Bennerley Viaduct is a former railway bridge, now a foot and cycle bridge, in central England, between the town of Ilkeston, Derbyshire, and the village of Awsworth, Nottinghamshire. It was completed in 1877 and opened in 1878 to carry the Great Northern Railway's Derbyshire Extension over the valley of the River Erewash. The site required a bespoke design as the ground would not support a traditional masonry structure. The viaduct consists of 16 spans of lattice truss girders made of wrought iron, carried on 15 wrought-iron piers supported by brick and ashlar bases. It is 60 feet (18 m) high, 26 feet (7.9 m) wide between the parapets, and over a quarter of a mile (400 metres) long. It was once part of a chain of bridges and embankments carrying the railway for 2 miles (3 km) across the valley. Its working life was uneventful except for minor damage inflicted by a Zeppelin bombing raid during World War I. It opened to the public as part of a cycling and walking route in January 2022. (Full article...)

Dierk Raabe

• ... that Dierk Raabe (pictured) received €2.5 million from the European Research Council to work on Green Steel?
• .... that Prodigy Math Game was initially created as a school project?
• ... that Anggara Wicitra Sastroamidjojo, a regional councillor in Jakarta, Indonesia, received media attention for bringing his seven-month-old child into the legislative chamber?
• ... that
  a book about Mormon polygamy claims that polygamy
  was an early form of feminism?
• ... that the Mongol general Boroqul saved the life of the future Ögedei Khan by continually sucking clotted blood from a wound on his neck?
• ... that the word 'tissue' in textiles refers to types of fabric that are delicate, lightweight, and sheer in nature?
• ... that a world record has been set every year Gqeberha has held its Breaking Barriers 50km event?
• ... that film critic and censor D. I. Suchianu wanted Romanian moviegoers to cease "falling asleep whenever they're not shown a naked breast [or] a hip that's getting some action"?

Tina Turner

• Rock singer and actress Tina Turner (pictured) dies at the age of 83.
• In golf, Brooks Koepka wins the PGA Championship.
• American football Hall of Fame fullback Jim Brown dies at the age of 87.
• Amid a political crisis in Ecuador, President Guillermo Lasso dissolves the National Assembly and triggers an early general election.
• Flooding in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy causes 16 deaths and widespread disruption, including the cancellation of its Formula One Grand Prix.

May 25: Africa Day (1963); Independence Day in Jordan (1946)

1878 poster for H.M.S. Pinafore

• 1782 – American Revolutionary War: US Colonel William Crawford began a failed expedition to destroy British-allied American Indian towns along the Sandusky River in the Ohio Country.
• 1878 – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore (poster featured) premiered at the Opera Comique in London.
• 1955 – Joe Brown and George Band, members of the British Kangchenjunga expedition, made the first ascent of the world's third-highest mountain but deliberately did not set foot on the summit.
• 1979 – During takeoff from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, an engine detached from American Airlines Flight 191, causing a crash that killed 273 people, the deadliest aviation accident in United States history.
• 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.