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| Republic Day in Kazakhstan (1990); | Republic Day and Kazakhstan both tagged refimprove |
| 1415 – Hundred Years' War: Henry V of England and his lightly armoured infantry and archers defeated the heavily armoured French cavalry in the Battle of Agincourt on Saint Crispin's Day. | Tagged with ((refimprove)) |
| 1616 – The Dutch sailing ship Eendracht reached Shark Bay on the western coastline of Australia, as documented on the Hartog Plate etched by explorer Dirk Hartog. | Eendracht and Dirk Hartog both refimprove |
| 1854 – Crimean War: Lord Cardigan led his cavalry to disaster in the Battle of Balaclava. | Battle of Balaclava is POTD for 2012 |
| 1922 – The Third Dáil adopted the Constitution of the Irish Free State, based on the requirements of the Anglo-Irish Treaty establishing the first independent Irish state to be recognised by the British. | needs more footnotes |
| 1971 – The UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 2758, replacing the Republic of China with the People's Republic of China as China's representative at the United Nations. | refimprove section |
| 2001 – Windows XP, the then-latest desktop version of the Windows operating system from Microsoft, was released. | unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 1861 – The Toronto Stock Exchange, the stock exchange with the most mining and petrochemical companies listed in the world, was established.
- 1875 – The first performance of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, one of his most popular compositions, was given in Boston with Hans von Bülow as soloist.
- 1920 – Irish playwright and politician Terence MacSwiney died after 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, bringing the Irish struggle for independence to international attention.
- 1924 – The Zinoviev letter, later found to be a forgery, was published in the Daily Mail, helping to ensure the British Labour Party's defeat in the UK general election four days later.
- 1945 – USS Tang, the United States Navy submarine credited with sinking more ships than any other American submarine, sank when it was struck by its own torpedo.
- 1983 – The United States and Caribbean allies invaded Grenada, six days after Bernard Coard seized power in a violent coup d'état.
October 25: Constitution Day in Lithuania (1992); Retrocession Day in Taiwan (1945); Armed Forces Day in Romania
- 1147 – Reconquista: Forces under Afonso I of Portugal captured Lisbon from the Moors after a four-month siege in one of the few Christian victories during the Second Crusade.
- 1812 – War of 1812: USS United States captured HMS Macedonian, which later became the first British warship to be brought into an American harbor.
- 1944 – Heinrich Himmler (pictured) ordered a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a nonconformist youth group that assisted army deserters and others hiding from the Nazis.
- 1980 – Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, a multilateral treaty providing an expeditious method to return a child taken from one member nation to another, concluded at The Hague.
- 2010 – Mount Merapi in Central Java, Indonesia began an increasingly violent series of eruptions that lasted over a month.