May 25

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[edit] Events

• 1738 - A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
• 1787 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States. George Washington presides.
• 1810 - In the May Revolution, citizens of Buenos Aires expel the Viceroy during the Semana de Mayo.
• 1895 - The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as the president.
• 1982 - HMS Coventry is sunk during the Falklands War.
• 2000 - Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first invasion in 1978.

[edit] Births

• 1803 - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English novelist and playwright (d. 1873)
• 1889 - Igor Sikorsky, Russian inventor (d. 1972)
• 1892 - Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav resistance leader and later dictator (d. 1980

[edit] Deaths

• 1946 - Marcel Petiot, French mass murderer (b. 1897)
• 2008 - Ernst Stuhlinger, NASA scientist (b. 1913)