About October 25
October 25, 2021 is the 298th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 67 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 99 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 –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 –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 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 –Nelson Mandela is sentenced to five years in prison.
- 1977 –Digital Equipment Corporation releases OpenVMS V1.0.
- 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.
- 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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