About May 25
May 25, 2025 is the 145th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 220 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 268 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.
- 240 BC –First recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet.
- 1085 –Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo, Spain back from the Moors.
- 1521 –The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1914 –The United Kingdom’s House of Commons passes the Home Rule Act for devolution in Ireland.
- 1926 –Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the Paris-based government-in-exile of Ukrainian People’s Republic.
- 1938 –Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante takes place, with 313 deaths.
- 1953 –The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
- 1962 –The Old Bay Line, the last overnight steamboat service in the United States, goes out of business.
- 1963 –In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organisation of African Unity is established.
- 1966 –Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.
- 1979 –American Airlines Flight 191: In Chicago, a McDonnell Douglas 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 City home, prompting an international search for the child, and causing U.S. President Ronald Reagan to designate May 25th as National Missing Children’s Day (in 1983).
- 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 most of the Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first invasion in 1978.
- 2011 –Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty five year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
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