Washington, United States. Following are some of the major events to have occurred on May 25.
1915
In World War One, the second Battle of Ypres ended with around 105,000 casualties. The Germans used poison gas for the first time.
1935
American athlete Jesse Owens set six world records in 45 minutes at the U.S. Big Ten Championship at Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1946
Abdullah Ibn Hussein declared himself the first King of Jordan just two months after the British mandate ended.
1969
The Sudanese government was overthrown in a military coup led by Colonel Jaafar Nimeiri.
1991
Some 15,000 Falashas, or Ethiopian Jews, were airlifted from Addis Ababa to Israel as rebel forces approached the Ethiopian capital.
2003
Brazilian basketball star Oscar Schmidt announced retirement.
2004
At least 1,950 people were killed in floods in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, many of them swept away when rain-swollen rivers burst their banks.
2005
Indian-born international filmmaker Ismail Merchant died aged 68. He teamed up with fellow filmmaker James Ivory, and their film credits included “A Room With A View,” “Howards End” and “The Remains of the Day.”
2006
A jury found energy trading company Enron Corp. chief executives Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling guilty of lying about the company’s financial troubles. Lay died of a heart attack in July 2006 before he could be sentenced. Skilling is serving a 24-year term at a federal prison.