This Day in History for 25th May

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 188

1085 - King Alfonso VI of Castily/Leon occupy Toledo on Moren
1241 - 1st attack on Jewish community of Frankfort-on-the-Main Germany
1420 - Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of Christ.
1521 - Edict of Worms outlaws Martin Luther & his followers
1522 - Emperor Karel I returns to Spain
1632 - Albrecht von Wallenstein recaptures Prague on Saksen
1659 - Richard Cromwell resigns as English Lord Protector
1660 - English King Charles II lands in Dover
1720 - "Le Grand St Antoine" reaches Marseille, plague kills 80,000
1721 - John Copson becomes America's 1st insurance agent
1738 - A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
1784 - Jews are expelled from Warsaw by Marshall Mniszek
1787 - Constitutional convention opens at Phila, G Washington presiding
1793 - Father Stephen Theodore Badin is 1st US Roman Catholic priest ordained
1810 - The Primera Junta (local gouvernment) is established in Argentina
1810 - In the May Revolution, citizens of Buenos Aires expel the Spanish Viceroy Cisneros during Semana de Mayo.
1825 - American Unitarian Association founded
1837 - The Patriots of Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the British for freedom.
1844 - 1st telegraphed news dispatch is published in Baltimore Patriot
Founder of Protestanism Martin Luther 1861 - John Merryman is arrested under suspension of writ of habeas corpus it later sparks a supreme court decision protecting writ
1862 - Battle of Winchester VA
1864 - Battle of New Hope Church, GA
1868 - Aust Aboriginal Cricket tour of England begins v Surrey Gentlemen
1870 - Irish Fenians raid Eccles Hill, Quebec
1876 - 1st tie in NL history (Athletics & Louisville, 2-2 in 14)
1876 - 4th Preakness: G Barbee aboard Shirley wins in 2:44.75
1878 - Gilbert/Sullivans opera "HMS Pinafore," premieres in London
1887 - Gas lamp at Paris Opera catches fire; 200 die
1895 - 20th Preakness: Fred Taral aboard Belmar wins in 1:50.5
1895 - Oscar Wilde sentenced to 2 years hard labor for being a sodomite
1895 - The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as the president.
1898 - 1st US troop transport to Manila leaves SF
1899 - 33rd Belmont: R Clawson aboard Jean Beraud wins in 2:23
1900 - Eyre M Shaw, 78, becomes oldest gold medalist in Olympics
Writer/Poet Oscar Wilde 1904 - 38th Belmont: George Odom aboard Delhi wins in 2:06.6
1906 - After 20 straight wins, Boston Pilgrims lose to Chicago White Sox 3-0
1911 - Revolution in Mexico overthrows President Jose Porfirio Diaz
1914 - British House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule
1915 - 2nd Battle of Ypres ends with 105,000 casualties
1915 - Chicago Claude Hendrix no-hits Pitts (Federal League), 10-0
1919 - Casey Stengel releases a sparrow from under his baseball cap
1922 - Babe Ruth suspended 1 day & fined $200 for throwing dirt on an ump
1923 - Britain recognizes Transjordan with Abdullah as its leader
1926 - Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the Paris-based government-in-exile of Ukrainian People's Republic.
1927 - Henry Ford stops producing Model T car (begins Model A)
1932 - Goofy, aka Dippy Dawg, 1st appears in 'Mickey's Revue' by Walt Disney
1934 - Béla Bartòk's "Enchanted Deer," premieres
1935 - Babe Ruth hits his last 3 home runs, Boston Braves vs Pirates
1935 - Jesse Owens equals or breaks 6 world records in one hour
Ford Motor Company Founder Henry Ford 1936 - The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins.
1937 - 1st airmail letter to circle globe returns to NY
1938 - Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante takes place, with 313 deaths.
1939 - Carl Storck becomes 2nd NFL president
1940 - German troops conquer Boulogne
1940 - Golden Gate Intl Expo reopens
1941 - 5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India
1941 - Ted Williams raises his batting avg over .400 for 1st time in 1941
1943 - Riot at Mobile Ala shipyard over upgrading 12 black workers
1943 - Trident conference in Wash DC (operation plan '43 against Japan)
1944 - Partisan leader Tito escapes Germans surrounding Bosnia
1945 - Arthur C Clark proposes relay satellites in geosynchronous orbit
1946 - Abdullah ibn Hussein becomes king of Jordan
1946 - Jordan gains independence from Britain (Natl Day)
1947 - Coal dust explosion rocks Centralia Coal Co's Mine #5 killing 111
1948 - 30th PGA Championship: Ben Hogan at Norwood Hills CC St Louis
1948 - SF receives its 1st telecast
1949 - Chinese Red army occupies Shanghai
1950 - Bkln-Battery Tunnel opens in NYC
1951 - NY Giant Willie Mays 1st major league game (goes 0 for 5)
1953 - 1st atomic cannon electronically fired, Frenchman Flat, Nevada
1953 - 1st non-commercial educational television station-Houston, Texas
1953 - Braves Max Surkont strikes out record 8 Reds in a row
1955 - Series of 19 twisters destroy Udall Kansas & most of Blackwell Okla
1956 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Haurietis aquas
1957 - "Shinbone Alley" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 49 performances
First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev 1959 - Khrushchev visits Angola
1959 - Supreme ct rules La prohibiting black-white boxing unconstitutional
1960 - George Crowe's record 11th pinch-hit HR
1961 - JFK sets goal of putting a man on Moon before the end of decade
1961 - NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,770 m
1962 - Isley Brothers release "Twist & Shout"
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric)
1962 - US unions AFL-CIO starts campaign for 35-hour work week
1963 - "Hot Spot" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 43 performances
1963 - Early Wynn wins his 300th baseball game
1963 - Great Britain ends its amateur-professional classes in cricket
1963 - Organization for African Unity formed by Chad, Mauritania & Zambia
1964 - 16th Emmy Awards: Dick Van Dyke Show, Dick Van Dyke & Mary Tyler Moore
1964 - Frank Gilroy's "Subject is Roses," premieres in NYC
1964 - Ground is broken for a new stadium in St Louis
Actress Mary Tyler Moore 1964 - Supreme Court rules closing schools to avoid desegregation unconstitut
1965 - Dave Davies of Kinks stumbles & is knocked unconscious on stage
1965 - India & Pakistan border fights
1965 - Muhammad Ali KOs Sonny Liston in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1965 - Roel van Duyn, Martijn Ananar & Rob Faado align in Provo
1966 - Peru & Argentina soccer fans fight in Lima; 248 die
1967 - Celtic wins 12th Europe Cup 1 in Lisbon
1967 - John Lennon takes delivery of his psychedelic painted Rolls Royce
1968 - BPAA All-Star Bowling Tournament won by Jim Stefanich
1968 - BPAA US Women's Bowling Open won by Dotty Fothergill

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 249

1048 - Emperor Shenzong of China (d. 1085)
1334 - Emperor Sukō (d. 1398)
1458 - Mahmud Begada, Sultan of Gujarat (d. 1511)
1494 - Jacopo Pontormo II, Italy, painter (Sepulture of Christ)
1550 - Camillus de Lellis, Italian soldier/monastery founder/saint
1606 - Charles Garnier, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
1661 - Claude Buffier, French philosopher and historian (d. 1737)
1688 - Christian August Jacobi, composer
1713 - John Stuart, 3rd earl of Bute, English premier (1760-63)
1725 - Samuel Ward, American politician (d. 1776)
1726 - Giuseppi Paolucci, composer
1729 - Jean de Neufville, Dutch/US merchant (started 4th English war)
1767 - Ferdinand Franzl, composer
1767 - Friedrich Johann Eck, composer
1779 - Henry M Baron de Kock, Dutch officer/politician
1781 - Ferdinand K J, archduke of Austria-Este/gov-gen (Sicily)
1783 - Philip Pendleton Barbour, Virginia politician and U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1841)
1803 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, US, essayist/philosopher (Concord Hymn)
1818 - Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss cultural historian
1821 - Diederich Krug, composer
1830 - Jules de Geyter, Belgian poet (International)
1839 - John Eliot, English meteorologist
1845 - Lip Pike, American baseball player (d. 1883)
1846 - Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (d. 1923)
1846 - Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet and writer(d. 1900)
1847 - Alphonse Goovaerts, composer
1847 - John Alexander Dowie, [Elijah the Restorer], US, evangelist
1852 - William Muldoon, US wrestler and owner of NY health institute "The Olympia," (d. 1933)
1856 - Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, French general (d. 1942)
1860 - James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (d. 1944)
1865 - Frederick Augustus III, King of Saxon (1904-18)
1865 - John Raleigh Mott, organizer (YMCA, Nobel 1946)
1865 - Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist (Zeeman effect, Nobel 1902)
1877 - Billy Murray, singer (Denver Nightengale)
1878 - Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, actor (Stormy Weather, Little Colonel)
1879 - W Maxwell Aitken lord Beaverbrook, Canada/English banker
1880 - Jean Alexandre Barré, French neurologist (d. 1967)
1882 - Harry Fox, entertainer
1882 - Marie Doro, American actress (d. 1956)
1886 - Philip Murray, founded Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
1886 - Rash Behari Bose, leader against the British Raj in India (d. 1945)
1887 - Pio of Pietrelcina, Catholic saint (d. 1968)
1888 - Miles Malleson, writer/actor (Phantom of Opera, Postman's Knock)
1889 - Gilardo Gilardi, composer
1889 - Igor Sikorsky, Russian-American pioneer of aviation in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft
1889 - Sverre Jordan, composer
1891 - Robert W P Peereboom, Dutch editor in chief (Haarlem Newspaper)
1894 - Dirk Vansina, Flemish playwright (Verschaeve Gives Evidence)
1896 - Jan N Bakhuizen van den Brink, theologist/church historian
1897 - Alan Kippax, cricketer (22 Tests for Australia 1924-34, brilliant bat)
1898 - Bennett Cerf, publisher (Random House) panelist (What's My Line)
1898 - Gene Tunney, world heavyweight boxing champion (1926-30)
1898 - Gustav Regler, writer
1898 - Mischa Levitzki, composer
1899 - Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher (d. 1976)
1900 - Alain Grandbois, French Canadian poet (d. 1975)
1901 - Milenko Zivkovic, composer
1902 - Helvi Lemmikke Leiviska, composer
1903 - Binnie Barnes, British actress (d. 1998)
1904 - Kurt George Hugo Thomas, composer
1905 - Binnie Barnes, London, actress (Adv of Marco Polo, Diamond Jim)
1905 - Joseph C Harsch, Toledo Ohio, newscaster (Background)
1907 - Rachel Carson, conservationist/writer (silent springs)
1907 - U Nu, premier Burma (1948-58, 1960-62)
1907 - U Nu, Burmese politician (d. 1995)
1908 - David Lean, British director (Lawrence of Arabia)
1908 - Theodore Roethke, US, poet (Words for the Wind)
1909 - Alfred Kubel, German politician (d. 1999)
1909 - Marie Menken, American experimental filmmaker and socialite (d. 1970)
1910 - Ernest Anderson, publicist
1912 - Eddie Maxwell, singer (Yes We Have No Bananas)
1912 - Princess Dukhye of Korea (d. 1989)
1913 - Joseph Peter Grace, businessman
1913 - Richard Dimbleby, British journalist and broadcaster (d. 1965)
1915 - Daniel Wolf, journalist
1916 - Lou van Rees, Dutch impresario [or May 29]
1916 - Virginia Ginny Simms, actress/singer (Kay Kyser Band)
1917 - Dorothy Sarnoff, US, actress(?)
1917 - Jimmy Hamilton, saxophonist
1917 - Steve Cochran, Eureka CA, actor (Mozambique, Gay Senotiys, Dallas)
1918 - Peder Lunde, Norway, yachtsman (Olympic-silver-1952)
1919 - Gino Negri, composer
1919 - Lindsey Nelson, Pulaski Tn, sportscaster (NY Mets)
1921 - Hal David, New York, lyricist (Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head), (d. 2012)
1923 - John Weitz, spy/author/fashion designer (Friends in High Places)
1924 - István Nyers, Hungarian footballer (d. 2005)
1925 - Aldo Clementi, composer
1925 - Jeanne Crain, Barstow California, actress (Man Without a Star)
1925 - Don Liddle, baseball player (d. 2000)
1926 - Claude Akins, Nelson GA, actor (BJ & Bear, Movin' On, Lobo)
1926 - Kitty Kallen, rocker
1927 - Robert Ludlum, NYC, spy novelist (Bourne Identity)
1928 - Frigyes Hidas, composer
1928 - Mary Tuck, social researcher/civil servant
1929 - Beverly Sills, [Belle "Bubbles" Miriam Silverman], Bkln NY, soprano
1929 - David S Ruder, 23rd chairman of Security & Exchange Commission
1929 - Warren Frost, American actor
1931 - John Gabriel, Niagara Falls NY, actor (Cat Gang, Fantasies)
1931 - Aili Jõgi, Estonian freedom fighter
1932 - Georgi Mikhailovich Grechko, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 17, 26, T-14)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 4 of 4

1661 - King Charles II marries Portuguese princess Catherina the Braganca
1901 - Russian physician, dramatist and author Anton Chekhov marries actress Olga Knipper
1961 - King Hussein of Jordan marries Princess Muna al-Hussein (Antoinette Gardiner).
1996 - Actress Kelley Menighan (29) weds actor-singer Jon Hensley (31) in Chicago, Illinois

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 2 of 2

2000 - Television producer and director Mark Tinker (49) divorces actress and painter Kristin Harmon (54) after 12 years of marriage
2012 - Actress Halina Mlynkova (35) divorces actor Lukasz Nowicki (39) after 9 years of marriage

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 116

615 - Boniface IV, Pope (608-15), dies
709 - Aldhelm, Abbot of Malmesbury, Bishop of Sherborne. English poet and scholar (b. cica 639)
946 - Edmund the Older, king of Wessex/England (939-46), dies
967 - Murakami, Emperor of Japan (b. 926)
992 - Mieszko I first lord and knight of Poland, duke of Polans (b. circa 935)
1085 - Gregory VII, [Ildebrando], Pope (1073-85), dies
1125 - Hendrik V, last Salische German king, dies
1261 - Alexander IV, [Rinaldo dei conti di Segni], Pope (1254-61), dies
1452 - John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury
1510 - Georges d'Amboise, French cardinal/viceroy in North Italy, dies at 49
1555 - Gemma Frisius, Frisian geographer/astronomer, dies at 46
1555 - Henry II of Navarre (b. 1503)
1595 - Valens Acidalius, German critic and poet (b. 1567)
1632 - Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1572)
1667 - Gustaf Bonde, Swedish statesman (b. 1620)
1681 - Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish playwright (b. 1600)
1693 - Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette, French writer (b. 1634)
1741 - Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (b. 1660)
1765 - Pierre-Joseph Le Blan, composer, dies at 53
1789 - Anders Dahl, Swedish botanist (b. 1751)
1797 - John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (b. 1719)
1805 - William Paley, English philosopher (b. 1743)
1826 - Christian Friedrich Ruppe, composer, dies at 72
1848 - Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (b. 1797)
1849 - Andreas Michiels, Dutch milt gov of West Sumatra, dies in battle at 52
1849 - Benjamin d'Urban, British general and colonial administrator (b. 1777)
1862 - Johann N Nestroy, Aust actor (Einmal Keine Sorgen Haben), dies at 60
1895 - Ahmed Djevdet Pasja, Turkish minister of Justice, dies at 73
1899 - Marie-Rosalie "Rosa" Bonheur, French painter, dies at 68
1912 - Austin Lane Crothers, American politician (b. 1860)
1914 - Paolo Giorza, composer, dies at 81
1916 - Jack Marsh, cricketer (Aboriginal bowler played for NSW 1900-03), dies
1917 - Leon Felix Augustin Joseph Vasseur, composer, dies at 72
1917 - Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet (b. 1891)
Cosmetics Mogul Madame C J Walker (1919) 1919 - Madame C J Walker, wealthy cosmetics manufacturer, dies at 51
1924 - Theodore Morse, composer, dies at 51
1924 - Lyubov Popova, Russian painter (b. 1889)
1926 - Symon Petlyura, leader of Ukraine (pogroms), assassinated at 47
1927 - Payne Whitney, American businessman (b. 1876)
1930 - Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1848)
1934 - Gustav Theodore Holst, English composer (Ode to Death), dies at 59
1935 - Sir Frank Watson Dyson, English astronomer (b. 1868)
1936 - Jan Levoslav Bella, composer, dies at 92
1937 - Henry O Tanner, artist, dies
1940 - Joe De Grasse, American film director (b. 1873)
1943 - Nils von Dardel, Swedish post-impressionist painter (b. 1888)
1949 - Simon H Spoor, intelligence officer/general (WW II), dies at 47
1951 - Paula von Preradović, Croatian-born writer (b. 1887)
1954 - Robert Capa, Hungarian-born photojournalist (b. 1913)
1958 - Rolland Beaumont, cricketer (5 Tests for South Africa), dies
1964 - Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov, composer, dies at 92
1965 - Sonny Boy Williamson, [Aleck Miller], blues player, dies at 65
1968 - Charles K Feldman, [Gould], producer (Casino Royale), dies at 63
1971 - Jo Etha Collier, young black woman killed by 3 whites in Drew Miss
1971 - Mark Brunswick, composer, dies at 69
1971 - Terence De Marney, actor (Case Thomas-Johnny Ringo), dies at 62
1974 - Donald Crisp, actor/director (Beloved Brat, Dawn Patrol), dies at 91
1974 - Frank Ward, cricketer (4 Tests for Australia 1936-38), dies
1974 - Pam Morrison, wife of Door's vocalist Jim, dies of drug overdose
1977 - Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian writer (b. 1904)
1979 - John Arthur Spenkelink, American murderer (b. 1949)
1981 - Rosa Ponselle, US singer (Metropolitan Opera), dies at 84
1981 - Roy Brown, American boxer/rocker, dies of a heart attack at 55
1981 - Fredric Warburg, British publisher and author (b. 1898)
1982 - Larry J Blake, actor (Earth vs the Flying Saucers), dies at 68
1983 - Sydney Box, academy award producer, dies at 76
1983 - Jean Rougeau, French Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1925)
1983 - Black Jack Stewart, Canadian NHL hockey player (b. 1917)
1984 - Piet Ketting, Dutch pianist/conductor/composer, dies at 79
1985 - Harold Hecht, choreographer, dies at 77 of cancer
1985 - Robert Nathan, US writer/poet (Portrait of Jennie), dies at 91
1986 - Chester Bowles, US senator/ambassador, dies at 85
1988 - Ernst Ruska, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
1990 - Vic Tayback, actor (Mel-Alice), dies of a heart attack at 60
1991 - Dorothy Davis Bostwick, entertainer, dies
1992 - Danny Biasone, persuaded NBA to use 24 second clock, dies at 83
1992 - Marshall Thompson, US actor (To Hell & Back), dies at 66
1992 - Nancy Walker, actress (Ida Morgenstein-Rhoda), dies of cancer at 71
1992 - Philip C Habib, US diplomat (Middle-East/Asia), dies at 72
1992 - Viktor Grishin, hardline soviet communist, dies at 78, dies
1993 - Dan Seymour, actor (Bombs over Burma, Intrigue, Watusi), dies at 78
1993 - Louise Tazewell, entertainer, dies at 93
1994 - Eric Gale, guitarist, dies at 55
1995 - Dany Robin, actress (Follow the Boys, Topaz, Julietta), dies at 68
1995 - Dick Curless, singer/songwriter, dies at 63
1995 - Krešimir Ćosić, Croatian basketball player (b. 1948)
1996 - Bernard Charles Sendall, deputy director general of ITA, dies at 83
1996 - Buck, dog (Married with Children), dies at 13
1996 - David W Howe, test pilot, dies at 77
1996 - Enid Kathleen Hutchinson, adult educationalist, dies at 86
1996 - John Morrison, politician/landowner, dies at 89
1996 - Laurence Marks, journalist, dies at 67
1996 - Renzo de Felice, historian, dies at 67
1997 - Muhammad Fadhel, PM of Iraq (1953-54), dies
2000 - Nicholas Clay, British actor (b. 1946)
2002 - Pat Coombs, English actress (b. 1926)
2003 - Jeremy Michael Ward, American musician (The Mars Volta) (b. 1976)
2004 - Roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher (b. 1917)
2005 - Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician (b. 1929)
2005 - Robert Jankel, British coachbuilder (b. 1938)