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October 25 is the 298th day of the year (299th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 67 days remain until the end of the year. Events Pre-1600 285 or 286 – Execution of Saints Crispin and Crispinian during the reign of Diocletian, now the patron saints of leather workers, curriers, and shoemakers. 473 – Emperor Leo I acclaims his grandson Leo II as Caesar of the East Roman Empire. 1147 – Seljuk Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum. 1147 – Reconquista: After a siege of four months, crusader knights conquer Lisbon. 1415 – Hundred Years' War: Henry V of England, with his lightly armoured infantry and archers, defeats the heavily armoured French cavalry in the Battle of Agincourt. 1601–1900 1616 – Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes the second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast. 1747 – War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral Edward Hawke defeats the French at the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre. 1760 – King George III succeeds to the British throne on the death of his grandfather George II. 1809 – Golden Jubilee of George III is celebrated in Britain as he begins the fiftieth year of his reign. 1812 – War of 1812: The American frigate, USS United States, commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate HMS Macedonian. 1822 – Greek War of Independence: The First Siege of Missolonghi begins. 1854 – The Battle of Balaclava takes place during the Crimean War. It is soon memorialized in verse as The Charge of the Light Brigade. 1861 – The Toronto Stock Exchange is created. 1868 – The Uspenski Cathedral, designed by Aleksey Gornostayev, is inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland. 1875 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in B♭ minor, Op. 23 premieres in Boston, Massachusetts, with Benjamin Johnson Lang as conductor and Hans von Bülow as soloist. 1900 – The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal. 1901–present 1911 – The Xinhai Revolution spreads to Guangzhou, where the Qing general Feng-shan is assassinated by the Chinese Assassination Corps. 1917 – Old Style date of the October Revolution in Russia. 1920 – After 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies. 1924 – The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later. 1927 – The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314. 1932 – George Lansbury became the leader of the opposition British Labour Party. 1940 – Benjamin O. Davis Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army. 1944 – World War II: 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 – World War II: The USS Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine ace of the war) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo. 1944 – World War II: The final attempt of the Imperial Japanese Navy to win the war climaxes at the Battle of Leyte Gulf. 1945 – Fifty years of Japanese administration of Taiwan formally ends when the Republic of China assumes control. 1949 – The Battle of Guningtou in the Taiwan Strait begins. 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba. 1968 – A Fairchild F-27 crashes into Moose Mountain while on approach to Lebanon Municipal Airport in Lebanon, New Hampshire, killing 32 people. 1971 – The People's Republic of China replaces the Republic of China at the United Nations. 1973 – Egypt and Israel accept United Nations Security Council Resolution 339. 1980 – Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude. 1983 – 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. 1990 – The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic declares its sovereignty from the Soviet Union. 1995 – A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students. 1997 – After a civil war, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself President of the Republic of the Congo. 1999 – A Learjet 35 crashes in Mina near Aberdeen, South Dakota, killing all six people on board, including PGA golfer Payne Stewart and golf course designer Bruce Borland. 2001 – Microsoft releases Windows XP, which becomes one of Microsoft's most successful operating systems. 2009 – The October 2009 Baghdad bombings kill 155 and wound at least 721. 2010 – Mount Merapi in Indonesia begins a month-long series of violent eruptions that kill 353 people and cause the evacuation of another 350,000 people. 2010 – A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes off Indonesia's Mentawai Islands, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 400 people. 2023 – A mass shooting occurs in two locations in Lewiston, Maine. 18 people are killed and 13 more injured. Births Pre-1600 840 – Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar, founder of the Saffarid dynasty (d. 879) 1102 – William Clito, French son of Sybilla of Conversano (d. 1128) 1330 – Louis II, Count of Flanders, (d. 1384) 1453 – Giuliano de' Medici (d. 1478) 1510 – Renée of France (d. 1574) 1574 – François de Sourdis, French Catholic prelate (d. 1628) 1589 – Jan Stanisław Sapieha, Polish-Lithuanian noble (d. 1635) 1601–1900 1612 – James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, Scottish soldier (d. 1650) 1667 – Louis Frederick I, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (d. 1718) 1683 – Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, English-Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1757) 1692 – Elisabeth Farnese, Queen of Spain (d. 1766) 1709 – Georg Gebel, German organist and composer (d. 1753) 1714 – James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish judge (d. 1799) 1736 – Thomas Mullins, 1st Baron Ventry, Anglo-Irish politician and peer (d. 1824) 1743 – Friedrich Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (d. 1812) 1749 – Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein, Swedish chamberlain (d. 1802) 1754 – Richard Howell, 3rd Governor of New Jersey (d. 1802) 1755 – François Joseph Lefebvre, French military commander (d. 1820) 1757 – Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein, Prussian statesman (d. 1831) 1759 – Maria Feodorovna, Russian wife of Paul I of Russia (d. 1828) 1759 – William Grenville, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1834) 1760 – Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren, German historian (d. 1842) 1767 – Benjamin Constant, Swiss-French philosopher and politician (d. 1830) 1768 – Frederick William, ruler of Nassau-Weilburg (d. 1816) 1772 – Victoire de Donnissan de La Rochejaquelein, French memoirist (d. 1857) 1772 – Géraud Duro.... 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