Historical Events on October 25

Events 1 - 200 of 204

• 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 John IV of Burgundy becomes Duke of Brabant and Limburg, upon his father's death

• 1555 Holy Roman Emperor Charles V publicly abdicates his roles as Lord of the Netherlands and Duke of Burgundy in favor of his son Philip II of Spain

• 1596 Spanish fleet sails from Lisbon to Ireland

• 1666 Brandenburg, Brunswick, Denmark and The Netherlands 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

• 1812 US frigate United States captures British vessel Macedonian
• 1828 St Katharine Docks opens in London, England
• 1829 Eastern State Penitentiary opens in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as the world's 1st prison to entirely use solitary confinement system intended for rehabilitation; designed by Robert Strickland, it closed in 1971, and is now a museum [1]
• 1854 Prince Menshikov of Crimea occupies British base at Balaclava

• 1861 First Battle of Springfield [Zagonyi's Charge], fought in Springfield, Missouri, Union victory (US Civil War)
• 1861 Telegraph message sent from St Louis to San Francisco
• 1861 Toronto Stock Exchange created
• 1864 Battle of Marais Des Cygnes River, Kansas (Mine Creek)
• 1870 Pimlico Race Course opens in Baltimore
• 1870 Postcards first used in USA

• 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 Joseph Chamberlain, British Colonial Affairs Secretary, makes an anti-German speech in Edinburgh; when word reaches Germany leads to widespread agitation against the British and breakdown of negotiations for Anglo-German alliance

• 1902 Santa Maria, Guatemala hit by Earthquake, killing an estimated 6,000 people

• 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 James L Curtis named US Minister for Liberia
• 1917 Pan-Russian Congress opens in Petrograd
• 1918 Canadian steamship "Princess Sophia" hits a reef off Alaska, 398 die

• 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

• 1930 1st indoor American football game Convention Hall in Atlantic City; a 7–0 victory by Washington & Jefferson over Lafayette, two Pennsylvania college teams
• 1930 Transcontinental and Western Air (TWA) begins 1st scheduled US transcontinental air service between NYC and Los Angeles, California; 30 hour trip includes overnight stop in Kansas City, Missouri

• 1932 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Company consultant
• 1935 Hurricane-produced floods kill 2,000 in Jeremie & Jacmel Haiti
• 1937 Belgian government of Zealand falls due to black money

• 1938 American Archbishop of Dubuque (Iowa), 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".
• 1938 Japanese troops occupies Hankou & Wuhan
• 1939 William Saroyan's "Time of Your Life" premieres in NYC
• 1940 Benjamin O Davis Sr. becomes 1st African American general in US Army
• 1941 16,000 Jews massacred in Odessa, Ukraine
• 1941 Germany attacks Moscow
• 1942 3rd day of battle at El Alamein: British offensive
• 1942 Battle of Henderson Field Guadalcanal begins

• 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

• 1947 Bradman scores 156 for South Australia v India, 152 mins, 22 fours
• 1947 Sam Breadon sells Cards to Robert Hannegan & Fred Saigh for $4M
• 1948 Special Council of Annulment convicts writer Friedrich Weinreb for collaboration with the Nazis
• 1950 Dutch NSB leader C van Gelderen sentenced to life

• 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 first ever Test cricket century (124no) in 2nd Test v India in Lucknow

• 1953 Coal mine in Seraing Belgium explodes, 26 die

• 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 Tappan sells 1st microwave oven

• 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

• 1963 Anti-Kennedy "WANTED FOR TREASON" pamphlets scattered in Dallas
• 1963 The Beatles begin their 1st full foreign tour in Karlstad, Sweden, performing twice at a secondary school auditorium
• 1964 "The Wrong Way Run", Viking Jim Marshall runs 66 yards in wrong direction for a safety (NFL's #1 blooper)
• 1964 Dutchman Anton Geesink is 1st non-Japanese Olympic judo gold medal winner

• 1964 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1965 The Rolling Stones release music single "Get Off of My Cloud"
• 1966 6 youths sentenced in "Johnson murderer!" in Amsterdam

• 1968 American swimmer Claudia Kolb wraps up the women's individual medley double in Mexico City, winning the 400m I/M in Olympic record 5:08.5; she also won the 200m I/M in OR 2:24.7
• 1968 Chicago recognizes Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable as its 1st settler
• 1968 Czech gymnast Věra Čáslavská wins the uneven bars and vault gold medals at the Mexico City Olympics; her 6th & 7th career gold medals and her 4th at these Games
• 1968 East German swimmer Roland Matthes wins the 200m backstroke gold medal in Olympic record 2:09.6 at the Mexico City Games; wraps up backstroke double
• 1968 Longest Olympic field hockey game, The Netherlands beats Spain 1-0 in 2h25m (6 OT)
• 1968 US men's basketball team beats Yugoslavia 65-50 to win the gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics; 7th straight basketball title for the Americans

• 1970 Austrian driver Jochen Rindt wins F1 World Drivers Championship by 5 points from Jacky Ickx after Mexican GP; only season World Championship awarded posthumously, after Rindt's death in Italian GP practice at Monza
• 1971 A man dies two days after being shot during an Irish Republican Army attack on the British Army in Belfast
• 1971 Belgium & People's Republic of China establish diplomatic relations
• 1971 General Meeting of UN agrees to admit People's Republic of China
• 1971 United Nations votes to expel the Chinese Nationalist ruled Taiwan and admit the Communist People's Republic of China

• 1972 Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to Kenneth J Arrow & John R Hicks
• 1973 Chris Wills wins 1st National hang-gliding championship

• 1974 Dmitri Shostakovich' 15th String Quartet premieres in Leningrad, USSR
• 1974 US Air Force fires 1st ICBM successfully from a plane, over the Pacific Ocean off the Southern California coast
• 1974 Wings release single "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 Governor 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

• 1979 USSR performs underground nuclear test

• 1981 200,000 demonstrate in Brussel against cruise missile

• 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 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 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
• 1988 ABC News reports on potbellied pygmy pigs' popularity as pets
• 1988 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• 1990 "40-Hour Week" 9th studio album by Alabama is re-released (original release 1985)

• 1990 NY Daily News goes on strike (lasts through March, 1991)
• 1991 Aaqib Javed takes 7-37 in 10 overs v India in cricket 1-dayer at Sharjah
• 1992 Lithuania holds a referendum on its first post-Soviet constitution.
• 1992 Rene Lachemann hired as Fla Marlins 1st manager
• 1993 Airbus A310 of Air Nigeria hijacked, 1 dead
• 1993 Canada Liberal Party and Bloc Québécois wins parliamentary election
• 1993 Daryll Cullinan hits unbeaten 337 for Transvaal against Northern Transvaal, South African 1st-class cricket record score

• 1994 Susan Smith claims her 2 kids were carjacked (she actually killed them)

• 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 Microsoft releases Windows XP for retail sale

• 2007 David Lang's "The Little Match Girl Passion" premieres at Carnegie Hall, New York City (Pulitzer Prize for Music 2008) [1]
• 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

• 2016 4 killed on a theme park ride at Dreamworld, in Queensland, Australia
• 2016 Paul Beatty becomes the 1st American to win the Man Booker Prize for his novel "The Sellout"

• 2017 First fossil of a ichthyosaur (marine reptile, 152 million years old) found in India. Reports published in "Plos One" science journal.
• 2018 First work of art produced by artificial intelligence "Edmond de Belamy" conceived by Obvious sells for $432,500 at Christie's in New York
• 2018 Flash floods near the Red Sea in Jordan kill 17 as a school bus is washed away
• 2018 Google says it has fired 48 people for sexual harassment after New York Times reveals Android software creator Andy Rubin got $90M package when let go for sexual harassment
• 2018 Sahle-Work Zewde becomes Ethiopia's first female President and Africa's only female head of state after being elected by parliament
• 2018 Super Typhoon Yutu strikes the Northern Mariana Islands of Saipan and Tinian with winds of 180mph (290km/h)
• 2019 Leicester City rout Southampton, 9-0 at St. Mary's to record biggest ever win by an away side in an English top-flight league match in the history of the Football League
• 2020 British Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton wins Portuguese Grand Prix at Autódromo Internacional Do Algarve for his 92nd career victory; moves 1 win clear of Michael Schumacher in all-time F1 victories list

• 2021 Afghanistan to become world's worst humanitarian crisis as nearly 23 million people face acute hunger over winter according to the World Food Program [1]

• 2021 NASA scientists announce they may have detected the first planet outside our galaxy, in Whirlpool Galaxy (M51), 28 million light-years away [1]
• 2021 Sudan's military takes control of the country, dissolving the power-sharing government and declaring a state of emergency
• 2022 German sportswear manufacturer Adidas cuts ties with American rapper and fashion designer Kenye West over anti-Semitic remarks he made in interviews and on his social media [1]
• 2022 New Zealand Parliament membership becomes majority female for 1st time [1]

• Previous
• 1
• 2
• Next