History Events on May 25
![House of Commons of the United Kingdom](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2Ffilter0ZevkSJiZ2EURVsaUUzT.png?generation=1608839186380616&alt=media)
The House of Commons of the United Kingdom passes the Home Rule Bill for devolution in Ireland.
#House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom
![Riyadh](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2Ffilter2Liac0GyugBSb0rXCUEh.jpg?generation=1608839186813642&alt=media)
In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
#Riyadh
![SpaceX Dragon](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2Ffilter2Y1fBnYeQqptRkU6DZya.jpg?generation=1608839187217195&alt=media)
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
![Mobile, Alabama](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2Ffilter6Mvhr7Qef1EKcucSSLvj.jpg?generation=1608839188035303&alt=media)
In Mobile, Alabama, around 300 people are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
#Mobile,_Alabama
![Naxalite](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2Ffilter73Mqw3KZ3r1DbshBZpV2.png?generation=1608839188843801&alt=media)
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
![Chilean Constitution of 1833](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2FfilterCPFXG7nBype8c6HJ6sb7.jpg?generation=1608839189229322&alt=media)
The Chilean Constitution of 1833 is promulgated.
#Chilean_Constitution_of_1833
![General Data Protection Regulation](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2FfilterEXs9RHgLSWMP8tAbmuBw.png?generation=1608839189623050&alt=media)
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes enforceable.
#General_Data_Protection_Regulation
![Argentine Constitution of 1819](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2FfilterGR1rfMEgwB4i1uTNOrBl.jpg?generation=1608839190026162&alt=media)
The Argentine Constitution of 1819 is promulgated.
#Argentine_Constitution_of_1819
![Erik Weihenmayer](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2FfilterGqUPQoRtZZmyHd9g9yka.jpg?generation=1608839190453252&alt=media)
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](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2FfilterI9QFWE3q4HHGKpm175UJ.jpg?generation=1608839190875900&alt=media)
Hands Across America takes place.
#Hands_Across_America
![Irish Rebellion of 1798](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2FfilterJFRNvkOZMyuxd8FPKziD.gif?generation=1608839191645764&alt=media)
United Irishmen Rebellion: Battle of Carlow begins; executions of suspected rebels at Carnew and at Dunlavin Green take place.
#Irish_Rebellion_of_1798
![Jordan](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2FfilterL8WsC2locH2JcLw4BHiN.png?generation=1608839192447593&alt=media)
The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their Emir.
#Jordan
![Apollo program](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2FfilterNHjzoLOcFiYBRqf9QOLr.png?generation=1608839193669811&alt=media)
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
![Republic of Ireland](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2FfilterNPzzyvMGEw4WQG9rDq3K.png?generation=1608839194641288&alt=media)
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](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2FfilterNiPd9Ftvdm7CWuAlC7He.png?generation=1608839195481182&alt=media)
Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
#Bangladesh
![World War II](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2FfilterOsnigzejEPgsKDW33Nvf.jpg?generation=1608839195915411&alt=media)
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
![United States House of Representatives](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2FfilterTs5byfNjbU2bRdnoJJbJ.png?generation=1608839197153344&alt=media)
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](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2FfilterUSlWkY5E5SW2GXfk09q0.jpg?generation=1608839197587612&alt=media)
Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty-five-year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
#Oprah_Winfrey
![Falklands War](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2FfilterUvzSZTmYFORM7Ogkq2oT.jpg?generation=1608839198017464&alt=media)
Falklands War: HMS Coventry is sunk by Argentine Air Force A-4 Skyhawks.
#Falklands_War
![May Revolution](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2FfilterX8z3Kkbp8CIDNiQ5Ityq.jpg?generation=1608839198411264&alt=media)
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](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2FfilterXDfGcw1C1Lyjr45g4lJX.png?generation=1608839199183525&alt=media)
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](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2FfilterXzgpoTKoFJBJl18Stg9A.jpg?generation=1608839199597488&alt=media)
Nuclear weapons testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.
#Nuclear_weapons_testing
![Richard Cromwell](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2FfilterYODwjtWzWd8fMfoyMwZb.jpg?generation=1608839199979343&alt=media)
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
![Gas cylinder](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2Ffilterb9TsZDPXQo8Bb6oLxpOb.jpg?generation=1608839200422408&alt=media)
A gas cylinder explodes on a school bus in the Pakistani city of Gujrat, killing at least 18 people.
#Gas_cylinder
![Spanish Civil War](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2FfilterbTHelzjPLyyp85OKin53.png?generation=1608839201217006&alt=media)
Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante kills 313 people.
#Spanish_Civil_War
![John Spenkelink](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2FfilterdGGE9gQopHZpuqhXBjWl.jpg?generation=1608839201620029&alt=media)
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
![Oscar Wilde](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2FfilterfVGYWCDCdPG4bCGFmYFw.jpg?generation=1608839201995829&alt=media)
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](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2FfilterfjczHeT6ZBXCjPL7LN3k.jpg?generation=1608839202424265&alt=media)
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](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2FfilterhU1dGCcAjc9yqc7L8Ooz.png?generation=1608839202846013&alt=media)
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
![Pennsylvania](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2FfilterhizPeAoshkI4eXRmyJSJ.png?generation=1608839203644510&alt=media)
A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
#Pennsylvania
![Republic of Formosa](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2Ffilterl50LVZPKhUyCn3Dt34Rl.png?generation=1608839204420727&alt=media)
The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Jingsong as its president.
#Republic_of_Formosa
![Scopes Trial](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2FfiltermJyH7Dakgq7n4EHtiH3G.jpg?generation=1608839204873850&alt=media)
Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in Tennessee.
#Scopes_Trial
![China Airlines Flight 611](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2FfilterqSIpRr9oJpUXZJuYLSDY.jpg?generation=1608839205275469&alt=media)
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 of England](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2FfilterqvBT8pf9uSlzN9vEtzf2.jpg?generation=1608839205647571&alt=media)
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
![Diet of Worms](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2FfilterraukAqmuh0j6kIkgCk7f.jpg?generation=1608839206065614&alt=media)
The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.
#Diet_of_Worms
![Constitutional Convention (United States)](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2FfiltersVuHtRluGQszlThsNwM2.png?generation=1608839206848070&alt=media)
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)
![Gateway Arch](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2FfilteruESPtfUEfdgcu0n0HPHc.jpg?generation=1608839207241879&alt=media)
The Gateway Arch in Saint Louis is dedicated.
#Gateway_Arch
![William Shakespeare](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2FfilteruwR29FXo1HlabtAjRZG4.jpg?generation=1608839207657932&alt=media)
Chinese government removes a decade old ban on William Shakespeare's work, effectively ending the Cultural Revolution started in 1966.
#William_Shakespeare
![Addis Ababa](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2FfilterwWpVJwHFYouONVwXZ9UC.jpg?generation=1608839208078455&alt=media)
In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organisation of African Unity is established.
#Addis_Ababa
![Ming dynasty](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMay_25%2FfilterwegEh871h3VnSRFBlivR.jpg?generation=1608839208497229&alt=media)
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