What happend on 25th May

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26.05
2005

Liverpool win the UEFA Champions League after beating AC Milan in the final.

2004

The theatrical version of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is released on DVD.

2003

Néstor Kirchner becomes President of Argentina after defeating Carlos Menem. He is the first elected President since the December 2001 economic crisis.

2002

China Airlines Flight 611: A Boeing 747-200 breaks apart in mid-air and plunges into the Taiwan Strait killing 225 people.

2001

64-year-old Sherman Bull, of New Canaan, Connecticut, becomes the oldest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

2001

32-year-old Erik Weihenmayer, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

1997

Strom Thurmond becomes the longest-serving member in the history of the United States Senate, at 41 years and 10 months.

1997

A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.

1995

The Bosnian Serb Army kills 72 youngsters in the Bosnian city of Tuzla.

1988

The Berulsemann was born.