May 25th

The May 25th is the 145e Jour of the Année (146e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

1 to 1900

  • 843 : Battle of Blain between the Francs and the Breton ones.

  • 1085 : Alphonse VI, king of Castille and Leon takes Tolède with the Moors after two years of seat. The city becomes the residence of kings de Castille. Alphonse VI proclaims “ Imperator totius Hispaniae ”. He guarantees freedom of worship with the Moslems.
  • 1301 : The Monastère of Holy-Cross yields for five years the profits of its priories and other goods, with the archbishop of Bordeaux, Bertrand de Got.
  • 1521 : Ferdinand de Habsbourg, younger brother of Charles Quint wife with Linz, (Austria), Anne of Bohemia (1503 - 1547), girl and heiress of Vladislas IV, king de Bohême and of Hungary and Anne de Foix.
  • 1659 : Richard Cromwell gives up his station of Lord Protecteur of England, Scotland and Ireland, putting a term at ten years of dictatorship, exerted initially by his/her father, then by him.
  • 1756 : With Madrid (Spain), alternate of Jose Candido Esposito, Spanish Matador.
  • 1810 : Argentinian Revolution of May in .
  • 1830 : The French fleet which leaves to the conquest the Algérie leaves Toulon.
  • 1846 : Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, disguised as a workman, escapes from the Fort of Ham where it purged a sorrow of life imprisonment.

20th century

  • 1923 : First race of the 24 hours of Mans.

  • 1935 : Jesse Owens, American, beats three world records in less than one hour: long jump, races 220 yards and 220 yards hedges.
  • 1938 : War of Spain, with Alicante the bombardment of the Central Market by Italian aviation caused the death of 313 people.
  • 1941 : In France, first publication of Radio operator National , the voice of the radio of Vichy in nonoccupied zone, with the service of the ideas of the Marshal Pétain.
  • 1946 :
    • Independence of the Jordan.
    • Execution of the Doctor Petiot, recognized guilty of twenty-four assassinations.
  • 1949 : The Chinese communist forces enter to Shanghai while the nationalist troops give up the city to take refuge in the island of Formosa, today Taiwan.
  • 1952 : Alain Bombard leaves Monaco for the crossing of the Atlantic as a recluse.
  • 1961 : Speech of John F. Kennedy to the Congress concerning the sending of the Man on the the Moon and launching of the Space conquest.
  • 1963 : Establishment of the Organization of African Unity with Addis-Abeba (Ethiopia).
  • 1965 : Mohammed Ali (Cassius Clay) gains a victory by K.O at the first minute of the first round of a combat which opposes it to Sony Liston.
  • 1977 : First with Hollywood of Star Wars ( Star Wars ), of the director states-unien George Lucas.
  • 1979 : A DC-10 of American Airlines is crushed after having taken off of the international airport of Chicago, involving in death the 271 people on board. It was about the flight 191.
  • 1986 : Approximately 500 people out of 1.000 passengers perish drowned in the shipwreck of a high-speed motorboat on the river Meghna, with the Bangladesh.
  • 1991 : The cuban soldiers withdraw Angola after 16 years of engagements against the rebels supported by the South Africa and the the United States.
  • 1993 : Launching of the Loan Balladur.
  • 1994 : After 20 years of exile, especially to the the United States, the Russian writer Alexandre Soljenitsyne turns over to the country.
  • 1995 : The Nordiques of Quebec are sold and will become the Avalanche of Colorado
  • 1997: Coup d'etat in Sierra Leone, during the civil war, which obliges with the exile the president elected Ahmad Tejan Kabbah.
  • 2000 : The Lebanon board celebrate the release of the south of the country after 22 years of Israeli occupation .

21e century

Births

Death

Celebrations

  • Argentinian: National festival of the Day of the revolution.
  • Jordan: National festival
  • international Journée of the children missing
  • Pèlerinage from the Gipsies to the Saintes Marry Sea
  • During the period of the socialist Federal republic of Yugoslavia on May 25th was the Journée of Youth.
  • Towel Day, day of the towel honouring Douglas Adams and its Galactic Guide.

Good festival with

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Bède Worthy the († 735)
  • 3rd invention of the chief of saint Jean-Baptiste to Comane and translation with Constantinople.
  • Marie Jacobé and Marie Salome: the Saintes Marry Sea, with holy Sarah, owner of the Gipsy S.
  • Sainte Sophie

Catholic saints of the day

See too

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