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On this day — October 25

A hand-curated thread of what happened on this date, across centuries.

2023

Milestone

A mass shooting occurs in two locations in Lewiston, Maine

18 people are killed and 13 more injured.

2010

Disaster

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.

2010

Disaster

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes off Indonesia's Mentawai Islands

triggering a tsunami that kills at least 400 people.

2009

Milestone

The October 2009 Baghdad bombings kill 155 and wound at least 721.

2001

Milestone

Microsoft releases Windows XP

which becomes one of Microsoft's most successful operating systems.

1999

Politics

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.

1997

Politics

After a civil war

Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself President of the Republic of the Congo.

1995

Milestone

A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove

Illinois, killing seven students.

1990

Milestone

The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic declares its sovereignty from the Soviet Union.

1989

Milestone

The first leg of the 1989 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira is held at the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon

Portugal.

1983

Politics

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.

1980

Milestone

Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude.

1973

Milestone

Egypt and Israel accept United Nations Security Council Resolution 339.

1971

Milestone

The People's Republic of China replaces the Republic of China at the United Nations.

1968

Milestone

A Fairchild F-27 crashes into Moose Mountain while on approach to Lebanon Municipal Airport in Lebanon

New Hampshire, killing 32 people.