Notable Historical Events on October 25th
October 25th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
625 |
Boniface V ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
1131 |
Crowning of Louis VII the Young, King of France |
1147 |
King Afonso I of Portugal occupiers Lisbon |
1147 |
Seljuk Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum. |
1241 |
Goffredo Castiglioni elected as Pope Coelestinus IV (-Nov 10 1241) |
1315 |
Adam Banastre, Henry de Lea and William Bradshaw, led an attack on Liverpool Castle. |
1415 |
Battle of Agincourt: Henry V's forces defeat larger French army and the longbow defeats the armoured knight |
1415 |
John IV van Bourgondy becomes duke of Brabant/Limburg |
1492 |
Columbus' fleet sites "Zandislands" (Ragged Island Range, Bahamas) |
1492 |
Christopher Columbus' ship Santa Maria lands at Dominican Republic |
1521 |
Emperor Charles V bans wooden buildings in Amsterdam |
1555 |
Emperor Karel puts son Philip II in charge of Netherlands/Naples/Milan |
1577 |
Pope Gregory XIII asks renewal of ecclesiastical hymns |
1596 |
Spanish fleet sails from Lisbon to Ireland |
1616 |
VOC-ship "The Eendracht" discovers Dirk-Hartogeiland, Australia |
1621 |
Gov Bradford of colony of American Plymouth disallows sport on Christmas Day |
1666 |
Brandenburg/Brunswick/Denmark/Neth form anti-French Quadruple Alliance |
1671 |
Giovanni Cassini discovers Iapetus, satellite of Saturn |
1747 |
British fleet under Admiral Sir Edward Hawke defeats the French at the second battle of Cape Finisterre. |
1760 |
George III becomes King of Great Britain. |
1780 |
John Hancock becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts |
1812 |
US frigate United States captures British vessel Macedonian |
1828 |
The St Katharine Docks opened in London. |
1854 |
Charge of Light Brigade (Battle of Balaclava, Crimean War), 409 die |
1854 |
Prince Menshikov of Crimea occupies British base at Balaclava |
1859 |
Merchant vessel Royal Charter runs aground at Liverpool, 459 die |
1861 |
First Battle of Springfield in Missouri during US Civil War, Union victory |
1861 |
Telegraph message sent from St Louis to SF |
1861 |
The Toronto Stock Exchange created. |
1864 |
Battle of Marais Des Cygnes River, Kansas (Mine Creek) |
1864 |
Skirmish at Mine Creek, KS & Turkeytown, AL |
1870 |
Pimlico Race Course opens in Baltimore |
1870 |
Postcards first used in USA |
1875 |
The first performance of the Piano Concerto No. 1 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is given in Boston, Massachusetts with Hans von Bülow as soloist. |
1884 |
1st World Series OK by AA, Providence (NL) sweeps NY Mets (AA) in 3 |
1885 |
John Brahms' 4th Symphony in E premieres |
1891 |
1st International 6 day bike race (NY Madison Square Garden) ends |
1893 |
Battle of Shangani, Matabeleland: Dr Jameson beats Ndebeles |
1900 |
Great Britain annexes the former Boer South African Republic, renaming it the Transvaal Colony |
1901 |
In Great Britain, Joseph Chamberlain, Colonial Affairs Secretary, makes an anti-German speech in Edinburgh; when word reaches Germany it leads to widespread agitation against the British and eventual breakdown of negotiations for an Anglo-German alliance |
1902 |
Maxim Gorki's "Na dne" premieres in Moscow |
1902 |
Santa Maria Guatemala hit by Earthquake; about 6,000 die |
1906 |
Georges Clemenceau succeeds Ferdinand Sarien premier of France |
1906 |
US inventor Lee de Forest patents "Audion", a 3-diode amplification valve which proved a pioneering development in radio & broadcasting |
1907 |
Frederik of Oaths disbands mental home colony Walden |
1911 |
London's last horse drawn omnibus made its way from London Bridge Station to Moorgate |
1915 |
Atty James L Curtis named minister of Liberia |
1917 |
Pan-Russian Congress opens in Petrograd |
1918 |
Canadian steamship "Princess Sophia" hit a reef off Alaska, 398 die |
1923 |
Senate committee publishes 1st report on Teapot Dome scandal |
1924 |
"Little Orphan Annie" comic strip 1st published |
1925 |
Lester Patrick takes over NY Rangers |
1925 |
Rightist German ministers disavows Treaty of Locarno |
1926 |
Lester Patrick becomes 1st coach & gm of NY Rangers |
1929 |
Former Interior Sec Albert Fall convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe |
1930 |
1st football game in Atlantic City Convention Center |
1930 |
1st scheduled transcontinental air service began |
1932 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Company consultant |
1932 |
Benito Mussolini promises to remain dictator for 30 years |
1935 |
Hurricane-produced floods kill 2,000 in Jeremie & Jacmel Haiti |
1937 |
Belgian government of Zealand falls due to black money |
1937 |
Casey Stengel signs to manage Boston Bees |
1938 |
Japanese troops occupies Hankou & Wuhan |
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". |
1939 |
George Kaufman/Moss Hart's "Man Who Came to Dinner" premieres in NYC |
1939 |
William Saroyan's "Time of Your Life" premieres in NYC |
1940 |
Benjamin O Davis Sr. becomes 1st African American general in US Army |
1940 |
Col Bo Davis attains rank of Brigadier General |
1940 |
Duke, Latouche & Felter's musical premieres in NYC |
1941 |
16,000 Jews massacred in Odessa Ukraine |
1941 |
Germany attacks Moscow |
1941 |
Winston Churchill routes "Forces South" to SE Asia |
1942 |
3rd day of battle at El Alamein: British offensive |
1942 |
Battle of Henderson Field Guadalcanal begins |
1942 |
Field Marshal Rommel back in North-Africa |
1943 |
Burma railroad completed & opens |
1944 |
Battle at Cape Engano: 4 Japanese ships sink |
1944 |
Battle at Samar-island |
1944 |
Battle in Straits of Surigao: Japanese fleet destroyed |
1944 |
Gas output stopped in Amsterdam |
1945 |
Japanese surrender Taiwan to Gen Chiang Kai-shek |
1946 |
1st trial against nazi war criminals (Nuremberg) |
1947 |
"Under the Counter" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 27 perfs |
1947 |
Bradman scores 156 for SA v the Indians, 152 mins, 22 fours |
1947 |
Sam Breadon sells Cards to Robert Hannegan & Fred Saigh for $4M |
1948 |
Special Council of Annulment convicts F Weinreb for collaboration |
1950 |
Dutch NSB leader C van Gelderen sentenced to life |
1950 |
Jean Anouilh's "La Repetition, ou L'Amour Pani" premieres in Paris |
1950 |
Sukarno appointed president of Republic Indonesia |
1951 |
Peace talks aimed at ending Korean War resumed in Panmunjom |
1952 |
First Dutch edition of children's magazine "Donald Duck" |
1952 |
French president inaugurates Donzère-Mondragonstuw Dam |
1952 |
Nazar Mohammad scores Pakistan's 1st Test century 124* v India |
1953 |
Cleveland Browns' QB Otto Graham sets club record with 4 fumbles |
1953 |
Coal mine in Seraing Belgium explodes, 26 die |
1953 |
Dmitri Sjostakovitch completes his 10th Symphony |
1953 |
KIEM TV channel 3 in Eureka, CA (NBC/CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting |
1955 |
Austria resumed its sovereignty after departure of last Allied occupation forces, for 1st time since German occupation of 1938 |
1955 |
Branch Rickey steps down as GM of the Pirates |
1955 |
Tappan sells 1st microwave oven |
1956 |
White Sox manager Marty Marion resigns. AL Lopez replaces him |
1957 |
Russian minister of Defense Zjoekov deposed |
1960 |
1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale, NYC |
1960 |
Cuba nationalizes all remaining US businesses |
1961 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1962 |
110th member of UN admitted (Uganda) |
1962 |
1st Belgian nuclear reactor begins operation |
1962 |
American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize for Literature |
1962 |
US Ambassador to the UN Adlai Stevenson demands USSR UN rep Zorin answer regarding Cuban missile bases saying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over" |
1963 |
Anti-Kennedy "WANTED FOR TREASON" pamphlets scattered in Dallas |
1963 |
Beatles begin their 1st full foreign tour in Sweden |
1964 |
Anton Geesink is 1st non-Japanese Olympic judo gold medal winner |
1964 |
Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Ladies' Golf Open |
1964 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1964 |
"The Wrong Way Run", Viking Jim Marshall runs 66 yards in wrong direction for a safety (NFL's #1 blooper) |
1964 |
Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan Show |
1965 |
Rolling Stones release "Get Off of My Cloud" |
1966 |
6 youths sentenced in "Johnson murderer!" in Amsterdam |
1968 |
Chicago recognizes Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable as its 1st settler |
1968 |
Longest Oly field hockey game, Hol beats Spain 1-0 in 2h25m (6 OT) |
1968 |
Yoko Ono announces she is having John Lennon's baby |
1970 |
Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Women's Golf Charities Open |
1971 |
Belgium & China PR establish diplomatic relations |
1971 |
General Meeting of UN agrees to admit China PR |
1971 |
Roy Disney dedicates Walt Disney World |
1971 |
UN votes to expel Chinese Nationalist-ruled Taiwan & admit Red China |
1971 |
A man dies two days after being shot during an Irish Republican Army attack on the British Army in Belfast |
1972 |
Eddy Merckx (Belgium) covers 30 miles, 1,258 yards in 1 hr |
1972 |
Nobel prize for economy awarded to Kenneth J Arrow & John R Hicks |
1973 |
Chris Wills wins 1st National hang-gliding championship |
1973 |
Cubs trade Ferguson Jenkins to Rangers for Bill Madlock & Vic Harris |
1973 |
SF Giants trade Willie McCovey to SD Padres for pitcher Mike Caldwell |
1974 |
US Air Force fires 1st ICBM |
1974 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch' 15th String Quartet premieres in Leningrad |
1974 |
Wings release "Junior's Farm" |
1975 |
Denver Nuggets 1st game at McNichols Sports Arena beat St Louis Spirits |
1975 |
USSR's Venera 10 makes day-side Venus landing |
1976 |
5th Enterprise, approach & lands test (ALT) flight |
1976 |
Gov Wallace grants full pardon to Clarence Norris, last known survivor of 9 Scottsboro Boys who were convicted in 1931 rape |
1977 |
Digital Equipment Corporation releases OpenVMS V1.0. |
1978 |
Israeli government approves "in principle", a draft compromise peace |
1978 |
Padres Gaylord Perry is 1st to win Cy Young in both leagues (NL) |
1978 |
"Halloween", starring Jamie Lee Curtis in her film debut, is released |
1979 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1980 |
Mike Weaver KOs Gerrie Coetzee in 13 for heavyweight boxing title |
1980 |
Barbra Streisand's "Guilty" album goes #1 for 3 weeks & her single "Woman In Love," goes #1 for 3 weeks |
1981 |
11th NYC Women's Marathon won by Allison Roe in 2:25:29 |
1981 |
12th NYC Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 2:08:13 |
1981 |
200,000 demonstrate in Brussel against cruise missile |
1981 |
Allison Roe (2:25:29) & Alberto Salazar (2:08:13) win NYC marathon |
1981 |
George Steinbrenner scuffles with 2 fans in a hotel elevator |
1982 |
David Hookes scores Cricket century in 34 balls 43 mins, SA v Victoria |
1983 |
US invades Grenada, a country 1/2,000 its population (US Wins!) |
1984 |
"Give My Regards to Broad Street" premieres (Gotham Theater-NYC) |
1984 |
Hepatitis virus is discovered |
1984 |
King Boudouin opens Museum for Modern Art in Brussels |
1984 |
Rangers beat Devils 11-2 |
1984 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1984 |
West German Chancellor Rainer Barzel resigns due to corruption |
1985 |
Angels announce that they will not offer Rod Carew a new contract |
1985 |
Kosmos 1700 communications satellite placed in geostationary orbit |
1986 |
International Red Cross ousted from South Africa |
1986 |
Michael Sergio Parachutes into Shea Stadium during game 6 of WS |
1986 |
Trailing 5-3 with 2 out & no one on in bottom of 10th, NY rallies to win Game 6 of the World Series, 6-5, Bill Buckner misplays a ball |
1987 |
Minnesota Twins win their 1st World Series championship beating St Louis Cards, 4 games to 3 in 84th World Series |
1988 |
ABC News reports on potbellied pygmy pigs' popularity as pets |
1988 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1990 |
Evander Holyfield KOs Buster Douglas in 3 for heavyweight boxing title |
1990 |
NY Daily News goes on strike (lasts through March, 1991) |
1991 |
Aaqib Javed takes 7-37 in 10 overs v India in cric 1-dayer at Sharjah |
1992 |
"Dancing at Lughnasa" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 421 perfs |
1992 |
"Jake's Women" closes at Neil Simon Theater NYC after 245 performances |
1992 |
Rene Lachemann hired as Fla Marlins 1st manager |
1992 |
Lithuania holds a referendum on its first post-Soviet constitution. |
1993 |
Airbus A310 of Air Nigeria hijacked, 1 dead |
1993 |
Canada Liberal Party/Bloc Québécois wins parliamentary election |
1993 |
Daryll Cullinan hits 337* for Transvaal, SAf 1st-class cricket record |
1994 |
Susan Smith claims her 2 kids were carjack (she actually killed them) |
1995 |
"Victor/Victoria" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 738 performances |
1996 |
Frank, brother of Yank manager Joe Torre, receives a heart transplant |
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. |
2000 |
A team led by Brigitte Senut and Martin Pickford discover Orrorin tugenensis, one of the earliest species on the human family tree that lived about 6 million years ago, in the Tugen Hills, Kenya |
2001 |
Windows XP first became available. |
2004 |
Fidel Castro, Cuba's President, announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned by November 8. |
2007 |
The first Airbus A380 passenger flight, operating for Singapore Airlines, with flight number SQ 380, flying scheduled service between Singapore and Sydney, Australia. |
2009 |
The 25 October 2009 Baghdad bombings kills 155 and wounds at least 721. |
2012 |
Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in Cuba and Haiti killing 65 people and causing over $80 million in damage |
2012 |
The double dip recession in the UK economy ends with growth of 1.0% in GDP in the third quarter of 2012, with help from the London Olympic Games |
2013 |
74 Boko Harem members killed in a coordinated assault in Borno State, Nigeria |
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