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• ... that the Hindu god Krishna is described as having eight chief queens (pictured with Krishna) – Rukmini, Satyabhama, Jambavati, Kalindi, Mitravinda, Nagnajiti, Bhadra and Lakshmana – and 16,000 other wives headed by Rohini?
• ... that Boundary Channel off the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. was dredged and widened to provide fill material to raise the ground by more than 8 feet (2.4 m) when The Pentagon was constructed?
• ... that Bachata #1's, Vol. 2 was the tenth best-selling Tropical Album of both 2008 and 2009?
• ... that Lin Tie studied at the University of Paris and the Communist University of the Toilers of the East?
• ... that actor N. Viswanathan started his career as an English professor at St. Xavier's College, Calcutta?
• ... that the desert shrimp can colonise new areas even when dead?
  
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• The fatal shooting of an armed man by police sparks several days of rioting in Stockholm, Sweden.
• American writer Lydia Davis wins the Man Booker International Prize.
• An off-duty British soldier is attacked and killed by two men on a street in London.
• At the World Table Tennis Championships, Zhang Jike wins the men's singles and Li Xiaoxia (pictured) wins the women's singles.
• An EF5 tornado strikes Moore, Oklahoma, in the United States, killing at least 24 people.

Recent deaths: Henri Dutilleux – Ray Manzarek

May 25: First Patriotic Government in Argentina (1810); Independence Day in Jordan (1946); Towel Day

• 1895 – The Republic of Formosa was inaugurated in Taiwan, proclaiming independence from Qing China.
• 1914 – The British parliament passed the Third Home Rule Act, establishing a devolved government in Ireland.
• 1936 – Employees of the Remington Rand company began an 11-month strike action, during which time the company executives developed the notorious "Mohawk Valley formula" to intimidate the strikers.
• 1955 – Englishmen Joe Brown and George Band became the first to climb Kangchenjunga, the third-highest mountain in the world, but stopped short of the summit as per a promise given to the Maharaja of Sikkim that the top would remain inviolate.
• 1961 – During a speech to a joint session of the United States Congress, U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced his support for the Apollo space program (insignia pictured), with "the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth".

More anniversaries: May 24 – May 25 – May 26