History Events on May 25
The House of Commons of the United Kingdom passes the Home Rule Bill for devolution in Ireland.
#House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom
In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
#Riyadh
The SpaceX Dragon became the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous with the International Space Station.
#SpaceX_Dragon
Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
#Gilbert_and_Sullivan
In Mobile, Alabama, around 300 people are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
#Mobile,_Alabama
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.
#Naxalite
The Chilean Constitution of 1833 is promulgated.
#Chilean_Constitution_of_1833
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes enforceable.
#General_Data_Protection_Regulation
The Argentine Constitution of 1819 is promulgated.
#Argentine_Constitution_of_1819
Erik Weihenmayer becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, in the Himalayas, with Dr. Sherman Bull.
#Erik_Weihenmayer
Hands Across America takes place.
#Hands_Across_America
United Irishmen Rebellion: Battle of Carlow begins; executions of suspected rebels at Carnew and at Dunlavin Green take place.
#Irish_Rebellion_of_1798
The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their Emir.
#Jordan
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.
#Apollo_program
Ireland votes to repeal the Eight Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, prohibiting abortion in all but a few cases, choosing to replace it with the Thirty-Sixth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland.
#Republic_of_Ireland
Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
#Bangladesh
World War II: The German 2nd Panzer Division captures the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer; the surrender of the last French and British troops marks the end of the Battle of Boulogne.
#World_War_II
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.
#Kangchenjunga
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.
#United_States_House_of_Representatives
Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty-five-year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
#Oprah_Winfrey
Falklands War: HMS Coventry is sunk by Argentine Air Force A-4 Skyhawks.
#Falklands_War
May Revolution: Citizens of Buenos Aires expel Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros during the May week, starting the Argentine War of Independence.
#May_Revolution
NASA's Phoenix lander lands in Green Valley region of Mars to search for environments suitable for water and microbial life.
#NASA
Nuclear weapons testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.
#Nuclear_weapons_testing
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.
#Richard_Cromwell
A gas cylinder explodes on a school bus in the Pakistani city of Gujrat, killing at least 18 people.
#Gas_cylinder
Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante kills 313 people.
#Spanish_Civil_War
John Spenkelink, a convicted murderer, was executed in Florida. He was the first person to be executed in Florida after capital punishment was reinstated in 1976.
#John_Spenkelink
Playwright, poet, novelist and aesthete Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
#Oscar_Wilde
Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world records and ties a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
#Jesse_Owens
North Korea allegedly tests its second nuclear device. Following the nuclear test, Pyongyang also conducted several missile tests building tensions in the international community.
#North_Korea
A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
#Pennsylvania
The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Jingsong as its president.
#Republic_of_Formosa
Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in Tennessee.
#Scopes_Trial
China Airlines Flight 611 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes into the Taiwan Strait. All 225 people on board are killed.
#China_Airlines_Flight_611
Charles II lands at Dover at the invitation of the Convention Parliament (England), which marks the end of the Cromwell-proclaimed Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland and begins the Restoration (1660) of the British monarchy.
#Charles_II_of_England
The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.
#Diet_of_Worms
After a delay of 11 days, the United States Constitutional Convention formally convenes in Philadelphia after a quorum of seven states is secured.
#Constitutional_Convention_(United_States)
The Gateway Arch in Saint Louis is dedicated.
#Gateway_Arch
Chinese government removes a decade old ban on William Shakespeare's work, effectively ending the Cultural Revolution started in 1966.
#William_Shakespeare
In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organisation of African Unity is established.
#Addis_Ababa
Ming general Wu Sangui forms an alliance with the invading Manchus and opens the gates of the Great Wall of China at Shanhaiguan pass, letting the Manchus through towards the capital Beijing.
#Ming_dynasty