Sunday, May 25, 2014

Today-May 25th in History

Today's post will just be a list of some of the things that have happened on this day in History

-240 BC First recorded Perehelion passage of Halley's Comet
-1521 Martin Luther declared an outlaw by the Edict of Worms
-1878 Gilbert and Sullivan's Comic Opera "H.M.S Pinafore" opens in London
-1925 John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Evolution
-1961 Before Congress JFK made a speech declaring his goal to "put a man on the moon" within the decade, thus launching the Apollo Program
-1966 Explorer 32 launched
-1968 The Gateway Arch in St. Louis is dedicated
-1977 "Star Wars is releases in Theatres
-1986 Hands Across America takes place
-2008 NASA'a Phoenix lander lands on Mars
-2011 The last episode of The Oprah Winfrey show airs


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