May 25 Historical Events

The following events took place on May 25. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 59 events. Showing 31 - 59.

• 1955
  First ascent of Kangchenjunga (8,586 m.), the third-highest mountain in the world, by a British expedition led by Charles Evans. Joe Brown and George Band reached the summit on May 25, followed by Norman Hardie and Tony Streather the next day.
• 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.
• 1961
  The Bukit Ho Swee Fire, the biggest fire in Singapore history.
• 1962
  The Old Bay Line, the last overnight steamboat service in the United States, goes out of business.
• 1963
  In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organisation of African Unity is established.
• 1966
  Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.
• 1966
  The first prominent dàzìbào during the Cultural Revolution in China is posted at Peking University.
• 1967
  Celtic F.C. from Glasgow, Scotland, becomes the first ever Northern European team to win the European Cup; with previous winners being from Spain, Italy and Portugal.
• 1968
  Gateway Arch Saint Louis Gateway Arch is dedicated.
• 1973
  HNS Velos, while participating in a NATO exercise and in order to protest against the dictatorship in Greece, anchored at Fiumicino, Italy, refusing to return to Greece.
• 1977
  Star Wars is released in theaters, inspiring the Jediism religion and Geek Pride Day holiday.
• 1977
  Chinese government removes a decade old ban on William Shakespeare’s work, effectively ending the Cultural Revolution started in 1966.
• 1979
  American Airlines Flight 191: In Chicago, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O'Hare International Airport killing all 271 on board and two people on the ground.
• 1979
  Etan Patz, who is six years old, disappears from the street just two blocks away from his home in New York City, prompting an international search for the child, and causing the U.S. President Ronald Reagan to designate May 25 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.
• 1982
  HMS Coventry is sunk during the Falklands War.
• 1985
  Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
• 1986
  Hands Across America takes place.
• 1997
  A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.
• 1999
  The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details the People’s Republic of China’s nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.
• 2000
  Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first invasion in 1978.
• 2001
  Erik Weihenmayer, 32 years old, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
• 2002
  China Airlines Flight 611 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes into the Taiwan Strait. All 225 people on board are killed.
• 2008
  NASA’s Phoenix lander lands in Green Valley region of Mars to search for environments suitable for water and microbial life.
• 2009
  North Korea allegedly tests its second nuclear device. Following the nuclear test, Pyongyang also conducted several missile tests building tensions in the international community.
• 2011
  Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty-five-year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
• 2012
  The Dragon became the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous with the International Space Station.
• 2013
  Suspected Maoist rebels kill at least 28 people and injure 32 others in an attack on a convoy of Indian National Congress politicians in Chhattisgarh, India.
• 2013
  A gas cylinder explodes on a school bus in the Pakistani city of Gujrat, killing at least 18 people.