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October 25

A look at October 25 through the almanac — historic events, famous birthdays including Pablo Picasso and Évariste Galois, and the day's notable deaths and observances.

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Events

10 notable moments
  1. 2010

    Mount Merapi

    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.

    Active stratovolcano in Central
  2. 2001

    Microsoft

    Microsoft releases Windows XP, which becomes one of Microsoft's most successful operating systems.

    American multinational technology company
  3. 1971

    China

    The People's Republic of China replaces the Republic of China at the United Nations.

    Country in East Asia
  4. 1944

    USS Tang (SS-306)

    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.

    Balao-class submarine
  5. 1944

    World War II

    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.

    1939–1945 global conflict
  6. 1927

    SS Principessa Mafalda

    The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.

    Italian ocean liner, sunk
  7. 1920

    Terence MacSwiney

    After 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies.

    Irish writer and politician
  8. 1875

    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    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.

    Russian composer (1840–1893)
  9. 1760

    George III

    King George III succeeds to the British throne on the death of his grandfather George II.

    King of Great Britain
  10. 1616

    Dirk Hartog

    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.

    Dutch sailor and explorer
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Famous birthday twins

Born on October 25

Pablo Picasso

b. 1881

Spanish painter and sculptor

Évariste Galois

b. 1811

French mathematician and theorist

Wendy Hall

b. 1952

English computer scientist, mathematician, and academic

Jorge Batlle

b. 1927

Ibáñez, Uruguayan lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Uruguay

Marcellin Berthelot

b. 1827

French chemist and politician

Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren

b. 1760

German historian

Jan Stanisław Sapieha

b. 1589

Polish-Lithuanian noble

Katy Perry

b. 1984

American singer-songwriter and actress

Deaths

  • 2014Carlos Morales Troncoso, Dominican lawyer and politician, 34th Vice President of the Dominican Republic
  • 1995Bobby Riggs, American tennis player
  • 1973Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian runner
  • 1945Robert Ley, German politician
  • 1920Terence MacSwiney, Irish playwright, politician, Lord Mayor of Cork died on hunger strike
  • 1400Geoffrey Chaucer, English philosopher, poet, and author (born c. 1343)

Holidays & observances

  • —Armed Forces Day (Romania)
  • —Christian feast day: Bernat Calbó (Bernard of Calvo)
  • —Christian feast day: Pope Boniface I
  • —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

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