A birthday he has. Happy Birthday, Frank Oz.
Today is Thursday, May 25, 2017 the 145th day of the year with 220 days remaining.
- Sunrise: 5:53am
- Sunset: 8:21pm
...giving us 14 hours and 29 minutes of daylight. 1% of the waning moon will be visible, setting at 8:24pm.
Tides at the Golden Gate
- High: 12:46pm/11:54pm
- Low: 5:46am/5:35pm
Special international celebrations today…
- Anniversary of the Organization of African Unity
- Carpet Day - Turkmenistan
- Independence Day - Jordan
- National Missing Children's Day - US
- OAU Day - Equatorial Guinea
- Sucre Local Festival - Bolivia
- Youth Day - Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Day of Revolution - Argentina
- National Tap Dance Day - US
It’s also…
- National Missing Children's Day
- Nerd Pride Day or Geek Pride Day
- Red Nose Day
- Eat More Fruits & Vegetables Day
- National Brown Bag It Day
On this day in…
585 BC - The first known prediction of a solar eclipse was made in Greece.
1085 - Alfonso VI took Toledo, Spain from the Moslems.
1787 - The Constitutional convention opened in Philadelphia with George Washington presiding.
1810 - Argentina declared independence from Napoleonic Spain.
1844 - The gasoline engine was patented by Stuart Perry.
1844 - The first telegraphed news dispatch, sent from Washington, DC, to Baltimore, MD, appeared in the Baltimore "Patriot."
1895 - Oscar Wilde, a playwright, poet and novelist, was convicted of a morals charge and sentenced to prison in London.
1895 - James P. Lee first published "Golf in America -- A Practical Manual."
1911 - President of Mexico, Porfolio Diaz, resigned his office.
1925 - John Scopes was indicted for teaching the Darwinian theory in school.
1927 - Ford Motor Company announced that the Model A would replace the Model T.
1927 - The "Movietone News" was shown for the first time at the Sam Harris Theatre in New York City.
1935 - Babe Ruth hit his final home run, his 714th, and set a record that would stand for 39 years.
1935 - Jesse Owens tied the world record for the 100-yard dash. He ran it in 9.4 seconds. He also broke three other world track records.
1946 - Jordan gained independence from Britain.
1953 - In Nevada, the first atomic cannon was fired.
1961 - America was asked byU.S. President Kennedy to work toward putting a man on the moon before the end of the decade.
1963 - The Organization of African Unity was founded, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
1968 - The Gateway Arch, part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. Louis, MO, was dedicated.
1970 - Boeing Computer Services was founded.
1977 - "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope" opened and became the largest grossing film to date.
1977 - An opinion piece by Vietnam veteran Jan Scruggs appeared in "The Washington Post." The article called for a national memorial to "remind an ungrateful nation of what it has done to its sons" that had served in the Vietnam War.
1979 - An American Airlines DC-10 crashed during takeoff at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. 275 people were killed.
1981 - Daredevil Daniel Goodwin scaled Chicago's Sears Tower, while wearing a "Spiderman" costume, in 7 1/2 hours.
1983 - "The Return of the Jedi" opened nationwide. It set a new record in opening day box office sales. The gross was $6,219,629.
1985 - Bangladesh was hit with a hurricane and tidal wave that killed more than 11,000 people.
1986 - Approximately 7 million Americans participated in "Hands Across America."
1989 - The Calgary Flames won their first NHL Stanley Cup by defeating the Montreal Canadiens.
1992 - Jay Leno debuted as the new permanent host of NBC's "Tonight Show."
1996 - In Nimes, France, Christina Sanchez became the first woman to achieve the rank of matadore in Europe.
1997 - In Sierra Leone a military coup overthrew the popularly elected President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. He was replaced with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.
1997 -US Senator Strom Thurmond became the longest-serving senator inUS history (41 years and 10 months).
1997 - Poland adopted a constitution that removed all traces of communism.
1999 - A report by the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China concluded that China had "stolen design information on the U.S. most-advanced thermonuclear weapons" and that China's penetration of U.S. weapons laboratories "spans at least the past several decades and almost certainly continues today."
2000 - The WaltDisney Co. and Time Warner Inc. signed a long-term deal that ended a dispute over the airing policies of Time Warner. Time Warner had blacked out Disney programs for a 39 hour period the previous month due to the lack of an agreement.
2001 - Erik Weihenmayer, 32, of Golden, CO became the first blind climber to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
2001 - Sherman Bull, 64, of New Canaan, CT, became the oldest climber to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
2006 - In Houston, former Enron Corp. chiefs Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling were convicted of conspiracy and fraud for the downfall of Enron.
2008 - NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander landed in the arctic plains of Mars.
2009 - North Korea announced that it had conducted a second successful nuclear test in the province of North Hamgyong. The United Nations Security Council condemned the reported test.
Today’s birthday celebrants include (or included)...
- Ralph W. Emerson 1803 - Essayist, philosopher, poet
- Luther 'Bill' Robinson (Bill "Bojangles" Robinson) 1878 - Tap dancer, actor
- Philip Murray 1886 - Steelworker, labor leader
- Igor Sikorsky (Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky) 1889 - Pioneer in aviation with helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft
- Ginny Simms 1916 - Singer
- Claude Akins 1926 - Actor
- Lindsey Nelson 1919 - Sportscaster
- Hal David 1921 - Lyricist
- John Weitz 1923 - Fashion and industrial designer
- Jeanne Crain 1925 - Actress
- Kitty Kallen 1926 - Singer
- Norman Petty 1927 - Musician, songwriter, record producer
- Robert Ludlum 1927 - Author (The Jason Bourne series of books)
- Beverly Sills 1929 - Opera singer
- K.C. Jones 1932 - Basketball player
- Ron Nessen 1934 - White House Press Secretary for President Gerald Ford
- Tom T. Hall 1936 - Country singer, songwriter
- Donnie Elbert 1936 - Singer
- Raymond Carver 1938 - Short story writer, poet
- Dixie Carter 1939 - Actress ("Designing Women," "Desperate Housewives")
- Ian McKellen 1939 - Actor
- Jessi Colter 1943 - Country musician
- Leslie Uggams 1943 - Actress, singer
- John "Poli" Palmer 1943 - Musician (Family)
- Frank Oz 1944 - Actor, puppeteer (many Muppets characters, Yoda's voice)
- Karen Valentine 1947 - Actress ("Room 222")
- Mitch Margo 1947 - Musician (Cross Country)
- Klaus Meine 1948 - Musician (Scorpions)
- Clarence Burke Jr. 1949 - Musician (Five Stairsteps)
- Patti D'Arbanville-Quinn 1951 - Actress, model
- Connie Sellecca 1955 - Actress, model
- John Grimaldi 1955 - Musician (Argent)
- Sugar Minott 1956 - Reggae singer
- Paul Weller 1958 - Musician (The Jam, Style Council)
- Mike Myers 1963 - Actor, comedian, screenwriter, cast member on "Saturday Night Live," ("Austin Powers" movies)
- Anne Heche 1969 - Actress ("Volcano")
- Jamie Kennedy 1970 - Actor, comedian, rapper
- Justin Henry 1971 - Actor ("Kramer vs. Kramer" [1979])
- Molly Sims 1973 - Actress
- Miguel Tejada 1974 - Baseball player
- Cillian Murphy 1976 - Actor
- Brian Urlacher 1978 - Football player
- Shawne Merriman 1984 - Football player
