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This day in history: 25 October

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613 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 25 October.
Entries come from Wikipedia’s day pages and are ordered by page views.
2023: A mass shooting occurs in two locations in Lewiston, Maine. 18 people are killed and 13 more injured.

Holidays and observances

Armed Forces Day (Romania)

Christian feast day: Bernat Calbó (Bernard of Calvo)

Christian feast day: Blessed Carlo Gnocchi

Christian feast day: Blessed Thaddeus McCarthy

Christian feast day: Canna

Christian feast day: Crispin and Crispinian

Christian feast day: Crysanthus and Daria (Western Christianity)

Christian feast day: Fructus

Christian feast day: Gaudentius of Brescia

Christian feast day: Goeznovius

Christian feast day: Mar Nestorius (in the Nestorian churches)

Christian feast day: Minias of Florence

Events

2023A mass shooting occurs in two locations in Lewiston, Maine. 18 people are killed and 13 more injured.

2010A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes off Indonesia's Mentawai Islands, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 400 people.

2009The October 2009 Baghdad bombings kill 155 and wound at least 721.

2001Microsoft releases Windows XP, which becomes one of Microsoft's most successful operating systems.

1999A Learjet 35 crashes in Mina near Aberdeen, South Dakota, killing all six people on board, including PGA golfer Payne Stewart and golf course designer Bruce Borland.

1997After a civil war, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself President of the Republic of the Congo.

1995A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.

1990The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic declares its sovereignty from the Soviet Union.

1989The first leg of the 1989 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira is held at the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon, Portugal.

1983The 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.

1980Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude.

1973Egypt and Israel accept United Nations Security Council Resolution 339.

1971The People's Republic of China replaces the Republic of China at the United Nations.

1968A Fairchild F-27 crashes into Moose Mountain while on approach to Lebanon Municipal Airport in Lebanon, New Hampshire, killing 32 people.

1968Soyuz 2 is launched.

1962Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba.

1949The Battle of Guningtou in the Taiwan Strait begins.

1945Fifty years of Japanese administration of Taiwan formally ends when the Republic of China assumes control.

1944World War II: 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.

1944World War II: The final attempt of the Imperial Japanese Navy to win the war climaxes at the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

1944World War II: The USS Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine ace of the war) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo.

1940Benjamin O. Davis Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.

1932George Lansbury became the leader of the opposition British Labour Party.

1927The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.

1924The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later.

1920After 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies.

1917Old Style date of the October Revolution in Russia.

1911The Xinhai Revolution spreads to Guangzhou, where the Qing general Fengshan is assassinated by the Chinese Assassination Corps.

1875Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B♭ minor, Op. 23 premieres in Boston, Massachusetts, with Benjamin Johnson Lang as conductor and Hans von Bülow as soloist.

1868The Uspenski Cathedral, designed by Aleksey Gornostayev, is inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland.

1861The Toronto Stock Exchange is created.

1854The Battle of Balaclava takes place during the Crimean War. It is soon memorialized in verse as The Charge of the Light Brigade.

1822Greek War of Independence: The First Siege of Missolonghi begins.

1812War of 1812: The American frigate, USS United States, commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate HMS Macedonian.

1809Golden Jubilee of George III is celebrated in Britain as he begins the fiftieth year of his reign.

1760King George III succeeds to the British throne on the death of his grandfather George II.

1747War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral Edward Hawke defeats the French at the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre.

1616Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes the second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast.

1415Hundred Years' War: Henry V of England, with his lightly armoured infantry and archers, defeats the heavily armoured French cavalry in the Battle of Agincourt.

1147Reconquista: After a siege of four months, crusader knights conquer Lisbon.

Born on this day

2001Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant

2000Dominik Szoboszlai, Hungarian footballer

2000Vincent Zhou, American figure skater

1999Romeo Langford, American basketball player

1998Juan Soto, Dominican baseball player

1998Lee Know, South Korean singer

1997Federico Chiesa, Italian footballer

1996PJ Dozier, American basketball player

1995Conchita Campbell, Canadian actress

1995Jock Landale, Australian basketball player

1995Patrick McCaw, American basketball player

1994Gor Minasyan, Armenian weightlifter

1994Jefferson Lerma, Colombian footballer

1994Matteo Lodo, Italian rower

1994Ray Robson, American chess Grandmaster

1994Richard Jouve, French cross-country skier

1993Isaiah Austin, American basketball player

1993Iván Garcia, Mexican diver

1993Rachel Matthews, American actress

1993William Howard, French basketball player

1993Zeno Robinson, American voice actor

1992Clarisse Agbegnenou, French judoka

1992Davide Formolo, Italian cyclist

1992Sergey Ridzik, Russian freestyle skier

1991Davide Faraoni, Italian footballer

1991Isabella Shinikova, Bulgarian tennis player

1990Asha Philip, British athlete

1990Dzina Sazanavets, Belarusian weightlifter

1990Mattia Cattaneo, Italian cyclist

1990Milena Rašić, Serbian volleyball player

1990Sara Chafak, Finnish beauty pageant winner

1989David Hala, Australian rugby league player

1989Filip Grgić, Croatian taekwondo practitioner

1989Ivan Marconi, Italian footballer

1989Mia Wasikowska, Australian actress

1989Sten Grytebust, Norwegian footballer

1988Chandler Parsons, American basketball player

1988Karim Yoda, French footballer

1988Kaz Patafta, Australian footballer

1988Lewis McGugan, English professional footballer

Died on this day

2025Rolf Dupuy, anarchist and historian of the anarchist movement in France and Spain (born 1946)

2025Satish Shah, Indian actor and comedian (born 1951)

2024Kim Soo-mi, South Korean actress (born 1949)

2024Phil Lesh, American bassist (born 1940)

2019Dilip Parikh, Indian politician (born 1937)

2018Thomas Keating, American Trappist monk and a principal developer of Centering Prayer (born 1923)

2016Bob Hoover, USAF, Test, and Airshow pilot (born 1922)

2016Carlos Alberto Torres, Brazilian football player and manager (born 1944)

2015Cecil Lolo, South African footballer (born 1988)

2015David Cesarani, English historian and author (born 1956)

2015Flip Saunders, American basketball player and coach (born 1955)

2015Lisa Jardine, English historian, author, and academic (born 1944)

2014Carlos Morales Troncoso, Dominican lawyer and politician, 34th Vice President of the Dominican Republic (born 1940)

2014Jack Bruce, Scottish singer-songwriter and bass player (born 1943)

2013Arthur Danto, American philosopher and critic (born 1924)

2013Bill Sharman, American basketball player and coach (born 1926)

2013Hal Needham, American actor, stuntman, director, and screenwriter (born 1931)

2013Marcia Wallace, American actress and comedian (born 1942)

2013Nicholas Hunt, Welsh-English admiral (born 1930)

2013Paul Reichmann, Austrian-Canadian businessman, founded Olympia and York (born 1930)

2013Ron Ackland, New Zealand rugby player and coach (born 1934)

2012Emanuel Steward, American boxer, trainer, and sportscaster (born 1944)

2012Jacques Barzun, French-American historian and author (born 1907)

2012Jaspal Bhatti, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1955)

2012John Connelly, English footballer (born 1938)

2010Gregory Isaacs, Jamaican-English singer-songwriter (born 1951)

2010Lisa Blount, American actress (born 1957)

2010Vesna Parun, Croatian poet and author (born 1922)

2004John Peel, English radio host and producer (born 1939)

2003Pandurang Shastri Athavale, Indian spiritual leader and philosopher (born 1920)

Quote of the day

“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”

attributed to the Buddha

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