The names
Some of these you may remember. Others you may have never seen before.
Arthur Bonifas
Mark Barrett
Edward R. Bushnell
Michael P. O'Brien
Kenneth G. Suhr
Gary W Crass
Timothy J. Hoffman
Detlef W. Ringler
Dean Paul Martin
Ramon Ortiz
John E. Simpson
Rudy J. Swiestra
Edward J. Jeruss
Ricardo M. Vallareal
Paul E. Duncan
George P. Petrochilos
Arthur L. Mello
Leroy Price
Robert J. Oshinskie
Archie T. Bourg Jr.
James E. Fergueson
Joel H. Fields
Harold T. Kamps
Gerald C. Maggiacomo
Clement O. Mankins
Gerald H. Medeiros
Robert H. Moore
Who were they? All of them died while wearing the uniform of the United States military and serving our country. Bonifas and Barrett were murdered in the Demilitarized Zone (an oxymoron if ever there was one) on the Korean peninsula in the famous "Tree Trimming" incident. The next six names were the members of Swan-38, the only "Typhoon Chaser" mission ever lost without a trace. Dean Paul Martin and Ramon Ortiz were on a training mission for their Air National Guard unit in 1987 when they crashed during a snowstorm. The last 17 names are the crew of a C-130 shot down by the Soviet Union during the Cold War, when their intelligence-gathering C-130 was in Soviet airspace.
I could add tens of thousands of names to this list. The two less than brilliant guys in my unit on Guam, who swam beyond the "safe zone" barrier in the waters of our on-base beach and whose bodies were never recovered. The trainee who tried to jump from the roof of his three story barracks into a tree nearby and didn't make it. William H. Pitsenbarger, who received the Medal of Honor for his actions on the day he died in the jungles of Vietnam in 1966.
Memorial Day isn't about three day weekends, trips, picnics and the like. Or at least it shouldn't be. It is a day where we pause to reflect on the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice. They gave their lives in the service of our nation. None of the names on the list above is any more or less deserving than any other for recognition on this date. Some simply appear more heroic than others, but one can give nothing more valuable than one's life in the service of a nation.
Before you turn that hamburger patty on the grill on Monday, before you crack open another bottle of beer, before you put your feet up and relax on this holiday; please, take a moment to remember and honor those men and women who paid the price for our freedom. Even if it's just a moment, it's better than no moment.
* * *
Oliver North says that he was once told by the VA to come back in six or seven months to get his "cancer looked at" and that if he hadn't had health insurance from Fox, he would have died.
The fact that Lt Col "Arms for Hostages" North had a battle with prostate cancer is well-documented. What is not is any evidence that he initially sought treatment with the VA and was told there was a six to seven month wait for that treatment.
This is easily solved. Here you are, Lt Col North, the proper paperwork. http://www.va.gov/vaforms/medical/pdf/vha-10-5345-fill.pdf will authorize the VA to release the medical records concerned with you having sought treatment for prostate cancer and the notes made in the files by your provider at your local VA facility. We shouldn't have any trouble clearing this up if you'll only fill out the form.
* * *
Another mass shooting. Another person decided that it was time to end their life and in doing to, to take others with them. Was Elliot Rogers, the man who made this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRb_emvoiCY the shooter? We'll have the positive proof soon enough.
Even if we were to close every store selling guns as of today, there are over 200 million of them out there. This is a genie that's out of the bottle. Not sure we can put it back in, with total success.
I've said this before. Guns aren't needed to engage in mass killing. Nerve gases, bombs and the like can kill large numbers. Someone could grow wolf's bane plants (Aconitum) and use the plants to synthesize the toxin bikh aconite and slip it into a keg of beer. A variant of this was a plot device in a novel by Frank G. Slaughter, "Convention, M. D."
We need to think about all of the facets of these tragedies in trying to prevent more of them from happening. Getting guns out of the hands of those whose mental health is less than ideal is a good thing to strive for. So is preventing 22 year olds from feeling that there's something wrong with being a virgin at that age. So is the overreliance today's physicians have on medicating young men, where it is easier to label them as having ADHD and drug them; rather than using non-drug therapeutic modalities of treatment.
The pundits are already claiming the alleged shooter was suffering from severe mental illness, possibly multiple illnesses. Maybe we should wait and see what, if any, diagnosis and treatment had been sought before passing judgment? Just a thought.
* * *
Random Ponderings:
So Rob Kardashian went to all the trouble to travel to Europe for his sister's wedding and then he flies back at the last minute? Why? Must need ratings for their reality show.
Bruce Jenner walked his step-daughter down the aisle for her wedding, but refused to confirm or deny if he and she were wearing identical lingerie beneath their wedding outer-clothing.
Kris Jenner carried granddaughter North West down the aisle in front of Kim and Bruce. Yeah, like there was any chance of this wedding coming off where she didn't get to steal the spotlight for at least a few minutes.
Maybe it's time for Yahoo and other seach engines to start labeling people as "fame whore" rather than "TV personality".
Thank goodness every college guy who doesn't get laid isn't going out and killing people or there'd be a whole hell of a lot of dead bodies lying around. Reading the rantings of this sick individual made me want to take a shower, even though I'd taken one only ten minutes earlier.
Give a great big two thumbs up to the Seattle Seahawks football team for being classy and generous. Their sixth round pick is probably never going to play a single down of professional football, but the team signed the draft pick to his contract before releasing him due to a heart condition. This way he got his signing bonus and first year's salary. Well played, Seahawks.
This is an actual yearbook quote: "When the going gets tough, just remember to Barium Carbon Potassium Thorium Astatine Arsenic Sulfer (sic) Utranium (sic) Phospheros (sic)". Seems innocuous enough until you use the chemical symbols for these elements: Ba C K Th At As S U P. School administrators were not amused. They should have been. It's clever.
Does the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising offer a program in designing socks, and if so, is Rob Kardashian its most famous graduate?
* * *
May 25th in History:
567 BC – Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo, Spain, back from the Moors.
1420 – Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of Christ.
1521 – The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.
1644 – Ming general Wu Sangui forms an alliance with the invading Manchus and opens the gates of the Great Wall of China at Shanhaiguan pass, letting the Manchus through towards the capital Beijing.
1659 – Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England following the restoration of the Long Parliament, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the Commonwealth of England.
1738 – A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
1798 – United Irishmen Rebellion: The Carnew massacre, Dunlavin massacre and Carlow massacre take place.
1809 – Chuquisaca Revolution: a group of patriots in Chuquisaca (modern day Sucre) revolt against the Spanish Empire, starting the South American Wars of Independence.
1810 – May Revolution: citizens of Buenos Aires expel Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros during the May week, starting the Argentine War of Independence.
1819 – The Argentine Constitution of 1819 is promulgated.
1833 – The Chilean Constitution of 1833 is promulgated.
1837 – The Rebels of Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the British for freedom.
1865 – In Mobile, Alabama, 300 are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
1878 – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
1895 – The playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
1895 – The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as its president.
1914 – The United Kingdom's House of Commons passes the Home Rule Act for devolution in Ireland.
1925 – Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in Tennessee.
1926 – Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which is in government-in-exile in Paris.
1935 – Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world records and ties a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1936 – The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins.
1938 – Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante takes place, with 313 deaths.
1940 – World War II: The German 2nd Panzer Division captures the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer; the surrender of the last French and British troops marks the end of the Battle of Boulogne
1946 – The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their Emir.
1950 – Public Transport: Green Hornet disaster. A Chicago Surface Lines streetcar crashes into a fuel truck, killing 33.
1953 – Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conduct their first and only nuclear artillery test.
1953 – The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
1955 – In the United States, a night-time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S.
1955 – First ascent of Kangchenjunga (8,586 m.), the third-highest mountain in the world, by a British expedition led by Charles Evans. Joe Brown and George Band reached the summit on May 25, followed by Norman Hardie and Tony Streather the next day.
1961 – Apollo program: The U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.
1961 – The biggest fire in Singapore history. The Bukit Ho Swee Fire
1962 – The Old Bay Line, the last overnight steamboat service in the United States, goes out of business.
1963 – In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organisation of African Unity is established.
1966 – Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.
1966 – The first prominent dàzìbào during the Cultural Revolution in China is posted at Peking University.
1967 – Celtic F.C. from Glasgow, Scotland, becomes the first ever Northern European team to win the European Cup; with previous winners being from Spain, Italy and Portugal.
1968 – Gateway Arch Saint Louis Gateway Arch is dedicated.
1973 – HNS Velos (D-16), while participating in a NATO exercise and in order to protest against the dictatorship in Greece, anchored at Fiumicino, Italy, refusing to return to Greece.
1977 – Star Wars (retitled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope in 1981) is released in theaters, inspiring the Jediism religion and Geek Pride Day holiday.
1977 – Chinese government removes a decade old ban on William Shakespeare's work, effectively ending the Cultural Revolution started in 1966.
1979 – American Airlines Flight 191: In Chicago, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O'Hare International Airport killing all 271 on board and two people on the ground.
1979 – Etan Patz, who is six years old, disappears from the street just two blocks away from his home in New York City, prompting an international search for the child, and causing the U.S. President Ronald Reagan to designate May 25 as National Missing Children's Day (in 1983).
1981 – In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
1982 – HMS Coventry is sunk during the Falklands War.
1985 – Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
1986 – Hands Across America takes place.
1997 – A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.
1999 – The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details the People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.
2000 – Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first invasion in 1978.
2001 – Erik Weihenmayer, 32 years old, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
2002 – China Airlines Flight 611 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes into the Taiwan Strait. All 225 people on board are killed.
2008 – NASA's Phoenix lander lands in Green Valley region of Mars to search for environments suitable for water and microbial life.
2009 – North Korea allegedly tests its second nuclear device. Following the nuclear test, Pyongyang also conducted several missile tests building tensions in the international community.
2011 – Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty-five-year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
2012 – The Dragon spacecraft became the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous with the International Space Station.
2013 – Suspected Maoist rebels kill at least 28 people and injure 32 others in an attack on a convoy of Indian National Congress politicians in Chhattisgarh, India.
Famous Folk Born on May 25th:
Emperor Shenzong of Song
Emperor Suko of Japan
John Stuart
Mihn Mang
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Muldoon
John Mott
Pieter Zeeman
Gene Tunney
Bennett Cerf
Igor Sikorsky
Dean Rockwell
Robet Ludlum
Beverly Sills
Irwin Winkler
W. P. Kinsella
Raymond Carver
Dixie Carter
Leslie Uggams
Frank Oz
Karen Valentine
Connie Sellecca
Hillary B. Smith
Paul Weller
Mike Myers
Anne Heche
Stacy London
Octavia Spencer
Justin Henry
Molly Sims
Cillian Muphy
Alberto Del Rio
Arthur Bonifas
Mark Barrett
Edward R. Bushnell
Michael P. O'Brien
Kenneth G. Suhr
Gary W Crass
Timothy J. Hoffman
Detlef W. Ringler
Dean Paul Martin
Ramon Ortiz
John E. Simpson
Rudy J. Swiestra
Edward J. Jeruss
Ricardo M. Vallareal
Paul E. Duncan
George P. Petrochilos
Arthur L. Mello
Leroy Price
Robert J. Oshinskie
Archie T. Bourg Jr.
James E. Fergueson
Joel H. Fields
Harold T. Kamps
Gerald C. Maggiacomo
Clement O. Mankins
Gerald H. Medeiros
Robert H. Moore
Who were they? All of them died while wearing the uniform of the United States military and serving our country. Bonifas and Barrett were murdered in the Demilitarized Zone (an oxymoron if ever there was one) on the Korean peninsula in the famous "Tree Trimming" incident. The next six names were the members of Swan-38, the only "Typhoon Chaser" mission ever lost without a trace. Dean Paul Martin and Ramon Ortiz were on a training mission for their Air National Guard unit in 1987 when they crashed during a snowstorm. The last 17 names are the crew of a C-130 shot down by the Soviet Union during the Cold War, when their intelligence-gathering C-130 was in Soviet airspace.
I could add tens of thousands of names to this list. The two less than brilliant guys in my unit on Guam, who swam beyond the "safe zone" barrier in the waters of our on-base beach and whose bodies were never recovered. The trainee who tried to jump from the roof of his three story barracks into a tree nearby and didn't make it. William H. Pitsenbarger, who received the Medal of Honor for his actions on the day he died in the jungles of Vietnam in 1966.
Memorial Day isn't about three day weekends, trips, picnics and the like. Or at least it shouldn't be. It is a day where we pause to reflect on the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice. They gave their lives in the service of our nation. None of the names on the list above is any more or less deserving than any other for recognition on this date. Some simply appear more heroic than others, but one can give nothing more valuable than one's life in the service of a nation.
Before you turn that hamburger patty on the grill on Monday, before you crack open another bottle of beer, before you put your feet up and relax on this holiday; please, take a moment to remember and honor those men and women who paid the price for our freedom. Even if it's just a moment, it's better than no moment.
* * *
Oliver North says that he was once told by the VA to come back in six or seven months to get his "cancer looked at" and that if he hadn't had health insurance from Fox, he would have died.
The fact that Lt Col "Arms for Hostages" North had a battle with prostate cancer is well-documented. What is not is any evidence that he initially sought treatment with the VA and was told there was a six to seven month wait for that treatment.
This is easily solved. Here you are, Lt Col North, the proper paperwork. http://www.va.gov/vaforms/medical/pdf/vha-10-5345-fill.pdf will authorize the VA to release the medical records concerned with you having sought treatment for prostate cancer and the notes made in the files by your provider at your local VA facility. We shouldn't have any trouble clearing this up if you'll only fill out the form.
* * *
Another mass shooting. Another person decided that it was time to end their life and in doing to, to take others with them. Was Elliot Rogers, the man who made this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRb_emvoiCY the shooter? We'll have the positive proof soon enough.
Even if we were to close every store selling guns as of today, there are over 200 million of them out there. This is a genie that's out of the bottle. Not sure we can put it back in, with total success.
I've said this before. Guns aren't needed to engage in mass killing. Nerve gases, bombs and the like can kill large numbers. Someone could grow wolf's bane plants (Aconitum) and use the plants to synthesize the toxin bikh aconite and slip it into a keg of beer. A variant of this was a plot device in a novel by Frank G. Slaughter, "Convention, M. D."
We need to think about all of the facets of these tragedies in trying to prevent more of them from happening. Getting guns out of the hands of those whose mental health is less than ideal is a good thing to strive for. So is preventing 22 year olds from feeling that there's something wrong with being a virgin at that age. So is the overreliance today's physicians have on medicating young men, where it is easier to label them as having ADHD and drug them; rather than using non-drug therapeutic modalities of treatment.
The pundits are already claiming the alleged shooter was suffering from severe mental illness, possibly multiple illnesses. Maybe we should wait and see what, if any, diagnosis and treatment had been sought before passing judgment? Just a thought.
* * *
Random Ponderings:
So Rob Kardashian went to all the trouble to travel to Europe for his sister's wedding and then he flies back at the last minute? Why? Must need ratings for their reality show.
Bruce Jenner walked his step-daughter down the aisle for her wedding, but refused to confirm or deny if he and she were wearing identical lingerie beneath their wedding outer-clothing.
Kris Jenner carried granddaughter North West down the aisle in front of Kim and Bruce. Yeah, like there was any chance of this wedding coming off where she didn't get to steal the spotlight for at least a few minutes.
Maybe it's time for Yahoo and other seach engines to start labeling people as "fame whore" rather than "TV personality".
Thank goodness every college guy who doesn't get laid isn't going out and killing people or there'd be a whole hell of a lot of dead bodies lying around. Reading the rantings of this sick individual made me want to take a shower, even though I'd taken one only ten minutes earlier.
Give a great big two thumbs up to the Seattle Seahawks football team for being classy and generous. Their sixth round pick is probably never going to play a single down of professional football, but the team signed the draft pick to his contract before releasing him due to a heart condition. This way he got his signing bonus and first year's salary. Well played, Seahawks.
This is an actual yearbook quote: "When the going gets tough, just remember to Barium Carbon Potassium Thorium Astatine Arsenic Sulfer (sic) Utranium (sic) Phospheros (sic)". Seems innocuous enough until you use the chemical symbols for these elements: Ba C K Th At As S U P. School administrators were not amused. They should have been. It's clever.
Does the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising offer a program in designing socks, and if so, is Rob Kardashian its most famous graduate?
* * *
May 25th in History:
567 BC – Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo, Spain, back from the Moors.
1420 – Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of Christ.
1521 – The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.
1644 – Ming general Wu Sangui forms an alliance with the invading Manchus and opens the gates of the Great Wall of China at Shanhaiguan pass, letting the Manchus through towards the capital Beijing.
1659 – Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England following the restoration of the Long Parliament, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the Commonwealth of England.
1738 – A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
1798 – United Irishmen Rebellion: The Carnew massacre, Dunlavin massacre and Carlow massacre take place.
1809 – Chuquisaca Revolution: a group of patriots in Chuquisaca (modern day Sucre) revolt against the Spanish Empire, starting the South American Wars of Independence.
1810 – May Revolution: citizens of Buenos Aires expel Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros during the May week, starting the Argentine War of Independence.
1819 – The Argentine Constitution of 1819 is promulgated.
1833 – The Chilean Constitution of 1833 is promulgated.
1837 – The Rebels of Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the British for freedom.
1865 – In Mobile, Alabama, 300 are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
1878 – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
1895 – The playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
1895 – The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as its president.
1914 – The United Kingdom's House of Commons passes the Home Rule Act for devolution in Ireland.
1925 – Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in Tennessee.
1926 – Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which is in government-in-exile in Paris.
1935 – Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world records and ties a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1936 – The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins.
1938 – Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante takes place, with 313 deaths.
1940 – World War II: The German 2nd Panzer Division captures the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer; the surrender of the last French and British troops marks the end of the Battle of Boulogne
1946 – The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their Emir.
1950 – Public Transport: Green Hornet disaster. A Chicago Surface Lines streetcar crashes into a fuel truck, killing 33.
1953 – Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conduct their first and only nuclear artillery test.
1953 – The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
1955 – In the United States, a night-time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S.
1955 – First ascent of Kangchenjunga (8,586 m.), the third-highest mountain in the world, by a British expedition led by Charles Evans. Joe Brown and George Band reached the summit on May 25, followed by Norman Hardie and Tony Streather the next day.
1961 – Apollo program: The U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.
1961 – The biggest fire in Singapore history. The Bukit Ho Swee Fire
1962 – The Old Bay Line, the last overnight steamboat service in the United States, goes out of business.
1963 – In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organisation of African Unity is established.
1966 – Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.
1966 – The first prominent dàzìbào during the Cultural Revolution in China is posted at Peking University.
1967 – Celtic F.C. from Glasgow, Scotland, becomes the first ever Northern European team to win the European Cup; with previous winners being from Spain, Italy and Portugal.
1968 – Gateway Arch Saint Louis Gateway Arch is dedicated.
1973 – HNS Velos (D-16), while participating in a NATO exercise and in order to protest against the dictatorship in Greece, anchored at Fiumicino, Italy, refusing to return to Greece.
1977 – Star Wars (retitled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope in 1981) is released in theaters, inspiring the Jediism religion and Geek Pride Day holiday.
1977 – Chinese government removes a decade old ban on William Shakespeare's work, effectively ending the Cultural Revolution started in 1966.
1979 – American Airlines Flight 191: In Chicago, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O'Hare International Airport killing all 271 on board and two people on the ground.
1979 – Etan Patz, who is six years old, disappears from the street just two blocks away from his home in New York City, prompting an international search for the child, and causing the U.S. President Ronald Reagan to designate May 25 as National Missing Children's Day (in 1983).
1981 – In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
1982 – HMS Coventry is sunk during the Falklands War.
1985 – Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
1986 – Hands Across America takes place.
1997 – A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.
1999 – The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details the People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.
2000 – Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first invasion in 1978.
2001 – Erik Weihenmayer, 32 years old, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
2002 – China Airlines Flight 611 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes into the Taiwan Strait. All 225 people on board are killed.
2008 – NASA's Phoenix lander lands in Green Valley region of Mars to search for environments suitable for water and microbial life.
2009 – North Korea allegedly tests its second nuclear device. Following the nuclear test, Pyongyang also conducted several missile tests building tensions in the international community.
2011 – Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty-five-year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
2012 – The Dragon spacecraft became the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous with the International Space Station.
2013 – Suspected Maoist rebels kill at least 28 people and injure 32 others in an attack on a convoy of Indian National Congress politicians in Chhattisgarh, India.
Famous Folk Born on May 25th:
Emperor Shenzong of Song
Emperor Suko of Japan
John Stuart
Mihn Mang
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Muldoon
John Mott
Pieter Zeeman
Gene Tunney
Bennett Cerf
Igor Sikorsky
Dean Rockwell
Robet Ludlum
Beverly Sills
Irwin Winkler
W. P. Kinsella
Raymond Carver
Dixie Carter
Leslie Uggams
Frank Oz
Karen Valentine
Connie Sellecca
Hillary B. Smith
Paul Weller
Mike Myers
Anne Heche
Stacy London
Octavia Spencer
Justin Henry
Molly Sims
Cillian Muphy
Alberto Del Rio
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