October 25
1400 - Author Geoffrey Chaucer died in London.
1415 - The Battle of Agincourt between England and France during the Hundred Years War took place.
1760 - King George III of Britain was crowned, succeeding his late grandfather, George II.
1854 - The English suffered heavy losses against Russia in the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War. The battle inspired Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem "Charge of the Light Brigade."
1859 - Radical abolitionist John Brown went on trial in Charles Town, Va., for his failed raid at Harpers Ferry. (Brown was convicted and hanged.)
1881 - Artist Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain.
1910 - “America the Beautiful,” with words by Katharine Lee Bates and music by Samuel A. Ward, was first published.
1962 - John Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1962 - U.S. ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson presented photographic evidence of Soviet missile bases in Cuba to the U.N. Security Council.
1971 - The U.N. General Assembly voted to admit mainland China and expel Taiwan.
1983 - A U.S.-led force invaded Grenada at the order of President Ronald Reagan, who said the action was needed to protect U.S. citizens there.
1994 - Susan Smith of Union, S.C., claimed that a black carjacker had driven off with her two sons. She later confessed to drowning the children and was convicted of murder.
2001 - Microsoft released the Windows XP operating system.
2002 - Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-Minnesota), age 58, was killed in a plane crash in northern Minnesota.
2005 - U.S. military deaths in Iraq reached 2,000.
2011 - Deposed Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, his son Muatassim and former Defense Minister Abu Bakr Younis were buried at dawn in a secret location, five days after Gadhafi was slain by revolutionary fighters.
2014 - The World Health Organization said more than 10,000 people had been infected with Ebola and that nearly half of them had died as the outbreak continued to spread.
2016 - A federal judge in San Francisco approved a nearly $15 billion settlement, giving nearly a half-million Volkswagen owners and leaseholders the choice between selling their diesel engine cars back or having them repaired so they didn’t cheat on emissions tests and spew excess pollution.
2020 - Hundreds of thousands of Californians lost power as utilities sought to reduce the chance of their equipment sparking wildfires and the fire-weary state braced for a new bout of dry, windy weather.
Birthdays
23 - Juan Soto (baseball player)
26 - Conchita Campbell (actress)
28 - Rachel Matthews (actress)
29 - Kamie Crawford (model)
32 - Mia Wasikowska (actress)
32 - Loren Jordan (reality star)
33 - Krista Marie Yu (actress)
36 - Ciara (singer)
37 - Katy Perry (singer)
40 - Josh Henderson (actor)
41 - Ben Gould (actor)
42 - Rosa Mendes (professional wrestler)
42 - Mariana Klaveno (actress)
43 - Zachary Knighton (actor)
48 - Michael Weston (actor)
50 - Craig Robinson (actor)
50 - Leslie Grossman (actress)
51 - Chely Wright (country singer)
51 - Persia White (actress)
51 - Adam Pascal (actor/singer)
51 - Adam Goldberg (actor)
52 - Samantha Bee (actress/comedian/TV host)
57 - Kevin Michael Richardson (actor)
57- Michael Boatman (actor)
58 - Tracy Nelson (actress)
60 - Chad Smith (musician)
63 - Mark Miller (country singer)
64 - Nancy Cartwright (actress)
71 - Mark L. Taylor (actor)
72 - Brian Kerwin (actor)
77 - Jon Anderson (singer)
80 - Anne Tyler (author)
81 - Bob Knight (basketball coach)
93 - Marion Ross (actress)
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Today in Sports History - October 25
1902 - Nebraska defeats Missouri 12-0.
1913 - Nebraska defeats Haskell 7-6.
1919 - Nebraska and Oklahoma played to a 7-7 tie.
1924 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 14-7.
1930 - Nebraska defeats Montana State 53-7.
1941 - Missouri defeats Nebraska 6-0.
1947 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 14-7.
1947 - The Army football team was defeated by Columbia 21-20. The team had gone unbeaten in 32 games that spanned four seasons. They had earned two national titles in the same time frame.
1952 - Nebraska and Colorado play to a 16-16 tie.
1958 - #12 Colorado defeats Nebraska 27-16.
1964 - Jim Marshall (Minnesota Vikings) picked up a San Francisco fumble and ran the wrong way 66 yards into his own team's end zone for a safety.
1968 - US men's basketball team beats Yugoslavia 65-50 to win the gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics; 7th straight basketball title for the Americans.
1969 - Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 13-3.
1975 - #4 Nebraska defeats Colorado 63-21.
1978 - Gaylord Perry became the first pitcher to win the Cy Young Award in both leagues when he won the award in the National League.
1980 - #9 Nebraska defeats Colorado 45-7.
1986 - Colorado upsets #3 Nebraska 20-10.
1986 - The New York Mets won Game 6 of the World Series in the 10th inning when a routine ground ball went through Boston Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner's legs.
1987 - The Minnesota Twins defeated the St. Louis Cardinals in seven games to win the World Series.
1997 - #1 Nebraska defeats Kansas 35-0.
1998 - Jason Elam (Denver Broncos) kicked a 63-yard field goal. The kick tied Tom Dempsey's 28-year-old NFL record.
1998 - Cris Carter (Minnesota Vikings) broke the team record when he caught a pass in his 106th straight game. He also tied Bill Brown's Minnesota record of 76 career touchdowns in the 34-13 victory over the Detroit Lions.
1998 - Jerry Rice (San Francisco 49ers) set an NFL record when he caught a pass in his 184th consecutive game. Also during the game, Rice became the first player to surpass 17,000 career receiving yards.
1999 - Golfer Payne Stewart and five others were killed when their Learjet flew uncontrolled for four hours before crashing in South Dakota; Stewart was 42.
2000 - NBA Commissioner David Stern announced that the Minnesota Timberwolves would forfeit their next five first-round draft picks and would be fined $3.5 million due to violations of the NBA's salary cap.
2003 - The Florida Marlins defeated the New York Yankees in six games to win the World Series.
2003 - Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden became the winningest coach in major college football history with his 339th career victory in a 48-24 win over Wake Forest.
2003 - #14 Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 28-0.
2005 - The Chicago White Sox defeated the Houston Astros 7-5 in the first World Series game to be held in Texas. The game also was the longest in World Series history at 5 hours and 41 minutes. The game actually ended on October 26th.
2008 - Nebraska defeats Baylor 32-20.
2009 - The New York Yankees won their 40th American League pennant.
2014 - #16 Nebraska defeats Rutgers 42-24.
1400 - Author Geoffrey Chaucer died in London.
1415 - The Battle of Agincourt between England and France during the Hundred Years War took place.
1760 - King George III of Britain was crowned, succeeding his late grandfather, George II.
1854 - The English suffered heavy losses against Russia in the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War. The battle inspired Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem "Charge of the Light Brigade."
1859 - Radical abolitionist John Brown went on trial in Charles Town, Va., for his failed raid at Harpers Ferry. (Brown was convicted and hanged.)
1881 - Artist Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain.
1910 - “America the Beautiful,” with words by Katharine Lee Bates and music by Samuel A. Ward, was first published.
1962 - John Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1962 - U.S. ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson presented photographic evidence of Soviet missile bases in Cuba to the U.N. Security Council.
1971 - The U.N. General Assembly voted to admit mainland China and expel Taiwan.
1983 - A U.S.-led force invaded Grenada at the order of President Ronald Reagan, who said the action was needed to protect U.S. citizens there.
1994 - Susan Smith of Union, S.C., claimed that a black carjacker had driven off with her two sons. She later confessed to drowning the children and was convicted of murder.
2001 - Microsoft released the Windows XP operating system.
2002 - Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-Minnesota), age 58, was killed in a plane crash in northern Minnesota.
2005 - U.S. military deaths in Iraq reached 2,000.
2011 - Deposed Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, his son Muatassim and former Defense Minister Abu Bakr Younis were buried at dawn in a secret location, five days after Gadhafi was slain by revolutionary fighters.
2014 - The World Health Organization said more than 10,000 people had been infected with Ebola and that nearly half of them had died as the outbreak continued to spread.
2016 - A federal judge in San Francisco approved a nearly $15 billion settlement, giving nearly a half-million Volkswagen owners and leaseholders the choice between selling their diesel engine cars back or having them repaired so they didn’t cheat on emissions tests and spew excess pollution.
2020 - Hundreds of thousands of Californians lost power as utilities sought to reduce the chance of their equipment sparking wildfires and the fire-weary state braced for a new bout of dry, windy weather.
Birthdays
23 - Juan Soto (baseball player)
26 - Conchita Campbell (actress)
28 - Rachel Matthews (actress)
29 - Kamie Crawford (model)
32 - Mia Wasikowska (actress)
32 - Loren Jordan (reality star)
33 - Krista Marie Yu (actress)
36 - Ciara (singer)
37 - Katy Perry (singer)
40 - Josh Henderson (actor)
41 - Ben Gould (actor)
42 - Rosa Mendes (professional wrestler)
42 - Mariana Klaveno (actress)
43 - Zachary Knighton (actor)
48 - Michael Weston (actor)
50 - Craig Robinson (actor)
50 - Leslie Grossman (actress)
51 - Chely Wright (country singer)
51 - Persia White (actress)
51 - Adam Pascal (actor/singer)
51 - Adam Goldberg (actor)
52 - Samantha Bee (actress/comedian/TV host)
57 - Kevin Michael Richardson (actor)
57- Michael Boatman (actor)
58 - Tracy Nelson (actress)
60 - Chad Smith (musician)
63 - Mark Miller (country singer)
64 - Nancy Cartwright (actress)
71 - Mark L. Taylor (actor)
72 - Brian Kerwin (actor)
77 - Jon Anderson (singer)
80 - Anne Tyler (author)
81 - Bob Knight (basketball coach)
93 - Marion Ross (actress)
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Today in Sports History - October 25
1902 - Nebraska defeats Missouri 12-0.
1913 - Nebraska defeats Haskell 7-6.
1919 - Nebraska and Oklahoma played to a 7-7 tie.
1924 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 14-7.
1930 - Nebraska defeats Montana State 53-7.
1941 - Missouri defeats Nebraska 6-0.
1947 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 14-7.
1947 - The Army football team was defeated by Columbia 21-20. The team had gone unbeaten in 32 games that spanned four seasons. They had earned two national titles in the same time frame.
1952 - Nebraska and Colorado play to a 16-16 tie.
1958 - #12 Colorado defeats Nebraska 27-16.
1964 - Jim Marshall (Minnesota Vikings) picked up a San Francisco fumble and ran the wrong way 66 yards into his own team's end zone for a safety.
1968 - US men's basketball team beats Yugoslavia 65-50 to win the gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics; 7th straight basketball title for the Americans.
1969 - Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 13-3.
1975 - #4 Nebraska defeats Colorado 63-21.
1978 - Gaylord Perry became the first pitcher to win the Cy Young Award in both leagues when he won the award in the National League.
1980 - #9 Nebraska defeats Colorado 45-7.
1986 - Colorado upsets #3 Nebraska 20-10.
1986 - The New York Mets won Game 6 of the World Series in the 10th inning when a routine ground ball went through Boston Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner's legs.
1987 - The Minnesota Twins defeated the St. Louis Cardinals in seven games to win the World Series.
1997 - #1 Nebraska defeats Kansas 35-0.
1998 - Jason Elam (Denver Broncos) kicked a 63-yard field goal. The kick tied Tom Dempsey's 28-year-old NFL record.
1998 - Cris Carter (Minnesota Vikings) broke the team record when he caught a pass in his 106th straight game. He also tied Bill Brown's Minnesota record of 76 career touchdowns in the 34-13 victory over the Detroit Lions.
1998 - Jerry Rice (San Francisco 49ers) set an NFL record when he caught a pass in his 184th consecutive game. Also during the game, Rice became the first player to surpass 17,000 career receiving yards.
1999 - Golfer Payne Stewart and five others were killed when their Learjet flew uncontrolled for four hours before crashing in South Dakota; Stewart was 42.
2000 - NBA Commissioner David Stern announced that the Minnesota Timberwolves would forfeit their next five first-round draft picks and would be fined $3.5 million due to violations of the NBA's salary cap.
2003 - The Florida Marlins defeated the New York Yankees in six games to win the World Series.
2003 - Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden became the winningest coach in major college football history with his 339th career victory in a 48-24 win over Wake Forest.
2003 - #14 Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 28-0.
2005 - The Chicago White Sox defeated the Houston Astros 7-5 in the first World Series game to be held in Texas. The game also was the longest in World Series history at 5 hours and 41 minutes. The game actually ended on October 26th.
2008 - Nebraska defeats Baylor 32-20.
2009 - The New York Yankees won their 40th American League pennant.
2014 - #16 Nebraska defeats Rutgers 42-24.
