This day in the past for October 25th… → 625 - Boniface V ends his reign as Catholic Pope. → 1400 - Geofrey Chaucer author, dies in London. Age:57 years old. → 1415 - At Agincourt, France, the English army of 900 men-at-arms and 5000 longbowmen battle the French army of 7000 mounted knights, 1500 dismounted men, and 3000 crossbowmen. French charge across the mud field, and the English archers shoot them. French lose 8-12,000, the English lose 200 dead. → 1621 - Governor Bradford of US colony Plymouth disallows sport on Christmas Day. → 1760 - Death of King George II of England. → 1760 - George III ascends the British throne. → 1768 - Charlottetown PEI - Port La Joie, the major town in Prince Edward Island, is renamed Charlottetown in honor of Queen Charlotte. → 1798 - New Brunswick - Boundary commission makes the St. Croix River southern border between New Brunswick and Maine. → 1812 - US frigate ‘United States’ captures British vessel ‘Macedonian’. → 1825 - Birth of Johann Strauss (the younger); composer (Waltz King). → 1825 - Erie Canal opens, linking Great Lakes & Atlantic Ocean. → 1854 - The Light Brigade charges (Battle of Balaklava) (Crimean War),409 die. → 1861 - The Toronto Stock Exchange is created - grows to become the worlds third largest stock exchange. → 1865 - The ship ‘SS Republic’ sinks off the coast of Georgia, USA, with a shipment of 20,000 gold $20 coins. → 1870 - Postcards are first used in US. → 1881 - Birth of Pablo Picasso in Malaga, Spain; one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century (dies in 1973). → 1888 - Birth of Richard E Byrd in Virginia, USA; admiral/polar explorer (1926). → 1912 - Birth of Minnie Pearl [Sarah Ophelia Colley] in Tennessee, USA; actor/comedienne (Grand Old Opry, Hee-Haw, Country Music Association Hall of Fame). → 1918 - Canadian steamship ‘Princess Sophia’ hits a reef off Alaska, 398 die. → 1918 - Birth of Bobby Gimby in Cabri, Saskatchewan, Canada; trumpeter-songwriter (The Happy Gang radio show, CA-NA-DA 1967 song, Kitsilano Boys Band, Mart Kenneys Western Gentlemen, Juliette show). → 1923 - Stockholm Sweden - Frederick Banting & J. J. R. Macleod of the University of Toronto jointly win the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their discovery of the hormone insulin, which was to save the lives of millions of diabetics. → 1926 - Harry Houdini is operated on in Detroit, Michigan, and is found to have a gangrenous ruptured appendix. Doctors realize he will die soon. → 1928 - Marion Ross born, actress: Happy Days, Brooklyn Bridge, Mr. Novak, Life with Father, The Gertrude Berg Show, Forever Female, Grand Theft Auto. → 1930 - First scheduled transcontinental air service begins. → 1935 - Hurricane-produced floods kill 2,000 in Jeremie and Jacmel, Haiti. → 1941 - Birth of Helen Reddy in Melbourne, Australia; singer (I Am Woman). → 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. → 1944 -World War II - On this day in 1944, during the Battle of the Leyte Gulf, the Japanese deploy kamikaze (divine wind) suicide bombers against American warships for the first time. It will prove costly to both sides. → 1945 - Japanese surrender Taiwan to General Chiang Kai-shek. → 1951 - Peace talks aimed at ending Korean War resumed in Panmunjom. → 1951 - Montreal Quebec - Montreal is the first Canadian city to reach a population of more than one million people. → 1952 - 1st Dutch edition of youth magazine Donald Duck. → 1955 - The microwave oven was introduced in Mansfield, Ohio at the corporate headquarters of the Tappan Company. The manufacturer put a $1,200 price tag on the new stove that could cook eggs in 22 seconds, bacon in 90 seconds. → 1957 - Nancy Cartwright born. Supplies the voice of Bart Simpson on the most successful animated TV show in history, ‘The Simpsons’. → 1960 - The Bulova Watch Company introduced its high-tech ‘Accutron’ electronic wrist watch. Ten years after it was introduced (as the watch the astronauts wear), it sold in jewelry stores for about $200. → 1962 - 110th member of the United Nations is admitted (Uganda). → 1963 - The Beatles begin their first full foreign tour in Sweden. → 1964 - The NBC TV network airs the Walt Disneys Wonderful World of Color show, featuring The Tenderfoot, part two. → 1964 - 49 years ago - The Rolling Stones, led by singer Mick Jagger, make their U.S. television debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. → 1965 - Chart Toppers - ‘Yesterday’ - The Beatles; ‘A Lover’s Concerto’ - The Toys; ‘Get Off of My Cloud’ - The Rolling Stones; ‘Hello Vietnam’ - Johnny Wright. → 1968 - Chicago, Illinois, recognizes Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable as its first settler. → 1968 - Yoko Ono announces she is having John Lennons baby. → 1971 - Roy Disney dedicates Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. → 1971 - United Nations General Assembly admits Mainland China and expels Taiwan. → 1973 - Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian marathon runner (Olympics-gold 1960, 1964), dies at age 46. → 1980 - Australian rock gods AC/DC earn their first Top 40 hit with You Shook Me All Night Long. → 1982 - CBS debuts the TV sitcom ‘Newhart’, starring Bob Newhart. → 1983 - Microsoft ‘Word’ is first released for personal computers. → 1984 - Osborne Computer announces the Encore computer. It features 128kB RAM, and one 390 kB disk drive. Weight is under ten pounds; price is US$2195. → 1986 - Forrest Tucker dies at age 67 from lung cancer; actor (ORourke - F Troop, Dusty Trail, Crunch and Des). → 1986 - 27 years ago - For the first time in Billboard history, the top three slots on the pop charts are occupied by female solo acts: Cyndi Lauper, Tina Turner and Janet Jackson. → 1988 - ABC News reports on potbellied pygmy porkers popularity as pets. → 1992 - Death of Roger Miller at age 56 of lung and throat cancer in Los Angeles, California, USA; American singer/songwriter (King of the Road, England Swings, You Dont Want My Love, Dang Me, Chug-a-Lug, 11 Grammy awards). → 1993 - Death of Vincent Price at age 82 of lung cancer; actor (The Saint radio show), TV host (Mystery). → 2001 - Microsoft launches the Windows XP operating system in the US. The software is based on Windows NT and Windows 2000, but includes a Compatibility Mode allowing most software written for older Windows versions to operate correctly. Several people can be logged in at once, quickly swapping between separate desktops. Prices are US$199 (Home Edition) and US$299 (Professional Edition). Upgrade prices are US$99 (Home Edition) and US$199 (Professional Edition). The source code is 50 million lines. → 2002 - Death of Richard Harris at age 72 of Hodgkins disease; British actor (Cromwell), singer (MacArthur Park 1968). He also played the role of Albus Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter films. → 2004 - 9 years ago - Cuban President Fidel Castro announces a ban on U.S. dollars in response to increased U.S. embargoes on Cuba. → 2007 - The first Airbus A380 passenger flight, operating for Singapore Airlines, with flight number SQ380, flies scheduled service between Singapore and Sydney, Australia. → 2009 - A double suicide carbomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, kills at least 155 people, injuring more than 520. The blasts hit the ministry of justice and a provincial government office near the heavily fortified Green Zone. → 2010 - An earthquake and consequent tsunami off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, kills over 400 people and leave hundreds missing. → Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end...Ω
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