Today in History<br>May 25th

Today is Saturday, May 25th, 2013 (day 144 of the year), but you may have selected a different day. In any case, these are just a few of the things that happened on This Date in History! Holiday notices are displayed boldly.

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Today in History
May	Interesting Things
25	In 1787, the first regular session of the U.S. Constitutional Convention was held at Independence Hall in Philadelphia.
25	In 1935, in Pittsburgh, Babe Ruth of the Boston Braves played the final game of his career and scored his 714th and final home run. The home-run record stood for 39 years until Hank Aaron broke it in 1974.
25	In 1949, Chinese communist forces entered Shanghai as Nationalist troops abandoned the city and prepared to move to the island of Formosa, now called Taiwan.
25	In 1979, 275 people were killed when an American Airlines DC-10 crashed upon take-off from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. It was the deadliest aviation accident on U.S. soil.
25	In 1986, 5 million people formed a broken 4000-mile human chain from Los Angeles to New York in Hands Across America, to benefit the nation's homeless. The event raised $24.5 million.
25	In 1990, U.S. President George Bush called for more research into global warming.
25	In 1991, Cuban soldiers withdrew from Angola after 16 years of fighting South Africa and U.S.-backed rebels.
25	In 1991, the United States reversed its decision to allow AIDS-infected people to enter the country.
25	In 1992, an Australian couple was awarded nearly $1 million for the wrongful convictions in the death of their infant daughter they said was taken by a dingo, or wild dog. The case was the subject of the film "A Cry in the Dark."
25	In 1993, the U.N. Security Council voted to establish a war-crimes tribunal to deal with atrocities in the civil war in Bosnia.
25	In 1995, the level of tension in war-torn Bosnia increased dramatically when the Serbs began taking U.N. peacekeepers hostage, for use as human shields.

Today in HistoryMay 25th

Today in History
May 25th