The ephemeris of May 25: in 1977, the first part of "Star Wars" was released in the United States

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Sainte-Sophie Madeleine-Sophie Barat (1779-1865) founded the teaching congregation of the Sacred Heart at the age of twenty, modeled on that of the Jesuits. The Sophies were sensitive and imaginative. Their color : green. Their number: 3.

It happened on May 25th

1895 Irish writer Oscar Wilde is sentenced to two years of hard labor for homosexuality. 1934 France's first rugby league club is founded in Tonneins by Messrs. Norbert Teyssier and Valmy Grand. 1940 The Battle of Dunkirk begins. 1949 Jacqueline Joubert becomes the first female announcer on French television. 2009 North Korea conducts a nuclear test five times more powerful than the previous one conducted by that country in 2006. 2014 The National Front wins 24.85% of the vote in the European elections, well ahead of the UMP (20.80%) and the PS (13.98%). 2018 Irish people overwhelmingly approve the liberalization of abortion in a historic referendum.

2019 Patxa Square in Little Bayonne is inaugurated . Its transformation is the result of a citizen consultation and proposals followed by facts. 2020 In the United States, the death of George Floyd that day will lead the next day to demonstrations and riots against racism and police violence in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area.

Pierre Bachelet, French singer, songwriter (1944-2005), Eve Ensler, American feminist playwright (1953), Gilles Bouleau, French journalist (1962), Octavia Spencer, American actress and producer (1970), Barbara Schulz, French actress (1972), Cillian Murphy, Irish actor and musician (1976).