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 - The Portuguese, under Afonso I, and Crusaders from England and Flanders conquer Lisbon after a four-month siege / Entrada de D. Afonso Henriques em Lisboa, após a rendição acontecida em 21 de Outubro.
• 1147 - Seljuk Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum.
• 1154 - King Stephen of England dies (b. 1096).
• 1230 - Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford dies(b. 1180). English soldier.
• 1315 - Adam Banastre, Henry de Lea and William Bradshaw, led an attack on Liverpool Castle.
• 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 - The army of Henry V of England defeats the French army at the Battle of Agincourt
• 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.
• 1495 - King John II of Portugal dies (b. 1455).
• 1510 - Renée of France was born (d. 1574). French princess.
• 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.
• 1759 - Maria Fyodorovna of Russia was born (d. 1828). Second wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia.
• 1759 - William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville was born (d. 1834). British politician.
• 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.
• 1772 - Geraud Duroc was born (d. 1813). French general.
• 1782- Levi Lincoln, Jr. was born (d. 1868). 13th Governor of Massachusetts.
  
• 1802 - Joseph Montferrand was born (d. 1864). French Canadian logger and strong man.
• 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 - The 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
• 1864 - John Francis Dodge was born (d. 1920). American automobile pioneer.
• 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.
• 1875 - The first performance of the Piano Concerto No. 1 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is given in Boston, Massachusetts with Hans von Bülow as soloist.
• 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.
• 1886 - Leo G. Carroll was born (d. 1972). English actor.
• 1888 - Nils von Dardel was born (d. 1943). Swedish painter.
• 1888 - Richard E. Byrd was born (d. 1957). American explorer.
• 1889 - Abel Gance was born (d. 1981). French film writer.
• 1889 - Smoky Joe Wood was born (d. 1985). American baseball pitcher.
• 1889 - Émile Augier dies (b. 1820). French dramatist.
• 1891- Father Coughlin was born (d. 1979). Roman Catholic priest and pro-Fascist radio broadcaster.
  
• 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.
• 1902 - Henry Steele Commager was born (d. 1998). American historian.
  
• 1903 - Harry Shoulberg was born (d. 1995). American painter.
  
• 1903 - Katharine Byron was born (d. 1976). U.S. Congresswoman.
• 1908 - Edmond Pidoux was born (d. 2004). Swiss writer.
• 1909 - Clorinda Matto de Turner dies. Peruvian writer.
• 1910 - William Higinbotham was born (d. 1994). American physicist.
• 1910 - Willie Anderson dies (b. 1878). Scottish-born golfer.
• 1912 - Richard Strauss' opera Ariadne auf Naxos receives its debut performance at the Vienna State Opera.
• 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 (d. 1999). Canadian mathematician.
• 1917 - The Bolshevik Revolution Commences: The First Marxist revolution, involving the capture of the Winter Palace, Petrograd, Russia.
• 1917 - Lee MacPhail was born. American baseball manager and league executive
• 1918 - Amadeo de Souza Cardoso dies (b. 1887). Portuguese painter.
• 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 - King Michael I of Romania was born.
• 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.
• 1923 - Jean Duceppe was born (d. 1990). Quebec stage and television actor.
• 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.
• 1926 - Ismail Gulgee was born. Pakistani painter.
• 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 - Anthony Franciosa was born (d. 2006). American actor.
• 1928 - Paulo Mendes da Rocha was born. Brazilian architect.
• 1928 - Marion Ross was born. American actress.
• 1931 - Annie Girardot was born. French actress.
• 1931 - Jimmy McIlroy was born. Irish football player and manager.
• 1932 - Harry Gregg was born. Irish football player and manager.
• 1933 - Eugene "Porky" Lee was born (d. 2005). American child actor.
  
• 1935 - Hurricane floods Haiti, killing over 2,000 people.
• 1935 - Russell Schweickart was born. American astronaut.
• 1936 - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini create the Rome-Berlin Axis.
• 1936 - Sir Martin Gilbert was born. British historian.
• 1937 - Roberto Menescal was born. Brazilian composer and musician.
• 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.
• 1939 - Robin Spry was born (d. 2005). Canadian filmmaker and television producer.
• 1940 - Bobby Knight was born. American basketball coach.
• 1941 - Anne Tyler was born. American novelist.
• 1941 - Helen Reddy was born. Australian singer.
• 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 - Battle of Leyte Gulf, largest naval battle in history, takes place in and around the Philippines between Imperial Japanese Navy and US Third and Seventh Fleets.
• 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 (SS-306) under Richard O'Kane (the top submarine captain of World War II) is sunk by her own torpedo.
• 1944 - The Romanian Army liberates Carei, the last Romanian city under Axis Powers' occupation.
• 1944 - Jon Anderson was born. English singer (Yes).
• 1944 - James Carville was born. American political strategist and commentator.
• 1945 - The Republic of China takes over administration of Taiwan following Japan's surrender to the Allies.
• 1947 - Glenn Tipton was born. English guitarist (Judas Priest).
• 1948 - Daniel Mark Epstein was born. American poet and biographer.
• 1948 - Dan Gable was born. American wrestler and coach.
• 1948 - Dan Issel was born. American basketball player.
• 1948 - Dave Cowens was born. American basketball player and coach.
• 1949 - Réjean Houle was born. National Hockey League player and executive.
• 1950 - Chris Norman was born. English singer.
• 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.
• 1951 - Richard Lloyd was born. American guitarist (Television).
• 1952 - Ioannis Kyrastas was born (d. 2004). Greek footballer and manager.
• 1953 - Holger Pedersen dies (b. 1867). Danish linguist.
• 1954 - Mike Eruzione was born. American hockey player.
• 1955 - Glynis Barber was born. English actress.
• 1955 - Matthias Jabs was born. German guitarist and songwriter (Scorpions).
• 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 - Nancy Cartwright was born. American voice actress.
• 1957 - Lord Dunsany dies (b. 1878). Irish writer.
• 1957 - Albert Anastasia dies (b. 1902). Italian-born gangster.
• 1958 - Kornelia Ender was born. East German swimmer.
• 1960 - João de Barros dies. Portuguese politician and writer.
• 1961 - Grover Waldrop was born. American biochemist.
• 1961 - Ward Burton was born. American auto racer.
• 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 srcial perception”.
• 1962 - 110th member of the UN admitted (Uganda).
• 1962 - Nick Hancock was born. British television presenter.
• 1962 - Chad Smith was born. American drummer (Red Hot Chili Peppers).
• 1962 - Darlene Vogel was born. American actress.
• 1963 - Tracy Nelson was born. American actress.
• 1963 - Roger Désormière dies (b. 1898). French conductor.
• 1964 - Kevin Michael Richardson was born. American actor.
• 1964 - Nicole was born. German singer.
• 1964 - Michael Boatman was born. American actor.
• 1965 - Þorsteinn Bachmann was born. Icelandic actor.
• 1965 - 2 Cold Scorpio was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1966 - Perry Satullo was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1966 - Wendel Clark was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1968 - Paul Kotheimer was born. American musician.
• 1969 - Josef Beranek was born. Czech hockey player.
• 1969 - Oleg Salenko was born. Russian former footballer.
• 1970 - The wreck of Confederate submarine Hunley was found off Charleston, South Carolina, by pioneer underwater archaeologist, Dr. E. Lee Spence, then just 22 years old. Hunley was the first submarine to sink a ship in warfare.
• 1970 - J.A. Adande was born. American sports columnist.
• 1970 - Adam Pascal was born. American actor.
• 1970 - Adam Goldberg was born. American actor.
• 1970 - Ed Robertson was born. Canadian musician (Barenaked Ladies).
• 1970 - Peter Aerts was born. Dutch kickboxer and martial artist.
• 1971 - 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).
• 1971 - Simon Charlton was born. English footballer.
• 1971 - Athena Chu was born. Hong Kong actress and singer.
• 1971 - Midori Goto was born. Japanese violinist.
• 1971 - Neil Fallon was born. Lead singer of Clutch (band).
  
• 1971 - Pedro Martínez was born. Dominican baseball player.
• 1972 - 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).
• 1973 - Abebe Bikila dies (b. 1932). Ethiopian athlete.
• 1974 - Lee Byung-Kyu was born. Korean baseball player.
• 1974 - Nick Drake dies (b. 1948). English musician and songwriter.
• 1975 - Eirik Glambek Bøe was born. Norwegian musician.
• 1975 - Ryan Clement was born. Former XFL quarterback.
• 1976 - Steve Jones was born. Irish football player.
• 1977 - España: El Gobierno y la oposición firman los Pactos de la Moncloa.
• 1977 - Digital Equipment Corporation releases OpenVMS V1.0.
• 1977 - Birgit Prinz was born. German football player.
• 1978 - Russell Anderson was born. Scottish football player.
• 1978 - Markus Pöyhönen was born. Finnish athlete.
• 1979 - Milena Roucka was born. Canadian former model current professional wrestler of Czech and Costa Rican descent.
• 1979 - Rob Hulse was born. English footballer.
• 1979 - Sarah Thompson was born. American actress.
• 1979 - Tony Torcato was born. American baseball player.
• 1980 - Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude at The Hague.
• 1980 - Mehcad Brooks was born. American actor and former model.
• 1980 - Virgil Fox dies (b. 1912). American organist.
• 1981 - Austin Winkler was born. American lead vocalist (Hinder).
• 1981 - Jerome Isaac Jones was born. American singer.
• 1981 - Shaun Wright-Phillips was born. English football player.
  
• 1982 - Eman Lam was born. Hong Kong singer.
• 1982 - Jerome Carter was born. American football player.
• 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.
• 1983 - Han Yeo-reum was born. South Korean actress.
• 1984 - Os presidentes de Brasil e Paraguay, João 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 - Danny .S. was born. English record producer.
• 1984 - Katy Perry was born. American singer.
• 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 - DJ Webstar was born. American disc jockey.
• 1986 - Eddie Gaven was born. American footballer.
• 1986 - Forrest Tucker dies (b. 1919). America actor.
• 1987 - Darron Gibson was born. Northern Ireland football player.
• 1987 - Fabian Hambüchen was born. German gymnast and Olympic medallist.
• 1990 - Austin Peralta was born. American jazz pianist.
• 1991 - 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.
• 1991 - Bill Graham dies (b. 1931). German-born concert promoter.
• 1991 - Rock band Steely Dan reunites.
• 1992 - Lithuania holds a referendum on its first post-Soviet constitution.
• 1992 - Roger Miller dies (b. 1936). American musician and composer.
• 1992 - Adelino da Palma Carlos dies. Portuguese prime-minister in 1974/ Morte de Adelino da Palma Carlos. Primeiro-ministro português em 1974.
• 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, led by Kim Campbell, lost 149 of 151 seats in the parliament.
• 1993 - Tori Thompson was born. American singer.
• 1993 - Danny Chan dies (b. 1958). Hong Kong singer, actor, and songwriter.
• 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. Canadian child actress.
• 1995 - Bobby Riggs dies (b. 1918). American tennis player.
• 1996 - 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.
• 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.
• 2001 - Princess Elisabeth of Belgium was born.
• 2002 - Carlton Television of London aired a regionally for the last time, to be followed by the majority of the ITV Network two days later.
• 2002 - Paul Wellstone dies (b. 1944). U.S. Senator from Minnesota.
• 2002 - Richard Harris dies (b. 1930). Irish actor.
• 2002 - René Thom dies (b. 1923). French mathematician.
• 2003 - The Cedar Fire is reported at 5:37 pm. It becomes the largest wildfire in California history.
• 2003 - General elections and a popular referendum in Colombia.
• 2003 - The new Stadium of Light in Lisbon (Sport Lisboa e Benfica) is inaugurated. / Inaugurado o novo Estádio da Luz do clube Sport Lisboa e Benfica.
• 2003 - Australia defeat Namibia in the 2003 Rugby World Cup by a record 142 points to zero.
• 2003 - Pandurang Shastri Athavale dies (b. 1920). Founder Swadhyay Movement.
• 2003 - Veikko Hakulinen dies (b. 1925). Finnish cross-country skier.
• 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 - 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.
• 2004 - John Peel dies (b. 1939). British disc jockey.
• 2005 - Sharif Barakat dies (b. 1990). Raped to Death by Manuel Tapia.
• 2005 - Wellington Mara dies (b. 1916). American football team owner.
• 2006 - Danny Rolling dies (b. 1954). American murderer.
• 2007 - The first Airbus A380 flight, operating for Singapore Airlines, with flight number SQ380.
• R.C. Saints feast days: Saints Crispin and Crispian, Blessed Thaddeus McCarthy.
• Grenada - Thanksgiving Day (commemorates Invasion of Grenada).
• Kazakhstan - Republic Day.
• Taiwan - Retrocession Day (1945).
• Virgin Islands - Thanksgiving Day : end of the hurricane season.
• Day of the Romanian Army.
• Brasil: Dia da Democracia; Dia do Dentista Brasileiro e da Saúde Dentária; Dia do Sapateiro;
• Dia Mundial do Macarrão.