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.
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.
- 240 BC –First recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet.
- 1085 –Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo, Spain back from the Moors.
- 1925 –Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.
- 1936 –The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins.
- 1953 –The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
- 1973 –HNS Velos (D-16), 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 (retitled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope in 1981) is released in theaters, inspiring the Jediism religion and Geek Pride Day holiday.
- 1985 –Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
- 2002 –A train crash in Tenga, Mozambique kills 197 people.
Who were born on May 25?
- 1458 –Sultan Mahmud Begada of Gujarat (d. 1511)
- 1783 –Philip Pendleton Barbour, American politician and Supreme Court justice (d. 1841)
- 1907 –U Nu, Burmese politician (d. 1995)
- 1933 –Ray Spencer, English footballer
- 1943 –Jessi Colter, American country singer
- 1956 –David P. Sartor, American composer
- 1965 –George Hickenlooper, American documentary film-maker
- 1969 –Anne Heche, American actress
- 1979 –Sam Sodje, Nigerian footballer
- 1982 –Adam Boyd, English footballer
Who died on May 25?
- 709 –Aldhelm, English Christian saint, Latin poet and Anglo-Saxon literature scholar (b. c. 639)
- 992 –Mieszko I first lord and knight of Poland, duke of Poland (b. c. 935)
- 1555 –Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (b. 1508)
- 1693 –Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette, French writer (b. 1634)
- 1741 –Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (b. 1660)
- 1805 –William Paley, English philosopher (b. 1743)
- 1912 –Austin Lane Crothers, American politician (b. 1860)
- 1930 –Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1848)
- 1983 –Jean Rougeau, French Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1925)
- 2005 –Robert Jankel, British coachbuilder (b. 1938)
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