What Happened On October 25

What Happened On Oct 25 Timeline

1241 Oct 25
to 1241 Nov 10
 Goffredo da Castiglione (Celestine IV) elected Pope
Pope Celestine IV (died November 10, 1241 in Rome), born Goffredo da Castiglione, was pope from October 25, 1241 to November 10, 1241. Born in Milan, Goffredo or Godfrey is often referre...
1415 Oct 25 Battle of Agincourt
The Battle of Agincourt was an English victory against a much larger French army in the Hundred Years' War. The battle occurred on Friday 25 October 1415 (Saint Crispin's Day), in norther...
1764 Oct 25 Abigail Smith Married John Adams
Abigail Smith married a young lawyer by the name of John Adams on October 25, 1764. Their union launched a vital 54-year partnership taking the couple from colonial Boston through the pol...
1781 Oct 25 Battle Of Johnstown
The Battle of Johnstown was fought in Johnstown, New York. It was one of the last battles in the American theatre of the American Revolutionary War, with approximately 1400 engaged at Joh...
1861 Oct 25 First Battle of Springfield, MO
The First Battle of Springfield or Zagonyi's Charge was a battle of the American Civil War that occurred on October 25, 1861, in Greene County, Missouri. It was the only Union victory in ...
1863 Oct 25 Battle of Pine Bluff
Description: At 8:00 am, October 25, Col. Powell Clayton sent a company of cavalry toward Princeton which ran into Brig. Gen. John S. Marmaduke’s men advancing. After some fire, the Rebel...
1864 Oct 25 Battle of Marais des Cygnes
Description: Maj. Gen. Sterling Price led an expedition into Missouri which Union forces under Maj. Gen. Samuel R. Curtis and Maj. Gen. Alfred Pleasonton finally countered around Kansas ...
1864 Oct 25 Battle of Marmiton River
Description: Following the Battle of Mine Creek, Maj. Gen. Sterling Price continued his cartage towards Fort Scott. In late afternoon of October 25, Price’s supply train had difficulty cr...
1864 Oct 25 Battle of Mine Creek
Description: About six miles south of Trading Post, where the Marais de Cygnes engagement had occurred, the brigades of Col. Frederick W. Benteen and Col. John F. Phillips, of Maj. Gen. A...
1918 Oct 25 Wreck of the SS Princess Sophia
Princess Sophia, was built for the Alaska run, and made her maiden voyage on June 7, 1912. She was not a fancy ship, her hull was short and had high freeboard, but she had comfortable acc...
1935 Oct 25 'Green Hills of Africa' Is Published
Green Hills of Africa initially got a cool reception. Writing for The New York Times, critic John Chamberlain claimed: "Green Hills of Africa" is not one of the major Hemingway works. Mr....
1938 Oct 25 Kyeema Crash
The 1938 Kyeema crash occurred on the western face of Mount Corhanwarrabul, just south of Mount Dandenong, Victoria, Australia. On 25 October 1938, eighteen people were killed when the Ky...
1951 Oct 25 Winston Churchill Is Elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for a Second Term
After the General Election of 1951, Churchill again became Prime Minister. His third government—after the wartime national government and the brief caretaker government of 1945—lasted unt...
1962 Oct 25 Kennedy Issues Security Action Memorandum 199, Authorizing that Nuclear Weapons be Loaded onto Aircraft
At 1:45 a.m. on October 25, Kennedy responded to Khrushchev's telegram, stating that the U.S. was forced into action after receiving repeated assurances that no offensive missiles were be...
1966 Oct 25 U.S. Navy Commences Operation Sea Dragon
Operation Sea Dragon occurred during the Vietnam War and was a series of naval operations beginning in 1966 to interdict sea lines of communications and supply going south from North Viet...
1967 Oct 25 "Camelot" Is Released
Camelot is the 1967 film version of the successful musical of the same name. Richard Harris appears as Arthur, Vanessa Redgrave as Guenevere and Franco Nero as Lancelot. The film was dire...
1969 Oct 25 Pink Floyd releases Ummagumma
Ummagumma is a double album by Pink Floyd, released in 1969 by Harvest and EMI in the United Kingdom and Harvest and Capitol in the United States. The first disc is a live album of their ...
1983 Oct 25 Operation Urgent Fury
The Invasion of Grenada, codenamed Operation Urgent Fury, was a 1983 U.S.-led invasion of Grenada, a Caribbean island nation of just over 100,000 population located 100 miles (160 km) nor...
1983 Oct 25 Ronald Reagan Orders U.S. Troops to Invade Grenada
On October 25, 1983, only two days later, Reagan ordered U.S. forces to invade Grenada, where a 1979 coup d'état had established a Marxist-Leninist government aligned with the Soviet Unio...
1985 Oct 25 Corrosion of Conformity release Animosity
Animosity is the second studio album by the American band Corrosion of Conformity. Album cover art was done by the artist Pushead.
1988 Oct 25 "You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 2" by Frank Zappa Is Released
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 2 is a live album by Frank Zappa. Despite the subtitle "The Helsinki Concert," the album is not one complete concert, but was, in fact, assembled ...
1989 Oct 25 Blind Guardian releases Follow the Blind
Follow the Blind is the second full-length album from the German metal band Blind Guardian, released in 1989. The album is more in the vein of speed metal, compared to the style that woul...
1991 Oct 25 Curly Sue is released
Curly Sue is a 1991 comedy film starring James Belushi, Alisan Porter and Kelly Lynch. The film was written and directed by John Hughes. Music for the movie was provided by Georges Deleru...
1994 Oct 25 Madonna Releases Bedtime Stories
The album began as a collaboration with Shep Pettibone, and was to be stylistically similar to Erotica. However, due to Madonna's wish to soften her public image, as well as her admiratio...
1994 Oct 25 Nas Releases Single "One Love"
"One Love" is a song by American hip hop rapper Nas, released October 25, 1994 on Columbia Records. It was issued as the fifth and final radio single in promotion of his debut studio albu...
1994 Oct 25 "Weird Al" Yankovic releases Greatest Hits Volume II
Greatest Hits Volume II is a compilation CD of songs by "Weird Al" Yankovic that features his best known songs that did not appear on "Weird Al" Yankovic's Greatest Hits, plus the new sin...
1999 Oct 25 Napalm Death release Leaders Not Followers
Leaders Not Followers is an EP album by the British band Napalm Death. The EP has six tracks, which are covers from various punk and metal bands.
1999 Oct 25 Orissa Cyclone of 1999
October 29, 1999, saw cyclonic storms with winds of 200 km per hour ripping through India’s eastern coast. Orissa, like many times in the past, was at the receiving end of nature’s fury. ...
2000 Oct 25 Unveiling of Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial
The Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial (German: Mahnmal für die 65.000 ermordeten österreichischen Juden und Jüdinnen der Shoah) also known as the Nameless Library stands in Judenplatz in the ...
2004 Oct 25 Nearly 380 Tons of High-Explosives Are Found Missing From an Iraqi Bunker
AP WASHINGTON - An Army unit removed 250 tons of ammunition from the Al-Qaqaa weapons depot in April 2003 and later destroyed it, the company’s former commander said Friday. A Defense Dep...
2005 Oct 25 Call of Duty 2 released
Call of Duty 2 is a historic first-person shooter video game and the second instalment to the critically acclaimed game Call of Duty. It was developed by Infinity Ward and published by Ac...
2005 Oct 25 Soulcalibur III is Released
Soulcalibur III (ソウルキャリバーIII, SōruKyaribā Surī) is a fighting game produced by Namco and is the sequel to Soulcalibur II and is the fourth overall installment in the Soul series of fighti...
2005 Oct 25 Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, and John Petrucci Release "G3: Live in Tokyo"
G3: Live in Tokyo is another G3 live performance which featured John Petrucci along with Joe Satriani and Steve Vai in the 2005 G3 tour. It was released as double live album as well as DV...
2005 Oct 25 The Octopus Project Release "One Ten Hundred Thousand Million"
One Ten Hundred Thousand Million is the second album by indietronica band The Octopus Project. It was released October 25, 2005 on Peek-A-Boo Records.
2006 Oct 25 South Park Episode 1011 - "Hell on Earth 2006"
Satan is throwing the biggest Halloween costume party ever, and no one will be admitted without a wristband. Satan is busy checking the R.S.V.P. list and deciding what costume to wear to ...
2006 Oct 25 "The Matrix" Rifftrax is Released
In Earth's dirty, dystopian future, one in which every person alive is kept in a dark, moist pod and fed misinformation (kind of like Manhattan, only the odors are less pungent), only on...
2006 Oct 25 The State Department Of Puerto Rico Confers Puerto Rican Citizenship To Juan Mari Brás
On October 25, 2006, the State Department of Puerto Rico conferred Puerto Rican citizenship to Juan Mari Brás. The Supreme Court of Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican Secretary of Justice d...
2007 Oct 25 Boston Red Sox defeat Colorado Rockies, 2-1
He endeared himself to New England last spring when he modestly let it be known he was willing to be a "hero in the dark." But last night, in the brightest lights that baseball can off...
2007 Oct 25 Dan Ryan Expressway Reconstruction Completed
First designed and built in the early 1960’s, the Dan Ryan Expressway is the busiest expressway in the Chicago area. Accommodating over 300,000 vehicles per day, it is the City's major tr...
2007 Oct 25 Game 2 2007 World Series Red Sox beat Rockies 2 - 1
My son Ben and I watch the Red Sox beat the Rockies 2 - 1 in Game 2 of the 2007 World Series at Fenway Park. James Taylor sang the National Anthem, Curt Schilling was the starting pitche...
2007 Oct 25 M&M's Kart Racing Released
"Buying actual M&M's is more fun than this broken, ugly mess. " —Dr. Swank
2008 Oct 25 Boston Bruins defeat Atlanta Thrashers, 5-4
For Milan Lucic, the satisfaction wasn't that his third goal last night gave him his first hat trick in the NHL. It was that his third goal, which prompted a shower of hats to hit the ...
2008 Oct 25 "Ras Trent" SNL Digital Short
Samberg plays a college student who has converted to Rastafari, who sings boastfully (and stereotypically) about the culture, while being aware that he's not fit for it when he walks by a...
2008 Oct 25 Taylor Swift Sings "The Star Spangled Banner" At The World Series
Swift sang the Star-Spangled Banner at game three of the World Series in Philadelphia on October 25, 2008.
2008 Oct 25 UFC 90: Silva vs. Côté
UFC 90: Silva vs. Côté was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) on October 25, 2008 at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois. The main event feat...
2009 Oct 25 Arizona Cardinals defeat New York Giants, 24-17
These aren't the same old Cardinals. Seven-point underdogs against what was supposed to be an angry Giants team, the defending NFC champs proved themselves just that Sunday night with ...
2009 Oct 25 Green Bay Packers defeat Cleveland Browns, 31-3
Cleveland — No one with the Green Bay Packers has said a word to running back Ryan Grant about him needing to pick up his game a notch this season. But one could see how the addition o...
2009 Oct 25 Jeffry M. Picower, Accused of Profiting Significantly from Bernie Madoff Fraud, Found Dead
A hysterical Barbara Picower called 911 after seeing her husband, billionaire and close friend of Bernard Madoff, Jeffry Picower, at the bottom of her swimming pool. The Palm Beach Police...
2009 Oct 25 New England Patriots defeat Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 35-7
LONDON - The Patriots literally will be playing the Tampa Bay Buccaneers today on foreign soil. Forget the obvious, that the contest is being played at Wembley Stadium - the third stra...
2009 Oct 25 New York Yankees defeat Los Angeles Angels, 5-2
Mariano Rivera experienced the familiar and the unfamiliar Sunday night, giving up a run in his two innings of work, but closed out the Yankees' 5-2 victory over the Angels to set off a p...