25 October

The 25t o October is the 298t day o the year (299t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 67 days bidin.

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Events

1415: Battle o Agincourt

1671: Iapetus

1979: Banner o the Basque Kintra

• 1154 - Henry II o Ingland becomes Keeng.
• 1415 - Inglis forces defeat French forces at the Battle o Agincourt.
• 1616 - Dutch splorer Dirk Hartog lands on the Wast coast o Australie.
• 1671 - Giovanni Domenico Cassini discovers Saturn's muin Iapetus.
• 1760 - Daith o George II o Great Breetain. George III taks ower.
• 1854 - Chairge o the Licht Brigade in the Crimean War.
• 1900 - The Unitit Kinrick annexes Transvaal in what is nou Sooth Africae.
• 1918 - Canadian steamship "Princess Sophia" sinks aff Alaska, killin 356 fowk.
• 1945 - The Republic o Cheenae taks ower Taiwan.
• 1962 - Uganda jyns the Unitit Naitions.
• 1962 - Nelson Mandela is sentenced tae five year in prison.
• 1971 - The Fowkrepublic o Cheenae is admittit tae the Unitit Naitions.
• 1979 - Catalonie an the Basque Kintra gain autonomy frae Spain.
• 1990 - Kazakhstan declares sovereignty frae the Soviet Union.
• 1995 - Latvie applies tae jyn the European Union.
• 2004 - Preses o Cuba Fidel Castro bans aw transactions wi the Unitit States dollar.
• 2007 - The first Airbus A380 commercial flicht is made bi Singapore Airlines.
• 2009 - Bomb attacks in Baghdad kill 155 fowk.
• 2010 - A strang yirdquauk strikes off Sumatra, Indonesie.
• 2015 - The richt-weeng Law an Juistice Pairty regains pouer in Poland's general election.
• 2019 - The European Union agrees tae extend the Unitit Kinrick's Brexit deadline beyond 31 October.
• 2019 - A tiny species o beetle is named efter climate chynge activist Greta Thunberg; it is gien the name Nelloptodes 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 the Stirling 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 meenister o Israel (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 o Aiberdeen (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, Preses o Finland (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 the Basque Kintra
• Constitution Day (Lithuanie)
• Airmed Forces Day (Romanie)
• Republic Day (Kazakhstan)
• Thanksgivin Day (Grenada)

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