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Events on the 25th of October in history

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25 Oct 0473 Emperor Leo I acclaims his grandson Leo II as Caesar of the Byzantine Empire.
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25 Oct 0625 Boniface V ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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25 Oct 1131 Crowning of Louis VII the Young, King of France
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25 Oct 1147 King Afonso I of Portugal occupiers Lisbon
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25 Oct 1147 Seljuk Turks completely annihilate German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum.
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25 Oct 1154 Henry II becomes King of England.
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25 Oct 1241 Goffredo Castiglioni elected as Pope Coelestinus IV (-Nov 10 1241)
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25 Oct 1415 John IV van Bourgondy becomes Duke of Brabant / Limburg
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25 Oct 1415 The army of Henry V of England defeats the French at the Battle of Agincourt.
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25 Oct 1415 Battle of Agincourt, Welsh longbow defeats the armored knight
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25 Oct 1492 Christopher Columbus and ship Santa Maria land in Dominican Republic
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25 Oct 1521 Emperor Charles V bans wooden buildings in Amsterdam
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25 Oct 1555 Emperor Karel puts son Philip II in charge of the Netherlands / Naples / Milan
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25 Oct 1577 Pope Gregory XIII asks renewal of ecclesiastical hymns
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25 Oct 1596 Spanish fleet sails from Lisbon to Ireland
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25 Oct 1616 VOC-ship "The Eendracht" discovers Dirk-Hartogeiland, Australia
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25 Oct 1616 Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast.
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25 Oct 1621 Gov Bradford of US colony Plymouth disallows sport on Christmas Day
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25 Oct 1666 Brandenburg / Brunswick / Denmark / Netherlands form anti-French Quadruple Alliance
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25 Oct 1671 Giovanni Cassini discovers Iapetus, satellite of Saturn
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25 Oct 1747 British fleet under Admiral Sir Edward Hawke defeats the French at the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre.
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25 Oct 1760 George III becomes King of Great Britain.
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25 Oct 1760 George III ascends the British throne
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25 Oct 1764 John Adams marries Abigail Smith (marriage lasts 54 years)
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25 Oct 1812 War of 1812: The American frigate, USS United States, commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate HMS Macedonian.
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25 Oct 1812 US frigate United States captures British vessel Macedonian
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25 Oct 1822 Greek War of Independence: The First Siege of Missolonghi begins.
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25 Oct 1825 Erie Canal opens, linking Great Lakes and Atlantic Ocean
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25 Oct 1828 St Katharine Docks open in London.
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25 Oct 1854 Charge of Light Brigade (Battle of Balaklava, Crimean War), 409 die
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25 Oct 1854 Prince Menshikov of Krim occupies British base at Balaclava
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25 Oct 1854 The Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War (Charge of the Light Brigade).
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25 Oct 1854 The Light Brigade charges (Battle of Balaklava) (Crimean War)
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25 Oct 1859 Merchant vessel Royal Charter runs aground at Liverpool, 459 die
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25 Oct 1861 Telegraph message sent from St. Louis to San Francisco
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25 Oct 1861 The Toronto Stock Exchange is created.
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25 Oct 1864 Battle of Marais Des Cygnes River, Kansas (Mine Creek)
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25 Oct 1864 Skirmish at Mine Creek, KS and Turkeytown, Alabama
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25 Oct 1870 Pimlico Race Course opens in Baltimore
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25 Oct 1870 Postcards 1st used in US
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25 Oct 1881 Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and Clanton engage in "Shootout at OK Corral"
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25 Oct 1884 1st World Series OK by AA, Providence (NL) sweeps New York Mets (AA) in 3
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25 Oct 1891 1st International 6 day bike race (NY Madison Square Garden) ends
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25 Oct 1891 1st International 6 day bike race (NY MSG) ends
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25 Oct 1893 Battle of Shangani, Matabeleland: Dr Jameson beats Ndebeles
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25 Oct 1900 The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
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25 Oct 1900 England annexes Transvaal
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25 Oct 1902 Santa Maria Guatemala hit by Earthquake; about 6,000 die
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25 Oct 1903 Senate begins investigating Teapot Dome scandals of Harding admin
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25 Oct 1906 US inventor Lee de Forest patents "Audion, " a 3-diode amplification valve which proved a pioneering development in radio and broadcasting
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25 Oct 1907 Frederik of Oaths disbands mental home colony Walden
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25 Oct 1915 Atty James L Curtis named minister of Liberia
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25 Oct 1917 In Russia, Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin seizes power
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25 Oct 1917 Pan-Russian Congress opens in Petrograd
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25 Oct 1917 Traditionally understood date of the October Revolution, involving the capture of the Winter Palace, Petrograd, Russia. The date refers to the Julian Calendar date, and corresponds with November 7 in the Gregorian calendar.
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25 Oct 1918 Canadian steamship "Princess Sophia" hit a reef off Alaska, 398 die
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25 Oct 1920 After 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies.
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25 Oct 1923 Senate committee publishes 1st report on Teapot Dome scandal
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25 Oct 1924 "Little Orphan Annie" comic strip 1st published
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25 Oct 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.
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25 Oct 1924 1st appearance of Little Orphan Annie comic strip
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25 Oct 1925 Lester Patrick takes over New York Rangers
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25 Oct 1925 Rightist German ministers disavows Treaty of Locarno
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25 Oct 1926 Lester Patrick becomes 1st coach and gm of New York Rangers
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25 Oct 1927 The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.
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25 Oct 1929 Former Interior Secretary Albert Fall convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe
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25 Oct 1930 1st football game in Atlantic City Convention Center
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25 Oct 1930 1st scheduled transcontinental air service began
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25 Oct 1932 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Company consultant
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25 Oct 1932 Mussolini promises to remain Dictator for 30 years
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25 Oct 1935 Hurricane-produced floods kill 2,000 in Jeremie & Jacmel Haiti
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25 Oct 1937 Belgian government of Zealand falls due to black money
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25 Oct 1937 Casey Stengel signs to manage Boston Bees
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25 Oct 1938 Japanese troops occupies Hankou andWuhan
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25 Oct 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". His warning is widely ignored.
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25 Oct 1939 Nylon stockings go on sale in US for 1st time
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25 Oct 1940 Benjamin O Davis Dr became 1st Black general in US Army
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25 Oct 1940 Colonel Bo Davis attains rank of Brigadier General
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25 Oct 1940 US Army General Benjamin Davis becomes 1st black general
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25 Oct 1940 Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.
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25 Oct 1941 16,000 Jews massacred in Odessa Ukraine
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25 Oct 1941 Germany attacks Moscow
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25 Oct 1941 Winston Churchill routes "Forces South" to SE Asia
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25 Oct 1942 3rd day of battle at El Alamein: British offensive
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25 Oct 1942 Battle of Henderson Field Guadalcanal begins
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25 Oct 1942 Field Marshal Rommel back in North-Africa
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25 Oct 1943 Burma railroad completed and opens
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25 Oct 1944 Battle at Samar-island
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25 Oct 1944 Battle in Straits of Surigao: Japanese fleet destroyed
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25 Oct 1944 Gas output stopped in Amsterdam
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25 Oct 1944 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.
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25 Oct 1944 The USS Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine captain of World War II) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo.
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25 Oct 1944 The Romanian city of Carei is liberated by Romanian and Soviet forces from Nazi-Hungarian occupation.
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25 Oct 1944 World War II: Battle of Leyte Gulf — the largest naval battle in history, takes place in and around the Philippines between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the U.S. Third and U.S. Seventh Fleets. Afterward is the first Kamikaze attack of the war.
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25 Oct 1944 Japanese navy defeated at battle of Leyte Gulf
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25 Oct 1945 Japanese surrender Taiwan to General Chiang Kai-shek
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25 Oct 1945 The Republic of China takes over administration of Taiwan following Japan's surrender to the Allies.
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25 Oct 1946 1st trial against Nazi war criminals (Neurenberg)
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25 Oct 1947 "Under the Counter" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 27 performances
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25 Oct 1947 Bradman scores 156 for South Africa vs. the Indians, 152 mins, 22 fours
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25 Oct 1947 Sam Breadon sells Cards to Robert Hannegan and Fred Saigh for $4M
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25 Oct 1948 Special Council of Annulment convicts F Weinreb for collaboration
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25 Oct 1950 Dutch NSB leader C van Gelderen sentenced to life
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25 Oct 1950 Sukarno appointed President of the Republic of Indonesia
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25 Oct 1951 Peace talks aimed at ending Korean War resumed in Panmunjom
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25 Oct 1952 1st Dutch edition of youth magazine "Donald Duck"
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25 Oct 1953 Coal mine in Seraing Belgium explodes, 26 die
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25 Oct 1953 Dmitri Sjostakovitch completes his 10th Symphony
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25 Oct 1953 KIEM TV channel 3 in Eureka, CA (NBC / CBS / ABC) begins broadcasting
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25 Oct 1955 Austria resumed its sovereignty after departure of last Allied occupation forces, for 1st time since German occupation of 1938
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25 Oct 1955 Branch Rickey steps down as GM of the Pirates
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25 Oct 1955 Tappan sells 1st microwave oven
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25 Oct 1956 White Sox manager Marty Marion resigns. AL Lopez replaces him
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25 Oct 1957 Russian Minister of Defense Zjoekov deposed
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25 Oct 1960 1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale, New York City
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25 Oct 1960 Cuba nationalizes all remaining US businesses
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25 Oct 1962 1st Belgian nuclear reactor begins operation
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25 Oct 1962 Stevenson demands USSR amb Zorin answer regarding Cuban missle bases saying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over"
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25 Oct 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows photos at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council proving that Soviet missiles are installed in Cuba.
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25 Oct 1962 Uganda joins the United Nations.
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25 Oct 1962 Nelson Mandela is sentenced to five years in prison.
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25 Oct 1962 110th member of the UN admitted (Uganda)
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25 Oct 1962 American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature
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25 Oct 1963 Anti-Kennedy "WANTED FOR TREASON" pamphlets scattered in Dallas
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25 Oct 1963 Beatles begin their 1st full foreign tour in Sweden
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25 Oct 1964 Anton Geesink is 1st non-Japanese Olympic judo gold medal winner
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25 Oct 1964 Viking Jim Marshall runs 66 yards in the wrong direction for a safety
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25 Oct 1965 Rolling Stones release "Get Off of My Cloud"
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25 Oct 1966 6 youths sentenced in "Johnson murderer!" in Amsterdam
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25 Oct 1968 Chicago recognizes Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable as its 1st settler
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25 Oct 1968 Longest Oly field hockey game, Hol beats Spain 1-0 in 2h25m (6 OT)
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25 Oct 1968 Yoko Ono announces she is having John Lennon's baby
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25 Oct 1971 Belgium and China PR establish diplomatic relations
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25 Oct 1971 General Meeting of the UN agrees to admit China PR
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25 Oct 1971 UN votes to expel Chinese Nationalist-ruled Taiwan and admit Red China
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25 Oct 1971 The United Nations seats the People's Republic of China and expels the Republic of China (see political status of Taiwan and China and the United Nations)
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25 Oct 1971 Roy Disney dedicates Walt Disney World
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25 Oct 1971 UN General Assembly admits Mainland China & expels Taiwan
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25 Oct 1972 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Kenneth J Arrow and John R Hicks
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25 Oct 1972 Eddy Merckx (Belgium) covers 30 miles, 1,258 yards in 1 hr
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25 Oct 1973 Cubs trade Ferguson Jenkins to Rangers for Bill Madlock and Vic Harris
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25 Oct 1973 San Francisco Giants trade Willie McCovey to SD Padres for pitcher Mike Caldwell
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25 Oct 1973 Chris Wills wins 1st National hang-gliding championship
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25 Oct 1974 Air Force fires 1st ICBM
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25 Oct 1974 Wings release "Junior's Farm"
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25 Oct 1975 Denv Nuggets 1st game at McNichols Sports Arena beat St. Louis Spirits
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25 Oct 1975 USSR's Venera 10 makes day-side Venus landing
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25 Oct 1976 5th Enterprise, approach & lands test (ALT) flight
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25 Oct 1976 Gov Wallace grants full pardon to Clarence Norris, last known survivor of 9 Scottsboro Boys who were convicted in 1931 rape
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25 Oct 1977 Digital Equipment Corporation releases OpenVMS V1.0.
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25 Oct 1978 Israeli Government approves "in principle, " a draft compromise peace
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25 Oct 1978 Padres Gaylord Perry is 1st to win Cy Young in both leagues (NL)
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25 Oct 1978 Israeli Cabinet approves "in principle," a draft compromise peace
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25 Oct 1980 Mike Weaver KOs Gerrie Coetzee in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
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25 Oct 1980 Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude at The Hague.
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25 Oct 1980 Barbra Streisand's "Guilty," album goes #1 for 3 weeks & her single "Woman In Love," goes #1 for 3 weeks
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25 Oct 1981 12th NYC Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 2:08:13
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25 Oct 1981 200,000 demonstrate in Brussel against cruise missile
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25 Oct 1981 Allison Roe (2:25:29) and Alberto Salazar (2:08:13) win NYC marathon
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25 Oct 1981 George Steinbrenner scuffles with 2 fans in a hotel elevator
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25 Oct 1983 Operation Urgent Fury: 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.
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25 Oct 1983 US invades Grenada, a country 1/2,000 its population (US Wins!)
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25 Oct 1984 "Give My Regards to Broad Street" premieres (Gotham Theater-NYC)
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25 Oct 1984 Hepatitis virus is discovered
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25 Oct 1984 King Boudouin opens Museum for Modern Art in Brussels
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25 Oct 1984 West German Chancellor Rainer Barzel resigns due to corruption
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25 Oct 1984 Rangers beat Devils 11-2
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25 Oct 1985 Angels announce that they will not offer Rod Carew a new contract
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25 Oct 1985 Kosmos 1700 communications satellite placed in geostationary orbit
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25 Oct 1986 Trailing 5-3 with 2 out and no one on in bottom of 10th, New York rallies to win Game 6 of the World Series, 6-5, Bill Buckner misplays a ball
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25 Oct 1986 International Red Cross ousted from South Africa
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25 Oct 1986 Michael Sergio parachutes into Shea Stadium during game 6 of WS
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25 Oct 1987 Minnesota Twins win their 1st World Series championship beating St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 3 in 84th World Series
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25 Oct 1988 ABC News reports on potbellied pygmy porkers' popularity as pets
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25 Oct 1990 Evander Holyfield KOs Buster Douglas in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
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25 Oct 1990 New York Daily News goes on strike (lasts through March, 1991)
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25 Oct 1990 Evander Hollyfield KOs James "Buster" Douglas for HW boxing title
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25 Oct 1991 Aaqib Javed takes 7-37 in 10 overs vs. India in cric 1-dayer at Sharjah
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25 Oct 1991 History of Slovenia: Three months after the end of the Ten-Day War, the last soldier of the Yugoslav People's Army leaves the territory of the Republic of Slovenia.
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25 Oct 1992 "Dancing at Lughnasa" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 421 performances
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25 Oct 1992 Rene Lachemann hired as Florida Marlins 1st manager
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25 Oct 1993 Airbus A310 of Air Nigeria hijacked, 1 dead
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25 Oct 1994 Susan Smith claims her 2 kids were carjack (she actually killed them)
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25 Oct 1995 "Victor / Victoria, " opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 738 performances
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25 Oct 1995 A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.
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25 Oct 1996 Frank, Brother of Yank manager Joe Torre, receives a heart transplant
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25 Oct 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.
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25 Oct 2004 Cuban President Fidel Castro announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned.
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25 Oct 2009 The October 2009 Baghdad bombings kills 155 and wounds at least 721.
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