May 25th
Today in America's Present Past
1721 | John Copson became America's first insurance agent.
1738 | The Conojocular War between Maryland and Pennsylvania ends.
1783 | SCOTUS: Justice Philip Pendleton Barbour was born.
1787 | First meeting of the Constitutional Convention.
1793 | Civil Rights: Father Stephen Theodore Badin is the first U.S. Catholic priest ordained.
1803 | Ralph Waldo Emerson was born.
1861 | Civil War: John Merryman was arrested and imprisoned but not charged during the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus during the US Civil War.
1862 | Civil War: First Battle of Winchester, Virginia.
1864 | Civil War: Battle of New Hope Church, Georgia.
1889 | Entrepreneur Igor Sikorsky was born.
1908 | Poet Theodore Roethke was born.
1919 | Entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker died.
1927 | Entrepreneur Henry Ford ends production of the Model T Ford.
1927 | Novelist Robert Ludlum was born.
1927 | Entrepreneur Payne Whitney died.
1935 | In Ann Arbor, Michigan, track star Jesse Owens breaks four world records in what was described as the “greatest 45 minutes in sports history.”
1937 | Journalist Mark Shields was born.
1944 | Puppeter Frank Oz was born.
1961 | POTUS: Democrat President Kennedy announces the goal of going to the moon.
1986 | Writer Chester Bowles died.
1999 | Congress: The Cox Report is released detailing espionage against the U.S. by communist China.
2003 | Novelist Sloan Wilson died.
2012 | A SpaceX spacecraft becomes the first commercial vehicle to dock at the Space Station.
2020 | Minneapolis citizen George Floyd died.