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- 1085 Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo back from the Moors.
- 1085 Castile's Alfonso VI takes Toledo, the Arab center of science falls into Christian hands
- 1085 King Alfonso VI of Castily/León occupy Toledo on Moren
- 1085 Pope Gregory VII dies at Salerno; Henry IV extends the "Peace of God" over the entire Holy Roman Empire
- 1241 First attack on Jewish community of Frankfort-on-the-Main Germany
- 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.
- 1522 Emperor Karel I returns to Spain
- 1632 Albrecht von Wallenstein recaptures Prague on Saksen
- 1659 Richard Cromwell resigns as English Lord Protector
- 1661 King Charles II marries Portuguese princess Catherina the Bragança
- 1720 "Le Grand St Antoine" reaches Marseille, plague kills 80,000
- 1721 John Copson becomes America's first insurance agent
- 1738 A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
- 1787 Constitutional convention opens at Philadelphia, George Washington presiding
- 1793 Father Stephen Theodore Badin is first US Roman Catholic priest ordained
- 1810 In the May Revolution, citizens of Buenos Aires expel the Viceroy during the Semana de Mayo.
- 1812 Earthquake destroys Caracas Venezuela
- 1825 American Unitarian Association founded
- 1861 John Merryman is arrested under suspension of writ of habeas corpus it later sparks a supreme court decision protecting the writ
- 1862 Battle of Winchester VA
- 1864 Battle of New Hope Church GA
- 1865 In Mobile, Alabama, 300 are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
- 1868 Australian Aboriginal Cricket tour of England begins vs Surrey Gentlemen
- 1870 Irish Fenians raid Eccles Hill, Québec
- 1878 Gilbert & Sullivans opera "HMS Pinafore" premieres in London
- 1887 Gas lamp at Paris Opera catches fire; 200 die
- 1895 Oscar Wilde sentenced to 2 years hard labor for being a sodomite
- 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 the president.
- 1898 First US troop transport to Manila leaves San Fransisco
- 1900 Eyre M Shaw, 78, becomes oldest gold medalist in the Olympics
- 1901 River Plate was founded to become one of the most successful teams in Argentina.
- 1911 Revolution in México overthrows President José Porfirio Diaz
- 1914 The United Kingdom's House of Commons passes Home Rule Act for devolution in Ireland.
- 1915 Second Battle of Ypres ends with 105,000 casualties
- 1922 Babe Ruth suspended 1 day & fined $200 for throwing dirt on an ump
- 1923 Britain recognizes Transjordan with Abdullah as its leader
- 1926 Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the Paris-based government-in-exile of Ukrainian People's Republic.
- 1926 Sholom Schwarzband kills exiled Ukrainian Nationalist leader Simon Petlura.
- 1927 Henry Ford stops producing Model T car (begins Model A)
- 1928 Amelia Earhart (as a passenger) is first woman to fly Atlantic Ocean
- 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 Babe Ruth hits his last 3 home runs, Boston Braves vs Pirates
- 1935 Jesse Owens equals or breaks 6 world records in one hour
- 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.
- 1936 The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins.
- 1937 First airmail letter to circle the globe returns to New York
- 1938 Spanish Civil War: Bombing of Alicante, 313 deaths.
- 1940 Golden Gate International Expo reopens
- 1941 5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India
- 1941 Ted Williams raises his batting average over .400 for first time in 1941
- 1943 Riot at Mobile AL shipyard over upgrading 12 black workers
- 1943 Trident conference in Washington DC (operation plan '43 against Japan)
- 1944 Partisan leader Tito escapes Germans surrounding Bosnia
- 1945 Arther C Clark proposes relay satellites in geosynchronous orbit
- 1946 Abdullah ibn Hussein becomes king of Jordan
- 1946 Jordan gains independence from Britain (National Day)
- 1946 The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their king.
- 1947 Coal dust explosion rocks Centralia Coal Company's Mine #5 killing 111
- 1949 Chinese Red army occupies Shanghai
- 1949 Visitor posting - May 25, 1949 Hyacinth Veronica Grant was born to Herbert and ruby grant. She was born in the district of Wilmington, parish of St. Thomas, Jamaica. She gave birth to two children Lori Lee Johnson born May 3, 1969 and Neil Andrew Johnson born April 2, 1974.
- 1950 Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel opens in NYC
- 1951 New York Giant Willie Mays first major league game (goes 0 for 5)
- 1952 USS Iowa bombards Chongjin, Korea.
- 1953 Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.
- 1953 The first atomic cannon electronically fired, Frenchman Flat NV
- 1955 Visitor posting - Stephen's birthday - USA
- 1955 Series of 19 twisters destroy Udall KS & most of Blackwell OK
- 1959 Khrushchev visits Angola
- 1959 Supreme Court rules that Louisiana prohibiting black-white boxing is unconstitutional
- 1961 Apollo program: U.S. 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 JFK sets goal of putting a man on Moon before the end of decade
- 1961 Number one hit on UK music charts - The Temperance Seven - You're Driving Me Crazy
- 1962 Isley Brothers release "Twist & Shout"
- 1962 US unions AFL-CIO starts campaign for 35-hour work week
- 1963 Great Britain ends its amateur-professional classes in cricket
- 1963 In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organisation of African Unity is established.
- 1963 Organization for African Unity formed by Chad, Mauritania & Zambia
- 1964 16th Emmy Awards: Dick Van Dyke Show, Dick Van Dyke & Mary Tyler Moore
- 1964 Ground is broken for a new stadium in St Louis
- 1964 Supreme Court rules closing schools to avoid desegregation unconstitut
- 1965 Dave Davies of the Kinks stumbles & is knocked unconscious on stage
- 1965 India & Pakistan border fights
- 1965 Muhammad Ali KOs Sonny Liston in first round for heavyweight boxing title
- 1966 Peru & Argentina soccer fans fight in Lima; 248 die
- 1966 The first prominent DaZiBao during the Cultural Revolution in China was posted at Peking University.
- 1967 Celtic F.C. become the first British and non-Latin side to win the European Champions' Cup in the Lisbon Lions 2-1 victory over Inter Milan in Lisbon, Portugal.
- 1967 Celtic wins 12th Europe Cup 1 in Lisbon
- 1967 John Lennon takes delivery of his psychedelic painted Rolls Royce
- 1968 "Unicorn" by The Irish Rovers hits #7
- 1968 Fire Support Base Balmoral in Vietnam reinforced with Centurion tanks
- 1968 Gateway Arch in St Louis dedicated
- 1969 "Midnight Cowboy" released with an X rating
- 1969 Sudanese government is overthrown in a military coup
- 1969 Visitor posting - May 25, 1969 Marsha & Steve get married.
- 1970 Visitor posting - Personal info- The Day Joanna was born - Greece
- 1973 Argentine Peronist Hector Cámpora installed as president
- 1973 Launch of Skylab 2 mission, which was first U.S. manned orbiting space station. It had an all Navy crew of CAPT Charles Conrad, Jr., USN. (commanding), CDR Joseph P. Kerwin, USN and CDR Paul J. Weitz, USN. During the 28 day mission of 404 orbits, the craft rendezvoused with Skylab to make repairs and conduct science experiments. Recovery by USS Ticonderoga (CVS-14)
- 1976 Heavyweight Muhammad Ali KOs Richard Dunn in Munich
- 1977 "Beatles Live! At the Star-Club in Hamburg Germany" released
- 1977 Dutch social democratic party wins parliamentary election
- 1977 Liverpool wins 22nd Europe Cup 1 in Rome
- 1977 Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is released
- 1977 Visitor posting - I was born this year, only to face this wild world. today in 2010 i can say i lost.Time to Bid adieu the world. - India
- 1978 "Star Wars" released
- 1978 Visitor posting - The one and only Zuks Ndwandwa was born at 11:50. - South Africa
- 1979 American Airlines DC-10 crashes in Chicago killing 275
- 1979 Israel begins to return Sinai to Egypt
- 1980 "Musical Chairs" closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 15 performances
- 1981 Al Unser becomes first Indianapolis 500 winner to be disqualified
- 1981 Daniel Goodwin, scales outside of Chicago's Sears Tower in 7 hours
- 1981 In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
- 1982 Ferguson Jenkins becomes the 7th pitcher to strike out 3,000 batters
- 1982 HMS Coventry is sunk during the Falklands War.
- 1982 Iranian troops reconquer Khorramshar
- 1982 STS-4 vehicle moves to launch pad
- 1983 "Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars 3) released
- 1983 Fire in Nassermeer Egypt kills 357
- 1983 First National Missing Children's Day is proclaimed
- 1985 Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
- 1985 Cyclone ravages Bangladesh; 11,000 killed
- 1986 95-year-old woman scores a hole-in-one in Florida
- 1986 Ferry boat Shamia sinks on Maghna River Bangladesh, 600 killed
- 1986 Hands Across America - 7 million people hold hands from California to New York
- 1986 Hands Across America, a benefit event, takes place.
- 1986 Kansas City Royal George Brett gets his 2,000th hit
- 1986 Virgilio Barco elected President of Colombia
- 1987 Visitor posting - Eranga Sampath Vithanage was born - Sri Lanka [email protected]
- 1988 PSV wins Europe Cup
- 1989 Eastern Airlines graduates its first class of non-union pilots
- 1989 Mikhail Gorbachev elected Executive President in the Soviet Union
- 1991 "People Are Still Having Sex" by LaTour hits #35
- 1991 Israel evacuates 14,000 Ethiopian Jews
- 1992 Jay Leno becomes permanent host of "The Tonight Show"
- 1992 Oscar Luigi Scalfaro elected President of Italy
- 1993 Visitor posting - Gabriel Ortiz was born - USA
- 1993 Visitor posting - Coren Majors Birthday! - USA
- 1994 Visitor posting - Joe Callahan is born! - USA
- 1995 The Bosnian Serb Army kills 72 youngsters in the Bosnian city of Tuzla.
- 1996 Jennifer Maria Holsten, 18, crowned Miss Filipino-American
- 1997 A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.
- 1998 Visitor posting - Steven Harwell is born ya baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - USA [email protected]
- 1999 Visitor posting - austin grotts is born. may 25 1999
- 1999 Visitor posting - rodnea was born may,25 she was born in indianna and raised in tennesse now im in chicago on the south side - USA
- 2000 Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first invasion in 1978.
- 2001 32-year-old Erik Weihenmayer, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
- 2002 A train crash in Tenga, Mozambique kills 197 people.
- 2002 China Airlines Flight 611: A Boeing 747-200 breaks apart in mid-air and plunges into the Taiwan Strait killing 225 people.
- 2003 Nstor Kirchner becomes President of Argentina after defeating Carlos Menem. He is the first elected President since the economic crisis.
- 2005 Liverpool football club win theUefa Champions League for the 5th time. The most times for a British club.
- 2007 The Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire for the second time.
- 2008 Visitor posting - May 25 2008 Allen was born
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