About the day » Tuesday May 25, 1971Calender converter

• Katrijn HOUBRACKEN, Gent, 9000, Oost-Vlaanderen, Vlaanderen, België
• Mathilde Versleijen, Eindhoven,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2014)
• Erik Verkaik, Mijdrecht († 1972)

• Arie Tromp (87), Den Haag, Nederland
• Anna Margaretha Grietjes (78), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Carl Roger Dell Ross (49), Pueblo, CO
• Anna Adriana Cornelia van Wely (83), Bussum, Nederland
• Caroline Nuyts (74), Koersel, Limburg, België
• Aart van der Kolk (66), Vreeswijk, Utrecht, Nederland
• Charlie Fields (63), Mississippi, United States
• Antonius Johannes Cornelis van den Bergh (77), Bergen op Zoom, N-Br, NL
• Alan May Murdoch (76), Malvern, Victoria, Australia
• Anje Borgman (87), Groningen,, Groningen, Nederland

• 1969 » Anne Heche, American actress
• 1969 » Glen Drover, Canadian guitarist and songwriter
• 1969 » Karen Bernstein, Canadian voice actress
• 1969 » Stacy London, American journalist and author
• 1970 » Jamie Kennedy, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1970 » Octavia Spencer, American actress and author
• 1970 » Robert Croft, Welsh-English cricketer and sportscaster
• 1971 » Marco Cappato, Italian politician
• 1971 » Stefano Baldini, Italian runner
• 1972 » Karan Johar, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1968 » Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (b. 1881)
• 1970 » Tom Patey, Scottish mountaineer and author (b. 1932)
• 1977 » Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian author (b. 1904)
• 1979 » Amédée Gordini, Italian-born French racing driver and sports car manufacturer (b. 1899)
• 1979 » Itzhak Bentov, Czech-Israeli engineer, mystic, and author (b. 1923)
• 1981 » Fredric Warburg, English author and publisher (b. 1898)
• 1981 » Ruby Payne-Scott, Australian physicist and astronomer (b. 1912)
• 1983 » Idris of Libya (b. 1889)
• 1983 » Jack Stewart, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1917)
• 1983 » Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, Turkish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1904)

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 13.1 million citizens.
• February 11 » Cold War: the Seabed Arms Control Treaty opened for signature outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor in international waters.
• February 21 » The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
• May 27 » The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
• July 15 » The United Red Army is founded in Japan.
• July 26 » Apollo program: Launch of Apollo 15 on the first Apollo "J-Mission", and first use of a Lunar Roving Vehicle.
• September 20 » Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.

The temperature on May 25, 1971 was between 7.7 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.