What happened This day in History on May 25th

25th May 1895 : Playwright Oscar Wilde was found guilty of gross indecency in London and sentenced two years of hard labour.

25th May 1920 : A study into American merchant shipping confirms that 79% of new ships just built or in design and build stages have moved from coal burners to oil burners as fuel.

25th May 1925 : A high school science teacher, John T. Scopes was indicted for teaching the theory of evolution in his classes, as the Tennessee state law prohibits the teaching of evolution in public schools.

25th May 1935 : Jesse Owens broke three world records at the Big Ten meet in Ann Arbor, Michigan including broad jump, the 220-yard dash and the low hurdles.

25th May 1935 : Babe Ruth hit the 714th and final home run of his career at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh while playing for the Boston Braves against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Shortly afterwards he announced his retirement.

25th May 1943 : 500 RAF Bombers bombed Dusseldorf and laid waste to parts of the city that have been left standing, also the RAF were in action in Burma with a raids into western Burma.

25th May 1958 : General Charles de Gaulle becomes Prime Minister of France.

25th May 1961 : President Kennedy has asked Congress for $531 million to help the US put a man on the moon before the end of the decade . On July 21st 1969 , Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the Moon.

25th May 1963 : African states unite to create the Organisation of African Unity / OAU to "decolonise" the remaining bastions of white rule in South Africa, Southern Rhodesia, Mozambique and Angola with any and all means possible including providing African "freedom fighters" with finance, arms, volunteers and training bases.

25th May 1965 : Following the Cassius Clay defeat of Sonny Liston on February 25, 1964, for the world heavyweight boxing championship and changing his name from Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali, Liston and Ali meet for a second time in Lewiston, Maine, for the Heavyweight Championship, during the first round Liston goes down ( Often called by a phantom punch ) and the Referee Jersey Joe Walcott stops the fight awarding Ali a first-round knockout.

25th May 1967 : Glasgow Celtic becomes the first British team to win the prestigious European Cup, beating favorites Internazionale Milan 2-1 at the Portuguese National Stadium in Lisbon .

25th May 1967 : John Lennon's psychedelic Rolls Royce is delivered, the Rolls Royce caused an uproar including the Rolls Royce Company raising a formal complaint. He had bought the car new from Rolls Royce in 1965 and become bored with the colour so had a psychedelic paint job. The car was sold at Sotheby's in 1985 for $2,299.000.00 the most expensive car ever sold.

25th May 1968 : The Gateway Arch in St. Louis standing 630 feet tall, and 630 feet wide at its base is dedicated

25th May 1974 : An explosion at a chemical plant at Flixborough leaves more than 25 dead .

25th May 1977 : Star Wars written and directed by George Lucas and released by 20th Century Fox opens in American Theaters. The original Star Wars grossed nearly $800 million world wide and won multiple awards at the 50th Annual Academy Awards and created a cult following for future Star Wars Movies.

25th May 1978 : The nations first legal casino outside of Nevada opens in the resort town of Atlantic City NJ for dice rollers and card players.

25th May 1979 : A flight from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois American Airlines Flight 191 crashed and exploded in a field near the airport . The crash killed 273 people, including two on the ground

25th May 1982 : Two Argentinean Super Etendards fire French-built Exocets and destroy the Atlantic Conveyor. In A separate attack Argentinean Skyhawks hit HMS Coventry four times with 1,000 bombs causing explosions and the ship to capsize.

25th May 1986 : Approximately Seven million Americans joined hands hoping to raise more than $50 million to fight hunger and homelessness in "Hands Across America"

25th May 1988 : A report by the National Association of Realtors has said the median price for a home is now $87,700

25th May 1994 : The Camelot consortium pledging to give up to 30% of its takings to five "good causes". has won the contract to run Britain's first national lottery which starts in November.

25th May, 2005 : The longest oil pipeline in the world opened. The pipeline was one thousand miles long and began in Azerbaijan, travelling through Georgia, and ending at a Mediterranean sea port in Turkey. The pipeline took over ten years to build and cost over three billion dollars. It reaches from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean Sea.

25th May 2006 : Former Enron Corp. Executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling are convicted in Houston of conspiracy and fraud for the company's downfall. Kenneth Lay dies before sentencing and Skilling was sentenced to 24 years in prison.

25th May, 2008 : A chemical explosion at a factory near Arak, Iran created a fire that killed thirty people and injured almost forty others. The factory that produced cosmetics and detergents was nearly completely destroyed by the blast, but the fire was quickly brought under control.

25th May, 2013 : Ukraine's first gay pride parade took place with about one-hundred attendees in the country's capital city of Kiev. Police were present and had to arrest thirteen people who were trying to break up the gathering.