Saturday, May 25, 2024

History for May 25

History for May 25 - On-This-Day.com
Ralph W. Emerson 1803 - Essayist, philosopher, poet
  • 585 BC - The first known prediction of a solar eclipse was made in Greece.
  • 1787 - The Constitutional convention opened in Philadelphia with George Washington presiding.
  • 1844 - The gasoline engine was patented by Stuart Perry.
  • 1925 - John Scopes was indicted for teaching the Darwinian theory in school.
  • 1927 - Ford Motor Company announced that the Model A would replace the Model T.
  • 1986 - Approximately 7 million Americans participated in "Hands Across America."
  • 1999 - A report by the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China concluded that China had "stolen design information on the U.S. most-advanced thermonuclear weapons" and that China's penetration of U.S. weapons laboratories "spans at least the past several decades and almost certainly continues today."

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