October 25

Monday 25, 2004:

Official Guided by Voices Day in Bloomington, Indiana.

Saturday 25, 2003:

The Cedar Fire is reported at 5:37 pm. It becomes the largest wildfire in California history.

Thursday 25, 2001:

Microsoft releases Windows XP

Saturday 25, 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.

Wednesday 25, 1995:

A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.

Tuesday 25, 1994:

Kara Spears Hultgreen is killed when on final approach to the USS Abraham Lincoln in her F-14 Tomcat.

Monday 25, 1993:

Jean Chrétien becomes prime minister of Canada with a massive majority for his Liberal Party in a general election in which the governing Progressive Conservatives lost 149 of 151 seats in the parliament.

Sunday 25, 1992:

Latvia establishes its first post-Soviet constitution

Friday 25, 1991:

Rock band Steely Dan reunites

Saturday 25, 1986:

The New York Mets defeat the Boston Red Sox due to Bill Buckner's famous error in Game 6 of the World Series and go on to win the championship two days later

Tuesday 25, 1983:

Operation Urgent Fury: The United States and Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters were executed in a coup d'état.

Monday 25, 1971:

United Nations seats the People's Republic of China and expels the Republic of China (see China and the United Nations)

Thursday 25, 1962:

Cuban missile crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows photos at the UN proving Soviet missiles are installed in Cuba

Wednesday 25, 1950:

The People's Republic of China joins the Korean War, sending thousands of "volunteers" across the Yalu river border to attack United Nations forces

Thursday 25, 1945:

The Republic of China takes over administration of Taiwan following Japan's surrender to the Allies.

Wednesday 25, 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

Tuesday 25, 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".

Sunday 25, 1936:

Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini create the Rome-Berlin Axis

Saturday 25, 1924:

The forged Zinoviev Letter is published in the Daily Mail, wrecking the British Labour Party's hopes of re-election.

Thursday 25, 1923:

United States Senate begins investigating the Teapot Dome Scandal

Wednesday 25, 1922:

The Dail of the Irish Free State approves the constitution of the new state, formally bringing it into being.

Thursday 25, 1900:

United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal

Friday 25, 1861:

The Toronto Stock Exchange was created.

Wednesday 25, 1854:

Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War (Charge of the Light Brigade)

Saturday 25, 1828:

St Katharine Docks opened in London

Monday 25, 1813:

War of 1812: Canadians and Mohawks beat the Americans in the Battle of Chateauguay

Saturday 25, 1760:

George III becomes King of Great Britain

Wednesday 25, 1747:

British fleet under Admiral Sir Edward Hawke defeats French at second battle of Cape Finisterre.

Wednesday 25, 1662:

King Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France

Tuesday 25, 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 Western Australia coast.

Wednesday 25, 1415:

The army of Henry V of England defeats the French army at the Battle of Agincourt

Tuesday 25, 732:

Battle of Tours: Near Poitiers, France, leader of the Franks Charles Martel and his men, defeat a large army of Moors, stopping the Muslims from spreading into Western Europe. The governor of Cordoba, Abd-ar-Rahman, is killed during the battle.

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