^B{^#!16!25 May^N! Feast day of St Madeleine Barat, St Gregory VII, pope, St Mary Magdalen de Pazzi, St Urban, St Zenobius, St Leo of Mantenay, St Dionysius of Milan, St Gennadius of Astorga, and St Bede.
^B{1234^B} The Mongols took Kaifeng and destroyed the Chin dynasty. ^B{ 1524^B} Henry VIII and Charles V formed a new league to support the Duke of Bourbon in a fresh attack on France. ^B{1657^B} New Humble Petition and Advice created a new House of Lords, and increased Cromwell's power. ^B{1657^B} Louis XIV put forward his name as a candidate for the Holy Roman Empire. ^B{1659^B} Richard Cromwell resigned; the Rump Parliament re-established the Commonwealth. ^B{1694^B} The ministry in England was remodeled when William III dismissed Tories, except Godolphin and Danby, and introduced Whig Junta of Somers, Russell, Montague, and Wharton. ^B{1911^B} Porfirio Diaz resigned as president of Mexico. ^B{1914^B} The British House of Commons passed the Irish Home Rule bill. ^B{1923^B} The independence of Transjordan under Amir Abdullah was proclaimed. ^B{1953^B} Denationalisation of road transport in Britain. ^B{1961^B} US President Kennedy presents an extra-ordinary state of Union message to Congress for increased funds urgently needed for US space, defense, and air programs.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}John Stuart, Earl of Bute, Britain's first Scottish prime minister, ^B{1713^B}; Edward George Bulwer Lytton, Lord Lytton, English novelist, ^B{1803^B}; Ralph Waldo Emerson, US poet and essayist, ^B{1803^B}; Jacob Burckhardt Swiss historian, ^B{1818^B}; BΘla Bart≤k, Hungarian composer, ^B{1881^B}; Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslavian soldier and president, ^B{1892^B}; Miles Davis, US jazz trumpeter, ^B{1926^B}; Ian McKellen, English actor, ^B{1939^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Bede, English monk and historian, 735^B}; Georges D'Amboise, French cardinal and politician, ^B{1510^B}; Gaspard Poussin, French painter, ^B{1675^B}; Pedro CaldΘron de la Barca, Spanish playwright, ^B{1681^B}; Samuel Pepys, English diarist, ^B{1703^B}; Gustav Holst, English composer, ^B{1934^B}.
