On this day in History - Oct. 25

0304 - Pope Marcellinus dies (martyred)
0625 - Pope Boniface V dies
0732 - Battle of Tours: Near Poitiers, France, leader of the Franks Charles Martel and his men, defeat a large army of Moors, stopping the Muslims from spreading into Western Europe. The governor of Cordoba, Abd-ar-Rahman, is killed during the battle.
1047 - King Magnus I of Norway dies (b. 1024)
1102 - William Clito was born (d. 1128). Count of Flanders
1131 - Louis VII the Young, King of France, was crowned.
1147 - Entrada de D. Afonso Henriques em Lisboa, após a rendição acontecida em 21 de Outubro
1154 - King Stephen of England dies (b. 1096)
1230 - Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford dies(b. 1180). English soldier
1330 - Louis II of Flanders was born (d. 1384)
1359 - D. Beatriz of Portugal dies (b. 1293). Queen of Portugal wife of King Afonso IV
1400 - Geoffrey Chaucer dies in London. English poet (Canterbury Tales)
1415 - Killed in the Battle of Agincourt:
John I of Alençon (b. 1385)
Charles d'Albret, Count of Dreux and Constable of France
Antoine, Duke of Brabant (b. 1384)
Philip of Burgundy, Count of Nevers and Rethel (b. 1389)
Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk (born 1394)
Frederick of Lorraine (born 1371)
Philip II, Count of Nevers (b. 1389)
Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (born 1373)
1492 - Thaddeus McCarthy dies. Irish Catholic bishop
1415 - The army of Henry V of England defeats the French army at the Battle of Agincourt
1495 - King John II of Portugal dies (b. 1455)
1514 - William Elphinstone dies (b. 1431). Scottish bishop and statesman
1555 - Olympia Fulvia Morata dies (b. 1526). Italian classical scholar
1555 - Carlos V de Espanha abdica do trono imperial e das suas possessões alemãs a favor do seu irmão Fernando.
1557 - William Cavendish dies (b. 1505). English politician
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 Western Australia coast.
1633 - Jean Titelouze dies. French organist
1647 - Evangelista Torricelli dies (b. 1608).Italian physicist and mathematician
1649 - Giovanni Antonio Rigatti was born. Italian composer.
1662 - King Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France
1683 - Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton was born (d. 1757). British politician
1683 - William Scroggs dies. Lord Chief Justice of England
1692 - Elizabeth Farnese was born (d. 1766). Queen of Philip V of Spain
1733 - Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri dies (b. 1667). Italian mathematician
1747 - British fleet under Admiral Sir Edward Hawke defeats French at second battle of Cape Finisterre.
1755 - Morte do frei Casimiro de S. José (Portugal)
1757 - Antoine Augustine Calmet dies (b. 1672). French theologian
1760 - George II of Great Britain dies (b. 1683)
1760 - George III becomes King of Great Britain
1764 - William Hogarth dies (b. 1697). British painter Link para ver biografia em português
1767 - Benjamin Constant, was born (d. 1830).Swiss writer
1806 - Max Stirner was born (d. 1856). German philosopher
1811 - Evariste Galois was born (d. 1832). French mathematician
1813 - War of 1812: Canadians and Mohawks beat the Americans in the Battle of Chateauguay
1825 - Uruguay turns independent from Brazil.
1825 - Johann Strauss II was born (d. 1899). Austrian orchestra conductor and composer.
1828 - St Katharine Docks opened in London
1838 - Georges Bizet was born (d. 1875). French composer ( Carmen)
1839 - Alfred Sisley was born. French painter.
1854 - Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War (Charge of the Light Brigade)
1856 - Dragutin Gorjanovic-Kramberger was born (d. 1936). Croatian paleontologist
1861 - The Toronto Stock Exchange was created.
1864 - Alexander Gretchaninov was born (d. 1956). Russian composer
1867 - Józef Dowbór-Muśnicki was born (d. 1937). Polish general
1869 - John Heisman was born (d. 1936). American football coach
1873 - Morte (no Brasil) do poeta, teatrólogo e jornalista português João Francisco da Silva Ultra
1881 - Pablo Picasso was born was born in Malaga (d. 1973). Spanish painter and sculptor. His work includes “Gilot,” and “Self-Portrait with a Palette” (1906). He immortalized the French apéritif Pernod by including it in many paintings.
1886 - Humberto de Campos Veras was born in Miritiba (MA) (d. 5 Dez 1934). Brazilian writer, journalist, poet and politician.

1888 - Richard E. Byrd was born (d. 1957). American explorer
1889 - Abel Gance was born (d. 1981). French film writer
1889 - Émile Augier dies (b. 1820). French dramatist
1892 - Leo G. Carroll was born (d. 1972). English actor
1895 - Levi Eshkol was born (d. 1969). 3rd Prime Minister of Israel
1895 - Charles Hallé dies (b. 1819). German pianist and conductor
1900 - United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal
1902 - Eddie Lang was born (d. 1933). American jazz guitarist
1908 - Edmond Pidoux was born (d. 2004). Swiss writer
1909 - Clorinda Matto de Turner dies. Peruvian writer
1910 - William Higinbotham was born (d. 1994).Physicist
1910 - Willie Anderson dies (b. 1878). Scottish-born golfer
1912 - Minnie Pearl was born (d. 1996). American comedienne and singer
1913 - Klaus Barbie was born (d. 1991). Nazi war criminal.
1914 - John Berryman was born (d. 1972). American poet.
1915 - Ivan M. Niven was born. Canadian mathematician
1917 - The Bolshevik Revolution Commences
1920 - O Rei Alexander da Grécia morre por envenenamento sanguíneo, após ser mordido por um macaco de estimação.
1920 - King Alexander I of Greece dies (bitten by a pet monkey) (b. 1893)
1921- Bat Masterson dies. American journalist and lawman
1922 - The Dail of the Irish Free State approves the constitution of the new state, formally bringing it into being.
1923 - United States Senate begins investigating the Teapot Dome Scandal
1924 - The forged Zinoviev Letter is published in the Daily Mail, wrecking the British Labour Party's hopes of re-election.
1924 - Billy Barty was born (d. 2000). American actor.
1926 - Galina Vishnevskaya was born. Russian soprano
1927 - Barbara Cook was born. American singer and actress
1927 - Jorge Batlle Ibáñez was born. President of Uruguay.
1928 - Paulo Mendes da Rocha was born. Brazilian architect.
1928 - Marion Ross was born. American actress
1931 - Annie Girardot was born. French actress.
1935 - Russell Schweickart was born. Astronaut
1936 - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini create the Rome-Berlin Axis
1938 - 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".
1938 - Alfonsina Storni dies. Swiss-born Argentine writer
1940 - Bobby Knight was born. American basketball coach
1941 - Anne Tyler was born. American novelist
1941 - Começo da ofensiva alemã contra Moscovo, durante a Operação Barbarrossa, na Segunda Guerra Mundial.
1941 - Robert Delaunay dies (b. 1885). French abstract painter
1942 - Battle of Henderson Field, Guadalcanal began.
1942 - Helen Reddy was born. Australian singer
1944 - Jon Anderson was born. English singer (Yes)
1944 - James Carville was born. American political operative
1944 - Japan launches first kamikaze attacks, during the Battle of Leyte Gulf
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
1945 - The Republic of China takes over administration of Taiwan following Japan's surrender to the Allies.
1948 - Glenn Tipton was born. English guitarist
1948 - Dan Gable was born. American wrestler and coach .
1950 - Sukarno was appointed president of Republic Indonesia.
1951 - Morreu a última rainha de Portugal, D. Amélia de Orleans e Bragança (1865-1951), mulher do rei D. Carlos, em França.
1951 - Winston Churchill, com 77 anos de idade, regressou ao poder, ao conseguir que o Partido Conservador, que dirigia, vencesse as eleições na Grã-Bretanha.
1953 - Holger Pedersen dies (b. 1867). Danish linguist.
1954 - Mike Eruzione was born. American hockey player
1955 - Robin Eubanks was born. American jazz trombonist
1955 - A Áustria reassume a sua soberania com a retirada das últimas tropas aliadas do seu território.
1955 - Sadako Sasaki dies (b. 1943). Japanese victim of Hiroshima.
1956 - Juan Ramón Jiménez de Moguer, Spanish writer is awarded with the Nobel Prize for Literature
1957 - Lord Dunsany dies (b. 1878). Irish writer
1957 - Albert Anastasia dies (b. 1902). Italian-born gangster
1959 - Nancy Cartwright was born. American voice actress
1960 - João de Barros dies. Portuguese politician and writer.
1961 - Grover Waldrop was born. American biochemist
1962 - Chad Smith was born. American drummer (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1962 - Darlene Vogel was born. American actress
1962 - Cuban missile crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows photos at the UN proving Soviet missiles are installed in Cuba
1962 - The Nobel Literature Prize announced for US author John Steinbeck “for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception”
1962 - 110th member of the UN admitted (Uganda)
1963 - Roger Désormière dies (b. 1898). French conductor.
1964 - Nicole was born. German singer
1970 - Ed Robertson was born. American guitarist and singer (Barenaked Ladies)
1971 - Pedro Martínez was born. Dominican Major League Baseball player
1971 - Midori was born. Japanese violinist
1971 - United Nations seats the People's Republic of China and expels the Republic of China (see China and the United Nations)
1973 - Abebe Bikila dies (b. 1932). Ethiopian athlete
1974 - Nick Drake dies (b. 1948). English musician and songwriter.
1977 - España: El Gobierno y la oposición. firman los Pactos de la Moncloa.
1977 - Birgit Prinz was born. German footballer
1979 - Tony Torcato was born. American Major League Baseball player
1980 - Virgil Fox dies (b. 1912). American organist
1981 - Shaun Wright-Phillips was born. English footballer.
1983 US Marines invade Grenada : Two days after a suicide bomber killed 241 US marines at their barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, 1800 US Marines and 300 soldiers from English-speaking Caribbean nations, assault the tiny island republic of Grenada
1983 - Operation Urgent Fury: The United States and Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters were executed in a coup d'état.
1984 - Os presidentes de Brasil e Paraguay, Joao Baptista Figueiredo e Alfredo Stroessner, respectivamente, inauguram na fronteira entre ambos os países a central hidroeléctrica de Itaipú, a maior do mundo até aquela data.
1984 - Sara Helena Lumholdt was born. Swedish musician (A-Teens)
1985 - Ciara Harris was born. American singer
1986 - The New York Mets defeat the Boston Red Sox due to Bill Buckner's famous error in Game 6 of the World Series and go on to win the championship two days later
1986 - Forrest Tucker dies (b. 1919). America actor.
1991 - Bill Graham dies (b. 1931). German-born concert promoter.
1991 - Rock band Steely Dan reunites
1992 - Latvia establishes its first post-Soviet constitution
1992 - Roger Miller dies (b. 1936). American musician and composer.
1992 - Morte de Adelino da Palma Carlos. Primeiro-ministro português em 1974
1993 - Danny Chan dies (b. 1958). Hong Kong singer, actor, and songwriter.
1993 - Vincent Price dies (b. 1911). American actor.
1993 - Jean Chrétien becomes prime minister of Canada with a massive majority for his Liberal Party in a general election in which the governing Progressive Conservatives lost 149 of 151 seats in the parliament.
1993 - Vincent Price dies (b. 27 May 1911). American actor.
1994 - Susan Smith of Union, South Carolina claims that a black carjacker had driven off with her two sons (Smith later confessed to drowning the children in John D. Long Lake, and was convicted of murder)
1994 - Kara Spears Hultgreen is killed when on final approach to the USS Abraham Lincoln in her F-14 Tomcat.
1995 - A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.
1995 - Conchita Campbell was born. Child actress
1995 - Bobby Riggs dies (b. 1918). American tennis player.
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.
1999 - Payne Stewart dies (b. 1957). American golfer
2000 - Kofi Annan, secretario general de la ONU, anuncia el nombramiento del ex primer ministro holandés, Ruud Lubbers, como nuevo responsable de ACNUR (Alta Comisión de las Naciones Unidas para los Refugiados).
2001 - Microsoft releases Windows XP
2002 - Paul Wellstone dies (b. 1944). U.S. Senator from Minnesota.
2002 - Richard Harris dies (b. 1930). Irish actor.
2003 - The Cedar Fire is reported at 5:37 pm. It becomes the largest wildfire in California history.
2003 Eleições gerais e referendo popular na Colômbia
2003 - Inaugurado o novo Estádio da Luz do clube Sport Lisboa e Benfica,
2004 - Fidel Castro, Cuba's President, announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned by November 8th.
2004 - Official Guided by Voices Day in Bloomington, Indiana.
2004 - John Peel dies (b. 1939). British disc jockey
2004 - Hamid Karzai was assured of a majority in Afghanistan's election to become its first democratically chosen president. A close to final tally soon gave Karzai 55.4% of the vote.
2005 - Sharif Barakat dies (b. 1990). Raped to Death by Manuel Tapia
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