About October 25
October 25, 2022 is the 298th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 67 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 89 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.
- 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.
- 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 –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 Romanian Army liberates Carei, the last Romanian city under Axis Powers occupation.
- 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)
- 1980 –Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude at The Hague.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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