On this day in History - May 25

1865 – In Mobile, Alabama, around 300 people are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.

1895 – Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.

1933 – The Walt Disney Company cartoon Three Little Pigs premieres at Radio City Music Hall, featuring the hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"

1953 – Nuclear weapons testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.

1977 – Star Wars (retroactively titled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) is released in US theaters.

2011 – Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her 25-year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.