What are the important events that happened on May 25? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

May 25: Facts & Myths About This Day

May 25 is the 145^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 220 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 12, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,135,520 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectatetracontapentagon’ day.

Gemini is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 268 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,538 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

May 25 Historical Events

• 240 BC –
  First recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet.
• 1659 –
  Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England following the restoration of the Long Parliament, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the Commonwealth of England.
• 1833 –
  The Chilean Constitution of 1833 is promulgated.
• 1837 –
  The Rebels of Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the British for freedom.
• 1938 –
  Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante takes place, with 313 deaths.
• 1961 –
  Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a “man on the Moon” before the end of the decade.
• 1962 –
  The Old Bay Line, the last overnight steamboat service in the United States, goes out of business.
• 1979 –
  Six-year-old Etan Patz disappears from the street just two blocks away from his New York City home, prompting an international search for the child, and causing U.S. President Ronald Reagan to designate May 25th as National Missing Children’s Day (in 1983).
• 1981 –
  In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
• 2011 –
  Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty five year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Who were born on May 25?

• 1908 –
  Theodore Roethke, American poet (d. 1963)
• 1939 –
  Ian McKellen, English actor
• 1943 –
  Jessi Colter, American country singer
• 1956 –
  David P. Sartor, American composer
• 1956 –
  Stavros Arnaoutakis, Greek politician
• 1959 –
  Julian Clary, British television personality
• 1968 –
  Kendall Gill, American basketball player
• 1970 –
  Joey Eischen, American baseball player
• 1983 –
  Tiaguinho Brazilian footballer
• 1984 –
  Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir, Icelandic beauty pageant constestant (Miss World 2005)

Who died on May 25?

• 1786 –
  Peter III of Portugal, consort of Queen Maria I of Portugal (b. 1717)
• 1805 –
  William Paley, English philosopher (b. 1743)
• 1924 –
  Lyubov Popova, Russian painter (b. 1889)
• 1930 –
  Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1848)
• 1954 –
  Robert Capa, Hungarian-born photojournalist (b. 1913)
• 2002 –
  Pat Coombs, English actress (b. 1926)
• 2006 –
  Desmond Dekker, Jamaican ska musician (b. 1941)
• 2009 –
  Haakon Lie, Norwegian Labour politician (b. 1905)
• 2010 –
  Gabriel Vargas, Mexican cartoonist (b. 1915)
• 2011 –
  Terry Jenner, Australian cricketer (b. 1944)