May 25
People born on this day are Gemini.
- 1997
A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koroma.
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The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.
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Liberation Day of Lebanon: Israel withdraws its army from Lebanese territory (with the exception of the disputed Shebaa farms zone) 18 years after the invasion of 1982.
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Erik Weihenmayer becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, in the Himalayas, with Dr. Sherman Bull.
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China Airlines Flight 611 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes into the Taiwan Strait, with the loss of all 225 people on board.
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NASA's Phoenix lander touches down in the Green Valley region of Mars to search for environments suitable for water and microbial life.
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North Korea allegedly tests its second nuclear device, after which Pyongyang also conducts several missile tests, building tensions in the international community.
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Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her 25-year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
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The SpaceX Dragon 1 becomes the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous and berth with the International Space Station.
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Suspected Maoist rebels kill at least 28 people and injure 32 others in an attack on a convoy of Indian National Congress politicians in Chhattisgarh, India.
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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes enforceable in the European Union.
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Ireland votes to repeal the Eighth Amendment of their constitution that prohibits abortion in all but a few cases, choosing to replace it with the Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland.
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2002Cam Ward, American football player
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2000Claire Liu, American tennis player
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1999Brec Bassinger, American actress
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1999Ibrahima Konaté, French footballer
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1996David Pastrňák, Czech ice hockey player
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1995Kagiso Rabada, South African cricketer
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1994Matt Murray, Canadian ice hockey player
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1994Aly Raisman, American gymnast
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1993James Porter, English cricketer
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1993Norman Powell, American basketball player
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1990Bo Dallas, American wrestler
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1990Nikita Filatov, Russian ice hockey player
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