From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Purge
This is a list of selected
May 25 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the
Main Page . To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can
be bold and edit this page. Please read the
selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the
talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative
article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on
how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled
featured article or
picture of the day .
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see
Main Page errors . Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.
Staging area
Images
Use only ONE image at a time
Henry the Navigator
Nuclear artillery test
Martin Luther
Flag of the Republic of Formosa
Cabildo Abierto
Insignia of Project Apollo
Dragon spacecraft
Great Wall of China
Oscar Wilde
Bukit Ho Swee fire
1878 poster for H.M.S. Pinafore
Ineligible
Blurb
Reason
Liberation Day in Lebanon (
2000 )
stub
Towel Day /
Geek Pride Day
Towel: outdated; Geek: general quality
1420 –
Henry the Navigator became governor of the
Order of Christ , the Portuguese successor to the
Knights Templar .
refimprove section
1521 – The
Diet of Worms declared Protestant Reformer
Martin Luther an outlaw and a heretic, banning his literature, and requiring his arrest.
unreferenced section
1659 –
Richard Cromwell resigned as
Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland .
refimprove/unreferenced sections
1895 – The
Republic of Formosa was proclaimed in Taiwan, declaring independence from
Qing China .
refimprove
1914 – The
British parliament passed the
Third Home Rule Act , establishing a
devolved government in Ireland.
refimprove section
1926 – Anarchist
Sholom Schwartzbard assassinated
Symon Petliura , the head of the Paris-based
government-in-exile of the
Ukrainian People's Republic .
unreferenced sections
1946 –
Abdullah bin Husayn , the
Emir of Transjordan , was proclaimed
King of the renamed "
Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan".
refimprove section
1953 – At the
Nevada Test Site , the United States conducted
Upshot-Knothole Grable , its only
nuclear artillery test .
refimprove
1963 – The
Organisation of African Unity was established.
multiple issues
2000 – Israel
withdrew its army from most of Lebanese territory, 22 years after
its first invasion in 1978.
unreferenced section
2002 –
China Airlines Flight 611 crashed in the
Taiwan Strait after breaking up in mid-air as a result of improper repairs made 22 years earlier, killing all 225 people on board.
unreferenced section, external links
Anniversary of the First National Government in Argentina (
1810 );
Bit stubby, some uncited
1738 – King
George II of Great Britain negotiated a cease-fire between the British colonies of
Maryland and
Pennsylvania , ending
Cresap's War .
Too much uncited
Louise de Broglie, Countess d'Haussonville |b|1818|
Yellow banner for no page references
Eligible
1644 –
Ming–Qing transition :
Ming general
Wu Sangui allowed the invading
Manchu to cross the
Great Wall of China (pictured) , enabling them to capture Beijing and establish the
Qing dynasty .
1782 –
American Revolutionary War : US Colonel
William Crawford began
a failed expedition to destroy British-allied
American Indian towns along the
Sandusky River in the
Ohio Country .
1787 – The
Constitutional Convention met in
Philadelphia with the intention of revising the
Articles of Confederation of the United States.
1810 – The
Primera Junta , the first independent government in Argentina, was established in an
open cabildo in
Buenos Aires , marking the end of the
May Revolution .
1878 –
Gilbert and Sullivan 's
comic opera
H.M.S. Pinafore (poster featured) premiered at the
Opera Comique in London.
1895 –
Oscar Wilde was sentenced by
Alfred Wills to two years of hard labor for
gross indecency .
1936 – Employees of the
Remington Rand company began an
11-month strike action , during which time the company executives developed the notorious "
Mohawk Valley formula " to intimidate the strikers.
1940 –
Second World War : German troops
captured
Boulogne-sur-Mer , France, forcing British forces
to evacuate via
Dunkirk .
1955 –
Joe Brown and
George Band , members of the
British Kangchenjunga expedition , made the first ascent of the world's
third-highest mountain but deliberately did not set foot on the summit.
1961 – In an address to
Congress , U.S. president
John F. Kennedy announced his support for the
Apollo program , with "the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth".
1962 – The
Baltimore Steam Packet Company , the last overnight
steamboat service in the United States, went out of business.
1967 – Having
purged a group of rivals ,
Supreme Leader of North Korea
Kim Il-sung delivered the "May 25 teaching", entrenching his son
Kim Jong-il as his designated successor.
1979 – Six-year-old
Etan Patz disappeared on his way to school in New York City, and later became one of the first missing children to have
his picture featured on milk cartons .
2011 – The final episode of
The Oprah Winfrey Show , the highest-rated daytime
talk show in
U.S. television history, was broadcast.
2012 – In
a test flight ,
SpaceX 's
Dragon became the first commercial spacecraft to rendezvous and berth with the
International Space Station .
2013 –
Naxalite insurgents of the
Communist Party of India (Maoist)
attacked a convoy of
Indian National Congress leaders in the state of
Chhattisgarh , causing at least 27 deaths.
2020 –
George Floyd , an African-American man,
was murdered during an arrest by
a white police officer in
Minneapolis , sparking
protests in the U.S. and other countries.
Born/died: |
Flann Sinna |d|916|
Princess Helena of the United Kingdom |b|1846|
Naim Frashëri |b|1846|
Günther Lütjens |b|1889|
Elizabeth Kane |d|1909|
Sonia Rykiel |b|1930|
Ian McKellen |b|1939|
Bülent Arınç |b|1948|
Elisabeth Geleerd |d|1969|
Ruby Payne-Scott |d|1981
Notes
May 25 :
Africa Day (
1963 );
Independence Day in
Jordan (
1946 )
Samuel Taylor Coleridge