What are the important events that happened on October 25? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

October 25: Facts & Myths About This Day

October 25 is the 298^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 67 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 12, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,355,840 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectaenneacontaoctagon’ day.

Scorpio is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 115 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,691 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

October 25 Historical Events

• 1147 –
  The Portuguese, under Afonso I, and Crusaders from England and Flanders conquer Lisbon after a four-month siege.
• 1760 –
  George III becomes King of Great Britain.
• 1861 –
  The Toronto Stock Exchange is created.
• 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.
• 1920 –
  After 74 days on Hunger Strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney died.
• 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.
• 1962 –
  Nelson Mandela is sentenced to five years in prison.
• 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.
• 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.
• 2010 –
  Mount Merapi in Central Java, Indonesia, begins over a month of eruptions.

Who were born on October 25?

• 1902 –
  Henry Steele Commager, American historian (d. 1998)
• 1923 –
  Jean Duceppe, Quebec actor (d. 1990)
• 1941 –
  Anne Tyler, American novelist
• 1949 –
  Hans-Georg Kraus, German footballer
• 1960 –
  Christina Amphlett, lead vocalist for The Divinyls
• 1970 –
  Ed Robertson, Canadian musician (Barenaked Ladies)
• 1976 –
  Brett Kirk, Australian Rules footballer
• 1979 –
  Rob Hulse, English footballer
• 1983 –
  Taylor Vixen, American pornographic actress
• 1993 –
  Kelley Missal, American actress

Who died on October 25?

• 1415 –
  Killed in the Battle of Agincourt: Frederick of Lorraine (b. 1371)
• 1415 –
  Killed in the Battle of Agincourt: John I of Alençon (b. 1385)
• 1557 –
  William Cavendish, English politician (b. 1505)
• 1833 –
  Abbas Mirza of Persia (b. 1789)
• 1957 –
  Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, Irish writer (b. 1878)
• 1963 –
  Karl Terzaghi, Austrian-American engineer (b. 1883)
• 1991 –
  Bill Graham, American rock promoter (b. 1931)
• 1994 –
  Kara Spears Hultgreen, American naval pilot (b. 1965)
• 2002 –
  René Thom, French mathematician (b. 1923)
• 2006 –
  Danny Rolling, American convicted murderer (b. 1954)