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The invasion of Grenada was authorized by President Ronald Reagan, who cited the protection of American medical students on the island as a primary reason for the intervention.
October 25 in History
1983 — 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
October 25 spans 43 recorded events across recorded history, from 473 to 2023. Below is a curated digest of the most significant moments tied to this date.
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Maurice Bishop, the deposed Prime Minister of Grenada, had been a key figure in the country's 1979 revolution, which overthrew the government of Eric Gairy.
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Operation Urgent Fury involved a coalition of Caribbean countries, including Jamaica and Barbados, in addition to the United States military.
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The Revolutionary Military Council, led by Hudson Austin, ruled Grenada for a brief period following the execution of Maurice Bishop and the overthrow of his government.
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General elections were held in Grenada in December 1984, resulting in the election of Herbert Blaize as Prime Minister, marking a return to democratic governance on the island.
473
Emperor Leo I acclaims his grandson Leo II as Caesar of the East Roman Empire.
Eastern Roman emperor from 457 to 474
1147
Seljuk Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum.
Part of the Second Crusade
1147
Reconquista: After a siege of four months, crusader knights conquer Lisbon.
1147 Second Crusade battle
1415
Hundred Years' War: Henry V of England, with his lightly armoured infantry and archers, defeats the heavily armoured French cavalry in the Battle of Agincourt.
1415 English victory in the Hundred Years' War
1616
Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes the second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast.
Dutch sailor and explorer (1580–1621)
1747
War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral Edward Hawke defeats the French at the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre.
1747 battle in the War of the Austrian Succession
1760
King George III succeeds to the British throne on the death of his grandfather George II.
King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1760 to 1820
1809
Golden Jubilee of George III is celebrated in Britain as he begins the fiftieth year of his reign.
50th anniversary of the monarch's accession
1812
War of 1812: The American frigate, USS United States, commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate HMS Macedonian.
First of the six original frigates of the U.S. Navy
1822
Greek War of Independence: The First Siege of Missolonghi begins.
1822 battle of the Greek War of Independence
1854
The Battle of Balaclava takes place during the Crimean War.
It is soon memorialized in verse as The Charge of the Light Brigade.
1868
The Uspenski Cathedral, designed by Aleksey Gornostayev, is inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland.
Cathedral in Helsinki, Finland
1875
Pyotr 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.
1911
The Xinhai Revolution spreads to Guangzhou, where the Qing general Fengshan is assassinated by the Chinese Assassination Corps.
End of Qing dynasty in China
1917
Old Style date of the October Revolution in Russia.
Changes in calendar conventions
1920
After 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies.
Irish writer and politician (1879–1920)
1924
The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later.
Forged document by the Daily Mail
1927
The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.
Italian ocean liner, sunk 1927, 314 dead
1932
George Lansbury became the leader of the opposition British Labour Party.
British politician and reformer (1859–1940)
1940
Benjamin O.
Davis Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.
1944
World War II: Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.
Global conflict (1939–1945)
1944
World War II: The USS Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine ace of the war) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo.
Balao-class submarine
1944
World War II: The final attempt of the Imperial Japanese Navy to win the war climaxes at the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
Largest naval battle of World War II and history
1945
Fifty years of Japanese administration of Taiwan formally ends when the Republic of China assumes control.
1949
The Battle of Guningtou in the Taiwan Strait begins.
1949 battle of the Chinese Civil War
1962
Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba.
1962 confrontation between the US and USSR
1968
A Fairchild F-27 crashes into Moose Mountain while on approach to Lebanon Municipal Airport in Lebanon, New Hampshire, killing 32 people.
Regional twin turboprop airliner
1968
1971
The People's Republic of China replaces the Republic of China at the United Nations.
Country in East Asia
1973
Egypt and Israel accept United Nations Security Council Resolution 339.
1973 UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Yom Kippur War
1980
Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude.
1980 multilateral treaty
1989
The first leg of the 1989 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira is held at the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon, Portugal.
Football match
1990
The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic declares its sovereignty from the Soviet Union.
Soviet republic from 1936 to 1991
1995
A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.
Grade crossing collision in Fox River Grove, Illinois
1997
After a civil war, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself President of the Republic of the Congo.
Ethno-political conflict in the Republic of the Congo
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.
Executive business jet series
2001
Microsoft releases Windows XP, which becomes one of Microsoft's most successful operating systems.
American multinational technology company
2009
The October 2009 Baghdad bombings kill 155 and wound at least 721.
2009 ISIS terror attack in Baghdad, Iraq
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.
Active stratovolcano in Central Java and Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2010
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes off Indonesia's Mentawai Islands, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 400 people.
2010 Indonesian earthquake and tsunami
2023
A mass shooting occurs in two locations in Lewiston, Maine.
18 people are killed and 13 more injured.