What happened on 25 May?

13 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1644 Qing dynasty Last imperial dynasty of China; Manchu rulers.
2. 1787 Constitutional Convention (US) Delegates in Philadelphia draft the US Constitution; replaces the Articles of Confederation with a federal republic.
3. 1977 Star Wars George Lucas's space opera launches the modern blockbuster era.
4. 1961 Apollo program announcement JFK pledges to put a man on the Moon before the decade is out.
5. 2020 George Floyd murder and Black Lives Matter protests Police killing in Minneapolis sparks the largest US protest movement in decades.
6. 1911 The fall of Porfirio Díaz Six months after Madero's call — and two weeks after the rebels take Ciudad Juárez — the 80-year-old dictator resigns and sails for Paris, warning that Madero has 'unleashed a tige
7. 1803 Born: Ralph Waldo Emerson American essayist; founder of transcendentalism.
8. 1810 The May Revolution in Buenos Aires With Spain's government drowned by Napoleon, the citizens of Buenos Aires depose the viceroy and elect their own junta — governing, at first, in the captive king's name. The 25th o
9. 1963 The Organisation of African Unity founded Thirty-two heads of state meet at Addis Ababa and split the difference between Nkrumah's United States of Africa and the gradualists: a union of sovereign states, sworn to complete
10. 1946 Jordan gains independence Transjordan becomes the fully independent Hashemite Kingdom under King Abdullah I.
11. 1918 The Czechoslovak Legion seizes the Trans-Siberian Railway Forty thousand Czechoslovak ex-POWs, strung along the railway on their way home via Vladivostok, revolt against Bolshevik orders to disarm — and within weeks control the world's lo
12. 1085 Capture of Toledo (1085) Alfonso VI of León-Castile takes Toledo from the Taifa kingdoms; opens reconquest of central Iberia.
13. 1657 Humble Petition and Advice Parliament's revised constitution offers Cromwell the kingship; he refuses the crown but accepts the right to name his successor and a restored second chamber — the Protectorate ed