All Events

Historical Events on October 25

  • Reconquista

    1147

    Reconquista: After a siege of four months, crusader knights led by Afonso Henriques reconquered Lisbon.

  • Netherlands

    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.

  • War of 1812

    1812

    War of 1812: The American frigate, USS United States, commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate HMS Macedonian.

  • Greek War of Independence

    1822

    Greek War of Independence: The First Siege of Missolonghi begins.

  • Heinrich Himmler

    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.

  • World War II

    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.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    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.

  • United Nations

    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).

  • Yom Kippur War

    1973

    Yom Kippur War officially ends with a ceasefire.

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