It happened on this day, October 25
Events:
1415 – The French army, the largest in number, is defeated by the English army led by Henry V during the Battle of Agincourt. This is due to the long English parentheses.
1936 – Italian leaders Benito Mussolini and Germany's Adolf Hitler establish the Italian-German Axis, which Japan later joins.
1944 – Japan launches kamikaze attacks, suicide attacks against American warships.
1952 – Lebanon becomes a member of the UN Security Council.
1958 – Withdrawal of American forces from Lebanon after the situation calmed with the end of President Camille Chamoun's term and the election of army commander Fouad Chehab as president.
1971 – The United Nations includes the People's Republic of China as a permanent member of the UN Security Council and expels Taiwan.
1973 – Nigeria breaks diplomatic ties with Israel, becoming the eighteenth African country to break ties with Israel after the October War. 1976 – The ninth summit of Arab heads of state begins in Cairo.
1991 – The last Serbian soldier withdraws from Slovenia and declares independence after the Ten Day War between Serbia and Slovenia.
1998 – Release of Nile waters through the El Salam canal as part of the Sinai development project.
2001 – Windows XP is officially released.
2004 – Cuban President Fidel Castro announces that he will end all trading in the U.S. dollar starting November 8.
2009 – Presidential elections take place in Tunisia, in which incumbent President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Mohamed Bouchiha, Ahmed Enobli and Ahmed Ibrahim participate.
2012 Microsoft celebrates in New York, United States, the official launch of the new Windows 8 operating system.
2015 – Jimmy Morales wins the second round of presidential elections in Guatemala.
🌟 The Law and Justice Party (led by Beata Szydlo) wins the majority of seats in the Polish Sejm.
🌟 Lewis Hamilton wins the World Drivers' Championship in the 2015 Formula 1 season, and Mercedes wins the Manufacturers' Championship.
2017 – The Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government proposes to freeze the results of the referendum on secession from Iraq a full month after it was held, stop all combat operations and begin an open dialogue with Baghdad.
2018 – Floods in Jordan kill 20 people, most of them children, and Jordan declares three days of mourning.
🌟 Sahleworks Zewde was elected president of Ethiopia, becoming the first woman to hold the position.
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Births:
1881 – Pablo Picasso, Spanish visual artist.
1889 – Makram Ebeid, Egyptian politician.
1895 – Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister of Israel.
1936 – Ahmed Matloub, Iraqi Minister of Culture.
1952 – Samir Geagea, Lebanese politician.
1953 – Jassim Yaqoub, Kuwaiti footballer.
1958 – Nasr Hammad, Egyptian actor.
1965 – Abdullah Al-Sanani, Saudi actor.
1969 – Oleg Salenko, Russian footballer.
1971 – Majid Al-Muhandis, Iraqi-Saudi singer.
1975 – Wissam Breidi, Lebanese television presenter
1976 – Ahmed Al-Dokhi, Saudi footballer.
1977 – Yehonatan Jatro, Israeli actor and singer.
1981 – Zahoor Hussein, Bahraini actress.
1988 – Kritika Kamra, Indian actress.
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Death:
1647 – Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist.
1733 – Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Italian Jesuit priest, scholastic philosopher and mathematician.
1760 – King George II, king of the United Kingdom.
1920 – King Alexander I, King of Greece.
1944 – Charles Anderson, Australian mineralogist.
1966 – Muhammad Kamal Al-Masry, Egyptian actor known as “Sharafantah”.
1983 – Mahmoud Diab, Egyptian playwright.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ Republic Day in Kazakhstan.
⏪ Thanksgiving in the Virgin Islands and Grenada.
⏪ Armed Forces Day in Romania.
