Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 25

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  Henry the Navigator
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  Nuclear artillery test
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  Martin Luther
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  Flag of the Republic of Formosa
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  Cabildo Abierto
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  Insignia of Project Apollo
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  Dragon spacecraft
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  Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United StatesbyHoward Chandler Christy
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  Great Wall of China
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  Oscar Wilde
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  Bukit Ho Swee fire
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  1878 poster for H.M.S. Pinafore

• 1644 – Ming–Qing transition: Ming general Wu Sangui allowed the invading Manchu to cross the Great Wall of China (pictured), enabling them to capture Beijing and establish the Qing dynasty.
• 1782 – American Revolutionary War: US Colonel William Crawford began a failed expedition to destroy British-allied American Indian towns along the Sandusky River in the Ohio Country.
• 1787 – The Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia with the intention of revising the Articles of Confederation of the United States.
• 1810 – The Primera Junta, the first independent government in Argentina, was established in an open cabildoinBuenos Aires, marking the end of the May Revolution.
• 1878 – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore (poster featured) premiered at the Opera Comique in London.
• 1895 – Oscar Wilde was sentenced by Alfred Wills to two years of hard labor for gross indecency.
• 1936 – Employees of the Remington Rand company began an 11-month strike action, during which time the company executives developed the notorious "Mohawk Valley formula" to intimidate the strikers.
• 1940 – Second World War: German troops captured Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, forcing British forces to evacuate via Dunkirk.
• 1955 – Joe Brown and George Band, members of the British Kangchenjunga expedition, made the first ascent of the world's third-highest mountain but deliberately did not set foot on the summit.
• 1961 – In an address to Congress, U.S. president John F. Kennedy announced his support for the Apollo program, with "the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth".
• 1962 – The Baltimore Steam Packet Company, the last overnight steamboat service in the United States, went out of business.
• 1967 – Having purged a group of rivals, Supreme Leader of North Korea Kim Il-sung delivered the "May 25 teaching", entrenching his son Kim Jong-il as his designated successor.
• 1979 – Six-year-old Etan Patz disappeared on his way to school in New York City, and later became one of the first missing children to have his picture featured on milk cartons.
• 2011 – The final episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest-rated daytime talk showinU.S. television history, was broadcast.
• 2012 – In a test flight, SpaceX's Dragon became the first commercial spacecraft to rendezvous and berth with the International Space Station.
• 2013 – Naxalite insurgents of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) attacked a convoyofIndian National Congress leaders in the state of Chhattisgarh, causing at least 27 deaths.
• 2020 – George Floyd, an African-American man, was murdered during an arrest by a white police officerinMinneapolis, sparking protests in the U.S. and other countries.
• Born/died: | Flann Sinna |d|916| Princess Helena of the United Kingdom |b|1846| Naim Frashëri |b|1846| Günther Lütjens |b|1889| Elizabeth Kane |d|1909| Sonia Rykiel |b|1930| Ian McKellen |b|1939| Bülent Arınç |b|1948| Elisabeth Geleerd |d|1969| Ruby Payne-Scott |d|1981

• Oscar Wilde appears on WP:Selected anniversaries/April 3, and should not appear in the same year.

May 25: Africa Day (1963); Independence DayinJordan (1946)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• 1816 – The poems Kubla Khan and Christabel by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (pictured) were published.
• 1944 – The Wehrmacht and their collaborationist allies launched Operation Rösselsprung, a failed attempt to assassinate the Yugoslav Partisan leader Josip Broz Tito.
• 1961 – A fire broke out at a squatter settlementinBukit Ho Swee, Singapore, rendering approximately 16,000 people homeless.
• 1979 – During takeoff from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, an engine detached from American Airlines Flight 191, causing a crash that killed 273 people in the deadliest aviation accident in United States history.
• 2009 – North Korea conducted a nuclear test and several other missile tests that were widely condemned internationally and led to sanctions from the United Nations Security Council.