October 25
1400 - Geoffrey Chaucer died in London.
1415 - The Battle of Agincourt between England and France during the Hundred Years War took place.
1760 - Britain's King George III was crowned, succeeding his late grandfather, George II.
1854 - The Charge of the Light Brigade took place at Balaklava during the Crimean War.
1859 - Radical abolitionist John Brown went on trial in Charles Town, Virginia for his failed raid at Harpers Ferry. (Brown was convicted and hanged.)
1881 - Artiest 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.
1945 - Taiwan became independent of Japanese colonial rule.
1960 - The Bulova Watch Co. introduced its electronic "Accutron" model.
1962 - During a meeting of the U.N. Security Council, U.S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson demanded that Soviet Ambassador Valerian Zorin confirm or deny the existence of Soviet-built missile bases in Cuba; Stevenson then presented photographic evidence of the bases to the Council.
1971 - The U.N. General Assembly voted to admit mainland China and expel Taiwan.
1983 - The United States invaded the Caribbean nation of Grenada on the orders of President Ronald Reagan, who said the action was necessary to protect U.S. citizens there.
1994 - Susan Smith of Union, South Carolina claimed that a Black carjacker had driven off with her two young sons (Smith later confessed to drowning her children in John D. Long Lake, and was convicted of murder).
1994 - Three defendants were convicted in South Africa of murdering American exchange student Amy Biehl. (In 1998, all three were granted amnesty by South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.)
2002 - Democratic U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone of Minnesota was killed in a plane crash in northern Minnesota along with his wife, daughter and five others, a week and a-half before the election.
2017 - Two women who said they had been lost at sea for nearly six months were rescued by a U.S. Navy ship in the Pacific. (The women said they had set out from Honolulu for what was supposed to be an 18-day journey to Tahiti in May but that they encountered a storm; records showed no severe weather in the area at the time, and other inconsistencies in their story came to light in the days after their rescue.)
2017 - The U.S. government announced that all incoming flights to the United States would be subject to new security screening procedures before takeoff.
2021 - Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed redrawn voting maps that paved a safer path for the GOP’s slipping majority in the state.
2021 - Hertz announced that it would buy 100,000 electric vehicles from Tesla, one of the largest purchases of battery-powered cars in history.
Birthdays
24 - Juan Soto (baseball player)
25 - Ivanita Lomeli (model)
27 - Conchita Campbell (actres)
29 - Rachel Matthews (actress)
30 - Kamie Crawford (model)
33 - Loren Jordan (reality star)
33 - Mia Wasikowska (actress)
34 - Krista Marie Yu (actress)
37 - Ciara (singer)
38 - Katy Perry (singer)
41 - Josh Henderson (actor)
43 - Rosa Mendes (professional wrestler)
43 - Mariana Klaveno (actress)
44 - Zachary Knighton (actor)
49 - Michael Weston (actor)
51 - Craig Robinson (actor)
52 - Chely Wright (singer)
52 - Persia White (actress)
52 - Adam Pascal (actor/singer)
52 - Adam Goldberg (actor)
53 - Samantha Bee (TV host/actress/comedian)
58 - Kevin Michael Richardson (actor)
58 - Michael Boatman (actor)
65 - Nancy Cartwright (actress)
72 - Mark L. Taylor (actor)
73 - Brian Kerwin (actor)
78 - James Carville (political strategist)
78 - Jon Anderson (singer)
81 - Anne Tyler (author)
82 - Bob Knight (basketball coach)
94 - 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 plays 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 - The United States men's basketball team defeats Yugoslavia 65-50 to win the gold medal at the Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City; it was the seventh consecutive basketball gold medal 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 - In Game 6 of the World Series, the New York Mets rallied for three runs with two outs in the 10th inning, defeating the Boston Red Sox 6-5 and forcing a seventh game; the tie-breaking run scored on Boston first baseman Bill Buckner’s error on Mookie Wilson’s slow grounder. (The Mets went on to win the Series.)
1987 - The Minnesota Twins defeated the St. Louis Cardinals in seven games to win the World Series.
1990 - Evander Holyfield knocks out Buster Douglas in the third round for the heavyweight boxing championship.
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 - 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.
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.
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 - #14 Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 28-0.
2003 - Bobby Bowden (Florida State) became the winningest coach in major college football history with his 339th victory.
2003 - The Florida Marlins defeat the New York Yankees in six games to win the World Series.
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 - Geoffrey Chaucer died in London.
1415 - The Battle of Agincourt between England and France during the Hundred Years War took place.
1760 - Britain's King George III was crowned, succeeding his late grandfather, George II.
1854 - The Charge of the Light Brigade took place at Balaklava during the Crimean War.
1859 - Radical abolitionist John Brown went on trial in Charles Town, Virginia for his failed raid at Harpers Ferry. (Brown was convicted and hanged.)
1881 - Artiest 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.
1945 - Taiwan became independent of Japanese colonial rule.
1960 - The Bulova Watch Co. introduced its electronic "Accutron" model.
1962 - During a meeting of the U.N. Security Council, U.S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson demanded that Soviet Ambassador Valerian Zorin confirm or deny the existence of Soviet-built missile bases in Cuba; Stevenson then presented photographic evidence of the bases to the Council.
1971 - The U.N. General Assembly voted to admit mainland China and expel Taiwan.
1983 - The United States invaded the Caribbean nation of Grenada on the orders of President Ronald Reagan, who said the action was necessary to protect U.S. citizens there.
1994 - Susan Smith of Union, South Carolina claimed that a Black carjacker had driven off with her two young sons (Smith later confessed to drowning her children in John D. Long Lake, and was convicted of murder).
1994 - Three defendants were convicted in South Africa of murdering American exchange student Amy Biehl. (In 1998, all three were granted amnesty by South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.)
2002 - Democratic U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone of Minnesota was killed in a plane crash in northern Minnesota along with his wife, daughter and five others, a week and a-half before the election.
2017 - Two women who said they had been lost at sea for nearly six months were rescued by a U.S. Navy ship in the Pacific. (The women said they had set out from Honolulu for what was supposed to be an 18-day journey to Tahiti in May but that they encountered a storm; records showed no severe weather in the area at the time, and other inconsistencies in their story came to light in the days after their rescue.)
2017 - The U.S. government announced that all incoming flights to the United States would be subject to new security screening procedures before takeoff.
2021 - Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed redrawn voting maps that paved a safer path for the GOP’s slipping majority in the state.
2021 - Hertz announced that it would buy 100,000 electric vehicles from Tesla, one of the largest purchases of battery-powered cars in history.
Birthdays
24 - Juan Soto (baseball player)
25 - Ivanita Lomeli (model)
27 - Conchita Campbell (actres)
29 - Rachel Matthews (actress)
30 - Kamie Crawford (model)
33 - Loren Jordan (reality star)
33 - Mia Wasikowska (actress)
34 - Krista Marie Yu (actress)
37 - Ciara (singer)
38 - Katy Perry (singer)
41 - Josh Henderson (actor)
43 - Rosa Mendes (professional wrestler)
43 - Mariana Klaveno (actress)
44 - Zachary Knighton (actor)
49 - Michael Weston (actor)
51 - Craig Robinson (actor)
52 - Chely Wright (singer)
52 - Persia White (actress)
52 - Adam Pascal (actor/singer)
52 - Adam Goldberg (actor)
53 - Samantha Bee (TV host/actress/comedian)
58 - Kevin Michael Richardson (actor)
58 - Michael Boatman (actor)
65 - Nancy Cartwright (actress)
72 - Mark L. Taylor (actor)
73 - Brian Kerwin (actor)
78 - James Carville (political strategist)
78 - Jon Anderson (singer)
81 - Anne Tyler (author)
82 - Bob Knight (basketball coach)
94 - 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 plays 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 - The United States men's basketball team defeats Yugoslavia 65-50 to win the gold medal at the Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City; it was the seventh consecutive basketball gold medal 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 - In Game 6 of the World Series, the New York Mets rallied for three runs with two outs in the 10th inning, defeating the Boston Red Sox 6-5 and forcing a seventh game; the tie-breaking run scored on Boston first baseman Bill Buckner’s error on Mookie Wilson’s slow grounder. (The Mets went on to win the Series.)
1987 - The Minnesota Twins defeated the St. Louis Cardinals in seven games to win the World Series.
1990 - Evander Holyfield knocks out Buster Douglas in the third round for the heavyweight boxing championship.
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 - 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.
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.
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 - #14 Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 28-0.
2003 - Bobby Bowden (Florida State) became the winningest coach in major college football history with his 339th victory.
2003 - The Florida Marlins defeat the New York Yankees in six games to win the World Series.
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.
