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
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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
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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
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2006 : Kenneth Lay and guilty Jeffrey Skilling recognized in the business Enron.
Births
- 1813 : baron Edmond de Sélys Longchamps, politician, entomologist and Belgian ornithologist († 1900).
- 1848 : Helmuth Johannes Ludwig von Moltke, military German († June 18th 1916), chief of staff of 1906 with 1916.
- 1865 : Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize of physics in 1902 († 1943)
- 1880: Jean Alexandre Barré, French neurologist († 1967).
- 1889 : Igor Sikorsky, Russian aeronautical engineer, inventor of the plane and the helicopter († 1972)
- 1920:
- Georges Bordonove, novelist, essay writer and historian French.
- No5el Josèphe, French politician, President of the Nord/Pas-de-Calais Area area
- 1925:
- Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet († 1974).
- Claude Pinoteau, realizer, dialogist and scenario writer French.
- 1926 : Miles Davis, Trumpet player and Type-setter of American Jazz († 1991).
- 1927 : Robert Ludlum, American writer († March 12th 2001).
- 1931 : Georgi Grechko, Soviet cosmonaut
- 1939: Ian McKellen, British actor .
- 1940 : Nobuyoshi Araki, Japanese photographer.
- 1944 :
- Pierre Bachelet, type-setter and interprets French († 2005).
- Frank OZ, realizer and British marionnettist .
- 1951 : Francois Bayrou, French politician.
- 1955 : Connie Sellecca, American actress
- 1956: Latoya Jackson, American singer, older sister of Michael Jackson
- 1958: Paul Weller, British singer .
- 1963 : Mike Meyers, actor, producer and Canadian scenario writer.
- 1964 : Ivan Bleated, spationaut Slovak.
- 1965 : John D. Olivas, American astronaut.
- 1969: Anne Heche, American actress.
- 1970 : Neil Marshall, realizer and British scenario writer .
- 1972 : Barbara Schulz, French actress.
- 1975 :
- Claire Castillon, French writer.
- Lauryn Hill, American singer hip-hop.
- 1976 : Cillian Murphy, Actor and Musician Irish.
- 1978 : Adrián García, Chilean tennis player.
- 1979 :
- Monica Keena, American actress
- Jonny Wilkinson, British player of Rugby (England).
- Tracy McGrady, player of NBA
- 1986: Yoan Gouffran, football player
Death
- 992: Mieszko I {{er}}, duke of Poland, (° 935).
- 1351 : Alain Seissoris de Forquilly, abbot of Daoulas of 1325 with 1351.
- 1326 : Eberhard de Nysa, bishop of Varmie.
- 1366 : Arnaud de Cervole says the Archpriest, mercenary chief, (° towards 1300).
- 1693 : Marie-madeleine of Fayette, author of the Princess of Clèves (° March 16th 1634).
- 1789 : Anders Dahl, Botanist Swedish (° 1751).
- 1834 : Charles Joseph Auriol, Swiss painter. (° November 13rd 1778)
- 1862: Johann Nestroy, Actor, Singer, Austrian Playwright . (° December 7th 1801)
- 1934: Gustav Holst, German Type-setter, (° 1874).
- 1946 : Marcel Little laddie, French serial killer (° January 17th 1897)
- 1954: Robert Wrapped, American Photographe of Hungarian origin, (° 1913).
- 1960 : El Gallo (Rafael Gómez Ortega), Spanish Matador (° July 18th 1882)
- 1971: Gustav-Adolf Mossa, painter Symbolist French (° January 28th 1883)
- 1995: Dany Robin, French actress (° April 14th 1927).
- 1996 :
- Barney Wilen, Saxophonist French. (° March 4th 1937)
- Bradley Nowell, guitarist-singer of the group Ska-punk, Sublimates. (° February 22nd 1968)
- 2001: Alberto Korda (of its true name Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez), cuban photographer, author of the portrait of Che Guevara, guerilla heroico .
- 2005 : Mickaël Chamberlain, bass player of French the rock'n'roll group Dolly.
- 2005 : Zoran Music, painter and Slovenien engraver . (° February 12th 1909)
- 2005: Ismail Merchant, Producing of cinema and Indian Realizer . (° December 25th 1936)
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
- Murielle
- Urvan
- Sophie
- Jessica
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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