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October 25 is the 298th day of the year (299th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 67 days remain until the end of the year. Events. Pre-1600. 285 or 286 ...
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Saint Crispin's Day, or the Feast of Saint Crispin, falls on 25 October and is the feast day of the Christian saints Crispin and Crispinian, twins who were martyred c. 286. [1] They are both the patron saints of cobblers, leather workers, tanners, saddlers and glove, lace and shoemakers (among other professions). [2]
The unit was redesignated as heavy cavalry and was sent to the Crimean War in 1853, taking part in the Battle of Balaclava on 25 October 1854. This photograph shows Private Michael McNamara, of the 5th Dragoon Guards, and was part of a commissioned set of photographs taken at Aldershot for Queen Victoria in 1856.
Retrocession Day is the annual observance and former public holiday in Taiwan commemorating the end of Japanese rule of Taiwan and Penghu and the claimed return of Taiwan to the Republic of China on 25 October 1945. [1] [2] However, the idea of "Taiwan retrocession" remains in dispute.
The second battle of Cape Finisterre was a naval encounter fought on 25 October 1747 during the War of the Austrian Succession.A British fleet of fourteen ships of the line commanded by Rear-Admiral Edward Hawke (depicted) intercepted a French convoy of 250 merchant ships protected by eight ships of the line commanded by Vice Admiral Henri-François des Herbiers.
October 24 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - October 26. All fixed commemorations below celebrated on November 7 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. [note 1] For October 25th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on October 12.
Third Army commander in Bavaria and made head of a unit compiling a military history of the war in Germany. [3] [4] United States Marshal for the Western District of Missouri Fred A. Canfil sent a gift to his friend, President Harry S. Truman: a painted glass sign mounted on a walnut base with the phrase "The Buck Stops Here!" Truman placed the ...