Friday, May 25, 2018

History for May 25

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History for May 25 - On-This-Day.com
Ralph W. Emerson 1803 - Essayist, philosopher, poet, Luther 'Bill' Robinson (Bill "Bojangles" Robinson) 1878 - Tap dancer, actor, Igor Sikorsky (Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky) 1889 - Pioneer in aviation with helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft
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Ian McKellen 1939 - Actor, Frank Oz 1944 - Actor, puppeteer (many Muppets characters, Yoda's voice), Mike Myers 1963 - Actor, comedian, screenwriter, cast member on "Saturday Night Live," ("Austin Powers" movies)
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1844 - The gasoline engine was patented by Stuart Perry.
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1925 - John Scopes was indicted for teaching the Darwinian theory in school.
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1927 - Ford Motor Company announced that the Model A would replace the Model T.
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1961 - America was asked by U.S. President Kennedy to work toward putting a man on the moon before the end of the decade.
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1977 - "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope" opened and became the largest grossing film to date.
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1979 - An American Airlines DC-10 crashed during takeoff at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. 275 people were killed.
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1985 - Bangladesh was hit with a hurricane and tidal wave that killed more than 11,000 people.
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1999 - A report by the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China concluded that China had "stolen design information on the U.S. most-advanced thermonuclear weapons" and that China's penetration of U.S. weapons laboratories "spans at least the past several decades and almost certainly continues today."
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