vents 1 - 182 of 182 625 - Boniface V ends his reign as Catholic Pope 1131 - Crowning of Louis Historical Events. Events of 25th October. VII the Young, King of France 1147 - King Afonso I of Portugal occupiers Lisbon 1147 - Seljuk Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum. 1241 - Goffredo Castiglioni elected as Pope Coelestinus IV (-Nov 10 1241) 1315 - Adam Banastre, Henry de Lea and William Bradshaw, led an attack on Liverpool Castle. 1415 - Battle of Agincourt, Welsh longbow defeats the armored knight 1415 - John IV van Bourgondy becomes duke of Brabant/Limburg 1492 - Columbus fleet sites Zandislands (Ragged Island Range, Bahamas) 1492 - Christopher Columbus ship Santa Maria lands at Dominican Republic 1521 - Emperor Charles V bans wooden buildings in Amsterdam 1555 - Emperor Karel puts son Philip II in charge of Netherlands/Naples/Milan 1577 - Pope Gregory XIII asks renewal of ecclesiastical hymns 1596 - Spanish fleet sails from Lisbon to Ireland 1616 - VOC-ship The Eendracht discovers Dirk-Hartogeiland, Australia 1621 - Gov Bradford of US colony Plymouth disallows sport on Christmas Day 1666 - Brandenburg/Brunswick/Denmark/Neth form anti-French Quadruple Alliance 1671 - Giovanni Cassini discovers Iapetus, satellite of Saturn 1747 - British fleet under Admiral Sir Edward Hawke defeats the French at the second battle of Cape Finisterre. 1760 - George III becomes King of Great Britain. 1812 - US frigate United States captures British vessel Macedonian 1825 - Erie Canal opens, linking Great Lakes & Atlantic Ocean 1828 - The St Katharine Docks opened in London. 1854 - Charge of Light Brigade (Battle of Balaklava, Crimean War), 409 die 1854 - Prince Menshikov of Krim occupies British base at Balaclava 1859 - Merchant vessel Royal Charter runs aground at Liverpool, 459 die 1861 - Battle of Wilsons Creek, MI (Springfield) 1861 - Telegraph message sent from St Louis to SF 1861 - The Toronto Stock Exchange created. 1864 - Battle of Marais Des Cygnes River, Kansas (Mine Creek) 1864 - Skirmish at Mine Creek, KS & Turkeytown, AL 1870 - Pimlico Race Course opens in Baltimore 1870 - Postcards 1st used in US 1875 - The first performance of the Piano Concerto No. 1 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is given in Boston, Massachusetts with Hans von Bülow as soloist. 1884 - 1st World Series OK by AA, Providence (NL) sweeps NY Mets (AA) in 3 1885 - John Brahms 4th Symphony in E, premieres 1891 - 1st International 6 day bike race (NY Madison Square Garden) ends 1893 - Battle of Shangani, Matabeleland: Dr Jameson beats Ndebeles 1900 - England annexes Transvaal 1902 - Maksin Gorkis Na dne, premieres in Moscow 1902 - Santa Maria Guatemala hit by Earthquake; about 6,000 die 1906 - Georges Clemenceau succeeds Ferdinand Sarien premier of France 1906 - US inventor Lee de Forest patents Audion, a 3-diode amplification valve which proved a pioneering development in radio & broadcasting 1907 - Frederik of Oaths disbands mental home colony Walden 1915 - Atty James L Curtis named minister of Liberia 1917 - Pan-Russian Congress opens in Petrograd 1918 - Canadian steamship Princess Sophia hit a reef off Alaska, 398 die 1923 - Senate committee publishes 1st report on Teapot Dome scandal 1924 - Little Orphan Annie comic strip 1st published 1925 - Lester Patrick takes over NY Rangers 1925 - Rightist German ministers disavows Treaty of Locarno 1926 - Lester Patrick becomes 1st coach & gm of NY Rangers 1929 - Former Interior Sec Albert Fall convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe 1930 - 1st football game in Atlantic City Convention Center 1930 - 1st scheduled transcontinental air service began 1932 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Company consultant 1932 - Benito Mussolini promises to remain dictator for 30 years 1935 - Hurricane-produced floods kill 2,000 in Jeremie & Jacmel Haiti 1937 - Belgian government of Zealand falls due to black money 1937 - Casey Stengel signs to manage Boston Bees 1938 - Japanese troops occupies Hankou & Wuhan 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. 1939 - George Kaufman/Moss Harts Man Who Came to Dinner, premieres in NYC 1939 - William Saroyans Time of Your Life, premieres in NYC 1940 - Benjamin O Davis Dr became 1st Black general in US Army 1940 - Col Bo Davis attains rank of Brigadier General 1940 - Duke, Latouche & Felters musical premieres in NYC 1940 - US Army Gen Benjamin Davis becomes 1st black general 1941 - 16,000 Jews massacred in Odessa Ukraine 1941 - Germany attacks Moscow 1941 - Winston Churchill routes Forces South to SE Asia 1942 - 3rd day of battle at El Alamein: British offensive 1942 - Battle of Henderson Field Guadalcanal begins 1942 - Field Marshal Rommel back in North-Africa 1943 - Burma railroad completed & opens 1944 - Battle at Cape Engano: 4 Japanese ships sink 1944 - Battle at Samar-island 1944 - Battle in Straits of Surigao: Japanese fleet destroyed 1944 - Gas output stopped in Amsterdam 1945 - Japanese surrender Taiwan to Gen Chiang Kai-shek 1946 - 1st trial against nazi war criminals (Neurenberg) 1947 - Under the Counter closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 27 perfs 1947 - Bradman scores 156 for SA v the Indians, 152 mins, 22 fours 1947 - Sam Breadon sells Cards to Robert Hannegan & Fred Saigh for $4M 1948 - Special Council of Annulment convicts F Weinreb for collaboration 1950 - Dutch NSB leader C van Gelderen sentenced to life 1950 - Jean Anouilhs La Repetition, ou LAmour Pani, premieres in Paris 1950 - Sukarno appointed president of Republic Indonesia 1951 - Peace talks aimed at ending Korean War resumed in Panmunjom 1952 - 1st Dutch edition of youth magazine Donald Duck 1952 - French president inaugurates Donzère-Mondragonstuw Dam Explorer of the New World Christopher Columbus Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini Soldier, author, journalist, politician Winston Churchill German WWII Field Marshal Erwin Rommel 1952 - Nazar Mohammad scores Pakistans 1st Test century 124* v India 1953 - Cleveland Browns QB Otto Graham sets club record with 4 fumbles 1953 - Coal mine in Seraing Belgium explodes, 26 die 1953 - Dmitri Sjostakovitch completes his 10th Symphony 1953 - KIEM TV channel 3 in Eureka, CA (NBC/CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting 1955 - Austria resumed its sovereignty after departure of last Allied occupation forces, for 1st time since German occupation of 1938 1955 - Branch Rickey steps down as GM of the Pirates 1955 - Tappan sells 1st microwave oven 1956 - White Sox manager Marty Marion resigns. AL Lopez replaces him 1957 - Russian minister of Defense Zjoekov deposed 1960 - 1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale, NYC 1960 - Cuba nationalizes all remaining US businesses 1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 1962 - 110th member of UN admitted (Uganda) 1962 - 1st Belgian nuclear reactor begins operation 1962 - American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature 1962 - Stevenson demands USSR amb Zorin answer regarding Cuban missle bases saying I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over 1963 - Anti-Kennedy WANTED FOR TREASON pamphlets scattered in Dallas 1963 - Beatles begin their 1st full foreign tour in Sweden 1964 - Anton Geesink is 1st non-Japanese Olympic judo gold medal winner 1964 - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Ladies Golf Open 1964 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 1964 - Viking Jim Marshall runs 66 yards in wrong direction for a safety 1965 - Rolling Stones release Get Off of My Cloud 1966 - 6 youths sentenced in Johnson murderer! in Amsterdam 1968 - Chicago recognizes Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable as its 1st settler 1968 - Longest Oly field hockey game, Hol beats Spain 1-0 in 2h25m (6 OT) 1968 - Yoko Ono announces she is having John Lennons baby 1970 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Womens Golf Charities Open 1971 - Belgium & China PR establish diplomatic relations 1971 - General Meeting of UN agrees to admit China PR 1971 - Roy Disney dedicates Walt Disney World 1971 - UN votes to expel Chinese Nationalist-ruled Taiwan & admit Red China 1972 - Eddy Merckx (Belgium) covers 30 miles, 1,258 yards in 1 hr 1972 - Nobel prize for economy awarded to Kenneth J Arrow & John R Hicks 1973 - Chris Wills wins 1st National hang-gliding championship 1973 - Cubs trade Ferguson Jenkins to Rangers for Bill Madlock & Vic Harris 1973 - SF Giants trade Willie McCovey to SD Padres for pitcher Mike Caldwell 1974 - Air Force fires 1st ICBM 1974 - Dmitri Shostakovitch 15th String Quartet premieres in Leningrad 1974 - Wings release Juniors Farm 1975 - Denver Nuggets 1st game at McNichols Sports Arena beat St Louis Spirits 1975 - USSRs Venera 10 makes day-side Venus landing 1976 - 5th Enterprise, approach & lands test (ALT) flight 1976 - Gov Wallace grants full pardon to Clarence Norris, last known survivor of 9 Scottsboro Boys who were convicted in 1931 rape 1977 - Digital Equipment Corporation releases OpenVMS V1.0. 1978 - Israeli government approves "in principle," a draft compromise peace 1978 - Padres Gaylord Perry is 1st to win Cy Young in both leagues (NL) 1979 - USSR performs underground nuclear test 1980 - Mike Weaver KOs Gerrie Coetzee in 13 for heavyweight boxing title 1980 - Barbra Streisands Guilty, album goes #1 for 3 weeks & her single Woman In Love, goes #1 for 3 weeks 1981 - 11th NYC Womens Marathon won by Allison Roe in 2:25:29 1981 - 12th NYC Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 2:08:13 1981 - 200,000 demonstrate in Brussel against cruise missile 1981 - Allison Roe (2:25:29) & Alberto Salazar (2:08:13) win NYC marathon 1981 - George Steinbrenner scuffles with 2 fans in a hotel elevator 1982 - David Hookes scores Cricket century in 34 balls 43 mins, SA v Victoria 1983 - US invades Grenada, a country 1/2,000 its population (US Wins!) 1984 - Give My Regards to Broad Street premieres (Gotham Theater-NYC) 1984 - Hepatitis virus is discovered 1984 - King Boudouin opens Museum for Modern Art in Brussels 1984 - Rangers beat Devils 11-2 1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 1984 - West German Chancellor Rainer Barzel resigns due to corruption 1985 - Angels announce that they will not offer Rod Carew a new contract 1985 - Kosmos 1700 communications satellite placed in geostationary orbit 1986 - International Red Cross ousted from South Africa 1986 - Michael Sergio Parachutes into Shea Stadium during game 6 of WS 1986 - Trailing 5-3 with 2 out & no one on in bottom of 10th, NY rallies to win Game 6 of the World Series, 6-5, Bill Buckner misplays a ball 1987 - Minnesota Twins win their 1st World Series championship beating St Louis Cards, 4 games to 3 in 84th World Series 1988 - ABC News reports on potbellied pygmy porkers popularity as pets 1988 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island 1990 - Evander Holyfield KOs Buster Douglas in 3 for heavyweight boxing title 1990 - NY Daily News goes on strike (lasts through March, 1991) 1991 - Aaqib Javed takes 7-37 in 10 overs v India in cric 1-dayer at Sharjah 1992 - Dancing at Lughnasa closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 421 perfs 1992 - Jakes Women closes at Neil Simon Theater NYC after 245 performances 1992 - Rene Lachemann hired as Fla Marlins 1st manager 1992 - Lithuania holds a referendum on its first post-Soviet constitution. 1993 - Airbus A310 of Air Nigeria hijacked, 1 dead 1993 - Canada Liberal Party/Bloc Québécois wins parliamentary election 1993 - Daryll Cullinan hits 337* for Transvaal, SAf 1st-class cricket record 1994 - Susan Smith claims her 2 kids were carjack (she actually killed them) 1995 - Victor/Victoria, opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 738 performances 1996 - Frank, brother of Yank manager Joe Torre, receives a heart transplant 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. 2001 - Windows XP first became available. 2004 - Fidel Castro, Cubas President, announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned by November 8. 2007 - The first Airbus A380 passenger flight, operating for Singapore Airlines, with flight number SQ 380, flying scheduled service between Singapore and Sydney, Australia. 2009 - The 25 October 2009 Baghdad bombings kills 155 and wounds at least 721. 2012 - Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in Cuba and Haiti killing 65 people and causing over $80 million in damage
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