25 May - Today in History - Important historical events happened on this day in India and World History
According to Gregory calendar, on May 25, the day number in a year is 145 and if it is a leap year then the day number is 146. May 25 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.
May 25 in History - Top Historical Events
| Year | Event / Incidence / Incident |
| 240 | The Chinese chronicle Records of the Grand Historian recorded the first confirmed sighting of Halley's Comet, the firstcomet to be recognized as periodic. |
| 1644 | Ming general Wu Sangui let the invading Manchus pass throughthe Great Wall of China, allowing them to capture Beijing, leading tothe foundation of the Qing dynasty. |
| 1720 | The ship "Le Grand Saint Antoine" reached Marseille, and about 100,000 were killed by the plague in Europe. |
| 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. |
| 1827 | Romanian inventor Petrache Poenu has received a French patent for the invention of a Fortune pen with a replacement ink cartridge. |
| 1877 | The steamer carrying 732 passengers drowned near the coast of Orissa coast. |
| 1878 | Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opened at the Opera Comique in London. |
| 1886 | Rashbehari Bose was born. He Rashbehari Bose was a revolutionary leader against the British Raj in India and was one of the key organizers of the Ghadar Revolution and later, the Indian National Army. He earned degrees in the medical sciences as well as in Engineering from France and Germany. |
| 1895 | The Republic of Formosa was inaugurated in Taiwan, proclaimingindependence from Qing China. |
| 1899 | Nazrul Islam was born. Kazi Nazrul Islam was a Bangladeshi poet, writer, and musician, revolutionary and is the national poet of Bangladesh. Popularly known as Nazrul, his poetry and music espoused Indo-Islamic renaissance and intense spiritual rebellion against fascism and oppression. |
| 1914 | The British parliament passed the Third Home Rule Act,establishing a devolved government in Ireland. |
| 1915 | Sabarmati ashram was established by MK Gandhi. Sabarmati Ashram is located in the Sabarmati suburb of Ahmedabad Gujarat. This was one of the residences of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, generally called Mahatma Gandhi, who lived there for about twelve years along with his wife, Kasturba Gandhi. |
| 1936 | Employees of the Remington Rand company began an 11-monthstrike action, during which time the company executives developed thenotorious 'Mohawk Valley formula' to intimidate the strikers. |
| 1940 | Second World War-A German Panzer division captured Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, forcing the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force through Dunkirk. |
| 1941 | Sagarmal Gopa, a devoted freedom fighter of India was arrested in Jaisalmer. He opposed anti-people policies of then rulers of Jaisalmer. He was expelled from Jaisalmer and Hyderabad. Even in exile he continued to work for freedom movement. He was tortured in prison for years. He died in the prison on 4 April 1946. |
| 1946 | Abdullah bin Husayn, Emir of the Emirate of Transjordan, was proclaimed King of the renamed 'Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan'. |
| 1955 | First ascent of Kanchenjunga, the third-highest mountain in the world. It rises with an elevation of 8,586 m (28,169 ft) in a section of the Himalayas called Kangchenjunga Himal that is limited in the west by the Tamur River and in the east by the Teesta River. The Kangchenjunga Himal is located in eastern Nepal and Sikkim, India. British expedition team led by Charles Evans. Joe Brown and George Band reached the summit, followed by Norman Hardie and Tony Streather the next day. |
| 1955 | Englishmen Joe Brown and George Band became the first to climbKangchenjunga, the third-highest mountain in the world, but stoppedshort of the summit as per a promise given to the Maharaja of Sikkimthat the top would remain inviolate. |
| 1961 | During a speech to a joint session of the United States Congress, U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced his support for theApollo space program, with 'the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth'. |
| 1961 | US President John F. Kennedy announced financial support to launch the space mission. |
| 1962 | The Baltimore Steam Packet Company, the last overnightsteamboat service in the United States, went out of business. |
| 1963 | For the first time in African history, 32 African countries came together to form an organization called the African Union. |
| 1966 | Explorer 32 launched. Explorer 32, also known as Atmosphere Explorer-B (AE-B), was a satellite launched by the United States to study the Earth's upper atmosphere. It was launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta-C1 rocket. It was the second of five Atmosphere Explorers, the first being Explorer 17. |
| 1979 | Six-year-old Etan Patz disappeared on his way to school, andlater became the first missing child to have his picture featured onmilk cartons. |
| 1989 | Mikhail Gorbachev was elected acting president of the Soviet Union. |
| 1991 | Israel expelled about 14,000 Jews from Ethiopia. |
| 1995 | American scientists succeeded in decoding the DNA of a living organism for the first time. |
| 2000 | Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation. The Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon took place when Israel took control of portions of Lebanon during the 1982 Lebanon War. Israel left the Lebanon but remained in partial control of the border region known as the South Lebanon Security Belt, in coordination with the South Lebanon Army, until 2000. Israel's stated purpose for the Security Belt was to create a space separating its northern border towns from terrorists residing in Lebanon. |
| 2001 | Erik Weihenmayer, 32 years old, became the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Erik Weihenmayer is an American athlete, adventurer, author, activist and motivational speaker, and the only blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest. |
| 2002 | Russia and the United States signed the Moscow Treaty. The Treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Strategic Offensive Reductions (SORT), also known as the Treaty of Moscow, was a strategic arms reduction treaty between the United States and Russia that was in force from June 2003 until February 2011 when it was superseded by the New START treaty. |
| 2003 | Chile won the World Cup tennis title for the first time. |
| 2006 | NASA launched a weather satellite called GOESN into space. The United States successfully conducted a ship-based interceptor missile. |
| 2007 | The Government of Sri Lanka granted in-principle permission on the citizenship of Tamil refugees. |
| 2008 | NASA's Phoenix lander landed in Green Valley region of Mars to search for environments suitable for water and microbial life. Phoenix was a robotic spacecraft on a space exploration mission on Mars under the Mars Scout Program. The total mission cost was about US $386 million, which includes cost of the launch. |
| 2008 | The Finnish rover sent by the US Space Agency landed on the surface of Mars. |
| 2009 | North Korea conducted a nuclear test and several other missiletests that were widely condemned by the international community and ledto sanctions from the United Nations Security Council. |
| 2010 | 59-year-old Indian-born Kamala Prasad Bisesar was elected the first woman Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, defeating outgoing Prime Minister Patrick Manning. |
| 2011 | America's famous Oprah Vifrey show closed after 25 years. The anchor of this hit American show was Oprah Wifrey. |
| 2012 | SpaceX's Dragon became the first commercial spacecraft to rendezvous 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 ofChhattisgarh, causing at least 27 deaths. |
| 2013 | 80-year-old Yuishiro Miura from Japan became the world's oldest person to climb Mount Everest. |
Famous Birthdays of May 25:
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
| 1978 | Adam Gontier / Singer / Canada |
| 1972 | Karan Johar / Actor / India |
| 1969 | Stacy London / Author / United States of America |
| 1889 | Günther Lütjens / Army Officer / Germany |
| 1887 | Pio of Pietrelcina / Priest / Italy |
| 1986 | Edewin Fanini / Footballer / Brazil |
| 1893 | Ernest "Pop" Stoneman / Musician / United States of America |
| 1879 | Max Aitken / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 1935 | Victoria Shaw / Actress / United States of America |
| 1937 | Tom Phillips / Painter / United Kingdom |
| 1939 | Dixie Carter / Actress / United States of America |
| 1953 | Eve Ensler / Producer / United States of America |
| 1969 | Glen Drover / Writer / Canada |
| 1978 | Brian Urlacher / Footballer / United States of America |
| 1852 | William Muldoon / Wrestler / United States of America |
| 1977 | Andre Anis / Footballer / Estonia |
| 1988 | Dávid Škutka / Footballer / Slovakia |
| 1936 | Rusi Surti / Cricketer / India |
| 1950 | Robby Steinhardt / Singer / United States of America |
| 1959 | Manolis Kefalogiannis / Politician / Greece |
| 1938 | Raymond Carver / Poet / United States of America |
| 1982 | Daniel Braaten / Footballer / Norway |
| 1994 | Matt Murray / Ice Hockey Player / Canada |
| 1986 | Geraint Thomas / Cyclist / United Kingdom |
| 1959 | Rick Wamsley / Ice Hockey Player / Canada |
| 1916 | Brian Dickson / Lawyer / Canada |
| 1940 | Nobuyoshi Araki / Photographer / Japan |
| 1959 | Julian Clary / Actor / United Kingdom |
| 1956 | David P. Sartor / Composer / United States of America |
| 1921 | Hal David / Writer / United States of America |
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