May 25

Today in History
• 1241 - 1st attack on Jewish community of Frankfurt am Main, Germany
• 1521 - Edict of Worms outlaws Martin Luther and his followers
• 1571 - Pope Pius V forms The Holy League to fight the Ottomans
• 1716 - Great Britain and Holy Roman Empire sign the Treaty of Westminster
• 1721 - John Copson becomes America's 1st insurance agent
• 1738 - A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War
• 1787 - Constitutional convention opens at Philadelphia, George Washington presiding
• 1844 - 1st telegraphed news dispatch is published in Baltimore Patriot


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• African Liberation Day
• Global Africa Day
• Jordan Independence Day
• May Revolution Day
• National Brown-Bag It Day
• National Tap Dance Day
• Shavuot
• World Thyroid Day

Birthdays
• 1048 - Emperor Shenzong of China, 6th emperor of the Song dynasty in China
• 1458 - Mahmud Begada, Sultan of Gujarat
• 1550 - Camillus de Lellis, Italian Roman Catholic saint (founder of the Ministers of the Sick)
• 1713 - John Stuart, 3rd earl of Bute, Prime Minister of Great Britain (1760-63)
• 1729 - Jean de Neufville, Dutch / U.S. merchant, started 4th English war
• 1781 - Ferdinand K J, archduke of Austria-Este/Governor-General, Sicily
• 1803 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S., essayist/philosopher, Concord Hymn
• 1865 - Frederick Augustus III, King of Saxony (1904-18)s