1366 – Comet 55P/1366 U1 (Tempel-Tuttle) approaches within 0.0229 astronomical units of Earth
1912 – Woolwich Foot Tunnel under the Thames river in England opens
1913 – Dictator Victoriano Huerta elected president of Mexico
1957 – USSR fires Defense Minister Marshal Georgy Zhukov
1966 – US aircraft carrier Oriskany catches fire at Gulf on Tonken, 43 die
1969 – WHMA (now WJSU) TV channel 40 in Anniston, AL (CBS) 1st broadcast
2000 – Laurent Gbagbo takes over as president of Côte d’Ivoire following a popular uprising against President Robert Guéï
2015 – “Spectre”, 24th James Bond film, directed by Sam Mendes and starring Daniel Craig premieres in London
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 25th October 2025
1925 – Rightist German ministers disavows Treaty of Locarno
1941 – 16,000 Jews massacred in Odessa, Ukraine
1968 – East German swimmer Roland Matthes wins the 200m backstroke gold medal in Olympic record 2:09.6 at the Mexico City Games; wraps up backstroke double
1984 – “Give My Regards to Broad Street” premieres (Gotham Theater-NYC)
2004 – Fidel Castro, Cuba’s President, announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned by November 8
2016 – Paul Beatty becomes the 1st American to win the Man Booker Prize for his novel “The Sellout”
2017 – The first fossil of an ichthyosaur (a marine reptile, 152 million years old) is found in India, according to a report published in the PLOS ONE science journal
2021 – Elon Musk makes a record $25 billion in one day pushing his estimated worth to $255.2 billion, likely making him the richest person ever according to Forbes
Historical Events for 24th October 2025
1856 – Constitution of South Australia is adopted
1885 – “World Championship” Baseball Series, Cincinnati Base Ball Grounds: St. Louis Browns beat Chicago White Stockings 13–4 in Game 7; disputed series tied at 3-3-1
1924 – Christian General Feng Joe Siang occupies Beijing
1954 – Britain’s Mike Hawthorn wins the season-ending Spanish Grand Prix at Pedralbes; Argentine Maserati driver Juan Manuel Fangio wins his second Formula 1 World Drivers’ Championship by 17 points from countryman José Froilán González
1956 – The Associated Press names Cincinnati manager Birdie Tebbetts the National League Manager of the Year
1970 – Nancy Walker creates Ida Morgenstein role on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”
1986 – Great Britain cuts diplomatic relations with Syria
2018 – Indian cricketer Virat Kohli becomes the 12th and the fastest to score 10,000 runs in one day international matches, taking just 205 innings
Historical Events for 23rd October 2025
1702 – Battle of Bay of Vigo: Dutch and English fleet destroy and occupy Spanish silver fleet and French squadron
1944 – First Central Kitchen opens in Amsterdam
1952 – Charlie Chaplin’s “Limelight”, starring himself and Claire Bloom, with an appearance by Buster Keaton, premieres in New York City; Not released in Los Angeles until 1972, winning Chaplin his only competitive Academy Award for original score
1953 – WTRF TV channel 7 in Wheeling-Steubenville, WV (CBS) 1st broadcast
1962 – WCIV TV channel 4 in Charleston, South Carolina (NBC) begins broadcasting
1977 – New York City Marathon: defending champion Bill Rodgers wins in 2:11:38; Miki Gorman retains women’s title in 2:43:10
1998 – Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat agree to the Wye River Memorandum, resuming implementation of the stalled Oslo II Accord which established a level of self-government for Palestine; signed at the White House, In Washington D.C.
2022 – Brock Purdy plays against the Kansas City Chiefs, throwing for 66 yards and an interception
Historical Events for 22nd October 2025
362 – The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside of Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire
1932 – Charles de Broqueville becomes premier of Belgium
1979 – Deposed Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi arrives in NYC for medical treatment
1980 – 4th government of Martens forms in Belgium
1988 – Elton John sells out Madison Square Garden in New York City for a record 26th time
2001 – MLB American League Championship: New York Yankees beat Seattle Mariners, 4 games to 1
2019 – Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan agree deal to jointly control former Kurdish territory in Northern Syria
2024 – Construction of the cube-shaped Mukaab skyscraper, designed to be the world’s largest building, standing 400 meters tall and wide, begins in Saudi Arabia’s capital, Riyadh
Historical Events for 21st October 2025
1899 – Battle of Elandslaagte, Natal (Boers vs. British Army)
1915 – First transatlantic radiotelephone message, Arlington, Virginia, to Paris
1947 – Dutch Dakota explodes near Copenhagen, killing 16 people
1950 – Tom Powers of Duke scores six touchdowns
1966 – 116 children and 28 adults die as a coal waste heap slides and engulfs a school in Aberfan, South Wales
2001 – MLB National League Championship: Arizona Diamondbacks beat Atlanta Braves 4-1
2003 – Images of Eris are taken by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz, leading to the discovery of the dwarf planet
2024 – Australian independent indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe shouts at King Charles, “You are not our king” and “This is not your land” during the king’s visit to the Australian Parliament in Canberra
Historical Events for 20th October 2025
1839 – Margaret Fuller is appointed editor of new US Transcendental Magazine “The Dial”
1862 – Amnesty is proclaimed for escaped slaves of Suriname
1911 – Helen Hayes Theater (Folies Bergere) opens at 210 W 46th St, New York City
1939 – “All the Things You Are” is recorded by Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
1963 – South Africa begins the trial of Nelson Mandela and eight others on conspiracy charges
1964 – Ann Packer of Great Britain runs a world record 2:01.1 to win the women’s 800 m gold medal at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics
1984 – Cleveland Metroparks’ Valley Parkway All Purpose Trails is completed
2023 – Claim that the world’s oldest pyramid constructed by humans is under the Indonesian prehistoric site of Gunung Padang, West Java, and is 27,000 years old causes controversy
Historical Events for 19th October 2025
615 – Pope Deusdedit [Adeodatus I] elected to succeed Boniface IV as Catholic Pope
1901 – Alberto Santos-Dumont proves airships are maneuverable by circling the Eiffel Tower in his airship No. 6, winning the Deutsch Prize and 100,000 francs
1915 – Russia and Italy declare war on Bulgaria
1932 – Jimmie Foxx wins the AL MVP, and Chuck Klein wins the NL MVP
1943 – Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey
2004 – Care International aid worker Margaret Hassan is kidnapped in Iraq
2005 – MLB National League Championship: Houston Astros beat St. Louis Cardinals 4-2
2019 – Chilean President Sebastián Piñera declares a 15-day state of emergency following widespread and violent protests over an increase in public transport costs
Historical Events for 18th October 2025
1016 – Danes led by Cnut defeat the Saxon forces of Edmund Ironside at the Battle of Assandun (Ashingdon), completing their conquest of England
1767 – Boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania, the Mason–Dixon line, is agreed upon
1918 – NHL’s Quebec Bulldogs are sold to Toronto businessman P. J. Quinn
1946 – First performance of Aaron Copland’s Third Symphony by the Boston Symphony Orchestra led by Serge Koussevitzky, often called the “Great American Symphony”
1953 – WTVK TV channel 26 in Knoxville, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 – Hurricane Hazel becomes the most severe to ever hit the US, killing 195 in the US and Canada
1979 – Stage musical “Beatlemania” opens in London
2023 – Climate activist Greta Thunberg is arrested at a demonstration outside an oil conference in London
Historical Events for 17th October 2025
415 – Jewish autonomy in Palestine ended by the Romans and Raban Gamliel forced from office
1933 – Albert Einstein arrives in the US as a refugee from Nazi Germany
1960 – “Tenderloin” opens at the 46th Street Theatre in New York City and runs for 216 performances
1964 – Australian athlete Betty Cuthbert wins her fourth career Olympic gold medal as she triumphs in the women’s 400 m at the Tokyo Games with an Olympic record of 52.0
1983 – STS-9 vehicle moves to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida due to an SRB nozzle problem
1988 – Lyndon LaRouche pleads not guilty to fraud and conspiracy indictment
1990 – Green Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong drops out of school to pursue a career in music
2010 – Brother André is the first Canadian to be canonized post-Federation by Pope Benedict XVI