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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/1782" title="1782">1782</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a>: US Colonel <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crawford_(soldier)" title="William Crawford (soldier)">William Crawford</a> began <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford_expedition" title="Crawford expedition">a failed expedition</a></b> to destroy British-allied <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Native Americans in the United States">American Indian</a> towns along the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandusky_River" title="Sandusky River">Sandusky River</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_Country" title="Ohio Country">Ohio Country</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1878" title="1878">1878</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_and_Sullivan" title="Gilbert and Sullivan">Gilbert and Sullivan</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_opera" title="Comic opera">comic opera</a> <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.M.S._Pinafore" title="H.M.S. Pinafore">H.M.S. Pinafore</a></b></i> <i>(poster featured)</i> premiered at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Comique" title="Opera Comique">Opera Comique</a> in London.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955" title="1955">1955</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Brown_(climber)" title="Joe Brown (climber)">Joe Brown</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Band" title="George Band">George Band</a>, members of the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955_British_Kangchenjunga_expedition" title="1955 British Kangchenjunga expedition">British Kangchenjunga expedition</a></b>,  made the first ascent of the world's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangchenjunga" title="Kangchenjunga">third-highest mountain</a> but deliberately did not set foot on the summit.</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, the deadliest aviation accident in United States history.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013" title="2013">2013</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naxalite%E2%80%93Maoist_insurgency" title="Naxalite–Maoist insurgency">Naxalite insurgents</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India_(Maoist)" title="Communist Party of India (Maoist)">Communist Party of India (Maoist)</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Naxal_attack_in_Darbha_valley" title="2013 Naxal attack in Darbha valley">attacked a convoy</a></b> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Indian National Congress</a> leaders in the state of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chhattisgarh" title="Chhattisgarh">Chhattisgarh</a>, causing at least 27 deaths.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flann_Sinna" title="Flann Sinna">Flann Sinna</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 916); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naim_Frash%C3%ABri" title="Naim Frashëri">Naim Frashëri</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1846); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Geleerd" title="Elisabeth Geleerd">Elisabeth Geleerd</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1969)</p>