Category: This Day In History May 25

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This Day in History for May 25

Historic Events:

1810 - Start of the Argentine War of Independence.
1935 - Jesse Owens breaks three world records at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1953 - the U.S. conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test at the Nevada Proving Grounds in Nye County, Nevada.
1961 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces his goal to put a man on the moon under the Apollo space program.
1977 - Written and directed by George Lucas, Star Wars is released in U.S. theaters.
2008 - NASA's Phoenix lander touches down on the planet Mars.
2012 - SpaceX's Dragon 1 becomes the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous and dock with the International Space Station (ISS).
2020 - George Floyd was killed by a police officer in Minneapolis, MN marking the beginning of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Famous Birthdays:

1713 - John Stuart, KG PC, 3rd Earl of Bute, Sheriff of Bute, and the 7th Prime Minister of Great Britain.
1803 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Minister, essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
1867 - John Stuchell Fisher, U.S. politician; 29th Governor of Pennsylvania.
1869 - Robbie Ross, Canadian Journalist and Art dealer.
1878 - Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, African-American tap dancer, actor, and singer, the best-known and most highly paid black entertainer in the U.S. during the first half of the 20th century.
1879 - Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-British newspaper publisher and backstage politician.
1897 - Gene Tunney, American professional boxer.
1970 - Octavia Spencer, Award-winning American Actress and author.