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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_25" title="May 25">May 25</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa_Day" title="Africa Day">Africa Day</a></b> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963" title="1963">1963</a>); <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(Jordan)" title="Independence Day (Jordan)">Independence Day</a> in <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan" title="Jordan">Jordan</a></b> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1946" title="1946">1946</a>)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1816" title="1816">1816</a> – The poems were published.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944" title="1944">1944</a> – The <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wehrmacht" title="Wehrmacht">Wehrmacht</a></i> and their <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wartime_collaboration" title="Wartime collaboration">collaborationist</a> allies launched <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_R%C3%B6sselsprung_(1944)" title="Operation Rösselsprung (1944)">Operation Rösselsprung</a></b>, a failed attempt to assassinate the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_Partisans" title="Yugoslav Partisans">Yugoslav Partisan</a> leader <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josip_Broz_Tito" title="Josip Broz Tito">Josip Broz Tito</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961" title="1961">1961</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukit_Ho_Swee_fire" title="Bukit Ho Swee fire">A fire broke out</a></b> at a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanty_town" title="Shanty town">squatter settlement</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukit_Ho_Swee" title="Bukit Ho Swee">Bukit Ho Swee</a>, Singapore, rendering approximately 16,000 people homeless.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979" title="1979">1979</a> – During takeoff from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Hare_International_Airport" title="O'Hare International Airport">O'Hare International Airport</a> in Chicago, an engine detached from <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_191" title="American Airlines Flight 191">American Airlines Flight 191</a></b>, causing a crash that killed 273 people in the deadliest aviation accident in United States history.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009" title="2009">2009</a> – North Korea <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_North_Korean_nuclear_test" title="2009 North Korean nuclear test">conducted a nuclear test</a></b> and several other missile tests that were widely condemned internationally and led to sanctions from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council" title="United Nations Security Council">United Nations Security Council</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Magdalene_de%27_Pazzi" title="Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi">Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1607); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Maria_R%C3%BCckersch%C3%B6ld" title="Anna Maria Rückerschöld">Anna Maria Rückerschöld</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1805); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Holst" title="Gustav Holst">Gustav Holst</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1934); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cillian_Murphy" title="Cillian Murphy">Cillian Murphy</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1976)</p>
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