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

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1924 –
  The forged Zinoviev Letter is published in the Daily Mail, wrecking the British Labour Party’s hopes of re-election.
• 1944 –
  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.
• 1962 –
  Uganda joins the United Nations.
• 1977 –
  Digital Equipment Corporation releases OpenVMS V1.0.
• 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.
• 2010 –
  Mount Merapi in Central Java, Indonesia, begins over a month of eruptions.

Who were born on October 25?

• 1510 –
  Renée of France, French princess (d. 1574)
• 1759 –
  Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg), Russian empress (d. 1828)
• 1892 –
  Nell Shipman, Canadian actress, screenwriter, and film producer (d. 1970)
• 1915 –
  Ivan M. Niven, Canadian mathematician (d. 1999)
• 1924 –
  Earl Palmer, American rock & roll and rhythm and blues drummer (d. 2008)
• 1949 –
  Hans-Georg Kraus, German footballer
• 1971 –
  Rosie Ledet, Creole Zydeco accordion player and singer
• 1981 –
  Jon Wood, American NASCAR driver
• 1983 –
  Tim McGarigle, American football player
• 1987 –
  Darron Gibson, Irish football player

Who died on October 25?

• 1415 –
  Killed in the Battle of Agincourt: Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (b. 1373)
• 1415 –
  Killed in the Battle of Agincourt: Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk (b. 1394)
• 1492 –
  Thaddeus McCarthy, Irish Catholic bishop
• 1647 –
  Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (b. 1608)
• 1938 –
  Alfonsina Storni, Argentine poet (b. 1892)
• 1957 –
  Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, Irish writer (b. 1878)
• 1973 –
  Cleo Moore, American actress (b. 1928)
• 1973 –
  Robert Scholl, German politician, father of Hans and Sophie Scholl (b. 1891)
• 2003 –
  Pandurang Shastri Athavale, Indian philosopher and spiritual figure (b. 1920)
• 2003 –
  Robert Strassburg, American composer (b. 1915)