History Events on October 25

The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
#Transvaal_Colony

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

Seljuk Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum.
#Battle_of_Dorylaeum_(1147)

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

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

Old Style date of the October Revolution in Russia.
#Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates

War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral Edward Hawke defeats the French at the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre.
#Second_Battle_of_Cape_Finisterre_(1747)

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

Reconquista: After a siege of four months, crusader knights reconquer Lisbon.
#Siege_of_Lisbon

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

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

The Battle of Guningtou in the Taiwan Strait begins.
#Battle_of_Guningtou

Second World War: 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.
#Edelweiss_Pirates

Second World War: The USS Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine ace of the war) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo.
#USS_Tang_(SS-306)

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

Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude.
#Hague_Convention_on_the_Civil_Aspects_of_International_Child_Abduction

A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.
#1995_Fox_River_Grove_bus-train_collision

Emperor Leo I acclaims his grandson Leo II as Caesar of the East Roman Empire.
#Leo_I_the_Thracian

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

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.
#Dirk_Hartog

War of 1812: The American frigate, USS United States, commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate HMS Macedonian.
#USS_United_States_(1797)

Hundred Years' War: Henry V of England, with his lightly armoured infantry and archers, defeats the heavily armoured French cavalry in the Battle of Agincourt.
#Battle_of_Agincourt