National Missing Children’s Day in honor of Etan Patz who disappeared on this day in 1979. Etan was the first ever missing child to be pictured on the side of a milk carton. It wasn’t until 2012 that Pedro Hernandez became a suspect. A former bodega stock clerk confessed to luring 6-year-old Etan Patz into a basement and attacking him; he was found guilty of murder and kidnapping and sentenced to 25 to life in 2017, 38 years after Etan disappeared.
Tap Dance Day, celebrated on the birthday of Bill “Bojangles” Robinson(May 25,1878).
National Brown-Bag-It Day
National Wine Day
Birthday of Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803), American essayist, poet, and lecturer.
1878 – Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opened at the Opera Comique in London. Also called “The Lass that Loved a Sailor”.
1895 – The playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde was convicted of “committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons” and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
1925 – Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes was indicted for teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution in Tennessee.
May 25, 1961, Apollo program: The U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced, before a special joint session of the Congress, his goal to initiate a project to put a “man on the Moon” before the end of the decade.
“I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space.”
1968 – Saint Louis Gateway Arch was dedicated.