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 146th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 220 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 12, 2024 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,609,920 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 ‘hectatetracontahexagon’ day.
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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 249 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 4,173 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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May 25 Historical Events
- 567 BC –Servius Tullius, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
- 1085 –Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo, Spain back from the Moors.
- 1420 –Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of Christ.
- 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.
- 1914 –The United Kingdom’s House of Commons passes the Home Rule Act for devolution in Ireland.
- 1955 –In the United States, a night time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S.
- 1962 –The Old Bay Line, the last overnight steamboat service in the United States, goes out of business.
- 1982 –HMS Coventry is sunk during the Falklands War.
- 1997 –A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.
- 2002 –A train crash in Tenga, Mozambique kills 197 people.
Who were born on May 25?
- 1929 –Warren Frost, American actor
- 1956 –David P. Sartor, American composer
- 1958 –Aikaterini Batzeli, Greek politician
- 1970 –Satsuki Yukino, Japanese voice actress
- 1973 –Demetri Martin, American comedian
- 1976 –Marcelo Silva, Brazilian footballer
- 1982 –Jason Kubel, American baseball player
- 1983 –Kunal Khemu, Indian actor
- 1984 –Shawne Merriman, American football player
- 1987 –Yves De Winter, Belgian footballer
Who died on May 25?
- 992 –Mieszko I first lord and knight of Poland, duke of Poland (b. c. 935)
- 1632 –Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1572)
- 1805 –William Paley, English philosopher (b. 1743)
- 1848 –Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (b. 1797)
- 1912 –Austin Lane Crothers, American politician (b. 1860)
- 1940 –Joe De Grasse, American film director (b. 1873)
- 1983 –King Idris I, of Libya (b. 1889)
- 2007 –Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor and TV host (b. 1931)
- 2010 –Gabriel Vargas, Mexican cartoonist (b. 1915)
- 2011 –Terry Jenner, Australian cricketer (b. 1944)
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