Historical Events In May - 25

1986 95-year-old woman scores a hole-in-one in Florida

1986 Ferry boat Shamia sinks on Maghna River Bangladesh, 600 killed

1986 Hands Across America - 7 million people hold hands from California to New York

1986 Kansas City Royal George Brett gets his 2,000th hit

1986 Virgilio Barco elected President of Colombia

1988 PSV wins Europe Cup

1989 Eastern Airlines graduates its first class of non-union pilots

1989 Mikhail Gorbachev elected Executive President in the Soviet Union

1989 Weird Al Yankovic records "She Drives Like Crazy"

1991 "People Are Still Having Sex" by LaTour hits #35

1991 Israel evacuates 14,000 Ethiopian Jews

1992 Jay Leno becomes permanent host of "The Tonight Show"

1992 Oscar Luigi Scalfaro elected President of Italy

1996 Jennifer Maria Holsten, 18, crowned Miss Filipino-American

1768 Explorer Captain Cook sets sail on his first voyage

1907 The first national assembly, in which women had parliamentary seats, opens in Finland

1910 French troops occupy Morocco, North Africa

1935 Athlete Jesse Owens sets six world records in under an hour, infuriating Hitler

1945 Arthur C.Clark suggests using relay satellites to cover the Earth

1961 President Kennedy announces plan to send men to the Moon

1803 The birth of Ralph W. Emerson, American poet

1881 The birth of Bela Bartok, Hungarian composer

1892 The birth of Josip Tito, Former Yugoslavian president

1926 The birth of Miles Davis, American jazz trumpet player

1939 The birth of Ian McKellen, English actor

2005 Death of Robert Jankel, British coachbuilder (b. 1938)

2005 Liverpool F.C. win the UEFA Champions League by defeating AC Milan 3-2 in a penalty shootout in Istanbul.

2005 The Acting Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Donald Tsang, resigned for participating in the Chief Executive Election in July. As a result, Henry Tang and Michael Suen had become the Acting Chief Executive and Acting Chief Secretary for Administration respectively.2007 Ozeki Hakuho clinches the Emperor's Cup at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament (Natsu Basho) in Tokyo, Japan.

2007 Danish former professional bicyclist Bjarne Riis admitted to having used doping when winning the 1996 Tour de France.

2009 Nor Korea allegedly tes its second nuclear device. Following e nuclear te, Pyongyang also conducted several missile tes bulding tensions in e international community.

2009 Nor Korea allegedly tes its second nuclear device. Following e nuclear te, Pyongyang also conducted several missile tes bulding tensions in e international community.

2009 Nor Korea allegedly tes its second nuclear device. Following e nuclear te, Pyongyang also conducted several missile tes bulding tensions in e international community.

2009 Nor Korea allegedly tes its second nuclear device. Following e nuclear te, Pyongyang also conducted several missile tes bulding tensions in e international community.

2009 Nor Korea allegedly tes its second nuclear device. Following e nuclear te, Pyongyang also conducted several missile tes bulding tensions in e international community.

2009 Nor Korea allegedly tes its second nuclear device. Following e nuclear te, Pyongyang also conducted several missile tes bulding tensions in e international community.

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