October 25: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

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 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 Australian coast.
• 1747 - British fleet under Admiral Sir Edward Hawke defeats French at the 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 - 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 was created.
• 1900 - The 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 - The 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.
• 1935 - Hurricane floods Haiti, killing over 2,000 people.
• 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
• 1944 - The USS Tang (SS-306) under Richard O'Kane (the top submarine captain of World War II) is sunk by her own torpedo.
• 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 - The United Nations seated the People's Republic of China and expelled the Republic of China (see China and the United Nations)
• 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 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.
• 1987 - Logan Tenhet born
• 1991 - Rock band Steely Dan reunites.
• 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.
• 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, led by Kim Campbell, 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. She 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.

• 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 - Évariste 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)
• 1903 - Katharine Byron, U.S. Congresswoman (d. 1976)
• 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)
• 1921 - King Michael I of Romania
• 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 - Dan Gable, American wrestler and coach
• 1948 - Glenn Tipton, English guitarist
• 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, baseball player
• 1981 - Shaun Wright-Phillips, English footballer
• 1984 - Sara Helena Lumholdt, Swedish musician (A-Teens)
• 1985 - Ciara Harris, American singer
• 1988 - Amy Ryan, American singer
• 1995 - Conchita Campbell, Canadian actress

• 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:
  • Charles d'Albret, Count of Dreux and Constable of France
  • John I of Alençon (b. 1385)
  • Antoine, Duke of Brabant (b. 1384)
  • Philip of Burgundy, Count of Nevers and Rethel (b. 1389)
  • Frederick of Lorraine (born 1371)
  • Philip II, Count of Nevers (b. 1389)
  • Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk (born 1394)
  • 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
• 1938 - Alfonsina Storni, Argentine poet (b. 1892)
• 1953 - Holger Pedersen, Danish linguist (b. 1867)
• 1957 - Albert Anastasia, Italian-born gangster (b. 1902)
• 1957 - Lord Dunsany, Irish writer (b. 1878)
• 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 - Richard Harris, Irish actor (b. 1930)
• 2002 - Paul Wellstone, U.S. Senator from Minnesota (b. 1944)
• 2003 - Veikko Hakulinen, Finnish cross-country skier
• 2004 - John Peel, British disc jockey (b. 1939)
• 2005 - Wellington Mara, American football team owner (b. 1916)

• 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

October 24 - October 26 - November 25 - September 25 - more historical anniversaries