About October 25

October 25, 2024 is the 299th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 67 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

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Scorpio is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 96 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On October 25

  • 1147 –
    Seljuk Turks completely annihilate German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum.
  • 1415 –
    The army of Henry V of England defeats the French at the Battle of Agincourt.
  • 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.
  • 1747 –
    British fleet under Admiral Sir Edward Hawke defeats the French at the second battle of Cape Finisterre.
  • 1760 –
    George III becomes King of Great Britain.
  • 1812 –
    War of 1812: The American frigate, USS United States, commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate HMS Macedonian.
  • 1828 –
    The St Katharine Docks opened in London.
  • 1854 –
    The Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War (Charge of the Light Brigade).
  • 1861 –
    The Toronto Stock Exchange is created.
  • 1900 –
    The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
  • 1917 –
    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.
  • 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”.
  • 1940 –
    Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.
  • 1944 –
    The Romanian Army liberates Carei, the last Romanian city under Axis Powers occupation.
  • 1962 –
    Cuban missile crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows photos at the UN proving Soviet missiles are installed in Cuba.
  • 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)
  • 1995 –
    A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.
  • 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.
  • 2004 –
    Fidel Castro, Cuba’s President, announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned.
  • 2009 –
    The 25 October 2009 Baghdad bombings kills 155 and wounds at least 721.

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