October 25: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 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 West Australian coast.
2. 1812 - War of 1812: The American frigate, USS United States, commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate HMS Macedonian.
3. 1861 - The Toronto Stock Exchange is created.
4. 1924 - The forged Zinoviev Letter is published in the Daily Mail, wrecking the British Labour Party's hopes of re-election.
5. 1940 - Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.
6. 1944 - Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle in history, takes place in and around the Philippines between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the U.S. Third and U.S. Seventh Fleets.
7. 1962 - Cuban missile crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows photos at the UN proving Soviet missiles are installed in Cuba.
8. 1962 - Nelson Mandela is sentenced to five years in prison.
9. 2004 - Fidel Castro, Cuba's President, announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned.
10. 2010 - Mount Merapi in Central Java, Indonesia, begins over a month of eruptions.
11. Famous Birthdays: Johann Strauss II (Austrian composer), John Francis Dodge (American automobile pioneer), Pablo Picasso (Spanish painter and sculptor), Richard E. Byrd (American explorer), William Higinbotham (American physicist)

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