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 299th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 67 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 12, 2024 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,729,814,400 seconds 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 ‘dihectaenneacontaenneagon’ 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 96 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 4,326 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 25 Historical Events
- 1147 –The Portuguese, under Afonso I, and Crusaders from England and Flanders conquer Lisbon after a four-month siege.
- 1828 –The St Katharine Docks opened in London.
- 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.
- 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”.
- 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.
- 1980 –Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude at The Hague.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2010 –Mount Merapi in Central Java, Indonesia, begins over a month of eruptions.
Who were born on October 25?
- 1811 –Évariste Galois, French mathematician (d. 1832)
- 1927 –Jorge Batlle Ibáñez, former President of Uruguay
- 1935 –Russell Schweickart, astronaut
- 1941 –Helen Reddy, Australian singer
- 1949 –Hans-Georg Kraus, German footballer
- 1949 –Walter Hyatt, American singer and songwriter, leader of Uncle Walt’s Band
- 1966 –Wendel Clark, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1971 –Simon Charlton, English footballer
- 1976 –Brett Kirk, Australian Rules footballer
- 1982 –Eman Lam, Hong Kong singer
Who died on October 25?
- 1200 –Conrad of Wittelsbach, German Archbishop
- 1400 –Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet
- 1415 –Killed in the Battle of Agincourt: John I of Alençon (b. 1385)
- 1647 –Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (b. 1608)
- 1889 –Émile Augier, French dramatist (b. 1820)
- 1910 –Willie Anderson, Scottish-born golfer (b. 1878)
- 1973 –Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian athlete (b. 1932)
- 1973 –Cleo Moore, American actress (b. 1928)
- 1979 –Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer, British military administrator (b. 1898)
- 2004 –John Peel, British disc jockey (b. 1939)
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