
1798
United Irishmen Rebellion: Battle of Carlow begins; executions of suspected rebels at Carnew and at Dunlavin Green take place.
1809
Chuquisaca Revolution: Patriot revolt in Chuquisaca (modern day Sucre) against the Spanish Empire, sparking the Latin 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.
1833
The Chilean Constitution of 1833 is promulgated.
1837
The Rebels of Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the British for governmental reforms.
1865
In Mobile, Alabama, around 300 people are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
1878
Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
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.
1914
The House of Commons of the United Kingdom passes the Home Rule Bill for devolution in Ireland.
1925
Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in Tennessee.
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.
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.
1938
Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante kills 313 people.
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.
1946
The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their Emir.
1953
At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its 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.
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.
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.
1963
In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organisation of African Unity is established.
1966
Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.
1968
The Gateway Arch in Saint Louis is dedicated.
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.
1977
Star Wars is released in theaters.
1977
Chinese government removes a decade old ban on William Shakespeare's work, effectively ending the Cultural Revolution started in 1966.
1978
The first bomb of a series of bombings orchestrated by the Unabomber detonates at Northwestern University resulting in minor injuries.
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.
1981
In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
1982
HMS Coventry is sunk during the Falklands War.
1985
Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
1986
Hands Across America takes place.
1997
A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.
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.
2000
Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from Lebanese territory (except for the disputed Shebaa farms zone) 22 years after its invasion in 1978.
2002
China Airlines Flight 611 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes into the Taiwan Strait. All 225 people on board are killed.
2008
NASA's Phoenix lander lands in Green Valley region of Mars to search for environments suitable for water and microbial life.
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.
2012
The SpaceX Dragon became the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous with the International Space Station.
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.
2013
A gas cylinder explodes on a school bus in the Pakistani city of Gujrat, killing at least 18 people.

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