October 25 birthdays & history

Famous people born on October 25

• 1881Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor
• 1984Katy Perry, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1838Georges Bizet, French pianist and composer
• 1811Évariste Galois, French mathematician and theorist
• 1806Max Stirner, German philosopher and author
• 1825Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer and educator
• 1971Elif Şafak, French-Turkish journalist, author, and academic
• 1800Thomas Babington Macaulay, English poet, historian, and politician, Secretary at War
• 1975Zadie Smith, English author and academic
• 1997Federico Chiesa, Italian footballer

What happened on October 25

• 1616Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog left a plate on an island in Shark Bay, the oldest-known artefact of European exploration in Australia still in existence.
• 1760George III became King of Great Britain and Ireland, succeeding his grandfather George II.
• 1809Golden Jubilee of George III is celebrated in Britain as he begins the fiftieth year of his reign.
• 1861The Toronto Stock Exchange is created.
• 1868The Uspenski Cathedral, designed by Aleksey Gornostayev, is inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland.
• 1875Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B♭ minor, Op. 23 premieres in Boston, Massachusetts, with Benjamin Johnson Lang as conductor and Hans von Bülow as soloist.
• 1917Old Style date of the October Revolution in Russia.
• 1924The Daily Mail published the Zinoviev letter, a hoax purported to be a directive from Moscow to increase communist agitation.
• 1932George Lansbury became the leader of the opposition British Labour Party.
• 1945Fifty years of Japanese administration of Taiwan formally ends when the Republic of China assumes control.
• 2001Windows XP, one of the most popular and widely used versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system, was released for retail sale.
• 2022At 49 days, Liz Truss concluded the shortest tenure as prime minister of the United Kingdom.

Also observed on October 25

• Armed Forces Day (Romania)
• Day of the Basque Country (Basque Country)
• Republic Day (Kazakhstan)
• Sovereignty Day (Slovenia)
• Thanksgiving Day (Grenada)