October
25
Events
October
25
473 – Emperor
Leo I acclaims his grandson Leo II as Caesar of the Byzantine
Empire.
1147 – The Portuguese, under Afonso I, and Crusaders from England
and Flanders conquer Lisbon after a four-month siege.
1147 – Seljuk Turks completely annihilate German crusaders under
Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum.
1415 – The army of Henry V of England defeats the French at
the Battle of Agincourt.
1616 – Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes second recorded landfall
by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog
Island off the West Australian coast.
1747 – British fleet under Admiral Sir Edward Hawke defeats
the French at the second battle of Cape Finisterre.
1760 – George III becomes King of Great Britain.
1812 – War of 1812: The American frigate, USS United States,
commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate HMS
Macedonian.
1828 – The St Katharine Docks opened in London.
1854 – The Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War (Charge
of the Light Brigade).
1861 – The Toronto Stock Exchange is created.
1900 – The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
1917 – Traditionally understood date of the October Revolution,
involving the capture of the Winter Palace, Petrograd, Russia.
The date refers to the Julian Calendar date, and corresponds
with November 7 in the Gregorian calendar.
1920 – After 74 days on Hunger Strike in Brixton Prison, England,
the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney died.
1924 – The forged Zinoviev Letter is published in the Daily
Mail, wrecking the British Labour Party's hopes of re-election.
1938 – The Archbishop of Dubuque, Francis J. L. Beckman, denounces
swing music as "a degenerated musical system... turned
loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people",
warning that it leads down a "primrose path to hell".
1940 – Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. is named the first African American
general in the United States Army.
1944 – Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss
Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that
had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third
Reich.
1944 – The USS Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine
captain of World War II) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning
torpedo.
1944 – The Romanian Army liberates Carei, the last Romanian
city under Axis Powers occupation.
1944 – Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle in history,
takes place in and around the Philippines between the Imperial
Japanese Navy and the U.S. Third and U.S. Seventh Fleets.
1945 – The Republic of China takes over administration of Taiwan
following Japan's surrender to the Allies.
1962 – Cuban missile crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows photos at
the UN proving Soviet missiles are installed in Cuba.
1962 – Uganda joins the United Nations.
1962 – Nelson Mandela is sentenced to five years in prison.
1971 – The United Nations seated the People's Republic of China
and expelled the Republic of China (see political status of
Taiwan and China and the United Nations)
1977 – Digital Equipment Corporation releases OpenVMS V1.0.
1980 – Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects
of International Child Abduction conclude at The Hague.
1983 – Operation Urgent Fury: The United States and its Caribbean
allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice
Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup
d'état.
1991 – History of Slovenia: Three months after the end of the
Ten-Day War, the last soldier of the Yugoslav People's Army
leaves the territory of the Republic of Slovenia.
1995 – A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River
Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.
1997 – After a brief civil war which has driven President Pascal
Lissouba out of Brazzaville, Denis Sassou-Nguesso proclaims
himself the President of the Republic of the Congo.
2004 – Fidel Castro, Cuba's President, announces that transactions
using the American Dollar will be banned.
2009 – The 25 October 2009 Baghdad bombings kills 155 and wounds
at least 721.
2010 – Mount Merapi in Central Java, Indonesia, begins over
a month of eruptions.
Holidays
and observances
Armed Forces
Day (Romania)
Christian Feast Day:
Blessed Thaddeus McCarthy
Crysanthus and Daria (Western Christianity)
Crispin and Crispinian
Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
Gaudentius of Brescia
Minias of Florence
October 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Constitution Day (Lithuania)
Day of the Basque Country (Basque Country)
Earliest day on which Nevada Day can fall, while October 31
is the latest; celebrated on last Friday in October. (Nevada)
Republic Day (Kazakhstan)
Retrocession Day (Taiwan)
Thanksgiving Day (Grenada)
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