Today in History
25 October
444 births · 126 deaths · 43 events recorded
Featured Birthday · Born 1965
Claire Colebrook
Australian cultural theorist
Notable Births
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Leslie Grossman
b. 1971
American actress (born 1971)
Karl Malin
b. 1965
Austrian politician and engineer (born 1965)
Claire Colebrook
b. 1965
Australian cultural theorist
Jasem Yaqoub
b. 1953
Kuwaiti footballer
Klaus Barbie
b. 1913
German SS officer and war criminal (1913–1991)
Bob McPhail
b. 1905
Scottish footballer (1905–2000)
Karl Elmendorff
b. 1891
German conductor
Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia
b. 1832
Russian noble (1832–1909)
Notable Deaths
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Satish Shah
d. 2025
Indian actor and comedian (1951–2025)
Rolf Dupuy
d. 2025
French anarchist and historian (1946–2025)
Phil Lesh
d. 2024
American musician (1940–2024)
Kim Soo-mi
d. 2024
South Korean actress (1949–2024)
Thomas Keating
d. 2018
American Cistercian monk and teacher of centering prayer
Flip Saunders
d. 2015
American basketball player and coach (1955–2015)
Bobby Riggs
d. 1995
American tennis player (1918–1995)
Mary McCarthy (author)
d. 1989
American novelist and political activist (1912–1989)
On This Day in History
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2023
A mass shooting occurs in two locations in Lewiston, Maine. 18 people are killed and 13 more injured.
2023 Lewiston shootings
2010
Mount Merapi in Indonesia begins a month-long series of violent eruptions that kill 353 people and cause the evacuation of another 350,000 people.
Mount Merapi
2010
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes off Indonesia's Mentawai Islands, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 400 people.
2010 Mentawai earthquake and tsunami
2009
The October 2009 Baghdad bombings kill 155 and wound at least 721.
October 2009 Baghdad bombings
2001
Microsoft releases Windows XP, which becomes one of Microsoft's most successful operating systems.
Microsoft
1999
A Learjet 35 crashes in Mina near Aberdeen, South Dakota, killing all six people on board, including PGA golfer Payne Stewart and golf course designer Bruce Borland.
Learjet 35
1997
After a civil war, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself President of the Republic of the Congo.
Republic of the Congo Civil War (1997–1999)
1995
A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.
1995 Fox River Grove bus–train collision