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What Happened on October 25th This Day in History

Year	Name
285286	Execution of Saints Crispin and Crispinian during the reign of Diocletian, now the patron saints of leather workers, curriers, and shoemakers.
2010	Mount Merapi in Indonesia begins a month-long series of violent eruptions that kill 353 people and cause the evacuation of another 350,000 people.
2010	A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes off Indonesia's Mentawai Islands, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 400 people.
2009	The October 2009 Baghdad bombings kill 155 and wound at least 721.
2001	Microsoft releases Windows XP, which becomes one of Microsoft's most successful operating systems.
1999	A Learjet 35 crashes in Mina near Aberdeen, South Dakota, killing all six people on board, including PGA golfer Payne Stewart.
1997	After a civil war, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself President of the Republic of the Congo.
1995	A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.
1983	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.
1980	Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude.
1973	Egypt and Israel accept United Nations Security Council Resolution 339.
1971	The People's Republic of China replaces the Republic of China at the United Nations.
1968	A Fairchild F-27 crashes into Moose Mountain while on approach to Lebanon Municipal Airport in Lebanon, New Hampshire, killing 32 people.
1962	Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba.
1949	The Battle of Guningtou in the Taiwan Strait begins.
1945	Fifty years of Japanese administration of Taiwan formally ends when the Republic of China assumes control.
1944	World 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.
1944	World 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.
1944	World War II: The final attempt of the Imperial Japanese Navy to win the war climaxes at the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
1940	Benjamin O. Davis Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.
1932	George Lansbury became the leader of the opposition British Labour Party.
1927	The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.
1924	The 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.
1920	After 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies.
1917	Old Style date of the October Revolution in Russia.
1911	The Xinhai Revolution spreads to Guangzhou, where the Qing general Feng-shan is assassinated by the Chinese Assassination Corps.
1900	The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
1868	The Uspenski Cathedral, designed by Aleksey Gornostayev, is inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland.
1861	The Toronto Stock Exchange is created.
1854	The Battle of Balaclava takes place during the Crimean War. It is soon memorialized in verse as The Charge of the Light Brigade.
1822	Greek War of Independence: The First Siege of Missolonghi begins.
1812	War of 1812: The American frigate, USS United States, commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate HMS Macedonian.
1760	King George III succeeds to the British throne on the death of his grandfather George II.
1747	War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral Edward Hawke defeats the French at the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre.
1616	Dutch 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.
1415	Hundred Years' War: Henry V of England, with his lightly armoured infantry and archers, defeats the heavily armoured French cavalry in the Battle of Agincourt.
1147	Seljuk Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum.
1147	Reconquista: After a siege of four months, crusader knights reconquer Lisbon.
473	Emperor Leo I acclaims his grandson Leo II as Caesar of the East Roman Empire.

Famous People Born on October 25

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Year	Name
1953	Daniele Bagnoli, Italian volleyball coach
1970	Rafael González Robles, Spanish footballer
1991	Davide Faraoni, Italian footballer
1908	Carmen Dillon, English film and production designer (d. 2000)
1900	William Stevenson, American track and fielder (d. 1985)
1971	Pedro Martínez, Dominican-American baseball player and sportscaster
1886	Karl Polanyi, Austro-Hungarian economist and historian (d. 1964)
1922	Gloria Lasso, Spanish singer (d. 2005)
1977	Rakan Rushaidat, Croatian actor
1939	Nikos Nikolaidis, Greek director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2007)

Famous People Deaths On October 25

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on October 25. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
2000	Mochitsura Hashimoto, Japanese commander (b. 1909)
1292	Robert Burnell, Lord Chancellor of England
1651	Saint Job of Pochayiv, Ukrainian Orthodox Christian saint (b. 1551)
1920	Alexander of Greece (b. 1893)
1733	Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Italian priest, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1667)
1989	Mary McCarthy, American novelist and critic (b. 1912)
1954	Purshottam Narayan Gadgil, Indian jeweller and namesake of P. N. Gadgil Jewellers (b. 1874)
1230	Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Gloucester, English soldier (b. 1180)
1991	Bill Graham, German-American concert promoter (b. 1931)
1953	Holger Pedersen, Danish linguist and academic (b. 1867)