Sunday 25 May 1947

Holidays:

• Ancient Latvia - Urbanas Diena observed
• Saint Reinolf
• Saint Marie-Madeleine-Sofie Barat (died 1865)
• Virginia - Confederate Memorial Day (1868)
• Argentina - Day of May Revolution/National Day (1810)

• Towel Day, in memory of Douglas Adams, is observed in ?
• The Ascension, one of the great feasts in the Christian liturgical calendar
• Saint Bede the Venerable (died 735)
• Saint Frederic
• Saint Augustine of Canterbury
• Saint Bruno of Wnrzburg
• The former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - Day of Youth
• Saint Hildebert
• Chad, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe - African Liberation Day
• Officially declared Carrie Underwood Day in Oklahoma for her winning American Idol
• Jordan - National Day/Arab Renaissance Day (1946)
• Africa Day commemorating the 1963 fouding of he AU's precursor, OAU
• United States - Memorial Day/Decoration Day, a legal holiday (1868)
• Lebanon, Liberation Day (1999)
• Saint Pope Gregory VII (died 1085)

Famous Birthdays:

• Mitch Margo in Brooklyn: New York, USA; rocker (The Tokens - "The Lion Sleeps Tonight").
• Jessi Colter [Miriam Johnson] in Phoenix: Arizona, USA; country singer ("I'm Not Lisa").
• Karen Valentine in Santa Rosa: California, USA; actress (Love American Style, Room 222).
• Flavio Bucci: Italian actor who has appeared in 76 films and television shows since 1971.
• Mitch Margo: American singer-songwriter and producer (The Tokens).

• Karen Valentine: American actress
• Catherine Wolf: American psychologist and computer scientist

Facts:

• An airliner of the Flugfelag Íslands crashes into a mountainside, killing 25 people.