Tukuk-OS📅 October 25
16 events · 12 births · 12 deaths
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What happened on October 25? Below are the notable events chosen by Wikipedia’s editors for this date, followed by celebrated births, deaths and the observances recognised around the world.
Events
- 2022 — At 49 days, Liz Truss concluded the shortest tenure as prime minister of the United Kingdom.
- 2010 — Mount Merapi in Central Java, Indonesia, began an increasingly violent series of eruptions that lasted over a month.
- 2001 — Windows XP, one of the most popular and widely used versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system, was released for retail sale.
- 1950 — The People's Volunteer Army ambushed the South Korean II Corps at the Battle of Onjong, and elsewhere engaged the 1st Infantry Division at the Battle of Unsan, marking China's entry into the Korean War.
People's Volunteer ArmyII Corps (South Korea)Battle of Onjong
- 1944 — Heinrich Himmler ordered a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a nonconformist youth group that assisted army deserters and others hiding from the Nazis.
- 1944 — USS Tang, the U.S. Navy submarine credited with sinking more ships than any other American submarine, sank when it was struck by its own torpedo.
- 1929 — Hundreds of students at Armstrong College in Newcastle, England, tarred and feathered Statue of Industry (pictured), a sculpture by Herbert Maryon.
Colleges of Durham UniversityNewcastle upon TyneTarring and feathering
- 1927 — The Italian cruise liner SS Principessa Mafalda sank when a propeller shaft broke and fractured the hull, resulting in 314 deaths.
- 1924 — The Daily Mail published the Zinoviev letter, a hoax purported to be a directive from Moscow to increase communist agitation.
- 1920 — Irish playwright and politician Terence MacSwiney died after a hunger strike in Brixton Prison, bringing the Irish struggle for independence to international attention.
- 1864 — American Civil War: During Price's Missouri Expedition, Union troops defeated Sterling Price's Confederate army in three successive battles: Marais des Cygnes, Mine Creek, and Marmiton River.
- 1854 — Crimean War: The ill-fated Charge of the Light Brigade was decisively repelled by Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava.
- 1760 — George III became King of Great Britain and Ireland, succeeding his grandfather George II.
- 1616 — Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog left a plate on an island in Shark Bay, the oldest-known artefact of European exploration in Australia still in existence.
- 1415 — Hundred Years' War: The army of Henry V of England, consisting mostly of archers, unexpectedly defeated the numerically superior French cavalry at the Battle of Agincourt (pictured) on Saint Crispin's Day.
- 1147 — Reconquista: Forces under Afonso I of Portugal captured Lisbon from the Moors after a four-month siege in one of the few Christian victories during the Second Crusade.
Births
- 2001 — Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant
- 2000 — Dominik Szoboszlai, Hungarian footballer
- 2000 — Vincent Zhou, American figure skater
- 1999 — Clara Soccini, Italian singer-songwriter, actress and model
- 1999 — Romeo Langford, American basketball player
- 1998 — Juan Soto, Dominican baseball player
- 1998 — Lee Know, South Korean singer
- 1997 — Federico Chiesa, Italian footballer
- 1996 — PJ Dozier, American basketball player
- 1995 — Conchita Campbell, Canadian actress
- 1995 — Jock Landale, Australian basketball player
- 1995 — Patrick McCaw, American basketball player
Deaths
- 2026 — Eric Bauza, Canadian-American voice actor and comedian (born 1979)
- 2025 — Satish Shah, Indian actor and comedian (born 1951)
- 2025 — Rolf Dupuy, anarchist and historian of the anarchist movement in France and Spain (born 1946)
- 2024 — Phil Lesh, American bassist (born 1940)
- 2024 — Kim Soo-mi, South Korean actress (born 1949)
- 2019 — Dilip Parikh, Indian politician (born 1937)
- 2018 — Thomas Keating, American Trappist monk and a principal developer of Centering Prayer (born 1923)
- 2016 — Carlos Alberto Torres, Brazilian football player and manager (born 1944)
- 2016 — Bob Hoover, USAF, Test, and Airshow pilot (born 1922)
- 2015 — David Cesarani, English historian and author (born 1956)
- 2015 — Lisa Jardine, English historian, author, and academic (born 1944)
- 2015 — Cecil Lolo, South African footballer (born 1988)
Observances & holidays
- Armed Forces Day (Romania)
- Christian feast day: Bernat Calbó (Bernard of Calvo)
- Christian feast day: Canna
- Christian feast day: Blessed Carlo Gnocchi
- Christian feast day: Crysanthus and Daria (Western Christianity)
- Christian feast day: Crispin and Crispinian
- Christian feast day: Fructus
- Christian feast day: Gaudentius of Brescia
- Christian feast day: Goeznovius
- Christian feast day: María Teresa Ferragut Roig and four of her daughters
- Christian feast day: Maurus of Pécs
- Christian feast day: Minias of Florence
- Christian feast day: Mar Nestorius (in the Nestorian churches)
- Christian feast day: Tabitha (Dorcas)
- Christian feast day: Tegulus
- Christian feast day: Blessed Thaddeus McCarthy
- Christian feast day: The Six Welsh Martyrs and companions (in Wales)
- Christian feast day: The Hallowing of Nestorius
- Christian feast day: October 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Day of the Basque Country (Basque Country)
- Republic Day (Kazakhstan)
- Retrocession Day and the memorial day for the Battle of Guningtou ( Taiwan)
- Sovereignty Day (Slovenia)
- Thanksgiving Day (Grenada)
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