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Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (25 May 1846 – 9 June 1923) was the fifth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. She was educated by private tutors chosen by her father and his close friend and adviser, Baron Stockmar. Her childhood was spent with her parents, travelling between royal residences in Britain. In 1866 she married the impoverished German Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein. She was the most active member of the royal family, carrying out an extensive programme of royal engagements at a time when royalty was not expected to appear often in public. An active patron of charities, she was one of the founding members of the British Red Cross. She was founding president of the Royal School of Needlework, and president of the Workhouse Infirmary Nursing Association. As president of the Royal British Nurses' Association, she was a strong supporter of nurse registration against the advice of Florence Nightingale. (Full article...)

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Charles Stanford

... that Jubilate and Te Deum from the Morning, Evening and Communion Service in B-flat by Charles Villiers Stanford (pictured) were first performed in Cambridge on 25 May 1879?
... that Félix-Marie Abel, a Dominican priest and archaeologist, identified several battle sites from the Maccabean Revolt?
... that Edge of the Knife will be the first feature film in Haida, an endangered language?
... that the Turkish-Cypriot women's footballer Zehra Borazancı has played international football tennis for her country?
... that Toronto's worst mass shooting was committed by teenagers at a block party?
... that in 2005, the Northern Irish artist Rita Duffy made a proposal to tow an iceberg from Greenland to Belfast?
... that Ursula K. Le Guin wrote "Old Music and the Slave Women", set on a fictional planet, after visiting a plantation in South Carolina that had once used slave labor?
... that xenotransplant pioneer René Küss described removing organs from guillotined convicts on the prison floor?

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Nicolás Maduro

Incumbent Nicolás Maduro (pictured) is re-elected President of Venezuela.
Shoplifters wins the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
In the United Kingdom, Prince Harry marries Meghan Markle.
A passenger aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff from Havana, Cuba, killing 111 people.

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May 25: Africa Day (1963); First National Government in Argentina (1810); Independence Day in Jordan (1946); Towel Day

The Great Wall of China

1644 – Ming general Wu Sangui let the invading Manchus pass through the Great Wall of China (pictured), allowing them to capture Beijing, leading to the foundation of the Qing dynasty.
1738 – King George II of Great Britain negotiated a cease-fire between the British colonies of Maryland and Pennsylvania, ending Cresap's War.
1816 – The English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge published one of his most famous poems, "Kubla Khan".
1979 – Six-year-old Etan Patz disappeared on his way to school in New York City, and later became one of the first missing children to have his picture featured on milk cartons.
2013 – Naxalite insurgents of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) attacked a convoy of Indian National Congress leaders in the state of Chhattisgarh, causing at least 27 deaths.

Louise de Broglie, Countess d'Haussonville (b. 1818) · Gustav Holst (d. 1934) · Bülent Arınç (b. 1948)

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Champions League trophy

European Cup and UEFA Champions League finals have been won by 22 clubs. The UEFA Champions League is a seasonal association football competition established in 1955. The UEFA Champions League is open to the league champions of all UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) member associations (except Liechtenstein, which has no league competition), as well as to the clubs finishing from second to fourth position in the strongest leagues. Prior to the 1992–93 season, the tournament was named the European Cup. Teams that have won the UEFA Champions League three times in a row, or five times overall, receive a multiple-winner badge. Six teams have earned this privilege: Real Madrid, Ajax, Bayern Munich, Milan, Liverpool and Barcelona. Real Madrid hold the record for the most victories, having won the competition 12 times, including the inaugural competition. They have also won the competition the most times in a row, winning it five times from 1956 to 1960. Juventus have been runners-up the most times, losing seven finals. (Full list...)

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Hendrik Merkus de Kock (1779–1845) was a Dutch general, minister, and senator. In 1821, he commanded a military expedition to Palembang to suppress a local uprising. Later, as Lieutenant Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, De Kock led the fight against Prince Diponegoro in the Java War (1825–1830), ultimately capturing his opponent through false pretenses at Magelang. For his military victories, de Kock was made baron in 1835, Minister of the Interior in 1836, and Minister of State in 1841.

Painting: Cornelis Kruseman

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