About October 25
October 25, 2025 is the 298th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 67 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 115 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.
- 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.
- 1854 –The Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War (Charge of the Light Brigade).
- 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.
- 1924 –The forged Zinoviev Letter is published in the Daily Mail, wrecking the British Labour Party’s hopes of re-election.
- 1940 –Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.
- 1944 –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.
- 1944 –The Romanian Army liberates Carei, the last Romanian city under Axis Powers occupation.
- 1944 –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.
- 1962 –Cuban missile crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows photos at the UN proving Soviet missiles are installed in Cuba.
- 1962 –Nelson Mandela is sentenced to five years in prison.
- 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)
- 1977 –Digital Equipment Corporation releases OpenVMS V1.0.
- 1983 –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'état.
- 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.
- 2009 –The 25 October 2009 Baghdad bombings kills 155 and wounds at least 721.
- 2010 –Mount Merapi in Central Java, Indonesia, begins over a month of eruptions.
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