October 25th Events |
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October 25th, 2007 (October 25 2007) | Event | The first Airbus A380 passenger flight, operating for Singapore Airlines, with flight number SQ 380, flying scheduled service between Singapore and Sydney, Australia. | |
October 25th, 2004 (October 25 2004) | Event | Fidel Castro, Cuba s President, announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned by November 8. | Fidel Castro Quotes |
October 25th, 1997 (October 25 1997) | Event | 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. | |
October 25th, 1996 (October 25 1996) | Event | The "Days of Action", the largest one day strike in Ontario, Canada s history, as over 250,000 protesters converged on the Ontario Legislature and attempted to shut-down Toronto, in protest to the Mike Harris government s budget cuts. | |
October 25th, 1995 (October 25 1995) | Event | A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students. | |
October 25th, 1993 (October 25 1993) | Event | Jean Chretien becomes Prime Minister of Canada with a massive majority for his Liberal Party in a general election in which the governing Progressive Conservatives, led by Kim Campbell, lost 149 of 151 seats in the parliament. | |
October 25th, 1992 (October 25 1992) | Event | Lithuania holds a referendum on its first post-Soviet constitution. | |
October 25th, 1991 (October 25 1991) | Event | History of Slovenia: Three months after the end of the Ten-Day War, the last soldier of the Yugoslav People s Army leaves the territory of the Republic of Slovenia. | |
October 25th, 1983 (October 25 1983) | Event | Operation Urgent Fury: The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters were executed in a coup d etat. | |
October 25th, 1980 (October 25 1980) | Event | Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude at The Hague. | |
October 25th, 1977 (October 25 1977) | Event | Digital Equipment Corporation releases OpenVMS V1.0. | |
October 25th, 1972 (October 25 1972) | Event | The Washington Post reports that White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman was the fifth person to control a secret cash fund designed to finance illegal political sabotage and espionage during the 1972 presidential election campaign (see also Watergate scandal). | |
October 25th, 1971 (October 25 1971) | Event | The United Nations seated the People s Republic of China and expelled the Republic of China (see political status of Taiwan and China and the United Nations) | |
October 25th, 1970 (October 25 1970) | Event | The wreck of Confederate submarine Hunley was found off Charleston, South Carolina, by pioneer underwater archaeologist, Dr. E. Lee Spence, then just 22 years oldied in Hunley was the first submarine to sink a ship in warfare. | E. Lee Spence Quotes |
October 25th, 1962 (October 25 1962) | Event | Cuban missile crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows photos at the UN proving Soviet missiles are installed in Cuba | Adlai Stevenson Quotes |
October 25th, 1945 (October 25 1945) | Event | The Republic of China takes over administration of Taiwan following Japan s surrender to the Allies. | |
October 25th, 1944 (October 25 1944) | Event | 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. | Heinrich Himmler Quotes |
October 25th, 1944 (October 25 1944) | Event | The USS Tang (SS-306) under Richard O Kane (the top submarine captain of World War II) is sunk by the ship s own torpedo. | |
October 25th, 1944 (October 25 1944) | Event | The Romanian Army liberates Carei, the last Romanian city under Axis Powers occupation. | |
October 25th, 1944 (October 25 1944) | Event | 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. | |
October 25th, 1938 (October 25 1938) | Event | The Archbishop of Dubuque, 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". | |
October 25th, 1936 (October 25 1936) | Event | Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini create the Rome-Berlin Axis. | Benito Mussolini Quotes |
October 25th, 1935 (October 25 1935) | Event | Hurricane floods Haiti, killing over 2,000 people. | |
October 25th, 1924 (October 25 1924) | Event | The forged Zinoviev Letter is published in the Daily Mail, wrecking the British Labour Party s hopes of re-election. | |
October 25th, 1917 (October 25 1917) | Event | Traditionally understood date of the October Revolution, involving the capture of the Winter Palace, Petrograd, Russia. | |
October 25th, 1912 (October 25 1912) | Event | Richard Strauss opera Ariadne auf Naxos receives its debut performance at the Vienna State Opera. | Richard Strauss Quotes |
October 25th, 1900 (October 25 1900) | Event | The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal. | |
October 25th, 1875 (October 25 1875) | Event | The first performance of the Piano Concerto No. 1 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is given in Boston, Massachusetts with Hans von Bulow as soloist. | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Quotes |
October 25th, 1861 (October 25 1861) | Event | The Toronto Stock Exchange was created. | |
October 25th, 1854 (October 25 1854) | Event | The Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War (Charge of the Light Brigade). | |
October 25th, 1828 (October 25 1828) | Event | The St Katharine Docks opened in London. | |
October 25th, 1813 (October 25 1813) | Event | War of 1812: Canadians and Mohawks defeat the Americans in the Battle of Chateauguay. | |
October 25th, 1760 (October 25 1760) | Event | George III becomes King of Great Britain. | |
October 25th, 1747 (October 25 1747) | Event | British fleet under Admiral Sir Edward Hawke defeats the French at the second battle of Cape Finisterre. | |
October 25th, 1616 (October 25 1616) | Event | Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the Western Australian coast. | |
October 25th, 1415 (October 25 1415) | Event | The army of Henry V of England defeats the French at the Battle of Agincourt. | |
October 25th, 1315 (October 25 1315) | Event | Adam Banastre, Henry de Lea and William Bradshaw, led an attack on Liverpool Castle. | |
October 25th, 1147 (October 25 1147) | Event | The Portuguese, under Afonso I, and Crusaders from England and Flanders conquer Lisbon after a four-month siege. | |
October 25th, 1147 (October 25 1147) | Event | Seljuk Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum. | |