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.
- 1147 –The Portuguese, under Afonso I, and Crusaders from England and Flanders conquer Lisbon after a four-month siege.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1900 –The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
- 1920 –After 74 days on Hunger Strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney died.
- 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 USS Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine captain of World War II) is sunk by the ship’s own malfunctioning torpedo.
- 1945 –The Republic of China takes over administration of Taiwan following Japan’s surrender to the Allies.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2010 –Mount Merapi in Central Java, Indonesia, begins over a month of eruptions.
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