HISTORY QUIZ OF THIS DAY (May-25)

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May 25, 2009 :: NORTH KOREA :: On this day, it reportedly tested its second . Following the nuclear test, it also conducted several missile tests building tensions in the international community.

May 25, 2005 :: SUNIL DUTT :: Died this day, he was an Indian (b. 1929).

May 25, 2005 :: ISMAIL MERCHANT :: Died this day, he was an India-born .

May 25, 2001 :: On this day, SHERMAN Bull, a surgeon by profession from Connecticut, USA, became the oldest person at the age of 64 to conquer the . This record, however stands broken by more than one person.

May 25, 2001 :: Erik WEIHENMAYER :: The only , a US citizen, in the world to reach the peak of the Mount Everest, the top of the world. He achieved this feat on this day.

May 25, 1985 :: BANGLADESH :: On this day, it was hit by a tropical , which killed approximately 10,000 people.

May 25, 1983 :: KUNAL KHEMU :: Born this day, he is an Indian .

May 25, 1961 :: APOLLO PROGRAM :: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a " " before the end of the decade.

May 25, 1925 :: Born this day, JOHN COCKE, a US computer scientist, is accredited with his invention of RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing), which continues to be the basic architecture of most .

May 25, 1921 :: JACK STEINBERGER :: Born this day, he was a German-born , Nobel Prize laureate.

May 25, 1889 :: Born this day, Igor Ivanovich SIKORSKY was a Russian born US aircraft designer who is understood to have developed the first practical .

May 25, 1886 :: Rash BIHARI Bose :: Indian . He was born this day.

May 25, 1865 :: PIETER ZEEMAN :: Born this day, he was a physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943).

May 25, 1848 :: Born this day, Helmuth Von MOLTKE was the Chief Military Commander of during the WW-I.