Today in History: May 25, George Floyd killed by Minneapolis police
In contemporary times is Sunday May the th day of There are days left in the year Nowadays in history On May George Floyd a Black man was killed when a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee on Floyd s neck for minutes while Floyd was handcuffed and pleading that he couldn t breathe Floyd s death captured on video by a bystander would lead to worldwide protests several of which turned violent and a reexamination of racism and policing in the U S Also on this date In the Constitutional Convention began at the Pennsylvania State House Independence Hall in Philadelphia after enough delegates had shown up for a quorum Related Articles In the modern day in History May Brooklyn Bridge opens to traffic The penny costs nearly cents to make Here s how much the US spends on minting its other coins Billy Joel cancels all future shows due to brain disorder Federal judge blocks Trump administration from barring foreign pupil enrollment at Harvard In the present day in History May outlaws Bonnie and Clyde killed in police ambush In Transjordan now Jordan became a kingdom as it proclaimed its new monarch Abdullah I In President John F Kennedy communicated Congress 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 In the U S Supreme Court in Griffin v County School Board of Prince Edward County ordered the Virginia county to reopen its constituents schools which personnel had closed in an attempt to circumvent the Supreme Court s Brown v Board of Mentoring of Topeka desegregation ruling In Star Wars was published by th Century Fox it would become the highest-grossing film in history at the time In people died when an American Airlines DC- crashed just after takeoff from Chicago s O Hare Airport In NASA s Phoenix Mars Lander arrived on the Red Planet to begin searching for evidence of water the spacecraft verified the presence of water ice at its landing site In the private company SpaceX made history as its Dragon capsule became the first commercial spacecraft to dock with the International Space Station In Harvey Weinstein was arrested and charged in New York with rape and another sex felony in the first prosecution to aftermath from the wave of statements against him Weinstein would be convicted of two felony counts in but an appeals court would overturn the conviction in A retrial on the charges began in April In the present day s Birthdays Actor Ian McKellen is Country singer Jessi Colter is Actor-singer Leslie Uggams is Filmmaker and puppeteer Frank Oz is Actor Karen Valentine is Actor Jacki Weaver is Rock singer Klaus Meine Scorpions is Actor Patti D Arbanville is Playwright Eve Ensler is Actor Connie Sellecca is Musician Paul Weller is Sen Amy Klobuchar D-Minn is Actor-comedian Mike Myers is Actor Octavia Spencer is Actor Cillian Murphy is Football Hall of Famer Brian Urlacher is Olympic gymnastics gold medalist Aly Raisman is
