May 25 in History – What happened on 25 May in Past

✅ Published on May 25th, 2021 in May in History

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
1848	Johann Baptist Singenberger / Educator / Switzerland
1889	Günther Lütjens / Army Officer / Germany
1986	Yoan Gouffran / Footballer / France
1946	Bill Adam / Racing Car Driver / Scotland
1830	Trebor Mai (né Robert Williams) / Poet / United Kingdom
1986	Neon Hitch / Writer / United Kingdom
1976	Miguel Zepeda / Footballer / Mexico
1905	Kirthiga Reddy / Businesswoman / India
1935	W. P. Kinsella / Writer / Canada
1949	Jamaica Kincaid / Writer / United States of America
1913	Richard Dimbleby / Journalist / United Kingdom
1980	David Navarro / Footballer / Spain
1987	Yves De Winter / Footballer / Belgium
1968	Kendall Gill / Boxer / United States of America
1920	Arthur Wint / Runner / Jamaica
1878	Bill Robinson / Actor / United States of America
1921	Hal David / Writer / United States of America
1846	Naim Frashëri / Poet / Turkey
1947	Karen Valentine / Actress / United States of America
1818	Louise de Broglie / Countess / France
1986	Takahiro Hōjō / Actor / Japan
1912	Dean Rockwell / Wrestler / United States of America
1948	Klaus Meine / Singer / Germany
1935	John Ffowcs Williams / Academic / United Kingdom
1971	Marco Cappato / Politician / Italy
1953	Stan Sakai / Author / United States of America
1907	U Nu / Politician / Myanmar (Burma)
1941	Vladimir Voronin / Politician / Moldova
1879	Max Aitken / Politician / United Kingdom
1985	Demba Ba / Footballer / France

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