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1895: Writer Oscar Wilde is sent to prison after being convicted of sodomy. The famed writer of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest brought attention to his private life in a feud with Sir John Sholto Douglas, whose son was intimately involved with Wilde.
Homosexuality was a criminal offense and serious societal taboo at this time in Britain. Wilde had gone back and forth between hiding his sexual orientation and attempting to gain some measure of public acceptance. After Douglas, a furious homophobe, began spouting his objections to Wilde’s behavior to the public, Wilde felt compelled to sue him for libel.
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1962: The Western Regional House convened for a confidence motion on Alhaji Adegbenro. A member of the Parliament stood up shouting there “is fire on the mountain” while another member took the mace and broke it. Pandemonium ensued.
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1963: 32 African countries form a coalition against white rule. The Organisation of African Unity was founded to promote decolonization and end white minority governments in Africa. The OAU was replaced by the African Union in 2002.
1977: A new sign of political liberalization appears in China, when the communist government lifts its decade-old ban on the writings of William Shakespeare. The action by the Chinese government was additional evidence that the Cultural Revolution was over. In 1966, Mao Tse-Tung, the leader of the People’s Republic of China, announced a “Cultural Revolution,” which was designed to restore communist revolutionary fervor and vigor to Chinese society.
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1979: American Airlines flight 191 crashes shortly after takeoff. The photo showing the lopsided DC-10 hurtling towards the ground at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago is one of the most horrifying images in aviation history. All 258 people on board died.
1979: Etan Patz disappears
The disappearance and murder of the 6-year-old boy from New York City and the extensive publicity it received helped spark the missing children’s movement.
2002: A China Airlines jumbo jet breaks apart in mid-air. The Boeing 747 aircraft crashed into the Taiwan Strait, leaving no survivors among the 225 people on board. The accident was caused by improper repairs 22 years earlier, and the airplane was far beyond the serviceable life recommended by Boeing in terms of the number of flights, total hours in the air, and the number of years in service.
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2011: Students at the University of Lomé riot over poor living conditions and a new academic system. The rioting will worsen until May 27, when the university is closed by Togo’s authorities. Negotiations with students will result in government acknowledging their needs in July, and a commitment to financing a university upgrade.
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2011: A large cache of arms and explosives recovered from militants under the Niger Delta Amnesty programme of the Federal Government of Nigeria were destroyed at Lokpanta, near Enugu State
2011: The last episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show aired; the long-running TV program had helped make Winfrey one of the richest and most influential women in the United States.
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2020: On the evening of May 25, 2020, white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kills George Floyd, a Black man, by kneeling on his neck for almost 10 minutes. The death, recorded by bystanders, touched off what is possibly the largest protest movement in U.S. history and a nationwide reckoning on race and policing.
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The 46-year-old Floyd, a Houston native and father of five, had purchased cigarettes at a Minneapolis convenience store. After a clerk suspected that Floyd had used a counterfeit $20 bill in the transaction, the store manager called the police. When officers arrived, they pulled a gun on Floyd, who initially cooperated as he was arrested. However, Floyd resisted being placed in the police car, saying he was claustrophobic. Officers eventually pulled him from the car and Chauvin pinned him to the ground for nine minutes and 29 seconds. Floyd was unresponsive when an ambulance came and was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
2023: The FDA gave Elon Musk the go-ahead to test his Neuralink brain implants on humans.
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BIRTHS ON THIS DAY: May 25
Jojo Cobbinah
Ghanaian author and travel writer, in Bogosa, Gold Coast. Providing clear historical and cultural descriptions from the “inside” as an African, he has written travel guides on Senegal and The Gambia. His Ghana guides are legendary, and ranked by UNESCO as among “the best travel guides of an African country.”
Yahya Jammeh, 59 years
Dictator of The Gambia (1994-2017), on 25 May 1965 in The Gambia. After he installed himself in power with a coup d’état, he ruled as an authoritarian, looting the national treasury to fund his lavish lifestyle and oppressing minorities and the media. He agreed to a multi-party election in 2017, confident of a victory, and refused to accept the Gambians’ choice of his opponent as president. This led to international condemnation, and his removal from power by Senegalese troops.
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