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 145th 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, 485,592 hours 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.
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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 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.
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May 25 Historical Events
240 BC –
First recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet.
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.
1798 –
United Irishmen Rebellion: The Carnew massacre, Dunlavin massacre and Carlow massacre takes place.
1878 –
Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
1951 –
Future Hall of Famer Willie Mays was called up by the New York Giants from their farm team Minneapolis Millers. We went 0-5 in his first major league game.
1953 –
Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conduct their first and only nuclear artillery test.
1966 –
Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.
1982 –
HMS Coventry is sunk during the Falklands War.
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.
Who were born on May 25?
1848 –
Johann Baptist Singenberger, Swiss composer, editor and publisher (d. 1924)
1886 –
Rash Behari Bose, Indian revolutionary (d. 1945)
1887 –
Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, Italian Catholic priest (d. 1968)
1888 –
Miles Malleson, English actor (d. 1969)
1921 –
Jack Steinberger, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1953 –
Eve Ensler, American playwright
1969 –
Stacy London, American fashion consultant
1975 –
Blaise Nkufo, Swiss footballer
1984 –
Luke Ball, Australian rules footballer
1986 –
Juri Ueno, Japanese actress
Who died on May 25?
615 –
Pope Boniface IV (b. c. 550)
1261 –
Pope Alexander IV
1789 –
Anders Dahl, Swedish botanist (b. 1751)
1849 –
Benjamin d'Urban, British general and colonial administrator (b. 1777)
1899 –
Rosa Bonheur, French realist painter and sculptor (b. 1822)
1930 –
Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1848)
1968 –
Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (b. 1881)
1979 –
John Arthur Spenkelink, American murderer (b. 1949)
1981 –
Fredric Warburg, British publisher and author (b. 1898)
1983 –
Jean Rougeau, French Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1925)
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