SomeFacts | May 25

On this day - May 25

Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his ...

First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.

1085 — Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo, Spain, back from the Moors.

1420 — Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of ...

1521 — The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, ...

1644 — Ming general Wu Sangui forms an alliance with the invading ...

1659 — Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England ...

1660 — Charles II lands at Dover at the invitation of the Convention ...

1738 — A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the ...

1763 — First issue of Norske Intelligenz-Seddeler, the first regular ...

1787 — After a delay of 11 days, the United States Constitutional ...

1798 — United Irishmen Rebellion: Battle of Carlow begins; executions ...

1809 — Chuquisaca Revolution: Patriot revolt in Chuquisaca ...

1810 — May Revolution: Citizens of Buenos Aires expel Viceroy ...

1819 — The Argentine Constitution of 1819 is promulgated.

1833 — The Chilean Constitution of 1833 is promulgated.

1865 — In Mobile, Alabama, around 300 people are killed when an ...

1878 — Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens ...

1895 — The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Jingsong as its ...

1895 — Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of ...

1914 — The House of Commons of the United Kingdom passes the Home ...

1925 — Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching human ...

1926 — Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of ...

1933 — The Walt Disney Company cartoon Three Little Pigs premieres at ...

1935 — Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world ...

1938 — Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante kills 313 people.

1940 — World War II: The German 2nd Panzer Division captures the port ...

1946 — The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their ...

1953 — The first public television station in the United States ...

1953 — Nuclear weapons testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United ...

1955 — First ascent of Mount Kangchenjunga: On the British ...

1955 — In the United States, a night-time F5 tornado strikes the ...

1961 — Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces, ...

1963 — The Organisation of African Unity is established in Addis ...

1966 — Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.

1968 — The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, is dedicated.

1973 — In protest against the dictatorship in Greece, the captain and ...

1977 — The Chinese government removes a decade-old ban on William ...

1977 — Star Wars (retroactively titled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New ...

1978 — The first of a series of bombings orchestrated by the ...

1979 — American Airlines Flight 191: A McDonnell Douglas DC-10 ...

1979 — John Spenkelink, a convicted murderer, is executed in Florida; ...

1981 — In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between ...

1982 — Falklands War: HMS Coventry is sunk by Argentine Air Force A-4 ...

1985 — Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which ...

1986 — The Hands Across America event takes place.

1997 — A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan ...

1999 — The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox ...

2000 — Liberation Day of Lebanon: Israel withdraws its army from ...

2001 — Erik Weihenmayer becomes the first blind person to reach the ...

2002 — China Airlines Flight 611 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes ...

2008 — NASA's Phoenix lander touches down in the Green Valley ...

2009 — North Korea allegedly tests its second nuclear device, after ...

2011 — Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her 25-year run of ...

2012 — The SpaceX Dragon 1 becomes the first commercial spacecraft to ...

2013 — Suspected Maoist rebels kill at least 28 people and injure 32 ...

2018 — Ireland votes to repeal the Eighth Amendment of their ...

2018 — The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes ...