WHAT HAPPENED ON 25. OCTOBER
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The USS Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine captain of World War II) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo. (25. October 1944)

The Hungarian city of Nagykároly is occupied by Soviet and Romanian forces. (25. October 1944)

Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle in history, takes place in and around the Philippines between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the U.S. Third and U.S. Seventh Fleets. Afterward is the first Kamikaze attack of World War 2. (25. October 1944)

The Republic of China takes over administration of Taiwan following Japan's surrender to the Allies. (25. October 1945)

Cuban missile crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows photos at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council proving that Soviet missiles are installed in Cuba. (25. October 1962)

Uganda joins the United Nations. (25. October 1962)

Nelson Mandela is sentenced to five years in prison. (25. October 1962)

The United Nations seated the People's Republic of China and expelled the Republic of China (see political status of Taiwan and China and the United Nations) (25. October 1971)

Digital Equipment Corporation releases OpenVMS V1.0. (25. October 1977)

Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude at The Hague. (25. October 1980)

Operation Urgent Fury: The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d'état. (25. October 1983)

History of Slovenia: Three months after the end of the Ten-Day War, the last soldier of the Yugoslav People's Army leaves the territory of the Republic of Slovenia. (25. October 1991)

A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students. (25. October 1995)

After a brief civil war which has driven President Pascal Lissouba out of Brazzaville, Denis Sassou-Nguesso proclaims himself the President of the Republic of the Congo. (25. October 1997)

Fidel Castro, Cuba's President, announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned. (25. October 2004)

The 25 October 2009 Baghdad bombings kills 155 and wounds at least 721. (25. October 2009)