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Towel Day is celebrated every year on 25 May as a tribute by fans of the late author Douglas Adams
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t36097321/towel-day/

Geek Pride Day is an initiative which claims the right of every person to be a nerd or a geek. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_Pride_Day



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Upshot-Knothole Grable was a nuclear weapons test conducted on May 25, 1953
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t43020266/shot-grable/

The 2009 North Korean nuclear test was conducted on 25 May 2009
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t28095835/north-korean-nuclear-test/



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On May 25, 1933, the Marpole Midden was recognised as a National Historic Site of Canada
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Marpole_Midden#History

The western face of Kukulcán's Pyramid points to sunset around 25 May
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeoastronomy#El_Castillo

The 120-seat Peter Harrison Planetarium opened on 25 May 2007
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Harrison_Planetarium

Very Large Telescope first light on 25 May 1998. 
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t13203441/very-large-telescope/

The Scopes Trial was a landmark American legal case in 1925
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t49304544/the-scopes-trial/



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John F. Kennedy first announced the goal of landing a man on the Moon on May 25, 1961

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Explorer 32 was launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta-C1 rocket, on 25 May 1966. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer_32

The last Corona satellite launch was on May 25, 1972
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_(satellite)

Skylab 2 was the first manned mission to Skylab launched on May 25, 1973
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab_2

The Phoenix landed on the north polar region of Mars on May 25, 2008
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t3135659/the-phoenix-lander/
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On May 25, 2007, the Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere satellite made its first observations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeronomy_of_Ice_in_the_Mesosphere



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Dmitri Yur'yevich Kondrat'yev (born 25 May 1969) is a Russian cosmonaut. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Kondratyev

Georgy Mikhaylovich Grechko (25 May 1931 - 8 April 2017) was a Soviet cosmonaut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy_Grechko

John Daniel "Danny" Olivas (born May 25, 1965) is a former NASA astronaut. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Olivas

Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (May 25, 1889 - October 26, 1972) was a Russian American aviation pioneer 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Sikorsky

Ivan Bella (born 25 May 1964 in Brezno, Czechoslovakia (present Slovakia)) is a Slovak Air Force officer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Bella

Pieter Zeeman (25 May 1865 - 9 October 1943) was a Dutch physicist 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Zeeman

Hans Jakob "Jack" Steinberger (born May 25, 1921) is a German-American-Swiss physicist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Steinberger

Richard Salisbury Ellis (born 25 May 1950) is the Steele Professor of Astronomy at Caltech
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ellis_(astronomer)

Daniel Moreau Barringer (May 25, 1860 - November 30, 1929) was a geologist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Barringer_(geologist)



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It Came from Outer Space is a 1953 science fiction 3-D film directed by Jack Arnold
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xm7xn9_it-came-from-outerspace_shortfilms
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Came_from_Outer_Space

Alien is a science fiction horror film that opened in American theatres on May 25, 1979.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t57658322/alien/

Star Wars, now known as Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, was released on May 25, 1977
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_IV:_A_New_Hope

The film Return of the Jedi was released in theatres on May 25, 1983
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_of_the_Jedi

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NGC 4948 was discovered by American astronomer Lewis A. Swift on the 25th May 1887. 
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t57658310/ngc-4948/

NGC 5982 was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on the 25th May 1788. 
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t57658305/ngc-5982/

NGC 5985 was discovered by William Herschel on the 25th May 1788. 
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t57658302/ngc-5985/

NGC 5987 was discovered by William Herschel on the 25th May 1788. 
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t57658298/ngc-5987/

NGC 5989 was discovered by William Herschel on the 25th May 1788. 
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t57658293/ngc-5989/



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Nova Pictoris was discovered shortly before sunrise on the morning of May 25, 1925
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1947MNSSA...6....2V

Extrasolar planet Eta2 Hydri b was discovered on the 25th May 2006 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eta2_Hydri_b

The earliest prediscovery image of 50000 Quaoar is a May 25, 1954 plate from Palomar Observatory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50000_Quaoar

The earliest documented sighting of Halley's Comet was on 25 May 240 BCE 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halley%27s_Comet#Apparitions



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Meteorites

The Shuangyang (H5) meteorite fell in Jilin, China, on the 25th May, 1971.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t49304970/shuangyang-meteorite/



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