About May 25
May 25, 2024 is the 146th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 220 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 249 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 25
- 1085 –Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo, Spain back from the Moors.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1809 –Chuquisaca Revolution: a group of patriots in Chuquisaca (modern day Sucre) revolt against the Spanish Empire, starting the South American Wars of Independence.
- 1819 –The Argentine Constitution of 1819 is promulgated.
- 1878 –Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
- 1895 –The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as its president.
- 1914 –The United Kingdom’s House of Commons passes the Home Rule Act for devolution in Ireland.
- 1925 –Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.
- 1936 –The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins.
- 1946 –The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their Emir.
- 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.
- 1955 –In the United States, a night time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S.
- 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.
- 1982 –HMS Coventry is sunk during the Falklands War.
- 1997 –A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.
- 2000 –Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first invasion in 1978.
- 2002 –China Airlines Flight 611: A Boeing 747-200 breaks apart in mid-air and plunges into the Taiwan Strait killing 225 people.
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