October 25
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October 25 is the 298th day of the year (299th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 67 days remaining.
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Events
- 1415 - The army of Henry V of England defeats the French army 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 Western Australia coast.
- 1747 - British fleet under Admiral Sir Edward Hawke defeats French at second battle of Cape Finisterre.
- 1760 - George III becomes King of Great Britain
- 1813 - War of 1812: Canadians and Mohawks beat the Americans in the Battle of Chateauguay.
- 1828 - St Katharine Docks opened in London.
- 1854 - Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War (Charge of the Light Brigade).
- 1861 - The Toronto Stock Exchange was created.
- 1900 - United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
- 1917 - The Bolshevik Revolution Commences.
- 1922 - The Dail of the Irish Free State approves the constitution of the new state, formally bringing it into being.
- 1923 - United States Senate begins investigating the Teapot Dome scandal
- 1924 - The forged Zinoviev Letter is published in the Daily Mail, wrecking the British Labour Party's hopes of re-election.
- 1936 - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini create the Rome-Berlin Axis.
- 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".
- 1944 - Japan launches first kamikaze attacks, during the Battle of Leyte Gulf
- 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
- 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
- 1971 - United Nations seats the People's Republic of China and expels the Republic of China (see China and the United Nations)
- 1983 - Operation Urgent Fury: The United States and Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters were executed in a coup d'état.
- 1986 - The New York Mets defeat the Boston Red Sox due to Bill Buckner's famous error in Game 6 of the World Series and go on to win the championship two days later
- 1991 - Rock band Steely Dan reunites
- 1992 - Latvia establishes its first post-Soviet constitution
- 1993 - Jean Chrétien becomes prime minister of Canada with a massive majority for his Liberal Party in a general election in which the governing Progressive Conservatives lost 149 of 151 seats in the parliament.
- 1994 - Susan Smith of Union, South Carolina claims that a black carjacker had driven off with her two sons (Smith later confessed to drowning the children in John D. Long Lake, and was convicted of murder)
- 1994 - Kara Spears Hultgreen is killed when on final approach to the USS Abraham Lincoln in her F-14 Tomcat.
- 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.
- 2001 - Microsoft releases Windows XP
- 2003 - The Cedar Fire is reported at 5:37 pm. It becomes the largest wildfire in California history.
- 2004 - Fidel Castro, Cuba's President, announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned by November 8th.
- 2004 - Official Guided by Voices Day in Bloomington, Indiana.
Births
- 1102 - William Clito, Count of Flanders (d. 1128)
- 1330 - Louis II of Flanders (d. 1384)
- 1683 - Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, British politician (d. 1757)
- 1692 - Elizabeth Farnese, queen of Philip V of Spain (d. 1766)
- 1767 - Benjamin Constant, Swiss writer (d. 1830)
- 1806 - Max Stirner, German philosopher (d. 1856)
- 1811 - Evariste Galois, French mathematician (d. 1832)
- 1825 - Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (d. 1899)
- 1838 - Georges Bizet, French composer (d. 1875)
- 1856 - Dragutin Gorjanovic-Kramberger, Croatian paleontologist (d. 1936)
- 1864 - Alexander Gretchaninov, Russian composer (d. 1956)
- 1867 - Józef Dowbór-Muśnicki, Polish general (d.1937)
- 1869 - John Heisman, American football coach (d. 1936)
- 1881 - Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 1973)
- 1888 - Richard E. Byrd, American explorer (d. 1957)
- 1889 - Abel Gance, French film writer (d. 1981)
- 1892 - Leo G. Carroll, English actor (d. 1972)
- 1895 - Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1969)
- 1902 - Eddie Lang, American jazz guitarist (d. 1933)
- 1908 - Edmond Pidoux, Swiss writer (d. 2004)
- 1910 - William Higinbotham, physicist (d. 1994)
- 1912 - Minnie Pearl, American comedienne and singer (d. 1996)
- 1913 - Klaus Barbie, Nazi war criminal (d. 1991)
- 1914 - John Berryman, American poet (d. 1972)
- 1915 - Ivan M. Niven, Canadian mathematician (d. 1999)
- 1924 - Billy Barty, American actor (d. 2000)
- 1926 - Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian soprano
- 1927 - Barbara Cook, American singer and actress
- 1928 - Marion Ross, American actress
- 1935 - Russell Schweickart, astronaut
- 1940 - Bobby Knight, American basketball coach
- 1941 - Anne Tyler, American novelist
- 1942 - Helen Reddy, Australian singer
- 1944 - Jon Anderson, English singer (Yes)
- 1944 - James Carville, American political operative
- 1948 - Glenn Tipton, English guitarist
- 1948 - Dan Gable, American wrestler and coach
- 1954 - Mike Eruzione, American hockey player
- 1955 - Robin Eubanks, American jazz trombonist
- 1959 - Nancy Cartwright, American voice actress
- 1961 - Grover Waldrop, American biochemist
- 1962 - Chad Smith, American drummer (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
- 1962 - Darlene Vogel, American actress
- 1964 - Nicole, German singer
- 1970 - Ed Robertson, Canadian guitarist and singer (Barenaked Ladies)
- 1971 - Pedro Martínez, Dominican Major League Baseball player
- 1971 - Midori, Japanese violinist
- 1976 - Joshua P. Warren, American author and paranormal investigator
- 1977 - Birgit Prinz, German footballer
- 1978 - Russell Anderson, Scottish footballer
- 1979 - Tony Torcato, American Major League Baseball player
- 1981 - Shaun Wright-Phillips, English footballer
- 1984 - Sara Helena Lumholdt, Swedish musician (A-Teens)
- 1985 - Ciara Harris, American singer
- 1995 - Conchita Campbell, Child actress
Deaths
- 304 - Pope Marcellinus (martyred)
- 625 - Pope Boniface V
- 1047 - King Magnus I of Norway (b. 1024)
- 1154 - King Stephen of England (b. 1096)
- 1230 - Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (b. 1180)
- 1400 - Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet
- 1415 - Killed in the Battle of Agincourt:
- John I of Alençon (b. 1385)
- Charles d'Albret, Count of Dreux and Constable of France
- Antoine, Duke of Brabant (b. 1384)
- Philip of Burgundy, Count of Nevers and Rethel (b. 1389)
- Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk (born 1394)
- Frederick of Lorraine (born 1371)
- Philip II, Count of Nevers (b. 1389)
- Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (born 1373)
- 1492 - Thaddeus McCarthy, Irish Catholic bishop
- 1495 - King John II of Portugal (b. 1455)
- 1514 - William Elphinstone, Scottish bishop and statesman (b. 1431)
- 1555 - Olympia Fulvia Morata, Italian classical scholar (b. 1526)
- 1557 - William Cavendish, English politician (b. 1505)
- 1633 - Jean Titelouze, French organist
- 1647 - Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (b. 1608)
- 1683 - William Scroggs, Lord Chief Justice of England
- 1733 - Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri, Italian mathematician (b. 1667)
- 1757 - Antoine Augustine Calmet, French theologian (b. 1672)
- 1760 - George II of Great Britain (b. 1683)
- 1889 - Émile Augier, French dramatist (b. 1820)
- 1895 - Charles Hallé, German pianist and conductor (b. 1819)
- 1910 - Willie Anderson, Scottish-born golfer (b. 1878)
- 1920 - King Alexander I of Greece (bitten by a pet monkey) (b. 1893)
- 1921 - Bat Masterson, American journalist and lawman
- 1953 - Holger Pedersen, Danish linguist (b. 1867)
- 1955 - Sadako Sasaki, Japanese victim of Hiroshima (b. 1943)
- 1957 - Lord Dunsany, Irish writer (b. 1878)
- 1957 - Albert Anastasia, Italian-born gangster (b. 1902)
- 1963 - Roger Désormière, French conductor (b. 1898)
- 1973 - Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian athlete (b. 1932)
- 1974 - Nick Drake, English musician and songwriter (b. 1948)
- 1980 - Virgil Fox, American organist (b. 1912)
- 1986 - Forrest Tucker, America actor (b. 1919)
- 1991 - Bill Graham, German-born concert promoter (b. 1931)
- 1992 - Roger Miller, American musician and composer (b. 1936)
- 1993 - Danny Chan, Hong Kong singer, actor, and songwriter (b. 1958)
- 1993 - Vincent Price, American actor (b. 1911)
- 1995 - Bobby Riggs, American tennis player (b. 1918)
- 1999 - Payne Stewart, American golfer (b. 1957)
- 2002 - Paul Wellstone, U.S. Senator from Minnesota (b. 1944)
- 2002 - Richard Harris, Irish actor (b. 1930)
- 2003 - Pandurang Shastri Athavale, inspirer of Swadhyay parivar
- 2004 - John Peel, British disc jockey (b. 1939)
- 2005 - Wellington Mara Owner NY Giants football team (b. 1916)
Holidays and observances
- R.C. Saints - Feast day of Saints Crispin and Crispian; Six Welsh martyrs and companions; forty martyrs of England and Wales
- Also see October 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Kazakhstan - Republic Day
- Republic of China - Taiwan Retrocession Day (1945)
- Virgin Islands - Thanksgiving Day : end of the hurricane season
- Day of the Romanian Army
External links
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