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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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May 25
:
Africa Day
(
1963
);
Independence Day
in
Jordan
(
1946
)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1816
– The poems
Kubla Khan
and
Christabel
by English poet
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(pictured)
were published.
1944
– The
Wehrmacht
and their
collaborationist
allies launched
Operation Rösselsprung
, a failed attempt to assassinate the
Yugoslav Partisan
leader
Josip Broz Tito
.
1961
–
A fire broke out
at a
squatter settlement
in
Bukit Ho Swee
, Singapore, rendering approximately 16,000 people homeless.
1979
– During takeoff from
O'Hare International Airport
in Chicago, an engine detached from
American Airlines Flight 191
, causing a crash that killed 273 people in the deadliest aviation accident in United States history.
2009
– North Korea
conducted a nuclear test
and several other missile tests that were widely condemned internationally and led to sanctions from the
United Nations Security Council
.
Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi
(
d.
1607)
Anna Maria Rückerschöld
(
d.
1805)
Gustav Holst
(
d.
1934)
Cillian Murphy
(
b.
1976)
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