History of the Day for:
May 25
- 1787: The Constitutional Convention met for the first time to draw up the U.S. Constitution.
- 1810: A revolution began in Argentina when it declared its independence from Spain.
- 1844: The first telegraphed news dispatch was published in the Baltimore Patriot.
- 1895: Playwright Oscar Wilde was convicted of a morals charge in London and was sentenced to two years in prison.
- 1926: Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis born in Alton, Ill.
- 1927: The Ford Motor Company announced that it was halting production of the Model T; the "Movietone News" was shown for the first time in New York City.
- 1935: Babe Ruth hit the 714th and final home run of his career, for the Boston Braves, in a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates; track star Jesse Owens of Ohio State University broke two world sprint records, tied a third, and broke a long jump world record in a meet at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
- 1961: President John Kennedy asked the nation to work to put a man on the moon before the decade ended.
- 1968: The Gateway Arch in St. Louis was dedicated.
- 1979: In the United States' worst domestic air disaster, 275 people died when an American Airlines DC-10 crashed during takeoff at O'Hare Airport.
- 1981: Dan Goodwin scaled the world's tallest building, the Sears Tower in Chicago, dressed as the comic book character Spiderman.
- 1992: Jay Leno made his debut as full-time host of NBC's "Tonight Show," succeeding Johnny Carson.
- 1997: Senator Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) became the longest-serving senator in US history, marking 41 years and ten months of service.
- 1997: A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.
- 1999: The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details the People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.
- 2000: Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first invasion in 1978.
- 2001: 32-year-old Erik Weihenmayer, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
- 2002: China Airlines Flight 611: A Boeing 747-200 breaks apart in mid-air and plunges into the Taiwan Strait killing 225 people.
- 2002: A train crash in Tenga, Mozambique kills 197 people.
- 2008: An EF5 tornado ravages through Parkersburg, Iowa, only the seventh in the state since 1918, killing 5 and causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in physical damage.
- 2009: North Korea allegedly tests its second nuclear device. Following the nuclear test, Pyongyang also conducted several missile tests bulding tensions in the international community.