Today in History.....May 25

On this day in …

* 1947 The Mother of the Mrs. was born in the town of Tequila, Jalisco, México, 26 years later giving birth to the future Queen of Tequila!

* 1787, the Constitutional Convention was convened in Philadelphia after enough delegates had shown up for a quorum

* 1810, Argentina began its revolt against Spain

* 1844, the first telegraphed news dispatch, sent from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, appeared in the Baltimore Patrio

* 1895, playwright Oscar Wilde was convicted of a morals charge in London; he was sentenced to prison

* 1935, Babe Ruth hit the 714th and final home run of his career, for the Boston Braves, in a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates

* 1946, Transjordan (now Jordan) became a kingdom as it proclaimed its new monarch, King Abdullah Ibn Ul-Hussein

* 1961, President Kennedy asked the nation to work toward putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade

* 1968, the Gateway Arch, part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. Louis, was dedicated

* 1976, U.S. Rep. Wayne L. Hays, D-Ohio, admitted to a "personal relationship" with Elizabeth Ray, a committee staff member who claimed she'd received her job in order to be Hays' mistress

* 1979, 275 people died when an American Airlines DC10 crashed on takeoff from Chicago's O'Hare airport

* 1986, an estimated 7 million Americans participated in "Hands Across America," forming a line across the country to raise money for the nation's hungry and homeless

* 2001, A federal appeals court lifted an injunction on publication of "The Wind Done Gone," Alice Randall's satirical retelling of "Gone With The Wind" from a black viewpoint

* 2005, Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen won Senate confirmation as a federal appeals judge after a ferocious four-year battle