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What Happened On October 25

Q: What happened on October 25?

1616: Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog left a plate on an island in Shark Bay, the oldest-known artefact of European exploration in Australia still in existence. 1868: The Uspenski Cathedral, designed by Aleksey Gornostayev, is inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland. 1822: Greek War of Independence: The First Siege of Missolonghi begins. 1812: War of 1812: The American frigate, USS United States, commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate HMS Macedonian. 1924: The Daily Mail published the Zinoviev letter, a hoax purported to be a directive from Moscow to increase communist agitation. 1616: Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes the second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast. 2010: Mount Merapi in Central Java, Indonesia, began an increasingly violent series of eruptions that lasted over a month. 1944: Heinrich Himmler ordered a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a nonconformist youth group that assisted army deserters and others hiding from the Nazis. 1944: World War II: Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich. 1940: Benjamin O. Davis Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.

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1616 Oddly true
Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog left a plate on an island in Shark Bay, the oldest-known artefact of European exploration in Australia still in existence.
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1868 Oddly true
The Uspenski Cathedral, designed by Aleksey Gornostayev, is inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland.
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Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
1822 First ever
Greek War of Independence: The First Siege of Missolonghi begins.
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1812 Oddly true
War of 1812: The American frigate, USS United States, commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate HMS Macedonian.
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Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
1924 Weird
The Daily Mail published the Zinoviev letter, a hoax purported to be a directive from Moscow to increase communist agitation.
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Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
1616 Oddly true
Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes the second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast.
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Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
2010 Oddly true
Mount Merapi in Central Java, Indonesia, began an increasingly violent series of eruptions that lasted over a month.
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Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
1944 Oddly true
Heinrich Himmler ordered a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a nonconformist youth group that assisted army deserters and others hiding from the Nazis.
Read more →
Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
1944 Oddly true
World War II: Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.
Read more →
Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
1940 First ever
Benjamin O. Davis Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.
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Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

Observed today

2023A mass shooting occurs in two locations in Lewiston, Maine. 18 people are killed and 13 more injured. Wikipedia →
2010A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes off Indonesia's Mentawai Islands, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 400 people. Wikipedia →
2009The October 2009 Baghdad bombings kill 155 and wound at least 721. Wikipedia →
2001Microsoft releases Windows XP, which becomes one of Microsoft's most successful operating systems. Wikipedia →
1999A Learjet 35 crashes in Mina near Aberdeen, South Dakota, killing all six people on board, including PGA golfer Payne Stewart and golf course designer Bruce Borland. Wikipedia →
1997After a civil war, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself President of the Republic of the Congo. Wikipedia →
1995A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students. Wikipedia →
1990The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic declares its sovereignty from the Soviet Union. Wikipedia →
1989The first leg of the 1989 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira is held at the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon, Portugal. Wikipedia →
1983The 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. Wikipedia →
1980Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude. Wikipedia →
1973Egypt and Israel accept United Nations Security Council Resolution 339. Wikipedia →
1971The People's Republic of China replaces the Republic of China at the United Nations. Wikipedia →
1968A Fairchild F-27 crashes into Moose Mountain while on approach to Lebanon Municipal Airport in Lebanon, New Hampshire, killing 32 people. Wikipedia →
1968Soyuz 2 is launched. Wikipedia →
1962Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba. Wikipedia →
1949The Battle of Guningtou in the Taiwan Strait begins. Wikipedia →
1945Fifty years of Japanese administration of Taiwan formally ends when the Republic of China assumes control. Wikipedia →
1944World War II: Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich. Wikipedia →
1944World War II: The USS Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine ace of the war) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo. Wikipedia →
1944World War II: The final attempt of the Imperial Japanese Navy to win the war climaxes at the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Wikipedia →
1940Benjamin O. Davis Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army. Wikipedia →
1932George Lansbury became the leader of the opposition British Labour Party. Wikipedia →
1927The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314. Wikipedia →
1924The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later. Wikipedia →
1920After 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies. Wikipedia →
1917Old Style date of the October Revolution in Russia. Wikipedia →
1911The Xinhai Revolution spreads to Guangzhou, where the Qing general Fengshan is assassinated by the Chinese Assassination Corps. Wikipedia →
1875Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B♭ minor, Op. 23 premieres in Boston, Massachusetts, with Benjamin Johnson Lang as conductor and Hans von Bülow as soloist. Wikipedia →
1868The Uspenski Cathedral, designed by Aleksey Gornostayev, is inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland. Wikipedia →
1861The Toronto Stock Exchange is created. Wikipedia →
1854The Battle of Balaclava takes place during the Crimean War. It is soon memorialized in verse as The Charge of the Light Brigade. Wikipedia →
1822Greek War of Independence: The First Siege of Missolonghi begins. Wikipedia →
1812War of 1812: The American frigate, USS United States, commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate HMS Macedonian. Wikipedia →
1809Golden Jubilee of George III is celebrated in Britain as he begins the fiftieth year of his reign. Wikipedia →
1760King George III succeeds to the British throne on the death of his grandfather George II. Wikipedia →
1747War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral Edward Hawke defeats the French at the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre. Wikipedia →
1616Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes the second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast. Wikipedia →
1415Hundred Years' War: Henry V of England, with his lightly armoured infantry and archers, defeats the heavily armoured French cavalry in the Battle of Agincourt. Wikipedia →
1147Seljuk Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum. Wikipedia →
1147Reconquista: After a siege of four months, crusader knights conquer Lisbon. Wikipedia →
473Emperor Leo I acclaims his grandson Leo II as Caesar of the East Roman Empire. Wikipedia →

From The Guardian Archives — On This Day

2024The Guardian
Seventy-five infected as cases rise in US E coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s
Update by Food and Drug Administration signals escalation in food poisoning outbreak affecting US west and midwest
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2021The Guardian
Survivors or intruders? Rats found on Lord Howe Island despite 22,000 traps and 40 tonnes of bait
About 100 rats have been discovered since a $17m eradication program on the world heritage-listed island but experts…
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1948The New York Times
WHEAT ADVANCES AS CORN RECEDES
CHICAGO, Oct. 24 -- Wheat and corn parted company last week on the Board of Trade. December wheat was strong and sold…
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