WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 2022

1793-Father Stephen Theodore Badin is 1st U.S. Roman Catholic priest ordained

1934-Bela Bartok's "Enchanted Deer" premieres

1935-Babe Ruth hits his last 3 home runs, Boston Braves vs Pirates

1949-Chinese Red army occupies Shanghai

1959-Khrushchev visits Angola

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

1963-Great Britain ends its amateur-professional classes in cricket

1968-Rolling Stones release "Jumping Jack Flash"

1973-George Harrison releases "Give Me Love" in UK

1977-"Brady Bunch Hour" last airs on ABC-TV

1981-Daniel Goodwin, scales outside of Chicago's Sears Tower in 7 hours

1983-"Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars 3) released

1983-France performs nuclear test

1986-Hands Across America - 7 million people hold hands from California to New York

1991-Israel evacuates 14,000 Ethiopian Jews

1992-Jay Leno becomes permanent host of "The Tonight Show"

1992-Oscar Luigi Scalfaro elected President of Italy

1996-Jennifer Maria Holsten, 18, crowned Miss Filipino-American