On this day in History - May 25

• 0709 - Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne dies.
• 0735 - Bede dies. English historian and monk.
• 0992 - Mieszko I dies.
• 1085 - Pope Gregory VII dies.
• 1085 - Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo, Spain back from the Moors.
• 1234 - Os Mongóis tomam Kaifeng e derrubam a dinastia Chin.
• 1261 - Pope Alexander IV dies.
• 1334 - Emperor Suko of Japan was born (d. 1398)
• 1420 - Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of Christ.
• 1452 - John Stafford dies. Archbishop of Canterbury.
• 1521 - The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.
• 1555 - Henry II of Navarre dies (b. 1503).
• 1604 - Cornelius Becker dies. German poet.
• 1625 - Canonização de Santa Isabel de Portugal.
• 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.
• 1681 - Pedro Calderón de la Barca dies (b. 1600). Spanish playwright.
• 1693 - Madame De Lafayette dies (b. 1634). French writer.
• 1773 - Abolida em Portugal a distinção entre cristãos-novos e cristãos-velhos.
• 1786 - King Pedro III of Portugal dies (b. 1717). Consort of Queen Maria I of Portugal
• 1787 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States. George Washington presides.
• 1789 - Anders Dahl dies (b. 1751). Botanist.
• 1803 - Ralph Waldo Emerson was born (d. 1882). American essayist and philosopher.
• 1803 - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton was born (d. 1873). English novelist and playwright.
• 1805 - William Paley dies (b. 1743). Philosopher.
• 1810 - In the May Revolution, armed citizens of Buenos Aires, Argentina expel the Viceroy during the Semana de Mayo.
• 1815 - Gomes Freire de Andrade, general português, 2.º comandante da Legião Portuguesa ao serviço de Napoleão de 1807 a 1813, chega a Lisboa.
• 1820 - Anne Brontë was born (d. 1849). English writer.
• 1828 - Karl Mikhailovich Peterson was born. Russian mathematicien
• 1845 - Lip Pike was born. Baseball player
• 1848 - Annette von Droste-Hülshoff dies (b. 1797). German writer.
• 1860 - James McKeen Cattell was born (d. 1944). American psychologist.
• 1862 - Johann Nepomuk Nestroy dies. Austrain dramatist
• 1865 - In Mobile, Alabama, 300 are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
• 1865 - Pieter Zeeman was born (d. 1943). Belgium physicist. Nobel Prize laureate 1902.
• 1879 - Lord Beaverbrook was born (d. 1964). English publisher.
• 1880 - Jean Alexandre Barré was born (d. 1967). Neurologist.
• 1881 - Béla Bartók was born. Hungarian composer
• 1887 - Francesco Forgione was born (d. 1968). Italian priest.
• 1888 - Miles Malleson was born (d. 1969). Actor.
• 1889 - Igor Sikorsky was born (d. 1972). Developer of a working helicopter.
• 1892 - Josip Tito was born († 4 May 1980). Yugoslav state president and marshal, his real name was actually Josip Broz.
• 1894 - Dashiel Hammett was born (d. 10 Jan 1901). American writer
• 1895 - Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of sodomy and gross indecency and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
• 1895 - The Republic of Taiwan is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as the president.
• 1899 - Emilio Castelar dies. Spanish politician
• 1901 - Fundación de River Plate que defiende y honra la institución, aunque los historiadores argentinos han logrado determinar que el club se fundó realmente el 15 de mayo de 1904. Aquella fecha coincidiría con la fundación de La Rosales, uno de los clubes que, fusionados, dieron origen a River.
• 1902 - Colocada a pedra fundamental da sinagoga Shaaré Tikvá (Lisboa)
• 1902 - Jorge Barbosa was born. Cape Verdian poet.
• 1905 - Fundación del Club Atlético Platense -Argentina
• 1906 - Fundación del Club Defensores de Belgrano - Argentina
• 1907 - Women in the Finnish parliament : In Finland a total of 19 female members of parliament took their seats for the first time on this day.
• 1909 - Por la Copa Competencia, Estudiantes de Buenos Aires golea al Lomas Athletic por 18 a 0 y el delantero Maximiliano Susán anota 12 goles.
• 1911 - Porfírio Díaz resigns from the Presidency of Mexico.
• 1912 - Princess Dukhye of Korea was born (d. 1989).
• 1912 - Austin Lane Crothers dies (b. 1860). Politician.
• 1913 - Richard Dimbleby was born. Journalist and broadcaster.
• 1914 - The United Kingdom's House of Commons passes Home Rule Act for devolution in Ireland.
• 1915 - Fundación del Club Atlético Lanús (Argentina)
• 1919 - Miguel Angel Quintero Pacheco was born. Colombian poet.
• 1919 - Curado Ribeiro was born. Portuguese actor and radio personality
• 1922 - Enrico Berlinguer was born (d. 1984). Politician.
• 1922 - Portugal reconhece o Estado independente da Albânia
• 1923 - River Plate inaugura su estadio en pleno barrio Palermo, en la Avenida Alvear -hoy Libertador- y Tagle
• 1925 - Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.
• 1925 - The National Forensics League of America is founded.
• 1925 - Jeanne Crain dies. Actress.
• 1925 - Rosario Castellanos was born. Mexican writer.
• 1926 - Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the Paris-based government-in-exile of Ukrainian People's Republic.
• 1926 - Max von der Grün was born. Author.
• 1926 - Miles Davis was born. Jazz musician and composer.
• 1927 - Robert Ludlum was born (d. 2001). Writer.
• 1927 - Inauguração do 'Monumento a La Carta Magna y las Cuatro Regiones Argentinas'
• 1928 - Primer partido de la Argentina en Juegos Olímpicos. Golea a Estados Unidos 11 a 2 (Tarascone 4, Roberto Cherro 3, Orsi 2, Manuel Ferreira 2).
• 1929 - Beverly Sills was born. American soprano.
• 1931 - Maria Virgínia (Santos Teles Guerra) Monteiro was born in Espinho. Portuguese poetess.
• 1931 - Georgi Grechko was born. Cosmonaut.
• 1925 - Jeanne Crain was born. Actress.
• 1934 - Gustav Holst dies (b. 1874). English composer.
• 1935 - Sir Frank Watson Dyson dies (b. 1868). English Astronomer Royal
• 1935 - Cookie Gilchrist was born. American football player
• 1935 - Ronaldo Mourão was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian astronomer and writer.
• 1935 - In a span of 45 minutes at the Big Ten meet in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Jesse Owens sets or ties four track and field world records.
• 1935 - Babe Ruth hits his 714th and last home run at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, setting a baseball record that will stand for 39 years.
• 1935 - Jesse Owens bateu 6 recordes mundiais em menos de uma hora.
• 1937 - Alfred Adler dies. Psychiatrist.
• 1938 - Raymond Carver was born (d. 1988). Writer and poet.
• 1939 - Ian McKellen was born. Actor.
• 1939 - Dixie Carter was born. Actress.
• 1940 - Se inaugura el Estadio Bombonera Alberto J. Armando), en el que Boca Juniors hace de local. En el partido inaugural Boca Juniors derrota a San Lorenzo por 2 goles a 0.
• 1940 - World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk begins.
• 1940 - Joe De Grasse dies (b. 1873). American film director.
• 1942 - José Mário Branco was born. Portuguese singer.
• 1943 - Maria do Céu Guerra was born. Portuguese actress.
• 1943 - Jessi Colter was born. Country music singer.
• 1944 - Frank Oz was born. Puppeteer and director.
• 1946 - The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their king.
• 1949 - Jamaica Kincaid was born. Novelist.
• 1951 - Paula von Preradovic dies (b. 1887). Croatian-born writer.
• 1953 - Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.
• 1953 - Daniel Passarellala was born. Argentine footballer, World Champion in 1978.
• 1955 - Kanchenjunga, third highest peak in the world is scaled successfully for the first time.
• 1958 - Paul Weller was born. British musician.
• 1961 - Apollo program: American 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.
• 1962 - Júlio Dantas dies (b. 19 May 1876). Portuguese writer.
• 1963 - In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organisation of African Unity is established.
• 1963 - Haile Selassie (Etiópia) assume o cargo de presidente da União Africana enquanto o etíope Ato Kifle Wodajo assume a secretaria-geral.
• 1963 - Mike Myers was born. Actor, comedian.
• 1965 - Sonny Boy Williamson dies.
• 1966 - Sugar Minott was born. Singer.
• 1966 - Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.
• 1967 - Poppy Z. Brite was born. Author.
• 1968 - In St. Louis, Missouri, US Vice-President Hubert Humphrey and US Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall dedicate the Gateway Arch as part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial.
• 1969 - Anne Heche was born. Actress.
• 1970 - Jamie Kennedy was born. Actor.
• 1971 - Sonya Smith was born. Atress.
• 1973 - Mike Oldfield releases Tubular Bells.
• 1973 - Molly Sims was born. American supermodel and actress.
• 1974 - Maria Fernanda Cândido was born. Brazilian model and actress.
• 1975 - Lauryn Hill was born. Anmerican singer.
• 1975 - Luiza Ambiel was born. Brazilian model and actress.
• 1976 - Miguel Tejada was born. Major League Baseball player
• 1976 - Chris Duran was born. French model and singer.
• 1977 - Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope) opens a limited run in theaters before expanding to become the highest grossing movie to date.
• 1979 - American Airlines Flight 191: In Chicago, a DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O'Hare International Airport killing 271 on board and two people on the ground.
• 1979 - The movie Alien opens in theaters, starring Tom Skerritt and Sigourney Weaver.
• 1979 - Monica Keena was born. American actress.
• 1979 - Jonny Wilkinson was born. English rugby player.
• 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.
• 1983 - Return of the Jedi (later retitled Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi) opens in theaters
• 1985 - Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
• 1986 - Aidan Coughlan was born. Irish newspaper columnist.
• 1986 - Chester Bowles dies (b. 1901). Politician.
• 1988 - Ernst Ruska dies (b. 1906). Physicist, Nobel Prize - 1986 laureate.
• 1990 - Back to the Future Part III opens in theaters.
• 1994 - Beverly Hills Cop III opens in theaters, starring Eddie Murphy.
• 1995 - The Bosnian Serb Army kills 72 youngsters in the Bosnian city of Tuzla.
• 1995 - Manuel Cabanas dies. Portuguese artis, one of the founders of the Portuguese Socialist Party.
• 1996 - Brad Nowell dies. Singer and guitarist (Sublime)
• 1997 - A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.
• 1997 - Strom Thurmond becomes the longest-serving member in the history of the United States Senate, at 41 years and 10 months.
• 1997 - Polónia adopts a new Constituition.
• 2001 - 32-year-old Erik Weihenmayer, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
• 2001 - 64-year-old Sherman Bull, of New Canaan, Connecticut, becomes the oldest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
• 2002 - A China Airlines Boeing 747-200 breaks apart in mid-air and plunges into the Taiwan Strait killing 225 people.
• 2002 - In Tallinn, Estonia, Marie N wins the forty-seventh Eurovision Song Contest for Latvia singing "I Wanna".
• 2002 - A train crash in Tenga, Mozambique kills 197 people.
• 2002 - Claudia Schiffer weds Matthew Vaughn.
• 2003 - Néstor Kirchner becomes President of Argentina after defeating Carlos Menem. He is the first elected President since the December 2001 economic crisis.
• 2003 - O filme 'Elephant' ganha a Palma de Ouro em Cannes - França.
• 2005 - Sunil Dutt dies (b. 1929). Indian actor and politician.
• 2005 - Robert Jankel dies (b. 1938), British coachbuilder.
• 2005 - Graham Kennedy dies (b. 1934), Australian television personality.
• 2005 - Ruth Laredo dies (b. 1937). American pianist.
• Commemoration of the Venerable Bede (Anglican)
• Argentina - Day of May Revolution/National Day (1810)
• Chad, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe - African Freedom/Unity Day
• Jordan - National Day/Arab Renaissance Day (1946)
• Libya, Sudan - Sudan National Day/May Revolution Day (1969)
• United States - Memorial Day/Decoration Day, a legal holiday (1868)
• Virginia - Confederate Memorial Day (1868)
• Lebanon, Liberation Day(1999)
• Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - Day of Youth
• Ancient Latvia - Urbanas Diena observed
• Towel Day, in memory of Douglas Adams, is observed.