SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013

Today is Saturday, May 25, the 145th day of 2013. There are 220 days left in the year.

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

1659 ― Richard Cromwell resigns as English Lord Protector

1844 ― First telegraphed news dispatch is published in Baltimore Patriot

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

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

1944 ― Partisan leader Tito escapes Germans surrounding Bosnia

1949 ― Chinese Red army occupies Shanghai

1965 ― Muhammad Ali KOs Sonny Liston in 1st round for heavyweight boxing title

1968 ― Rolling Stones release “Jumping Jack Flash”

1989 ― Mikhail Gorbachev elected executive president in the Soviet Union