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Selected anniversaries for the "On this day" section of the Main Page

May 25: Africa Day (1963); Independence Day in Jordan (1946) Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1816 – The poems Kubla Khan and Christabel by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (pictured) were published. 1944 – The Wehrmacht and their collaborationist allies launched Operation Rösselsprung, a failed attempt to assassinate the Yugoslav Partisan leader Josip Broz Tito. 1961 – A fire broke out at a squatter settlement in Bukit Ho Swee, Singapore, rendering approximately 16,000 people homeless. 1979 – During takeoff from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, an engine detached from American Airlines Flight 191, causing a crash that killed 273 people in the deadliest aviation accident in United States history. 2009 – North Korea conducted a nuclear test and several other missile tests that were widely condemned internationally and led to sanctions from the United Nations Security Council. Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi (d. 1607) Anna Maria Rückerschöld (d. 1805) Gustav Holst (d. 1934) Cillian Murphy (b. 1976) More anniversaries: May 24 May 25 May 26