{"id":57111,"date":"2015-05-25T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=57111"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:24:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:24:40","slug":"this-week-in-history-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/05\/this-week-in-history-22\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in History"},"content":{"rendered":"

May 25-31<\/em><\/p>\n

QUOTE OF THE WEEK:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cHere is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you\u2019re alive, it isn\u2019t.\u201d<\/a><\/em> – Richard Bach (Richard Bach Official Site<\/a>)<\/p>\n

MAY 25<\/strong><\/p>\n

2013\u00a0 <\/strong>Suspected Maoist rebels<\/a> kill at least 28 people and injure 32 others in an attack<\/a> on a convoy of Indian National Congress<\/a> politicians in Chhattisgarh<\/a>, India<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2009\u00a0 <\/strong>North Korea<\/a> allegedly tests its second nuclear device<\/a>. Following the nuclear test, Pyongyang also conducted several missile tests building tensions in the international community.<\/p>\n

2001\u00a0 <\/strong>Erik Weihenmayer<\/a>, 32 years old, of Boulder, Colorado<\/a>, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2000\u00a0 <\/strong>Liberation Day of Lebanon<\/a>. Israel<\/a> withdraws its army from most of the Lebanese<\/a> territory after 22 years of its first invasion in 1978<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1999\u00a0 <\/strong>The United States House of Representatives<\/a> releases the Cox Report<\/a><\/em> which details the People’s Republic of China<\/a>‘s nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.<\/p>\n

1997\u00a0 <\/strong>A military coup<\/a> in Sierra Leone<\/a> replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah<\/a> with Major Johnny Paul Koromah<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1989\u00a0 <\/strong>Mikhail Gorbachev<\/a> elected Executive President in the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n