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25 October, 2007
The first Airbus A380 flight, operating for Singapore Airlines, with flight number SQ380.
25 October, 2004
Fidel Castro, Cubas President, announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned by November 8.
25 October, 2001
Microsoft releases Windows XP
25 October, 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.
25 October, 1996
The "Days of Action", the largest one day strike in Ontario, Canadas history, as over 250,000 protesters converged on the Ontario Legislature and attempted to shut-down Toronto, in protest to the Mike Harris Governments budget cuts.
25 October, 1993
Jean Chrétien becomes Prime Minister of Canada with a massive majority for his Liberal Party in a general election in which the governing Progressive Conservatives, led by Kim Campbell, lost 149 of 151 seats in the parliament.
25 October, 1992
Lithuania holds a referendum on its first post-Soviet constitution.Curtis Baker is born.
25 October, 1991
History of Slovenia: Three months after the end of the Ten-Day War, the last soldier of the Yugoslav Peoples Army leaves the territory of the Republic of Slovenia.
25 October, 1983
Operation Urgent Fury: The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters were executed in a coup détat.
25 October, 1980
Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude at The Hague
25 October, 1977
Digital Equipment Corporation releases OpenVMS V1.0
25 October, 1972
The Washington Post reports that White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman was the fifth person to control a secret cash fund designed to finance illegal political sabotage and espionage during the 1972 presidential election campaign (see also Watergate scandal)
25 October, 1971
The United Nations seated the Peoples Republic of China and expelled the Republic of China (see political status of Taiwan and China and the United Nations)
25 October, 1970
The wreck of Confederate submarine Hunley was found off Charleston, South Carolina, by pioneer underwater archaeologist, Dr. E. Lee Spence, then just 22 years old. Hunley was the first submarine to sink a ship in warfare.
25 October, 1962
Cuban missile crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows photos at the UN proving Soviet missiles are installed in Cuba
25 October, 1945
The Republic of China takes over administration of Taiwan following Japans surrender to the Allies.
25 October, 1944
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. The USS Tang (SS-306) under Richard OKane (the top submarine captain of World War II) is sunk by her own torpedo. The Romanian Army liberates Carei, the last Romanian city under Axis Powers occupation. Battle of Leyte Gulf, largest naval battle in history, takes place in and around the Philippines between Imperial Japanese Navy and US Third and Seventh Fleets.
25 October, 1938
The Archbishop of Dubuque, Francis J. L. Beckman, denounces Swing music as "a degenerated musical system... turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people", warning that it leads down a "primrose path to hell".
25 October, 1936
Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini create the Rome-Berlin Axis.
25 October, 1935
Hurricane floods Haiti, killing over 2,000 people.
25 October, 1924
The forged Zinoviev Letter is published in the Daily Mail, wrecking the British Labour Partys hopes of re-election.
25 October, 1917
The First Marxist revolution, involving the capture of the Winter Palace, Petrograd, Russia.
25 October, 1912
Richard Strauss opera Ariadne auf Naxos receives its debut performance at the Vienna State Opera.
25 October, 1900
The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
25 October, 1875
The first performance of the Piano Concerto No. 1 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is given in Boston, Massachusetts with Hans von Bülow as soloist.
25 October, 1861
The Toronto Stock Exchange was created.
25 October, 1854
The Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War (Charge of the Light Brigade).
25 October, 1828
The St Katharine Docks opened in London.
25 October, 1813
War of 1812: Canadians and Mohawks defeat the Americans in the Battle of Chateauguay.
25 October, 1760
George III becomes King of Great Britain
25 October, 1747
British fleet under Admiral Sir Edward Hawke defeats French at the second battle of Cape Finisterre.
25 October, 1616
Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the Western Australian coast.
25 October, 1415
The army of Henry V of England defeats the French at the Battle of Agincourt.
25 October, 1315
Adam Banastre, Henry de Lea and William Bradshaw, led an attack on Liverpool Castle.
25 October, 1147
The Portuguese, under Afonso I, and Crusaders from England and Flanders conquer Lisbon after a four-month siege.

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