October 25 in history — What Happened Today in History

Egypt and Israel accept United Nations Security Council Resolution 339.

The People's Republic of China replaces the Republic of China at the United Nations.

A Fairchild F-27 crashes into Moose Mountain while on approach to Lebanon Municipal Airport in Lebanon, New Hampshire, killing 32 people.

Soyuz 2 is launched.

Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba.

The Battle of Guningtou in the Taiwan Strait begins.

Fifty years of Japanese administration of Taiwan formally ends when the Republic of China assumes control.

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.

World 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.

World War II: The final attempt of the Imperial Japanese Navy to win the war climaxes at the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

Benjamin O. Davis Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.

George Lansbury became the leader of the opposition British Labour Party.

The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.

The 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.

After 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies.

British forces attack Turkish forces under Mustafa Kemal in the battle of Aleppo, which the British capture the following day.

Old Style date of the October Revolution in Russia.

The Xinhai Revolution spreads to Guangzhou, where the Qing general Fengshan is assassinated by the Chinese Assassination Corps.

Pyotr 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.

The Uspenski Cathedral, designed by Aleksey Gornostayev, is inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland.

American Civil War: A large contingent of Confederate troops participating in Price's Missouri Expedition are captured by Union forces during the Battle of Mine Creek, the largest battle fought in Kansas and one of the largest cavalry engagements of the war.

The Toronto Stock Exchange is created.

American Civil War: Union forces under Major Charles Zagonyi achieve a minor victory at the First Battle of Springfield through a charge widely covered by the media, and Federal troops occupy the city two days later.

The Battle of Balaclava takes place during the Crimean War. It is soon memorialized in verse as The Charge of the Light Brigade.

Greek War of Independence: The First Siege of Missolonghi begins.

War of 1812: The American frigate, USS United States, commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate HMS Macedonian.

Golden Jubilee of George III is celebrated in Britain as he begins the fiftieth year of his reign.

King George III succeeds to the British throne on the death of his grandfather George II.

Richard Jouve, French cross-country skier

Jefferson Lerma, Colombian footballer

Matteo Lodo, Italian rower

Gor Minasyan, Armenian weightlifter

Ray Robson, American chess Grandmaster

Isaiah Austin, American basketball player

Iván Garcia, Mexican diver

William Howard, French basketball player

Rachel Matthews, American actress

Zeno Robinson, American voice actor

Ayça Ayşin Turan, Turkish actress

Clarisse Agbegnenou, French judoka

Davide Formolo, Italian cyclist

Flip Saunders, American basketball player and coach (born 1955)

Jack Bruce, Scottish singer-songwriter and bass player (born 1943)

Carlos Morales Troncoso, Dominican lawyer and politician, 34th Vice President of the Dominican Republic (born 1940)

Ron Ackland, New Zealand rugby player and coach (born 1934)

Arthur Danto, American philosopher and critic (born 1924)

Nicholas Hunt, Welsh-English admiral (born 1930)

Hal Needham, American actor, stuntman, director, and screenwriter (born 1931)

Paul Reichmann, Austrian-Canadian businessman, founded Olympia and York (born 1930)

Bill Sharman, American basketball player and coach (born 1926)

Marcia Wallace, American actress and comedian (born 1942)

Jacques Barzun, French-American historian and author (born 1907)

Jaspal Bhatti, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1955)

John Connelly, English footballer (born 1938)