Today In History - October 25

625 Boniface V ends his reign as the Catholic Pope
1415 The Battle of Agincourt
1671 Giovanni Cassini discovers Iapetus, a satellite of Saturn
1760 George III ascends to the British throne
1764 John Adams marries Abigail Smith
1812 The US frigate United States captures British vessel Macedonian
1854 The Light Brigade Charge at the Battle of Balaklava, Crimean War
1870 The Pimlico Race Course opens in Baltimore
1870 Postcards are first used in the US
1900 England annexes Transvaal
1903 The Senate begins investigating the Teapot Dome scandals of Harding administration
1915 Attorney James L. Curtis is named Minister of Liberia
1918 Canadian steamship "Princess Sophia" hits a reef near Alaska and 398 people die
1924 The first appearance of the Little Orphan Annie comic strip
1929 Former Interior Secretary Albert Fall is convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe
1930 The first football game played in the Atlantic City Convention Center
1930 The first scheduled transcontinental air service began
1944 The Japanese navy is defeated at the battle of Leyte Gulf
1945 The Japanese surrender Taiwan to General Chiang Kai-shek
1951 Peace talks aimed at ending the Korean War are resumed in Panmunjom
1960 The first electronic wrist watch placed on sale, NYC
1962 The 110th member of the UN is admitted: Uganda
1962 American author John Steinbeck is awarded the Nobel Prize in literature
1963 The Beatles begin their first full foreign tour in Sweden
1965 Rolling Stones release "Get Off of My Cloud"
1968 Chicago recognizes Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable as its first settler
1968 Yoko Ono announces she is having John Lennon's baby
1971 Roy Disney dedicates Walt Disney World
1971 The UN General Assembly admits Mainland China and expels Taiwan
1976 Governor Wallace grants a full pardon to Clarence Norris, the last known survivor of nine Scottsboro Boys who were convicted in 1931 of rape
1978 Israeli Cabinet approves "in principle," a draft compromise peace
1983 US invades Grenada
1985 The Kosmos 1700 communications satellite is placed in geostationary orbit
1986 The International Red Cross is ousted from South Africa
1986 Michael Sergio parachutes into Shea Stadium during game 6 of the World series
1990 Evander Hollyfield KOs James "Buster" Douglas and wins the heavyweight boxing title
1990 NY Daily News goes on strike

1528 Seerp Galama
1576 Thomas Weelkes
1692 Elisabeth Farnese
1709 Georg Gebel
1709 John Wagenaar
1716 Petronio Maria Pio Sgabazzi
1721 Pierre Talon
1735 James Beattie
1759 Baron Grenville
1767 Willem F. Roell
1772 Corneille Vander Planken
1811 Evariste Galois
1814 Louis CPR van Orleans
1815 Ernesto Camillo Sivori
1815 Philipp Fahrbach
1818 Pavel Melnikov
1819 Zachariah Cantey Deas
1825 Johann Baptist Strauss
1864 Alexander Tikhonovich Gretsjaninow
1866 Georg Alfred Schumann
1869 August Otto Halm
1869 John Heisman
1877 Henry Norris Russell
1878 Nico van Suchtelen
1879 Jean Rogister
1879 Mayhew Lake
1881 Pablo Picasso
1882 Heinrich Max Ludwig
1888 Richard E. Byrd
1898 Sidney van den Bergh
1902 Henry Commager
1902 Henry Steele Commager
1909 Philleo Nash
1909 Whit Bissel
1912 Jack Kent Cooke
1912 Minnie Pearl
1913 Horace Grant Fletcher
1914 John Berryman
1914 John Reed King
1921 Brian Malzard Foss
1923 Bobby Thomson
1924 Billy Barty
1925 Yakov Rylskly
1926 Biff McGuire
1926 Galina Vishnevskaya
1927 Barbara Cook
1927 Franklin "Bud" Held
1927 Hedley Keith
1928 Anthony Franciosa
1928 Jeanne Cooper
1928 Marion Ross
1929 Roger John Tayler
1933 Larry J. Hopkins
1935 Russell Luis Schweickart
1935 Zdenek Pololanik
1936 Alan Smith
1938 Robert Webster
1940 Bobby Knight
1941 Anne Tyler
1941 Bobby Keetch
1941 Helen Reddy
1943 Roy Lynes
1943 Selly Fernandes
1944 Ian Anderson
1944 Jon Anderson
1944 Kathy "Taffy" Danoff
1945 David Norman Schramm
1946 Peter Lieberson
1947 Glenn Tipton
1947 John Hall
1948 Dan Gable
1948 Dan Issel
1948 Dave Cowens
1949 Brian Kerwin
1949 Walter Hyatt
1950 John Matuszak
1951 Ransom Wilson
1953 Mark Will McNulty
1953 Muffin Spencer-Devlin
1954 Mike Eruzione
1955 Danny Darwin
1956 Matthias Jabs
1957 Robbie Macintosh
1958 Dipak Patel
1958 Kornelia Ender
1958 Mark Miller
1960 Kelli McMullen-Temple
1960 Scott Anthony Haneline
1960 Tom Eplin
1963 Tracy Nelson
1964 Barb Broen-Ouellette
1964 Johan de Kock
1964 Melinda McGraw
1964 Michael Boatman
1964 Nick Thorp
1964 Pat Swilling
1965 Derrick Rostagno
1965 Leigh Ann Mills
1965 Nick Thorpe
1965 Steve Decker
1965 Warren Ayres
1966 Wendel Clark
1967 Anthony Johnson
1967 Kelly Chase
1967 Mazhar Hussein
1968 Corey Miller
1968 Lisa Trusel
1969 Corey Harris
1969 Eric Guliford
1969 Josef Beranek
1969 Larry Thomas
1969 Mike Pritchard
1970 Audra Wilks
1970 Kelvin Ingram
1971 Jeffrey Prommayon
1971 Laura Chapot
1971 Lee Gissendaner
1971 Midori
1971 Stephanie Martin-Cobb
1972 Leland Taylor
1973 Joe Angel Acosta, Jr.
1973 Steve White
1974 Chris Murray
1974 Frank Middleton
1974 Joanne Black
1978 Riley Mants
1980 Ilana Goldfogel
1989 Seth Mumy