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