Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 25
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.
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Halley's Comet in 1986 -
The Great Wall
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Liberation Day in Lebanon (2000) and in various African countries (1963) | Liberation Day (Lebanon): stub; African Liberation Day: stub, no footnotes |
| 1420 – Henry the Navigator became governor of the Order of Christ, the Portuguese successor to the Knights Templar. | needs more footnotes |
| 1521 – The Diet of Worms declared Protestant Reformer Martin Luther an outlaw and a heretic, banning his literature, and requiring his arrest. | refimprove |
| 1659 – Richard Cromwell resigned as Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland. | refimprove |
| 1895 – The Republic of Formosa was proclaimed in Taiwan, declaring independence from Qing China. | unreferenced 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 |
| 1953 – At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducted its only nuclear artillery test. | refimprove |
| 1963 – The Organisation of African Unity was established. | lead too short, refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1644 – Ming general Wu Sangui let the invading Manchus pass through the Great Wall of China, allowing them to capture Beijing, leading to the foundation of the Qing dynasty.
- 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.
- 1914 – The British parliament passed the Third Home Rule Act, establishing a devolved government in Ireland.
- 1940 – Second World War: A German Panzer division captured Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, forcing the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force through Dunkirk.
- 1955 – Englishmen Joe Brown and George Band became the first to climb Kangchenjunga, the third-highest mountain in the world, but stopped short of the summit as per a promise given to the Maharaja of Sikkim that the top would remain inviolate.
- 1961 – During a speech to a joint session of the United States Congress, US President John F. Kennedy announced his support for the Apollo space 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.
- 1977 – Star Wars, a science fantasy film written and directed by George Lucas, was released, eventually becoming one of the most successful films of all time.
- 1979 – Six-year-old Etan Patz disappeared on his way to school in New York City, and later became the first missing child to have his picture featured on milk cartons.
- 2000 – Israel withdrew its army from most of Lebanese territory, 22 years after its first invasion in 1978.
- 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.
- 2009 – North Korea conducted a nuclear test and several other missile tests that were widely condemned by the international community and led to sanctions from the United Nations Security Council.
- 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.
May 25: First Patriotic Government in Argentina (1810); Independence Day in Jordan (1946); Towel Day
- 240 BC – The Chinese chronicle Records of the Grand Historian recorded the first confirmed sighting of Halley's Comet, the first comet to be recognized as periodic.
- 1878 – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opened at the Opera Comique in London.
- 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.
- 1946 – Abdullah bin Husayn, Emir of the Emirate of Transjordan, was proclaimed King of the renamed "Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan".
- 2012 – SpaceX's Dragon (pictured) became the first commercial spacecraft to rendezvous with the International Space Station.