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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 ...