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25th of October 1147 EVENT Seljuk Turks completely annihilate German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum.
25th of October 1147 EVENT The Portuguese, under Afonso I, and Crusaders from England and Flanders conquer Lisbon after a four-month siege.
25th of October 1415 EVENT The army of Henry V of England defeats the French at the Battle of Agincourt.
25th of October 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 West Australian coast.
25th of October 1747 EVENT British fleet under Admiral Sir Edward Hawke defeats the French at the second battle of Cape Finisterre.
25th of October 1760 EVENT George III becomes King of Great Britain.
25th of October 1813 EVENT War of 1812: Canadians and Mohawks defeat the Americans in the Battle of Chateauguay.
25th of October 1828 EVENT The St Katharine Docks opened in London.
25th of October 1854 EVENT The Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War (Charge of the Light Brigade).
25th of October 1861 EVENT The Toronto Stock Exchange is created.
25th of October 1900 EVENT The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
25th of October 1917 EVENT Traditionally understood date of the October Revolution, involving the capture of the Winter Palace, Petrograd, Russia. The date refers to the Julian Calendar date, and corresponds with November 7 in the Gregorian calendar.
25th of October 1920 EVENT After 74 days on Hunger Strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Fein Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney died.
25th of October 1924 EVENT The forged Zinoviev Letter is published in the Daily Mail, wrecking the British Labour Party's hopes of re-election.
25th of October 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".
25th of October 1944 EVENT 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.
25th of October 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.
25th of October 1944 EVENT The Romanian Army liberates Carei, the last Romanian city under Axis Powers occupation.
25th of October 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.
25th of October 1945 EVENT The Republic of China takes over administration of Taiwan following Japan's surrender to the Allies.
25th of October 1962 EVENT Uganda joins the United Nations.
25th of October 1962 EVENT Cuban missile crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows photos at the UN proving Soviet missiles are installed in Cuba.
25th of October 1962 EVENT Nelson Mandela is sentenced to five years in prison.
25th of October 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)
25th of October 1977 EVENT Digital Equipment Corporation releases OpenVMS V1.0.
25th of October 1980 EVENT Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude at The Hague.
25th of October 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 are executed in a coup d'etat.
25th of October 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.
25th of October 1995 EVENT A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.
25th of October 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.
25th of October 2004 EVENT Fidel Castro, Cuba's President, announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned.
25th of October 2009 EVENT The 25 October 2009 Baghdad bombings kills 155 and wounds at least 721.
25th of October 1102 BIRTHDAY William Clito, Count of Flanders (d. 1128)
25th of October 1330 BIRTHDAY Louis II of Flanders (d. 1384)
25th of October 1510 BIRTHDAY Renee of France, French princess (d. 1574)
25th of October 1683 BIRTHDAY Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, British politician (d. 1757)
25th of October 1759 BIRTHDAY Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Wurttemberg), Russian empress (d. 1828)
25th of October 1759 BIRTHDAY William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, British politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1834)
25th of October 1767 BIRTHDAY Benjamin Constant, Swiss writer (d. 1830)
25th of October 1772 BIRTHDAY Geraud Duroc, French general (d. 1813)
25th of October 1782 BIRTHDAY Levi Lincoln, Jr., 13th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1868)
25th of October 1802 BIRTHDAY Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strong man (d. 1864)
25th of October 1806 BIRTHDAY Max Stirner, German philosopher (d. 1856)
25th of October 1811 BIRTHDAY Evariste Galois, French mathematician (d. 1832)
25th of October 1825 BIRTHDAY Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (d. 1899)
25th of October 1838 BIRTHDAY Georges Bizet, French composer (d. 1875)
25th of October 1856 BIRTHDAY Dragutin Gorjanovic-Kramberger, Croatian paleontologist (d. 1936)
25th of October 1864 BIRTHDAY Alexander Gretchaninov, Russian composer (d. 1956)
25th of October 1864 BIRTHDAY John Francis Dodge, American automobile pioneer (d. 1920)
25th of October 1867 BIRTHDAY Jozef Dowbor-Musnicki, Polish general (d. 1937)
25th of October 1881 BIRTHDAY Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 1973)
25th of October 1886 BIRTHDAY Leo G. Carroll, English actor (d. 1972)
25th of October 1888 BIRTHDAY Nils von Dardel, Swedish painter (d. 1943)
25th of October 1888 BIRTHDAY Richard E. Byrd, American explorer (d. 1957)
25th of October 1889 BIRTHDAY Abel Gance, French film director (d. 1981)
25th of October 1889 BIRTHDAY Smoky Joe Wood, American baseball pitcher (d. 1985)
25th of October 1891 BIRTHDAY Father Coughlin, Roman Catholic priest and radio broadcaster (d. 1979)
25th of October 1895 BIRTHDAY Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1969)
25th of October 1902 BIRTHDAY Henry Steele Commager, American historian (d. 1998)
25th of October 1902 BIRTHDAY Eddie Lang, American jazz guitarist (d. 1933)
25th of October 1903 BIRTHDAY Katharine Byron, U.S. Congresswoman (d. 1976)
25th of October 1903 BIRTHDAY Harry Shoulberg, American painter (d. 1995)
25th of October 1908 BIRTHDAY Edmond Pidoux, Swiss writer (d. 2004)
25th of October 1910 BIRTHDAY William Higinbotham, American physicist (d. 1994)
25th of October 1912 BIRTHDAY Minnie Pearl, American comedian and singer (d. 1996)
25th of October 1913 BIRTHDAY Klaus Barbie, Nazi war criminal (d. 1991)
25th of October 1914 BIRTHDAY John Berryman, American poet (d. 1972)
25th of October 1915 BIRTHDAY Ivan M. Niven, Canadian mathematician (d. 1999)
25th of October 1917 BIRTHDAY Lee MacPhail, American baseball manager and league executive
25th of October 1921 BIRTHDAY King Michael I of Romania
25th of October 1923 BIRTHDAY Jean Duceppe, Quebec actor (d. 1990)
25th of October 1923 BIRTHDAY Bobby Thomson, Scotland born American baseball player (d. 2010)
25th of October 1924 BIRTHDAY Billy Barty, American actor (d. 2000)
25th of October 1924 BIRTHDAY Henry Sy, Chinese-Filipino businessman
25th of October 1926 BIRTHDAY Ismail Gulgee, Pakistani painter
25th of October 1926 BIRTHDAY Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian soprano
25th of October 1927 BIRTHDAY Jorge Batlle Ibanez, former President of Uruguay
25th of October 1927 BIRTHDAY Barbara Cook, American singer and actress
25th of October 1927 BIRTHDAY Lawrence Kohlberg, American psychologist (d. 1987)
25th of October 1928 BIRTHDAY Marion Ross, American actress
25th of October 1928 BIRTHDAY Anthony Franciosa, American actor (d. 2006)
25th of October 1931 BIRTHDAY Jimmy McIlroy, Irish footballer and football manager
25th of October 1931 BIRTHDAY Annie Girardot, French actress (d. 2011)
25th of October 1932 BIRTHDAY Harry Gregg, Irish footballer and football manager
25th of October 1933 BIRTHDAY Eugene "Porky" Lee, American child actor (d. 2005)
25th of October 1935 BIRTHDAY Russell Schweickart, astronaut
25th of October 1936 BIRTHDAY Masako Nozawa, Japanese actress
25th of October 1936 BIRTHDAY Sir Martin Gilbert, British historian
25th of October 1939 BIRTHDAY Nikos Nikolaidis, Greek film director and a writer (d. 2007)
25th of October 1939 BIRTHDAY Fred Marcellino, American illustrator (d. 2001)
25th of October 1939 BIRTHDAY Robin Spry, Canadian filmmaker and producer (d. 2005)
25th of October 1940 BIRTHDAY Bobby Knight, American basketball coach
25th of October 1941 BIRTHDAY Helen Reddy, Australian singer
25th of October 1941 BIRTHDAY Anne Tyler, American novelist
25th of October 1944 BIRTHDAY Jon Anderson, English singer (Yes)
25th of October 1944 BIRTHDAY Kati Kovacs, Hungarian singer
25th of October 1944 BIRTHDAY James Carville, American political strategist and commentator
25th of October 1945 BIRTHDAY Peter Ledger, Australian artist (d. 1994)
25th of October 1947 BIRTHDAY Glenn Tipton, English guitarist (Judas Priest)
25th of October 1948 BIRTHDAY Daniel Mark Epstein, American poet and biographer
25th of October 1948 BIRTHDAY Dave Cowens, American basketball player and coach
25th of October 1948 BIRTHDAY Dan Issel, American basketball player
25th of October 1948 BIRTHDAY Dan Gable, American wrestler and coach
25th of October 1949 BIRTHDAY Rejean Houle, Canadian ice hockey player
25th of October 1949 BIRTHDAY Hans-Georg Kraus, German footballer
25th of October 1950 BIRTHDAY Chris Norman, English singer
25th of October 1951 BIRTHDAY Richard Lloyd, American guitarist (Television)
25th of October 1952 BIRTHDAY Ioannis Kyrastas, Greek footballer and manager (d. 2004)
25th of October 1952 BIRTHDAY Samir Geagea, Lebanese Politician
25th of October 1954 BIRTHDAY Mike Eruzione, American hockey player
25th of October 1955 BIRTHDAY Glynis Barber, English actress
25th of October 1955 BIRTHDAY Robin Eubanks, American jazz trombonist
25th of October 1955 BIRTHDAY Matthias Jabs, German guitarist (Scorpions)
25th of October 1957 BIRTHDAY Nancy Cartwright, American voice actress
25th of October 1958 BIRTHDAY Phil Daniels, English actor
25th of October 1958 BIRTHDAY Kornelia Ender, East German swimmer
25th of October 1961 BIRTHDAY Chad Smith, American drummer (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
25th of October 1961 BIRTHDAY Ward Burton, American auto racer
25th of October 1962 BIRTHDAY Darlene Vogel, American actress
25th of October 1962 BIRTHDAY Nick Hancock, British television presenter
25th of October 1963 BIRTHDAY Tracy Nelson, American actress
25th of October 1964 BIRTHDAY Michael Boatman, American actor
25th of October 1964 BIRTHDAY Nicole, German singer
25th of October 1964 BIRTHDAY Kevin Michael Richardson, American actor
25th of October 1965 BIRTHDAY 2 Cold Scorpio, American professional wrestler
25th of October 1965 BIRTHDAY ?orsteinn Bachmann, Icelandic actor
25th of October 1966 BIRTHDAY Wendel Clark, Canadian ice hockey player
25th of October 1966 BIRTHDAY Perry Satullo, American professional wrestler
25th of October 1969 BIRTHDAY Josef Beranek, Czech ice hockey player
25th of October 1969 BIRTHDAY Nika Futterman, American voice actress
25th of October 1969 BIRTHDAY Oleg Salenko, Russian footballer
25th of October 1970 BIRTHDAY J.A. Adande, American sports columnist
25th of October 1970 BIRTHDAY Adam Goldberg, American actor
25th of October 1970 BIRTHDAY Peter Aerts, Dutch kickboxer and martial artist
25th of October 1970 BIRTHDAY Adam Pascal, American actor
25th of October 1970 BIRTHDAY Ed Robertson, Canadian musician (Barenaked Ladies)
25th of October 1971 BIRTHDAY Simon Charlton, English footballer
25th of October 1971 BIRTHDAY Athena Chu, Hong Kong actress and singer
25th of October 1971 BIRTHDAY Neil Fallon, Lead singer of Clutch (band)
25th of October 1971 BIRTHDAY Midori Goto, Japanese violinist
25th of October 1971 BIRTHDAY Pedro Martinez, Dominican baseball player
25th of October 1972 BIRTHDAY Jonathan Torrens, Canadian actor
25th of October 1973 BIRTHDAY Lamont Bentley, American actor (d. 2005)
25th of October 1974 BIRTHDAY Lee Byung-Kyu, South Korean baseball player
25th of October 1974 BIRTHDAY Goya Jaekel, German footballer
25th of October 1975 BIRTHDAY Ryan Clement, former XFL quarterback
25th of October 1975 BIRTHDAY Eirik Glambek B?e, Norwegian musician
25th of October 1976 BIRTHDAY Brett Kirk, Australian Rules footballer
25th of October 1976 BIRTHDAY Steve Jones, Irish footballer
25th of October 1977 BIRTHDAY Yehonathan Gatro, Israeli singer and actor
25th of October 1977 BIRTHDAY Birgit Prinz, German footballer
25th of October 1978 BIRTHDAY Markus Poyhonen, Finnish athlete
25th of October 1978 BIRTHDAY Russell Anderson, Scottish footballer
25th of October 1979 BIRTHDAY Rob Hulse, English footballer
25th of October 1979 BIRTHDAY Milena Roucka, Canadian professional wrestler
25th of October 1979 BIRTHDAY Sarah Thompson, American actress
25th of October 1979 BIRTHDAY Natasha Khan, British singer (aka Bat For Lashes)
25th of October 1979 BIRTHDAY Tony Torcato, American baseball player
25th of October 1980 BIRTHDAY Mehcad Brooks, American actor and former model
25th of October 1980 BIRTHDAY Sarah Benincasa, American comedian
25th of October 1981 BIRTHDAY Josh Henderson, American actor and singer
25th of October 1981 BIRTHDAY Austin Winkler, American lead vocalist (Hinder)
25th of October 1981 BIRTHDAY Jerome Isaac Jones, American singer
25th of October 1981 BIRTHDAY Shaun Wright-Phillips, English footballer
25th of October 1981 BIRTHDAY Jon Wood, American NASCAR driver
25th of October 1982 BIRTHDAY Jerome Carter, American football player
25th of October 1982 BIRTHDAY Eman Lam, Hong Kong singer
25th of October 1983 BIRTHDAY Han Yeo-reum, South Korean actress
25th of October 1983 BIRTHDAY Tim McGarigle, American football player
25th of October 1984 BIRTHDAY Sara Helena Lumholdt, Swedish musician (A-Teens)
25th of October 1984 BIRTHDAY Katy Perry, American singer
25th of October 1985 BIRTHDAY Ciara Harris, American singer
25th of October 1985 BIRTHDAY Kara Lynn Joyce, American swimmer and Olympian
25th of October 1986 BIRTHDAY DJ Webstar, American disc jockey
25th of October 1986 BIRTHDAY Eddie Gaven, American footballer
25th of October 1987 BIRTHDAY Darron Gibson, Irish football player
25th of October 1987 BIRTHDAY Fabian Hambuchen, German gymnast and Olympic medallist
25th of October 1988 BIRTHDAY Shane Edwards, Australian Rules footballer
25th of October 1989 BIRTHDAY Ivan Marconi, Italian footballer
25th of October 1992 BIRTHDAY Benjamin Martin, American Footballer
25th of October 1995 BIRTHDAY Conchita Campbell, Canadian actress
25th of October 2001 BIRTHDAY Princess Elisabeth of Belgium
25th of October 2006 BIRTHDAY Krista and Tatiana Hogan, Canadian craniopagus conjoined twins
25th of October 0304 DEATH Pope Marcellinus
25th of October 0625 DEATH Pope Boniface V
25th of October 1047 DEATH King Magnus I of Norway (Born 1024)
25th of October 1154 DEATH King Stephen of England (Born 1096)
25th of October 1200 DEATH Conrad of Wittelsbach, German Archbishop
25th of October 1230 DEATH Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (Born 1180)
25th of October 1400 DEATH Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet
25th of October 1415 DEATH Killed in the Battle of Agincourt: Charles d'Albret, Count of Dreux and Constable of France John I of Alencon (Born 1385) Antoine, Duke of Brabant (b. 1384) Frederick of Lorraine (b. 1371) Philip II, Count of Nevers (b. 1389) Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk (b. 1394) Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (b. 1373)
25th of October 1478 DEATH Katarina Kosaca, queen consort of Bosnia
25th of October 1492 DEATH Thaddeus McCarthy, Irish Catholic bishop
25th of October 1495 DEATH King John II of Portugal (Born 1455)
25th of October 1514 DEATH William Elphinstone, Scottish bishop and statesman (Born 1431)
25th of October 1555 DEATH Olympia Fulvia Morata, Italian classical scholar (Born 1526)
25th of October 1557 DEATH William Cavendish, English politician (Born 1505)
25th of October 1633 DEATH Jean Titelouze, French organist
25th of October 1647 DEATH Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (Born 1608)
25th of October 1683 DEATH William Scroggs, Lord Chief Justice of England
25th of October 1733 DEATH Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri, Italian mathematician (Born 1667)
25th of October 1757 DEATH Antoine Augustine Calmet, French theologian (Born 1672)
25th of October 1760 DEATH George II of Great Britain (Born 1683)
25th of October 1773 DEATH Johann Georg Estor, German jurist (Born 1699)
25th of October 1806 DEATH Henry Knox, American general and politician (Born 1750)
25th of October 1826 DEATH Philippe Pinel, French psychiatrist (Born 1745)
25th of October 1833 DEATH Abbas Mirza of Persia (Born 1789)
25th of October 1852 DEATH John C. Clark, American politician (Born 1793)
25th of October 1889 DEATH Emile Augier, French dramatist (Born 1820)
25th of October 1895 DEATH Charles Halle, German pianist and conductor (Born 1819)
25th of October 1910 DEATH Willie Anderson, Scottish-born golfer (Born 1878)
25th of October 1920 DEATH King Alexander I of Greece (Born 1893)
25th of October 1920 DEATH Terence MacSwiney, Irish playwright and activist (Born 1879)
25th of October 1921 DEATH Bat Masterson, American journalist and lawman (Born 1853)
25th of October 1938 DEATH Alfonsina Storni, Argentine poet (Born 1892)
25th of October 1945 DEATH Robert Ley, German Nazi leader (Born 1890)
25th of October 1953 DEATH Holger Pedersen, Danish linguist (Born 1867)
25th of October 1955 DEATH Sadako Sasaki, Japanese atomic bomb victim (Born 1943)
25th of October 1957 DEATH Albert Anastasia, Italian-born American organized crime figure (Born 1902)
25th of October 1957 DEATH Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, Irish writer (Born 1878)
25th of October 1960 DEATH Harry Ferguson, Irish farm equipment manufacturer (Born 1884)
25th of October 1963 DEATH Roger Desormiere, French conductor (Born 1898)
25th of October 1965 DEATH Eduard Einstein, son of Albert Einstein (Born 1910)
25th of October 1973 DEATH Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian athlete (Born 1932)
25th of October 1973 DEATH Robert Scholl, German politician, father of Hans and Sophie Scholl (Born 1891)
25th of October 1973 DEATH Cleo Moore, American actress (Born 1928)
25th of October 1975 DEATH Vladimir Herzog, Brazilian journalist and activist (Born 1937)
25th of October 1976 DEATH Raymond Queneau, French poet and novelist (Born 1903)
25th of October 1980 DEATH Virgil Fox, American organist (Born 1912)
25th of October 1980 DEATH Sahir Ludhianvi, Indian poet and lyricist (Born 1921)
25th of October 1985 DEATH Gary Holton, English actor (Born 1952)
25th of October 1986 DEATH Forrest Tucker, American actor (Born 1919)
25th of October 1991 DEATH Bill Graham, American rock promoter (Born 1931)
25th of October 1992 DEATH Roger Miller, American musician and composer (Born 1936)
25th of October 1993 DEATH Danny Chan, Hong Kong singer/songwriter (Born 1958)
25th of October 1993 DEATH Vincent Price, American actor (Born 1911)
25th of October 1994 DEATH Kara Spears Hultgreen, American naval pilot (Born 1965)
25th of October 1994 DEATH Mildred Natwick, American actress (Born 1905)
25th of October 1995 DEATH Bobby Riggs, American tennis player (Born 1918)
25th of October 1995 DEATH Viveca Lindfors, Swedish-born actress (Born 1920)
25th of October 1998 DEATH Warren Wiebe, American singer (Born 1953)
25th of October 1999 DEATH Payne Stewart, American golfer (Born 1957)
25th of October 2002 DEATH Richard Harris, Irish actor (Born 1930)
25th of October 2002 DEATH Paul Wellstone, American politician (Born 1944)
25th of October 2002 DEATH Rene Thom, French mathematician (Born 1923)
25th of October 2003 DEATH Pandurang Shastri Athavale, Indian philosopher and spiritual figure (Born 1920)
25th of October 2003 DEATH Robert Strassburg, American composer (Born 1915)
25th of October 2003 DEATH Veikko Hakulinen, Finnish cross-country skier (Born 1925)
25th of October 2004 DEATH John Peel, British disc jockey (Born 1939)
25th of October 2005 DEATH Wellington Mara, American football team owner (Born 1916)
25th of October 2006 DEATH Danny Rolling, American convicted murderer (Born 1954)
25th of October 2007 DEATH Martin Caballero, Colombian guerrilla leader
25th of October 2008 DEATH Anne Pressly, American news anchor (Born 1982)
25th of October 2010 DEATH Lisa Blount, American actress and producer (Born 1957)
25th of October 2010 DEATH Vesna Parun, Croatian poet (Born 1922)
25th of October 2010 DEATH Gregory Isaacs, Jamaican musician (Born 1951)