more events on May 25
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1953
The first atomic cannon is fired in Nevada.
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1949
Jamaica Kincaid, author (Annie John, Lucy).
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1946
Jordan gains independence from Britain.
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1938
Raymond Carver, American writer.
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1935
Jesse Owens sets six world records in less than an hour in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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1932
John Gregory Dunne, novelist and journalist.
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1929
Beverly Sills, opera singer.
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1926
Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter.
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1925
John Scopes is indicted for teaching Darwinian theory in school.
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1914
The British House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule.
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1911
Porfirio Diaz, President of Mexico, resigns his office.
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1908
Theodore Roethke, poet.
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1898
Gene Tunney, heavyweight boxing champion.
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Bennett Cerf, publisher, founder of Random House.
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1889
Igor Sikorsky, American aviation engineer who developed the first successful helicopter.
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1886
Philip Murray, American labor leader, founder of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).
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1878
Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, tap dancer.
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1851
Jose Justo de Urquiza of Argentina leads a rebellion against Juan Manuel de Rosas, his former ally.
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1810
Argentina declares independence from Napoleonic Spain.
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1803
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher.
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1787
The Constitutional convention opens at Philadelphia with George Washington presiding.
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1085
Alfonso VI takes Toledo, Spain from the Muslims.
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585
Thales of Greece makes the first known prediction of a solar eclipse.