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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