25 October

The25t o Octoberis the 298t day o the year (299t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 67 days bidin.

Events

1415:Battleo Agincourt

1671:Iapetus

1979:Banner o theBasque Kintra

• 1154-Henry II o Inglandbecomes Keeng.
• 1415- Inglis forces defeat French forces at theBattleo Agincourt.
• 1616- Dutch splorerDirk Hartoglands on the Wast coast oAustralie.
• 1671-Giovanni Domenico CassinidiscoversSaturn'smuinIapetus.
• 1760- Daith oGeorge II o Great Breetain.George IIItaks ower.
• 1854- Chairge o the Licht Brigade in theCrimean War.
• 1900- TheUnitit KinrickannexesTransvaalin what is nouSooth Africae.
• 1918- Canadian steamship "Princess Sophia" sinks affAlaska,killin 356 fowk.
• 1945- TheRepublic o Cheenaetaks owerTaiwan.
• 1962-Ugandajyns theUnitit Naitions.
• 1962-Nelson Mandelais sentenced tae five year in prison.
• 1971- TheFowkrepublic o Cheenaeis admittit tae theUnitit Naitions.
• 1979-Cataloniean theBasque Kintragain autonomy fraeSpain.
• 1990-Kazakhstandeclares sovereignty frae theSoviet Union.
• 1995-Latvieapplies tae jyn theEuropean Union.
• 2004-PresesoCubaFidel Castrobans aw transactions wi theUnitit States dollar.
• 2007- The firstAirbus A380commercial flicht is made biSingaporeAirlines.
• 2009- Bomb attacks inBaghdadkill 155 fowk.
• 2010- A strangyirdquaukstrikes offSumatra,Indonesie.
• 2015- The richt-weengLaw an JuisticePairty regains pouer inPoland's general election.
• 2019- TheEuropean Unionagrees tae extend theUnitit Kinrick'sBrexitdeadline beyond31 October.
• 2019- A tiny species o beetle is named efterclimate chyngeactivistGreta Thunberg;it is gien the nameNelloptodes gretae.

Births

Johann Strauss II

Pablo Picasso

• 1714-James Burnett, Laird Monboddo,Scots juidge, scholart, philosopher an deist (d.1799)
• 1735-James Beattie,Scots poet an philosopher (d.1803)
• 1759-William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville,Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick(d.1834)
• 1790-Robert Stirling,Scots clergyman an inventor o theStirling ingine(d.1878)
• 1825-Johann Strauss II,Austrick componer (d.1899)
• 1835-William McTaggart,Scots penter (d.1910)
• 1838-Georges Bizet,French componer (d.1875)
• 1881-Pablo Picasso,Spaingie penter an sculptor (d.1973)
• 1888-Richard E. Byrd,American splorer an admiral (d.1957)
• 1890-Arthur Woodburn,Scots politeecian (d.1978)
• 1895-Levi Eshkol,Prime meenisteroIsrael(d.1969)
• 1905-Bob McPhail,Scots fitbawer (d.2000)
• 1921-Michael I o Romanie(d.2017)
• 1926-Galina Vishnevskaya,Roushie soprano (d.2012)
• 1931-Annie Girardot,French actress (d.2011)
• 1944-Donald Ford,Scots fitbawer
• 1947-Frank Munro,Scots fitbawer (d.2011)
• 1947-Glenn Tipton,Inglis guitarist
• 1957-Nancy Cartwright,American actress
• 1969-Oleg Salenko,Roushie fitbawer
• 1972-Esther Duflo,French-American economist
• 1977-Birgit Prinz,German fitbawer
• 1978-Russell Anderson,Scots fitbawer
• 1978-Bobby Madden,Scots fitbaw referee
• 1981-Shaun Wright-Phillips,Inglis fitbawer
• 1984-Katy Perry,American sangster an actress
• 1997-Michael Rice,Inglis sangster
• 2001-Princess Elisabeth, Duchess o Brabant,Belgian ryal

Daiths

William Elphinstone

• 1154-Stephen o Ingland(b.1096)
• 1268-John I de Balliol,leadin feegur o Scots an Anglo-Norman life (b.1208)
• 1400-Geoffrey Chaucer,Inglis writer (b.1340)
• 1514-William Elphinstone,Scots statesman an Bishop oAiberdeen(b.1431)
• 1647-Evangelista Torricelli,Italian pheesicist an mathemateecian (b.1608)
• 1760-George II o Great Breetain(b.1683)
• 1920-Alexander o Greece(b.1893)
• 1956-Risto Ryti,PresesoFinland(b.1889)
• 1973-Abebe Bikila,Ethiopian runner (b.1932)
• 1975-Tom Haliburton,Scots gowfer (b.1915)
• 1982-Viridiana Alatriste,Mexican actress (b.1963)
• 1993-Vincent Price,American actor (b.1911)
• 2002-Richard Harris,Erse actor (b.1930)
• 2004-John Peel,Inglis DJ (b.1939)
• 2008-Ian McColl,Scots fitbawer (b.1927)
• 2013-Marcia Wallace,American actress (b.1942)
• 2014-Jack Bruce,Scots muisicker (b.1943)
• 2016-Carlos Alberto Torres,Brazilian fitbawer (b.1944)

Halidays

• Day o theBasque Kintra
• Constitution Day (Lithuanie)
• Airmed Forces Day (Romanie)
• Republic Day (Kazakhstan)
• Thanksgivin Day (Grenada)