October 25: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

October 25th marks the 298th day of the Gregorian calendar year (or the 299th in case of leap years). There are 67 days remaining until the end of the year. People born on this day are under the sign of Scorpio. Famous birthdays on this day include Katy Perry (1984), Ciara (singer) (1985) and Annie Girardot (1931).
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Holidays

Day of the Romanian Army
Virgin Islands - Thanksgiving Day : end of the hurricane season
Republic of China - Taiwan Retrocession Day (1945)
Also see October 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
R.C. Saints - Feast day of Saints Crispin and Crispian; Six Welsh martyrs and companions; forty martyrs of England and Wales
Kazakhstan - Republic Day
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Events

2018 For the first time, all combat roles in British Armed Forces are now open to women.
2017 Congressional Gold Medal: This medal is given to Filipino American veterans who served in World War II, more than 70 years after its end.
2016 Attack on Quetta's police training college in 2016: Gunmen attacked a Pakistani training academy for police officers in Quetta, resulting in at least 59 deaths and 117 injuries. The attack was claimed by ISIL-Khorasan Province. (Reuters), (AP via Yahoo! ), (Reuters), (AP via Yahoo!
2015 Conflict between Israel and Palestine (2015): Israeli border officers shoot a 17-year old girl who approached them with a knife, in Hebron, a southern West Bank city. (The New Daily AU). A Palestinian stabs an Israeli settler at Gush Etzion. Three more stabbing attacks on Israelis did not result in any Israeli deaths.
2014 Iraqi insurgency (2011): Kurdish peshmergas take back Zumar and other villages from ISIS. Meanwhile, the Iraqi government forces and Shi'ite militias take control of Jurf Al Sakhar.
2013 Islamist insurgency: Officials from the military report that 74 members and supporters of Boko Haram were killed in an aerial and ground attack on militant camps in northeastern Borno State.
2012 Syrian civil war: The Syrian government announced via state media that they will suspend military operations from Friday through Monday during the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday. This is part of a ceasefire proposal made by U.N. special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi.
2011 According to a Philippine civil defense official, approximately 10,000 Filipinos fled their homes because of fighting between Abu Sayyaf rebels (government forces) and them.
2010 A tsunami and earthquake that struck Sumatra, Indonesia's coast, kills more than 400 people, and leaves many others missing.
2009 After suffering a heart attack at the age of 67, Jeffry Picower, an American billionaire philanthropist and friend to Bernie Madoff, drowned in his Florida pool. Picower was sued by the Madoff fraud trustee for US$7.2 billion.
2008 War in Darfur: Human Rights Watch reports that over 40 civilians were killed in an attack by pro-government Arab militias in South Darfur on rebel-held villages.
2007 Supporters of a U.S. Congress resolution condemning Armenian genocide call for a vote.
2006 The New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of equality between husband and wife.
2005 Conflict between Israel and Palestine: Israeli warplanes, artillery units attacked areas in the northern Gaza Strip.
2004 The US Congressional Gold Medal goes to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Coretta Scott King.
2003 The Cedar Fire starts in San Diego County. It burns 280,000 acres (1.100 km2), 2,232 homes, and kills 14.
2002 U.S. U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone and his family, along with his staff, were killed in a plane crash at Eveleth (Minnesota).
2001 Microsoft has launched Windows XP in the USA. It is based on Windows NT, Windows 2000 and includes a Compatibility mode that allows software written for older Windows versions of Windows to work correctly. The prices for the Home Edition are US$199 and US$299 respectively.
1999 Golfer Payne Stewart, 42, dies in an aircraft accident.
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.
1996 Frank, Brother of Yank manager Joe Torre, receives a heart transplant
1995 Victor / Victoria, opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 738 performances
1994 Susan Smith claims her 2 kids were carjack
1993 Airbus A310 of Air Nigeria hijacked, 1 dead
1992 Dancing at Lughnasa closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 421 performances
1991 Aaqib Javed takes 7-37 in 10 overs vs. India in cric 1-dayer at Sharjah
1990 New York Daily News goes on strike (lasts through March, 1991).
1987 Minnesota Twins win their first World Series championship beating Saint Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 3 in 84th World Series.
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
1985 Angels announce that they will not offer Rod Carew a new contract
1984 Give My Regards to Broad Street premieres
1983 US invades Grenada, a country 1 / 2,000 its population
1981 12th NYC Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 2:08:13
1980 Mike Weaver KOs Gerrie Coetzee in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1978 Padres Gaylord Perry is 1st to win Cy Young in both leagues
1977 Digital Equipment Corporation releases OpenVMS V1.0.
1976 5th Enterprise, approach and lands test (ALT) flight
1975 Denv Nuggets 1st game at McNichols Sports Arena beat St. Louis Spirits
1974 Air Force fires 1st ICBM
1973 Cubs trade Ferguson Jenkins to Rangers for Bill Madlock and Vic Harris
1972 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Kenneth J Arrow and John R Hicks
1971 Belgium and China PR establish diplomatic relations
1970 The wreck of the Confederate submarine ''Hunley'' is found off Charleston, South Carolina, by pioneer underwater archaeologist, Dr. E. Lee Spence, Cover Story: Time Capsule From The Sea ampndash ''U.S. News amp World Report'', July 2–9, 2007 then just 22 years old. ''Hunley'' was the first submarine in history to sink a ship in warfare.
1968 Chicago, Illinois, recognizes Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable as its first settler.
1967 An abortion bill passes in the British Parliament.
1966 6 youths sentenced in Johnson murderer! in Amsterdam
1965 Rolling Stones release "Get Off of My Cloud".
1964 Anton Geesink is 1st non-Japanese Olympic judo gold medal winner
1963 Anti-Kennedy WANTED FOR TREASON pamphlets scattered in Dallas
1962 1st Belgian nuclear reactor begins operation
1961 The first edition of ''Private Eye'', the British satirical magazine, is published.
1960 Cuba nationalizes all remaining US businesses
1957 Russian Minister of Defense Zjoekov deposed
1956 White Sox manager Marty Marion resigns. AL Lopez replaces him
1955 Austria resumed its sovereignty after departure of last Allied occupation forces, for 1st time since German occupation of 1938
1954 Landslides caused by heavy rains hit Salerno, Italy, killing about 300.
1953 Coal mine in Seraing Belgium explodes, 26 die
1952 1st Dutch edition of youth magazine Donald Duck
1951 Peace talks aimed at ending Korean War resumed in Panmunjom.
1950 Dutch NSB leader C van Gelderen sentenced to life
1948 Special Council of Annulment convicts F Weinreb for collaboration
1947 Under the Counter closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 27 performances
1946 1st trial against Nazi war criminals (Neurenberg)
1945 Japanese surrender Taiwan to General Chiang Kai-shek.
1944 Battle at Samar-island
1943 Burma railroad completed and opens
1942 3rd day of battle at El Alamein: British offensive
1941 16,000 Jews massacred in Odessa Ukraine
1940 Benjamin O Davis Dr became 1st Black general in US Army
1939 Nylon stockings go on sale in US for 1st time
1938 Japanese troops occupies Hankou andWuhan
1937 Belgian government of Zealand falls due to black money
1935 Hurricane-produced floods kill 2,000 in Jeremie and Jacmel, Haiti.
1932 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Company consultant
1930 First scheduled transcontinental air service begins.
1929 Former US Interior Secretary Albert Fall is convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe.
1926 Harry Houdini is operated on in Detroit, Michigan, and is found to have a gangrenous ruptured appendix. Doctors realize he will die soon.
1925 Lester Patrick takes over New York Rangers
1924 Little Orphan Annie comic strip 1st published
1923 Senate committee publishes 1st report on Teapot Dome scandal
1922 The Third Dáil enacts the Constitution of the Irish Free State.
1920 After 74 days on Hunger Strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Fein Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney died.
1918 Canadian steamship "Princess Sophia" hit a reef off Alaska, 398 die.
1917 In Russia, Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin seizes power
1907 Frederik of Oaths disbands mental home colony Walden
1906 US inventor Lee de Forest patents Audion, a 3-diode amplification valve which proved a pioneering development in radio and broadcasting
1902 Santa Maria Guatemala hit by Earthquake; about 6,000 die
1900 England annexes Transvaal.
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