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Today's Events | on horizon | on this day | newslink | Notable | Almanac archive

Thursday, May 25, 2000

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Tell me why they would inspire competition?

Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, asking why the government proposed that Microsoft be split into two parts, rather than three.

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today's events

  • The Day of Honor 2000 Project takes place in Washington, with area veterans and others honoring African American, Asian American, Hispanic American and Native American World War II veterans.
  • European Union foreign and trade ministers meet their counterparts from a dozen Mediterranean and Middle Eastern nations, in Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Retired U.S. Gen. Colin Powell is due to meet Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush, in Austin, Texas.


on the horizon

  • On Friday, May 26, the Commerce Department releases a report on personal income and outlays for April.
  • On Saturday, May 27, Vice President Al Gore delivers the commencement address at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York.
  • On Sunday, May 28, Peru is set to hold its presidential runoff.
  • On Monday, May 29, the space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to land.


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  • Actress Dixie Carter is 61.
  • Actor Sir Ian McKellen is 61.
  • Actress Anne Heche is 31.
  • Comedian Mike Myers is 37.

on this day

  • In 1787, the U.S. Constitutional Convention convened in Philadelphia after enough delegates had shown up for a quorum.
  • In 1810, Argentina began its revolt against Spain.
  • In 1895, playwright Oscar Wilde was convicted of a morals charge in London and sentenced to prison.
  • In 1935, Babe Ruth hit the 714th and final home run of his career, for the Boston Braves, in a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
  • In 1946, Transjordan (now Jordan) became a kingdom as it proclaimed its new monarch, King Abdullah Ibn Ul-Hussein.
  • In 1961, President Kennedy asked the nation to work towards putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade.
  • In 1963, the Organization of African Unity was founded, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
  • In 1968, the Gateway Arch, part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. Louis, was dedicated.
  • In 1979, 275 people died when an American Airlines DC-10 crashed on takeoff from Chicago's O'Hare airport.

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