25 October

The **25t o October** is the 298t day o the year (299t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 67 days bidin.

## Events

* 1154 - Henry II o Ingland becomes Keeng.
* 1415 - Inglis forces defeat French forces at the Battle o Agincourt.
* 1616 - Dutch splorer Dirk Hartog lands on the Wast coast o Australie.
* 1671 - Giovanni Domenico Cassini discovers Saturn's muin Iapetus.
* 1760 - Daith o George II o Great Breetain. George III taks ower.
* 1854 - Chairge o the Licht Brigade in the Crimean War.
* 1900 - The Unitit Kinrick annexes Transvaal in what is nou Sooth Africae.
* 1918 - Canadian steamship "Princess Sophia" sinks  aff Alaska, killin 356 fowk.
* 1945 - The Republic o Cheenae taks ower Taiwan.
* 1962 - Uganda jyns the Unitit Naitions.
* 1962 - Nelson Mandela is sentenced tae five year in prison.
* 1971 - The Fowkrepublic o Cheenae is admittit tae the Unitit Naitions.
* 1979 - Catalonie an the Basque Kintra gain autonomy frae Spain. 
* 1990 - Kazakhstan declares sovereignty frae the Soviet Union.
* 1995 - Latvie applies tae jyn the European Union.
* 2004 - Preses o Cuba Fidel Castro bans aw transactions wi the Unitit States dollar.
* 2007 - The first Airbus A380 commercial flicht is made bi Singapore Airlines.
* 2009 - Bomb attacks in Baghdad kill 155 fowk.
* 2010 - A strang yirdquauk strikes off Sumatra, Indonesie.
* 2015 - The richt-weeng Law an Juistice Pairty regains pouer in Poland's general election.
* 2019 - The European Union agrees tae extend the Unitit Kinrick's Brexit deadline beyond 31 October.
* 2019 - A tiny species o beetle is named efter climate chynge activist Greta Thunberg; it is gien the name Nelloptodes gretae.

## Births

* 1714 - James Burnett, Laird Monboddo, Scots juidge, scholart, philosopher an deist (d. 1799)
* 1735 - James Beattie, Scots poet an philosopher (d. 1803)
* 1759 - William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (d. 1834)
* 1790 - Robert Stirling, Scots clergyman an inventor o the Stirling ingine (d. 1878)
* 1825 - Johann Strauss II, Austrick componer (d. 1899)
* 1835 - William McTaggart, Scots penter (d. 1910)
* 1838 - Georges Bizet, French componer (d. 1875)
* 1881 - Pablo Picasso, Spaingie penter an sculptor (d. 1973)
* 1888 - Richard E. Byrd, American splorer an admiral (d. 1957)
* 1890 - Arthur Woodburn, Scots politeecian (d. 1978)
* 1895 - Levi Eshkol, Prime meenister o Israel (d. 1969)
* 1905 - Bob McPhail, Scots fitbawer (d. 2000)
* 1921 - Michael I o Romanie (d. 2017)
* 1926 - Galina Vishnevskaya, Roushie soprano (d. 2012)
* 1931 - Annie Girardot, French actress (d. 2011)
* 1944 - Donald Ford, Scots fitbawer
* 1947 - Frank Munro, Scots fitbawer (d. 2011)
* 1947 - Glenn Tipton, Inglis guitarist
* 1957 - Nancy Cartwright, American actress
* 1969 - Oleg Salenko, Roushie fitbawer
* 1972 - Esther Duflo, French-American economist
* 1977 - Birgit Prinz, German fitbawer
* 1978 - Russell Anderson, Scots fitbawer
* 1978 - Bobby Madden, Scots fitbaw referee
* 1981 - Shaun Wright-Phillips, Inglis fitbawer
* 1984 - Katy Perry, American sangster an actress
* 1997 - Michael Rice, Inglis sangster
* 2001 - Princess Elisabeth, Duchess o Brabant, Belgian ryal

## Daiths

* 1154 - Stephen o Ingland (b. 1096)
* 1268 - John I de Balliol, leadin feegur o Scots an Anglo-Norman life (b. 1208) 
* 1400 - Geoffrey Chaucer, Inglis writer (b. 1340)
* 1514 - William Elphinstone, Scots statesman an Bishop o Aiberdeen (b. 1431)
* 1647 - Evangelista Torricelli, Italian pheesicist an mathemateecian (b. 1608)
* 1760 - George II o Great Breetain (b. 1683)
* 1920 - Alexander o Greece (b. 1893)
* 1956 - Risto Ryti, Preses o Finland (b. 1889)
* 1973 - Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian runner (b. 1932)
* 1975 - Tom Haliburton, Scots gowfer (b. 1915)
* 1982 - Viridiana Alatriste, Mexican actress (b. 1963)
* 1993 - Vincent Price, American actor (b. 1911)
* 2002 - Richard Harris, Erse actor (b. 1930)
* 2004 - John Peel, Inglis DJ (b. 1939)
* 2008 - Ian McColl, Scots fitbawer (b. 1927)
* 2013 - Marcia Wallace, American actress (b. 1942)
* 2014 - Jack Bruce, Scots muisicker (b. 1943)
* 2016 - Carlos Alberto Torres, Brazilian fitbawer (b. 1944)

## Halidays
* Day o the Basque Kintra
* Constitution Day (Lithuanie)
* Airmed Forces Day (Romanie)
* Republic Day (Kazakhstan)
* Thanksgivin Day (Grenada)