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Events

• 1868 (158 years ago) The Uspenski Cathedral, designed by Aleksey Gornostayev, is inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland.
• 1875 (151 years ago) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B♭ minor, Op. 23 premieres in Boston, Massachusetts, with Benjamin Johnson Lang as conductor and Hans von Bülow as soloist.
• 1911 (115 years ago) The Xinhai Revolution spreads to Guangzhou, where the Qing general Fengshan is assassinated by the Chinese Assassination Corps.
• 1944 (82 years ago) World War II: Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.
• 1971 (55 years ago) The People's Republic of China replaces the Republic of China at the United Nations.
• 1990 (36 years ago) The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic declares its sovereignty from the Soviet Union.
• 2001 (25 years ago) Microsoft releases Windows XP, which becomes one of Microsoft's most successful operating systems.
• 2010 (16 years ago) A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes off Indonesia's Mentawai Islands, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 400 people.

Births

• 1800 (226 years ago) Thomas Babington Macaulay, English poet, historian, and politician, Secretary at War (died 1859)
• 1806 (220 years ago) Max Stirner, German philosopher and author (died 1856)
• 1811 (215 years ago) Évariste Galois, French mathematician and theorist (died 1832)
• 1825 (201 years ago) Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer and educator (died 1899)
• 1838 (188 years ago) Georges Bizet, French pianist and composer (died 1875)
• 1881 (145 years ago) Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (died 1973)
• 1971 (55 years ago) Elif Şafak, French-Turkish journalist, author, and academic
• 1984 (42 years ago) Katy Perry, American singer-songwriter and actress

Deaths

• 625 (1401 years ago) Pope Boniface V,
• 1154 (872 years ago) Stephen, King of England
• 1400 (626 years ago) Geoffrey Chaucer, English philosopher, poet, and author (born c. 1343)
• 1647 (379 years ago) Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (born 1608)
• 1760 (266 years ago) George II of Great Britain,
• 1973 (53 years ago) Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian runner (born 1932)
• 1993 (33 years ago) Vincent Price, American actor (born 1911)
• 2002 (24 years ago) Richard Harris, Irish actor and singer (born 1930)

All 613 events, births and deaths of October 25