Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 25
This is a list of selected October 25 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Heinrich Himmler -
George III
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Constitution Day in Lithuania (1992); | refimprove section |
| ; Armed Forces Day in Romania | refimprove |
| Retrocession Day in Taiwan (1945) | unreferenced section |
| 1861 – The Toronto Stock Exchange, the stock exchange with the most mining and petrochemical companies listed in the world, was established. | refimprove section |
| 1875 – The first performance of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, one of his most popular compositions, was given in Boston with Hans von Bülow as soloist. | multiple issues |
| 1922 – The Third Dáil adopted the Constitution of the Irish Free State, based on the requirements of the Anglo-Irish Treaty establishing the first independent Irish state to be recognised by the British. | refimprove/unreferenced sections |
| 1944 – Heinrich Himmler ordered a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a nonconformist youth group that assisted army deserters and others hiding from the Nazis. | lots of CN tags |
| 1971 – The UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 2758, replacing the Republic of China with the People's Republic of China as China's representative at the United Nations. | refimprove section |
| 1983 – The United States and Caribbean allies invaded Grenada, six days after Bernard Coard seized power in a violent coup d'état. | refimprove section |
| Bernard Hogan-Howe (b. 1957) | date not cited |
Eligible
- 1415 – Hundred Years' War: Henry V of England's army, consisting mostly of archers, unexpectedly defeated the numerically superior French cavalry in the Battle of Agincourt on Saint Crispin's Day.
- 1760 – George III became King of Great Britain and Ireland.
- 1812 – War of 1812: USS United States captured HMS Macedonian, which later became the first British warship to be brought into an American harbor.
- 1854 – Crimean War: Lord Cardigan led his cavalry on a disastrous assault in the Battle of Balaclava.
- 1920 – Irish playwright and politician Terence MacSwiney died after 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, bringing the Irish struggle for independence to international attention.
- 1924 – The Daily Mail published the Zinoviev letter, a hoax purported to be a directive from Moscow to increase communist agitation, pushing the Conservative Party to a landslide victory in the UK general election four days later.
- 1927 – The Italian cruise liner SS Principessa Mafalda sank when a propeller shaft broke and fractured the hull, resulting in 314 deaths.
- 1950 – Korean War: The People's Volunteer Army ambushed the South Korean II Corps and elsewhere engaged the 1st Infantry Division, marking China's entry into the war.
- 1997 – The Million Woman March, a protest march for African-American women to be self-determined, took place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- 2001 – Windows XP, one of the most popular and widely used versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system, was released for retail sale.
- 2010 – Mount Merapi in Central Java, Indonesia, began an increasingly violent series of eruptions that lasted over a month.
- Born/died: Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar (b. 840) · Magnus the Good (d. 1047) · Thomas Babington Macaulay (b. 1800) · Grace Banker (b. 1892) · Nancy Cartwright (b. 1957) · Katy Perry (b. 1984)
- 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.
- 1616 – Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog left a plate (pictured) on an island in Shark Bay, the oldest-known artifact of European exploration in Australia still in existence.
- 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.
- 1980 – Proceedings on the Hague Abduction Convention, a multilateral treaty providing an expeditious method to return a child taken from one member nation to another, concluded at The Hague.
Beatrice of Castile (d. 1359) · Richard Parkes Bonington (b. 1802) · Larry Itliong (b. 1913)