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
- 240 BC –First recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet.
- 1798 –United Irishmen Rebellion: The Carnew massacre, Dunlavin massacre and Carlow massacre takes place.
- 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, starting the Argentine War of Independence.
- 1865 –In Mobile, Alabama, 300 are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
- 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.
- 1926 –Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the Paris-based government-in-exile of Ukrainian People’s Republic.
- 1953 –Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conduct their first and only nuclear artillery test.
- 1955 –First ascent of Kangchenjunga (8,586 m.), the third highest mountain in the world, by a British expedition led by Joe Brown and George Band.
- 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.
- 1962 –The Old Bay Line, the last overnight steamboat service in the United States, goes out of business.
- 1966 –Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.
- 1973 –HNS Velos (D-16), 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 (retitled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope in 1981) is released in theaters, inspiring the Jediism religion and Geek Pride Day holiday.
- 1982 –HMS Coventry is sunk during the Falklands War.
- 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.
- 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.
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