October 25
October 25 is the 298th day of the year (299th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 67 days remaining.
Events
- 1415 - The army of Henry V of England defeats the French army at the Battle of Agincourt
- 1662 - King Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France
- 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
- 1903 - United States Senate begins investigating the Teapot Dome Scandal
- 1924 - First appearance of Little Orphan Annie
- 1936 - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini create the Rome-Berlin Axis
- 1944 - Japan launches first kamikaze attacks, during the Battle of Leyte Gulf
- 1944 - Heinrich Himmler ordered 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 - Japan surrenders Taiwan to the Republic of China
- 1962 - Cuban missile crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows photos at the UN proving Russian 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: United States invades Grenada
- 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
- 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.
- 1991 - Steely Dan reunites
- 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)
- 1995 - A commuter train slammed 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 proclaimed himself the President of the Republic of the Congo.
- 2001 - Microsoft release Windows XP
- 2004 - Mozilla Foundation releases Mozilla Firefox 1.0 RC-2
Births
- 1811 - Evariste Galois, mathematician (d. 1832)
- 1825 - Johann Strauss II, composer (d. 1899)
- 1838 - Georges Bizet, composer (d. 1875)
- 1856 - Dragutin Gorjanovic-Kramberger, Croatian paleontologist (d. 1936)
- 1864 - Alexander Tikhonovich Grechaninov, composer (d. 1956)
- 1881 - Pablo Picasso, painter, sculptor (d. 1973)
- 1888 - Richard E. Byrd, explorer (d. 1957)
- 1889 - Abel Gance, film writer (d. 1981)
- 1892 - Leo G. Carroll, actor (d. 1972)
- 1895 - Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1969)
- 1902 - Eddie Lang, jazz musician (d. 1933)
- 1910 - William Higinbotham, physicist (d. 1994)
- 1912 - Minnie Pearl, comedian, singer (d.1996)
- 1924 - Billy Barty, actor (d. 2000)
- 1927 - Barbara Cook, singer, actress
- 1928 - Marion Ross, actress
- 1933 - Jack Haley Jr., film producer, director (d. 2001)
- 1935 - Russell Schweickart, astronaut
- 1940 - Bobby Knight, basketball coach
- 1941 - Anne Tyler, novelist
- 1942 - Helen Reddy, singer
- 1944 - Jon Anderson, singer (Yes)
- 1944 - James Carville, Jr., political operative
- 1948 - Glenn Tipton, guitarist
- 1948 - Dan Gable, amateur wrestling champion, coach
- 1949 - Brian Kerwin, actor
- 1951 - Richard Lloyd, musician
- 1954 - Mike Eruzione, captain of the 1980 United States Olympic gold medal-winning ice hockey team
- 1956 - Mathias Jabs, guitarist
- 1957 - Marcia Kay Culp graphic design, businesses, restuarunt
- 1959 - Nancy Cartwright, voice actress (The Simpsons, Rugrats, Kim Possible)
- 1963 - Tracy Nelson, actress
- 1968 - Schizophelia Jones, writer, social activist
- 1971 - Pedro Martínez, baseball pitcher, three-time Cy Young Award winner
- 1971 - Midori, violinist
- 1984 - Sara Helena Lumholdt, youngest member of the A-Teens
- 1986 - Conor Smith, Irish actor
Deaths
- 625 - Pope Boniface V
- 1400 - Geoffrey Chaucer, poet
- 1495 - king John II of Portugal
- 1895 - Charles Hallé, pianist and conductor
- 1910 - Willie_Anderson, golfer
- 1920 - Alexander I, King of the Hellenes, of sepsis (after being bitten by a pet monkey)
- 1921 - Bat Masterson, journalist, lawman
- 1953 - Holger Pedersen, Dutch linguist (b. 1867)
- 1955 - Sadako Sasaki
- 1957 - Lord Dunsany, writer
- 1974 - Nick Drake, musician
- 1986 - Forrest Tucker, actor
- 1987 - Louis Guttman, sociologist
- 1992 - Roger Miller, musician, composer
- 1993 - Vincent Price, actor
- 1995 - Bobby Riggs, tennis player
- 1999 - Payne Stewart, golfer
- 2002 - Paul Wellstone, U.S. Senator: A Democrat from Minnesota
- 2002 - Richard Harris, actor
Holidays
October 24 - October 26 - November 25 - September 25 - more historical anniversaries