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Events on May 25

• 1521 The Diet of Worms ends with the Imperial Recess after nearly four months. Part of the imperial estates nevertheless remains in Worms to adopt the Edict of Worms the following day.
• 1869 In Vienna, the new opera house on the Ring is ceremonially opened with a performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Don Giovanni.
• 1895 The author Oscar Wilde is sentenced to two years’ hard labor for “gross indecency” (homosexuality).
• 1932 The Disney character Goofy makes his first appearance in the animated film Mickey’s Revue under the name Dippy Dawg.
• 1935 The athlete Jesse Owens, competing for Ohio State University, breaks five world records and sets another one at a Big Ten Conference meet in Ann Arbor, Michigan, within 45 minutes.
• 1961 During the space race, U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before the U.S. Congress a program for a crewed lunar flight that is intended to “bring a man to the Moon and safely return him to Earth before the end of the decade” – the later Apollo program.
• 1977 In the United States, the first feature film in the Star Wars series (German title: Krieg der Sterne) is premiered.
• 1983 Under coach Ernst Happel, Hamburger SV defeats Juventus Turin 1:0 at the Olympic Stadium in Athens and wins the European Cup of Champions Clubs for the first time.
• 1987 In the Federal Republic of Germany, this is the reference date for the census, which, after many citizens’ protests over the anonymously collected data, later proved to be the last survey of all adults. The procedure is then switched to a sample survey of part of the population.
• 2008 The NASA space probe Phoenix lands successfully on the planet Mars, near the northern polar region.
• 2013 In the UEFA Champions League final in London, Borussia Dortmund and FC Bayern München meet for the first time in the competition’s history, with FC Bayern München winning 2:1.
• 2018 The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) takes effect.

Born on May 25

• 1880 Charlotte Berend-Corinth, German painter
• 1882 Ernst von Weizsäcker, German naval officer, diplomat, State Secretary and SS general
• 1921 Hal David, American pop music lyricist
• 1921 Jack Steinberger, American physicist and Nobel laureate
• 1961 Tite, Brazilian football coach
• 1970 Monica Lierhaus, German journalist and television presenter
• 1970 Octavia Spencer, American actress
• 1980 Alex Hofmann, German motorcycle racer
• 1991 Derrick Williams, American basketball player
• 2001 Marcel Lotka, Polish-German football player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „25. Mai“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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