Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 25
May 25: Independence Day in Jordan (1946); Liberation Day in Lebanon (2000); African Liberation Day in various African countries.
- 1521 - Martin Luther was declared an outlaw and a heretic by the Diet of Worms.
- 1810 - May Revolution: The Primera Junta, the first independent government in Argentina, was established in Buenos Aires.
- 1946 - Abdullah bin Husayn (pictured), Emir of the Emirate of Transjordan, was proclaimed King of the renamed "Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan".
- 1961 - Project Apollo, with "the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" was announced.
- 1966 - The first prominent DaZiBao during the Cultural Revolution in China was posted at Peking University.