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