This is a list of selected May 25 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Dragon spacecraft -
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Oscar Wilde -
Bukit Ho Swee fire -
1878 poster for H.M.S. Pinafore
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Liberation Day in Lebanon (2000) | stub |
| Towel Day/Geek Pride Day | Towel: outdated; Geek: general quality |
| 1420 – Henry the Navigator became governor of the Order of Christ, the Portuguese successor to the Knights Templar. | refimprove section |
| 1521 – The Diet of Worms declared Protestant Reformer Martin Luther an outlaw and a heretic, banning his literature, and requiring his arrest. | unreferenced section |
| 1659 – Richard Cromwell resigned as Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland. | refimprove/unreferenced sections |
| 1895 – The Republic of Formosa was proclaimed in Taiwan, declaring independence from Qing China. | refimprove |
| 1914 – The British parliament passed the Third Home Rule Act, establishing a devolved government in Ireland. | refimprove section |
| 1926 – Anarchist Sholom Schwartzbard assassinated Symon Petliura, the head of the Paris-based government-in-exile of the Ukrainian People's Republic. | unreferenced sections |
| 1946 – Abdullah bin Husayn, the Emir of Transjordan, was proclaimed King of the renamed "Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan". | refimprove section |
| 1953 – At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducted Upshot-Knothole Grable, its only nuclear artillery test. | refimprove |
| 1963 – The Organisation of African Unity was established. | multiple issues |
| 2000 – Israel withdrew its army from most of Lebanese territory, 22 years after its first invasion in 1978. | unreferenced section |
| 2002 – China Airlines Flight 611 crashed in the Taiwan Strait after breaking up in mid-air as a result of improper repairs made 22 years earlier, killing all 225 people on board. | unreferenced section, external links |
| Anniversary of the First National Government in Argentina (1810); | Bit stubby, some uncited |
| 1738 – King George II of Great Britain negotiated a cease-fire between the British colonies of Maryland and Pennsylvania, ending Cresap's War. | Too much uncited |
| Louise de Broglie, Countess d'Haussonville |b|1818| | Yellow banner for no page references |
Eligible
- 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 cabildo in Buenos 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 show in U.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 convoy of Indian 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 officer in Minneapolis, 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
Notes
- Oscar Wilde appears on WP:Selected anniversaries/April 3, and should not appear in the same year.
May 25: Africa Day (1963); Independence Day in Jordan (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 settlement in Bukit 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.
- Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi (d. 1607)
- Anna Maria Rückerschöld (d. 1805)
- Gustav Holst (d. 1934)
- Cillian Murphy (b. 1976)