October 25<\/p>\n
285 \u2013 Crispin and Crispinian are martyred by Governor Rictus Varus of Gaul on order of Emperor Diocletian<\/p>\n
1147 \u2013 During the Reconquista, crusader knights retake Lisbon after a 4 month long siege.<\/p>\n
1415 \u2013 The army of Henry V of England, mostly light armored infantry and archers, defeats the heavily armored French cavalry in the Battle of Agincourt, during the Hundred Years War.<\/p>\n
1760 \u2013 George III succeeds to the British throne on the death of his grandfather, George II.<\/p>\n
1812 \u2013 The American frigate, USS United States<\/em>, commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate HMS Macedonian<\/em> commanded by John Surman Carden, south of the Azores islands.<\/p>\n 1854 \u2013 At Balaklava in the Crimea, after an ineffective cavalry charge of the British Heavy Brigade, the British Light Brigade is ordered to charge but is pointed in the wrong direction, suffering heavy casualties after heading down a valley defended by massed Russian artillery.<\/p>\n 1921 \u2013 Bartholemew ‘Bat’ Masterson dies at his desk from a massive heart attack after writing what became his final column for the New York Morning Telegraph<\/em><\/p>\n 1940 \u2013 Benjamin O. Davis Sr. is promoted the first African American General Officer in the U.S. Army.<\/p>\n 1944 \u2013 The main force of the U.S. Navy sights and re-engages the main force of the Japanese Navy in the Surigao Straight and off Samar Island in the Phillipines<\/p>\n 1962 \u2013 U.S Ambassador Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles\u00a0deployed\u00a0in Cuba.<\/p>\n 1968 \u2013 Northeast Airlines Flight 946, a Fairchild F-27,\u00a0 crashes into Moose Mountain while on approach to Lebanon Municipal Airport in Lebanon, New Hampshire, killing 30 of the 39 passengers and 2 of the 3 crew members aboard.<\/p>\n 1973 \u2013 Egypt and Israel accept a United Nations Security Council Resolution\u00a0 calling for a ceasefire of the Yom Kippur War.<\/p>\n 1983 \u2013 United States and Caribbean coalition forces begin Operation Urgent Fury,<\/em> the invasion of the island of Grenada, 6 days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d’\u00e9tat by Cuban backed communist forces.<\/p>\n 1994 \u2013 U.S Navy F-14 pilot Lieutenant Kara Hultgreen is killed when her plane crashes on landing approach to USS Abraham Lincoln <\/em>off San Diego.<\/p>\n 1995 \u2013 A Cary-Grove High School bus driver fails to clear the tracks near Fox River Grove, Illinois, and the bus is struck by a Metra Union Pacific\/ Northwest Line commuter train, enroute to Chicago, killing 7 students and injuring 24 more.<\/p>\n 1999 \u2013 A SunJet Aviation chartered Learjet 35, enroute from Orlando, Florida, to Dallas, Texas, looses pressure shortly after takeoff, incapacitating and likely killing the 4 passengers, including Springfield, Missouri born golfer Payne Stewart, and 2 crew aboard, then crashes near Aberdeen, South Dakota, when it finally runs out of fuel nearly 4 hours later.<\/p>\n 2001 \u2013 Microsoft releases Windows XP<\/p>\n 2009 \u2013 Targeting the Ministry of Justice and the Baghdad Provincial Council building, Al Qaida suicide bombers detonate 2 car bombs, killing 155 Iraqis and wounding at least 721 more people, among which were 3 American contractors.<\/p>\n 2013 \u2013 Actor and stuntman Hal Needham dies in Los Angeles, age 82.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October 25 285 \u2013 Crispin and Crispinian are martyred by Governor Rictus Varus of Gaul on order of Emperor Diocletian 1147 \u2013 During the Reconquista, crusader knights retake Lisbon after a 4 month long siege. 1415 \u2013 The army of Henry V of England, mostly light armored infantry and archers, defeats the heavily armored French … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61057"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97159,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61057\/revisions\/97159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}