Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 25

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  Henry V
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  Afonso I of Portugal
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  USS Princeton burning in the Battle of Leyte Gulf
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  Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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  Battle of Agincourt from St. Alban's Chronicle
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  Hans von Bülow
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  Heinrich Himmler
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  Hartog Plate
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  George III
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  Liz Truss
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  Terence MacSwiney

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Constitution Day in Lithuania (1992);	refimprove section
; Armed Forces Day in Romania	refimprove
Retrocession Day in Taiwan (1945)	unreferenced section
1812 – War of 1812: Template:USS captured Template:HMS, which later became the first British warship to be brought into an American harbor.	refimprove section
1861 – The Toronto Stock Exchange, the stock exchange with the most mining and petrochemical companies listed in the world, was established.	refimprove section
1875 – The first performance of Tchaikovsky's [[Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tchaikovsky)|Piano Concerto Template:Nowrap]], one of his most popular compositions, was given in Boston with Hans von Bülow as soloist.	multiple issues
1922 – The Third Dáil adopted the Constitution of the Irish Free State, based on the requirements of the Anglo-Irish Treaty establishing the first independent Irish state to be recognised by the British.	refimprove/unreferenced sections
1971 – The UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 2758, replacing the Republic of China with the People's Republic of China as China's representative at the United Nations.	refimprove section
1980 – Proceedings on the Hague Abduction Convention, a multilateral treaty providing an expeditious method to return a child taken from one member nation to another, concluded at The Hague.	refimprove section
1983 – The United States and Caribbean allies invaded Grenada, six days after Bernard Coard seized power in a violent coup d'état.	refimprove section
1997 – The Million Woman March, a protest march for African-American women to be self-determined, took place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.	Peacock, referencing problems
Thomas Babington Macaulay |b|1800|	Too much uncited
Fritz Haarmann |b|1879	too many {cn} tags (>30)
Toktogul Satylganov |b|1864	too much unreferenced content
Antony Starr |b|1975|	too much uncited, birthday not cited
Flip Saunders |d|2015|	too much uncited

Eligible

• 1415 – Hundred Years' War: The army of Henry V of England, consisting mostly of archers, unexpectedly defeated the numerically superior French cavalry at the Battle of Agincourt (pictured) on Saint Crispin's Day.
• 1616 – Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog left a plate on an island in Shark Bay, the oldest-known artefact of European exploration in Australia still in existence.
• 1760 – George III became King of Great Britain and Ireland, succeeding his grandfather George II.
• 1854 – Crimean War: The ill-fated Charge of the Light Brigade was decisively repelled by Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava.
• 1864 – American Civil War: During Price's Missouri Expedition, Union troops defeated Sterling Price's Confederate army in three successive battles: Marais des Cygnes, Mine Creek, and Marmiton River.
• 1927 – The Italian cruise liner Template:SS sank when a propeller shaft broke and fractured the hull, resulting in 314 deaths.
• 1944 – Heinrich Himmler ordered a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a nonconformist youth group that assisted army deserters and others hiding from the Nazis.
• 1950 – The People's Volunteer Army ambushed the South Korean II Corps at the Battle of Onjong, and elsewhere engaged the 1st Infantry Division at the Battle of Unsan, marking China's entry into the Korean War.
• 2001 – Windows XP, one of the most popular and widely used versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system, was released for retail sale.
• 2022 – At 49 days, Liz Truss concluded the shortest tenure as prime minister of the United Kingdom.

• Born/died: | Magnus the Good |d|1047| Catherine of Bosnia |d|1478| Richard Parkes Bonington |b|1802| Évariste Galois |b|1811| Grace Banker |b|1892| Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti |b|1900| Larry Itliong |b|1913| Mark C. Rogers |b|1942| Bernard Hogan-Howe |b|1957| Nancy Cartwright |b|1957| Antonin Raymond|d|1976| Katy Perry |b|1984| Kara Hultgreen |d|1994|

Notes

• George II of Great Britain appears on October 22, so George III should not appear in the same year

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• 1147 – Reconquista: Forces under [[Afonso I of Portugal|Template:Nowrap of Portugal]] captured Lisbon from the Moors after a four-month siege (depicted) in one of the few Christian victories during the Second Crusade.
• 1920 – Irish playwright and politician Terence MacSwiney died after a hunger strike in Brixton Prison, bringing the Irish struggle for independence to international attention.
• 1924 – The Daily Mail published the Zinoviev letter, a hoax purported to be a directive from Moscow to increase communist agitation.
• 1944 – Template:USS, the U.S. Navy submarine credited with sinking more ships than any other American submarine, sank when it was struck by its own torpedo.
• 2010 – Mount Merapi in Central Java, Indonesia, began an increasingly violent series of eruptions that lasted over a month.