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This Day In History: May 25th

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585 BC: The first known prediction of a solar eclipse was made in Greece.

1085: Alfonso VI took Toledo, Spain from the Moslems.

1787: The Constitutional convention opened in Philadelphia with George Washington presiding.

1810: Argentina declared independence from Napoleonic Spain.

1844: The gasoline engine was patented by Stuart Perry.

1844: The first telegraphed news dispatch, sent from Washington, DC, to Baltimore, MD, appeared in the Baltimore "Patriot."

1895: Oscar Wilde, a playwright, poet and novelist, was convicted of a morals charge and sentenced to prison in London.

1895: James P. Lee first published "Gold in America:- A Practical Manual."

1911: President of Mexico, Porfolio Diaz, resigned his office.

1925: John Scopes was indicted for teaching the Darwinian theory in school.

1927: Ford Motor Company announced that the Model A would replace the Model T.

1927: The "Movietone News" was shown for the first time at the Sam Harris Theatre in New York City.

1935: Babe Ruth hit his final homerun, his 714th, and set a record that would stand for 39 years.

1935: Jesse Owens tied the world record for the 100-yard dash. He ran it in 9.4 seconds. He also broke three other world track records.

1946: Jordan gained independence from Britain.

1953: In Nevada, the first atomic cannon was fired.

1961: America was asked by U.S. President Kennedy to work toward putting a man on the moon before the end of the decade.

1963: The Organization of African Unity was founded, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

1968: The Gateway Arch, part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. Louis, MO, was dedicated.

1970: Boeing Computer Services was founded.

1977: "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope" opened and became the largest grossing film to date.

1977: An opinion piece by Vietnam verteran Jan Scruggs appeared in "The Washington Post." The article called for a national memorial to "remind an ungrateful nation of what it has done to its sons" that had served in the Vietnam War.

1979: An American Airlines DC-10 crashed during takeoff at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. 275 people were killed.

1981: Daredevil Daniel Goodwin scaled Chicago's Sears Tower, while wearing a "Spiderman" costume, in 7 1/2 hours.

1983: "The Return of the Jedi" opened nationwide. It set a new record in opening day box office sales. The gross was $6,219,629.

1985: Bangladesh was hit with a hurricane and tidal wave that killed more than 11,000 people.

1986: Approximately 7 million Americans participated in "Hands Across America."

1989: The Calgary Flames won their first NHL Stanley Cup by defeating the Montreal Canadiens.

1992: Jay Leno debuted as the new permanent host of NBC's "Tonight Show."

1996: In Nimes, France, Christina Sanchez became the first woman to achieve the rank of matadore in Europe.

1997: In Sierra Leone a military coup overthrew the popularly elected President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. He was replaced with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.

1997: U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond became the longest-serving senator in U.S. history (41 years and 10 months).

1997: Poland adopted a constitution that removed all traces of communism.

1999: A report by the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China concluded that China had "stolen design information on the U.S. most-advanced thermonuclear weapons" and that China's penetration of U.S. weapons laboratories "spans at least the past several decades and almost certainly continues today."

2000: The Walt Disney Co. and Time Warner Inc. signed a long-term deal that ended a dispute over the airing policies of Time Warner. Time Warner had blacked out Disney programs for a 39 hour period the previous month due to the lack of an agreement.
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2001: Erik Weihenmeyer, 32, of Golder, CO, became the first blind climber to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

2001: Sherman Bull, 64, of New Canaan, CT, became the oldest climber to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

2008: NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander landed in the arctic plains of Mars.

2009: North Korea announced that it had conducted a second successful nuclear test in the province of North Hamgyong. The United Nations Security Council condemned the reported test.

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