Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Today is May 25. This is the anniversary of the deadliest aviation accident on U.S. soil. It was on this date in 1979 that an American Airlines DC-10 lost one if its engines and crashed upon take-off from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. 275 people -- including three on the ground -- were killed. Advertisement It was on this date in 1935, in Pittsburgh, that Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox played the final game of his career, and scored his 714th and final home run. That home-run record stood for 39 years until Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves broke it in 1974. The first regular session of the Constitutional Convention was held at Independence Hall in Philadelphia on this date in 1787. And on this date in 1986, 5 million people formed a broken 4000-mile human chain from Los Angeles to New York in "Hands Across America," to benefit the nation's homeless. The goal was $50 million to $100 million, but it raised only $24.5 million. We now return you to the present, already in progress.
