FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2012

Today is Friday, May 25, the 146th day of 2012. There are 220 days left in the year.

585 B.C. ― First known prediction of a solar eclipse

1810 ― Argentina declares independence from Napoleonic Spain (National Day)

1887 ― Gas lamp at Paris Opera catches fire; 200 die

1895 ― Oscar Wilde sentenced to two years’ hard labor for being a sodomite

1927 ― Henry Ford stops producing Model T car (begins Model A)

1935 ― Jesse Owens equals or breaks six world records in one hour

1941 ― Ted Williams raises his batting average over .400 for first time in 1941

1961 ― JFK sets goal of putting a man on Moon before the end of decade

1986 ― 95-year-old woman scores a hole-in-one in Florida

1989 ― Mikhail Gorbachev elected Executive President in the Soviet Union