Also on October 25
🏛️ Public Holidays
Also observed in: 臺灣光復暨金門古寧頭大捷紀念日 (TW)
🕰️ On This Day in History
- 2009 — The October 2009 Baghdad bombings kills 155 and wounds at least 721. ↗
- 1997 — After a brief civil war which has driven President Pascal Lissouba out of Brazzaville, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself the... ↗
- 1995 — A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students. ↗
- 1983 — Operation Urgent Fury: The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and... ↗
- 1980 — Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude at The Hague. ↗
🎂 Notable Births
- 1946 — Yazzie Johnson, Navajo artist
- 1945 — Peter Ledger, Australian-American painter and illustrator (d. 1994)
- 1945 — Phil "Fang" Volk, American musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer (Paul Revere & the Raiders)
- 1944 — Azizan Abdul Razak, Malaysian politician, 10th Menteri Besar of Kedah (d. 2013)
- 1944 — Jon Anderson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist