On this day in History - May 25

• 0709 - Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne dies (b. c. 639).
• 0735 - Bede dies. English historian and monk.
• 0967 - Murakami dies (b. 0926). Emperor of Japan.
• 0992 - Mieszko I first lord and knight of Poland dies (b. c. 935).
• 1048 - Emperor Shenzong of China was born (d. 1085).
• 1085 - Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo back from the Moors.
• 1085 - Pope Gregory VII dies.
• 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.
• 1458 - Mahmud Begada was born (d. 1511). Sultan of Gujarat.
• 1521 - The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.
• 1555 - Gemma Frisius dies (b. 1508). Dutch mathematician and cartographer.
• 1555 - Henry II of Navarre dies (b. 1503).
• 1595 - Valens Acidalius dies (b. 1567). German critic and poet.
• 1604 - Cornelius Becker dies. German poet.
• 1606 - Charles Garnier was born (d. 1649). French Jesuit missionary.
• 1625 - Canonização de Santa Isabel de Portugal.
• 1632 - Adam Tanner dies (b. 1572). Austrian mathematician and philosopher.
• 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.
• 1661 - Claude Buffier was born (d. 1737). French philosopher and historian.
• 1667 - Gustaf Bonde was born (d. 1620). Swedish statesman.
• 1681 - Pedro Calderón de la Barca dies (b. 1600). Spanish playwright.
• 1693 - Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette dies (b. 1634). French writer.
• 1713 - John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute was born (d. 1792). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1725 - Samuel Ward was born (d. 1776). American politician.
• 1738 - A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
• 1741 - Daniel Ernst Jablonski dies (b. 1660). German theologian.
• 1773 - Abolida em Portugal a distinção entre cristãos-novos e cristãos-velhos.
• 1783 - Philip Pendleton Barbour was born (d. 1841). Virginia politician and U.S. Supreme Court justice.
• 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). Swedish botanist.
• 1797 - John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden dies (b. 1719). British field marshal.
• 1803 – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton was born (d. 1873). English novelist and playwright.
• 1803 - Ralph Waldo Emerson was born (d. 1882). American essayist and philosopher.
• 1805 - William Paley dies (b. 1743). English philosopher.
• 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 (Semana de Mayo), starting the Argentine War of Independence.
• 1815 - Gomes Freire de Andrade, general português, 2.º comandante da Legião Portuguesa ao serviço de Napoleão de 1807 a 1813, chega a Lisboa.
• 1818 - Jacob Burckhardt was born (d. 1897). Swiss historian.
• 1820 - Anne Brontë was born (d. 1849). English writer.
• 1828 - Karl Mikhailovich Peterson was born. Russian mathematician.
• 1837 - The Patriots of Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the British for freedom.
• 1845 - Lip Pike was born (d. 1883). American baseball player.
• 1846 - Princess Helena of the United Kingdom was born (d. 1923). Daughter of Queen Victoria.
• 1846 - Naim Frashëri was born (d. 1900). Albanian poet and writer.
• 1848 – Johann Baptist Singenberger was born (d. 1924). Swiss composer, music teacher, editor and publisher.
• 1848 - Annette von Droste-Hülshoff dies (b. 1797). German writer.
• 1849 - Benjamin d'Urban dies (b. 1777). British general and colonial administrator.
• 1852 - William Muldoon was born (d. 1933). American wrestler.
• 1856 - Louis Franchet d'Espèrey was born (d. 1942). French general.
• 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 - John Mott was born (d. 1955). American YMCA leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1865 – Pieter Zeeman was born (d. 1943). Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1877 - Billy Murray was born (d. 1954). American singer.
• 1878 - Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
• 1878 - Bill "Bojangles" Robinson was born (d. 1949). African American entertainer.
• 1879 - Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook was born (d. 1964). Canadian-born British publisher.
• 1880 - Jean Alexandre Barré was born (d. 1967). French neurologist.
• 1882 - Marie Doro was born (d. 1956). American actress.
• 1886 - Philip Murray was born (d. 1952). Scottish-born American labor leader.
• 1886 - Rash Behari Bose was born (d. 1945). Leader against the British Raj in India.
• 1887 – Pio of Pietrelcina [née Francesco Forgione] was born (d. 1968). Italian Catholic priest and saint.
• 1888 - Miles Malleson was born (d. 1969). English actor.
• 1889 - Igor Sikorsky was born (d. 1972). Russian inventor, 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 Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as the president.
• 1897 - Gene Tunney was born (d. 1978). American heavyweight champion.
• 1898 - Bennett Cerf was born (d. 1971). American publisher, TV personality.
• 1899 - Kazi Nazrul Islam was born (d. 1976). Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher.
• 1899 - Emilio Castelar dies (b. 1832). Spanish politician.
• 1899 - Rosa Bonheur dies (b. 1822). French realist painter and sculptor.
• 1900 - Alain Grandbois was born (d. 1975). French Canadian poet.
• 1901 - River Plate is founded to become the most succesfull team in Argentina.
  
• 1902 - Colocada a pedra fundamental da sinagoga Shaaré Tikvá (Lisboa).
• 1902 - Jorge Barbosa was born. Cape Verdian poet.
• 1903 - Binnie Barnes was born (d. 1998). British actress.
• 1905 - Club Atlético Platense is founded in Argentine.
• 1906 - Club Defensores de Belgrano is founded in Argentine.
• 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.
• 1907 - U Nu was born (d. 1995). Burmese politician.
• 1908 - Theodore Roethke was born (d. 1963). American poet.
• 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.
• 1909 - Alfred Kubel was born (d. 1999). German politician.
• 1909 - Marie Menken was born (d. 1970). American experimental filmmaker and socialite.
• 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). American politician.
• 1913 - Richard Dimbleby was born. British journalist and broadcaster.
• 1914 - The United Kingdom's House of Commons passes Home Rule Act for devolution in Ireland.
• 1917 – Steve Cochran was born (d. 1965). American actor.
• 1917 – Theodore Hesburgh was born. American educator and theologian.
• 1917 - Maksim Bahdanovič dies (b. 1891). Belarusian poet.
• 1918 - Claude Akins was born (d. 1994). American actor.
• 1919 - Curado Ribeiro was born. Portuguese actor and radio personality.
• 1919 - Miguel Angel Quintero Pacheco was born. Colombian poet.
• 1919 - Madame C.J. Walker dies (b. 1867). African American philanthropist and tycoon.
• 1921 – Hal David, American lyricist and songwriter
• 1921 - Jack Steinberger was born.German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1921 - Hal David was born. American lyricist and songwriter.
• 1922 - Portugal reconhece o Estado independente da Albânia.
• 1922 - Enrico Berlinguer was born (d. 1984). Italian politician.
• 1922 - Kitty Kallen was born. American big band singer.
• 1923 - River Plate inaugura su estadio en pleno barrio Palermo, en la Avenida Alvear -hoy Libertador- y Tagle.
• 1924 - István Nyers was born (d. 2005). Hungarian footballer.
• 1924 - Lyubov Popova dies (b. 1889). Russian painter.
• 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 – Don Liddle was born (d. 2000). American baseball player.
• 1925 - Jeanne Crain was born (d. 2003). American actress.
• 1925 - Rosario Castellanos was born (d. 1974). Mexican poet.
• 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.
• 1926 - Symon Petlura dies (b. 1879). Ukrainian politician and statesman.
• 1927 - Robert Ludlum was born (d. 2001). American writer.
• 1927 - Inauguração do 'Monumento a La Carta Magna y las Cuatro Regiones Argentinas'.
• 1927 - Payne Whitney dies (b. 1876). American businessman.
• 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.
• 1929 - Warren Frost was born. American actor.
• 1930 - Randall Thomas Davidson dies (b. 1848). Archbishop of Canterbury.
• 1931 - Aili Jõgi was born. Estonian freedom fighter.
• 1931 – Georgi Grechko was born. Russian cosmonaut.
• 1931 – Irwin Winkler was born. American film producer and director.
• 1931 - Maria Virgínia Monteiro was born in Espinho. Portuguese poet.
• 1932 - John Gregory Dunne was born (d. 2003). American writer.
• 1932 – K. C. Jones was born. Former professional basketball player and coach.
• 1932 – W. P. Kinsella was born. Canadian writer.
• 1933 – Basdeo Panday was born. 5th Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago.
• 1933 - Ray Spencer was born. English footballer.
• 1934 - Gustav Holst dies (b. 1874). English composer.
• 1935 - Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks five world records and ties a sixth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• 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 – Cookie Gilchrist was born. American football player.
• 1935 - Ronaldo Mourão was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian astronomer and writer.
• 1935 – Victoria Shaw was born (d. 1988). Australian-born American actress.
• 1935 - Sir Frank Watson Dyson dies (b. 1868). English astronomer.
• 1936 - The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins.
• 1936 - Tom T. Hall was born. American singer and songwriter.
• 1938 - Spanish Civil War: Bombing of Alicante, 313 deaths.
• 1938 - Raymond Carver was born (d. 1988). American writer and poet.
• 1939 - Dixie Carter was born. American actress.
• 1939 - Ian McKellen was born. English actor.
• 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.
• 1941 – Vladimir Voronin was born. President of Moldova.
• 1942 - José Mário Branco was born. Portuguese singer.
• 1943 – Jessi Colter was born. American singer.
• 1943 - John "Poli" Palmer was born. British rock musician (Family).
• 1943 - Maria do Céu Guerra was born. Portuguese stage actress.
• 1943 - Nils von Dardel dies (b. 1888). Swedish post-impressionist painter.
• 1944 - Frank Oz was born. English-born puppeteer and director.
• 1944 – John Bunnell was born. Former Sheriff of Multnomah County, Oregon and TV personality.
• 1944 – Pierre Bachelet was born (d. 2005). French singer and songwriter.
• 1944 – Robert MacPherson was born. American mathematician.
• 1946 - The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their king.
• 1946 - David A. Hargrave was born. American RPG designer.
• 1947 – Karen Valentine was born. American actress.
• 1948 - Klaus Meine was born. German musician (Scorpions).
• 1948 - Sgt. Slaughter was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1949 - Jamaica Kincaid was born. Antiguan-born novelist.
• 1951 - Bob Gale was born. American screenwriter.
• 1951 - Paula von Preradovic dies (b. 1887). Croatian-born writer.
• 1952 - Al Sarrantonio was born. American writer.
• 1952 – Gordon Smith was born. American politician and U.S Senator from Oregon.
• 1952 - Jeffrey Bewkes was born. American media executive.
• 1953 - Nuclear testing: 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.
• 1953 - Daniel Passarella was born. Argentine footballer, World Champion in 1978.
• 1953 - Eve Ensler was born. American playwright.
• 1953 - Stan Sakai was born. Japanese-American cartoonist (Usagi Yojimbo).
• 1954 - Robert Capa dies (b. 1913). Hungarian-born photojournalist.
• 1955 - Kanchenjunga, third highest peak in the world is scaled successfully for the first time.
• 1955 - In the United States, a night time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It was 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.
• 1955 - Alistair Burt was born. British politician.
• 1956 – David P. Sartor was born. American music composer.
• 1956 – Stavros Arnaoutakis was born. Greek politician.
• 1956 - Sugar Minott was born. Jamaican singer.
• 1956 - Tatsutoshi Goto was born. Japanese professional wrestler.
• 1957 - Edward Lee was born. American writer.
• 1957 - Robert Picard was born. French Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1958 – Aikaterini Batzeli was born. Greek politician.
• 1958 – Carrie Newcomer was born. American folksinger.
• 1958 - Paul Weller was born. British musician.
• 1959 – Julian Clary was born. British television personality.
• 1959 - Manolis Kefalogiannis was born. Greek politician.
• 1959 - Rick Wamsley was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1960 - Amy Klobuchar was born. American politician and U.S. Senator from Minnesota.
• 1960 – Anthea Turner was born. British television personality.
• 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.
• 1961 - King Hussein of Jordan marries Princess Muna al-Hussein (Antoinette Gardiner).
• 1962 – The Old Bay Line, the last overnight steamboat service in the United States, goes out of business.
• 1962 - Rick Nattress was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1962 - Júlio Dantas dies (b. 19 May 1876). Portuguese writer and politician.
• 1963 - In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organisation of African Unity is established. Haile Selassie assumes the Presidency.
• 1963 – Eha Rünne was born. Estonian shot putter and discus thrower.
• 1963 - Mike Myers was born. Canadian actor, comedian.
• 1964 – David Shaw was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1964 - Ivan Bella was born. Slovak cosmonaut.
• 1965 – George Hickenlooper was born. American documentary film-maker.
• 1965 - Sonny Boy Williamson dies (b. 1899). American singer, songwriter, and musician.
• 1966 - Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.
• 1966 - The first prominent DaZiBao during the Cultural Revolution in China was posted at Peking University.
• 1966 - Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands was born.
• 1966 - Sugar Minott was born. Singer.
• 1966 - McLoud was born. Swiss composer and artist.
• 1967 - Celtic F.C. become the first British and Non-Latin to win the European Champions' Cup in the Lisbon Lions 2-1 victory over Inter Milan in Lisbon, Portugal.
• 1967 - Poppy Z. Brite was born. American 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.
• 1968 - Kendall Gill was born. American basketball player.
• 1968 - Georg von Küchler dies (b. 1881). German field marshal.
• 1969 – Anne Heche was born. American actress.
• 1969 - Glen Drover was born. Guitar player (Megadeth).
• 1969 – Stacy London was born. American fashion consultant.
• 1970 - Jamie Kennedy was born. American actor.
• 1970 - Joey Eischen was born. Baseball player.
• 1970 - Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush was born. American actresses.
• 1970 - Satsuki Yukino was born. Seiyuu.
• 1971 - Justin Henry was born. American actor.
• 1971 - Marco Cappato was born. Italian politician.
• 1971 - Sonya Smith was born. American actress.
• 1972 - Octavia Spencer was born. American actress.
• 1973 - Mike Oldfield releases Tubular Bells.
• 1973 - Daz Dillinger was born. American hip-hop performer.
• 1973 – Demetri Martin was born. American comedian.
• 1973 – Molly Sims was born. American model and actress.
• 1974 - Frank Klepacki was born. American musician.
• 1974 - Maria Fernanda Cândido was born. Brazilian model and actress.
• 1974 – Miguel Tejada was born. Dominican baseball player.
• 1975 - Lauryn Hill was born. American singer.
• 1975 - Luiza Ambiel was born. Brazilian model and actress.
• 1976 - Chris Duran was born. French model and singer.
• 1976 - Cillian Murphy was born. Irish actor.
• 1976 – Ethan Suplee was born. American actor.
• 1976 – Sandra Nasic was born. German singer (Guano Apes).
• 1976 - Tarik Glenn was born. National Football League offensive lineman.
• 1977 - George Lucas' film Star Wars, is released, and becomes an instant hit.
• 1977 - Liverpool F.C. win their first European Champions' Cup, defeating Borussia Moenchengladbach 3-1 in the Stadio Olimpico, Rome.
• 1977 – Giel Beelen was born. Dutch radio DJ.
• 1977 - Yevgenia Ginzburg dies (b. 1904). Russian writer.
• 1978 - Brian Urlacher was born. American football player.
• 1979 - Florida executes John Spenkelink, the first non-voluntary execution in the United States in more than 10 years.
• 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 – Six-year-old Etan Patz disappears from the street just two blocks away from his New York home, prompting an International search for the child, and causing President Ronald Reagan to designate May 25th as National Missing Children's Day (in 1983).
• 1979 - The movie Alien opens in theaters, starring Tom Skerritt and Sigourney Weaver.
• 1979 - Carlos Bocanegra was born. American soccer player.
• 1979 - Caroline Ouellette was born. French Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1979 - Jonny Wilkinson was born. English international and Newcastle Falcons rugby player.
• 1979 - Monica Keena was born. American actress.
• 1979 - Sam Sodje was born. Nigerian footballer.
• 1979 - John Arthur Spenkelink dies (b. 1949). American murderer.
• 1980 - Jae Hee was born. South Korean actor.
• 1980 - David Navarro was born. Spanish footballer.
• 1980 – Jae Hee was born. South Korean actor.
• 1980 – Joe King was born. Co-founder and guitarist for The Fray.
• 1981 - In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
• 1981 - Fredric Warburg dies (b. 1898). British publisher and author.
• 1982 - HMS Coventry is sunk during the Falklands War.
• 1982 - Adam Boyd was born. English footballer.
• 1982 - Daniel Braaten was born. Norwegian footballer.
• 1982 – Jason Kubel was born. American baseball player.
• 1982 – Luke Webster was born. Australian rules footballer.
• 1982 – Ryan Gallant was born. American skateboarder.
• 1983 - Return of the Jedi (later retitled Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi) opens in theaters.
• 1983 - Kunal Khemu was born. Indian actor.
• 1983 - Black Jack Stewart dies (b. 1917). Canadian NHL hockey player.
• 1983 - Jean Rougeau dies (b. 1925). French Canadian professional wrestler.
• 1984 - Kostas Martakis was born. Greek singer.
• 1984 - Kyle Brodziak was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1984 – Luke Ball was born. Australian rules footballer.
• 1984 - Marion Raven was born. Norwegian Singer-Songwritter (M2M).
• 1984 - Shawne Merriman was born. American football Player for the San Diego Chargers.
• 1984 - Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir was born. Iceland 2005 Miss World.
• 1985 - Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
• 1985 – Luciana Abreu was born. Portuguese singer and actress.
• 1986 - Aidan Coughlan was born. Irish newspaper columnist.
• 1986 – Geraint Thomas was born. Welsh cyclist.
• 1986 – Juri Ueno was born. Japanese actress.
• 1986 – Lauren Crace was born. English actress.
• 1986 - Yoan Gouffran was born. French football player.
• 1986 - Chester Bowles dies (b. 1901). American politician.
• 1987 - Timothy Derijck was born. Belgian football player.
• 1987 – Yves De Winter was born. Belgian goalkeeper.
• 1988 - Ernst Ruska dies (b. 1906). German physicist, Nobel Prize - 1986 laureate.
• 1989 - Calgary Flames won the Stanley Cup for the first time.
• 1990 - Back to the Future Part III opens in theaters.
• 1990 – Nikita Filatov was born. Russian ice hockey player.
• 1992 - The first episode of Shortland Street screens.
• 1993 - Dilley sextuplets were born. American sextuplets.
• 1993 - David Peterson dies (b. 1959). American professional wrestler.
• 1994 - Beverly Hills Cop III opens in theaters, starring Eddie Murphy.
• 1994 - Sonny Sharrock dies (b. 1940). American jazz guitarist.
• 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.
• 1995 - Dany Robin dies (b. 1927). French actress.
• 1996 - Brad Nowell dies (d. 1968). American singer and guitarist (Sublime).
• 1996 - Renzo De Felice dies (b. 1929). Italian historian.
• 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.
• 1997 - A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.
• 1999 - The United States House of Representatives released the Cox Report which detailed the People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.
• 1999 - Maisy McLeod-Riera was born. New Zealand actress.
• 2000 - Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first invasion in 1978.
• 2000 - Nicholas Clay dies (b. 1946). British actor.
• 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 - In Tallinn, Estonia, Marie N wins the forty-seventh Eurovision Song Contest for Latvia singing "I Wanna".
• 2002 - Claudia Schiffer weds Matthew Vaughn.
• 2002 - China Airlines Flight 611: A Boeing 747-200 breaks apart in mid-air and plunges into the Taiwan Strait killing 225 people.
• 2002 - A train crash in Tenga, Mozambique kills 197 people.
• 2002 - Pat Coombs dies (b. 1926). English actress.
• 2003 - Néstor Kirchner becomes President of Argentina after defeating Carlos Menem. He is the first elected President since the December 2001 economic crisis.
• 2003 - 'Elephant' wins La Palm D'ór in Cannes Festival.
• 2003 - Jeremy Michael Ward dies (b. 1976). American musician (The Mars Volta).
• 2004 - Roger W. Straus, Jr. dies (b. 1917). American publisher.
• 2005 - Graham Kennedy dies (b. 1934), Australian television personality.
• 2005 – Gregory Scott Johnson dies (b. 1965). American murderer.
• 2005 - Robert Jankel dies (b. 1938). British coachbuilder.
• 2005 - Ruth Laredo dies (b. 1937). American pianist.
• 2005 – Sunil Dutt dies (b. 1929). Indian actor and politician.
• 2006 - Desmond Dekker dies (b. 1941). Jamaican ska musician.
• 2007 - Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire for a second time.
• 2007 - Charles Nelson Reilly dies (b. 1931). American actor and host.
• 2008 - J. R. Simplot dies (b. 1909). American potato farmer.
• 2008 – Tero "Camu Tao" Smith dies (b. 1977). American rapper and producer.
• 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.
• 2009 – Haakon Lie dies (b. 1905). Norwegian politician.
• Commemoration of the Venerable Bede (Anglican).
• Argentina - Day of May Revolution/National Day (1810).
• Africa Day commemorating the 1963 fouding of he AU's precursor, OAU.
• African Liberation Day (African Union)
• Jordan - Independence Day (from the United Kingdom in 1946).
• Liberation Day - Lebanon (2000).
• The former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - Day of Youth, was celebrated on Josip Broz Tito's birthday.
• Ancient Latvia - Urbanas Diena observed.
• Towel Day - a tribute day by fans of the late author Douglas Adams writer of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books.
• Geek Pride Day, celebrating the premiere of the first Star Wars movie. Star Wars Day (Los Angeles City Council).
• Integrity Day (Church of Scientology).
• National Tap Dance Day (A celebration of tap dancing as an American art-form).
• Palmerston Gospel Day (Palmerston Island).