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Historical Events on October 25

285
Execution of Saints Crispin and Crispinian during the reign of Diocletian, now the patron saints of leather workers, curriers, and shoemakers.
473
Emperor Leo I acclaims his grandson Leo II as Caesar of the Byzantine Empire.
1147
Seljuk Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum.
1147
Reconquista: After a siege of four months, crusader knights led by Afonso Henriques reconquered Lisbon.
1415
Hundred Years' War: Henry V of England and his lightly armoured infantry and archers defeat the heavily armoured French cavalry in the Battle of Agincourt on Saint Crispin's Day.
1616
Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast.
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.
1812
War of 1812: The American frigate, USS United States, commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate HMS Macedonian.
1822
Greek War of Independence: The First Siege of Missolonghi begins.
1828
St Katharine Docks open in London.
1854
The Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War (Charge of the Light Brigade).
1861
The Toronto Stock Exchange is created.
1900
The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
1917
Old Style date of the October Revolution in Russia
1920
After 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies.
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.
1927
The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.
1940
Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.
1944
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
The USS Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine captain of World War II) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo.
1944
World War II: Battle of Leyte Gulf: The largest naval battle in history, takes place in and around the Philippines between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the U.S. Third and U.S. Seventh Fleets. Afterward is the first Kamikaze attack of the war.
1945
The Republic of China takes over administration of Taiwan following Japan's surrender to the Allies.
1962
Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows photos at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council proving that Soviet missiles are installed in Cuba.
1971
The United Nations seats the People's Republic of China and expels the Republic of China (see political status of Taiwan and China and the United Nations).
1973
Yom Kippur War officially ends with a ceasefire.
1977
Digital Equipment Corporation releases OpenVMS V1.0.
1980
Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude at The Hague.
1983
Operation Urgent Fury: 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.
1995
A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.
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.
2009
The October 2009 Baghdad bombings kills 155 and wounds at least 721.

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