SomeFacts | October 25

On this day - October 25

473 — Emperor Leo I acclaims his grandson Leo II as Caesar of the ...

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

1147 — Seljuk Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III at the ...

1415 — Hundred Years' War: Henry V of England, with his lightly ...

1616 — Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes the second recorded ...

1747 — War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral ...

1760 — King George III succeeds to the British throne on the death of ...

1809 — Golden Jubilee of George III is celebrated in Britain as he ...

1812 — War of 1812: The American frigate, USS United States, ...

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

1854 — The Battle of Balaclava takes place during the Crimean War. It ...

1861 — The Toronto Stock Exchange is created.

1868 — The Uspenski Cathedral, designed by Aleksey Gornostayev, is ...

1875 — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B♭ ...

1911 — The Xinhai Revolution spreads to Guangzhou, where the Qing ...

1917 — Old Style date of the October Revolution in Russia.

1920 — After 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, England, the ...

1924 — The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is ...

1927 — The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the ...

1932 — George Lansbury became the leader of the opposition British ...

1940 — Benjamin O. Davis Sr. is named the first African American ...

1944 — World War II: The final attempt of the Imperial Japanese Navy ...

1944 — World War II: The USS Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top ...

1944 — World War II: Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the ...

1945 — Fifty years of Japanese administration of Taiwan formally ends ...

1949 — The Battle of Guningtou in the Taiwan Strait begins.

1962 — Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations ...

1968 — Soyuz 2 is launched.

1968 — A Fairchild F-27 crashes into Moose Mountain while on approach ...

1971 — The People's Republic of China replaces the Republic of ...

1973 — Egypt and Israel accept United Nations Security Council ...

1980 — Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of ...

1983 — The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six ...

1989 — The first leg of the 1989 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira is ...

1990 — The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic declares its sovereignty ...

1995 — A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, ...

1997 — After a civil war, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself ...

1999 — A Learjet 35 crashes in Mina near Aberdeen, South Dakota, ...

2001 — Microsoft releases Windows XP, which becomes one of ...

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

2010 — A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes off Indonesia's ...

2010 — Mount Merapi in Indonesia begins a month-long series of ...

2023 — A mass shooting occurs in two locations in Lewiston, Maine. 18 ...