Unforgettable dates.
Today is October 25, 2026. October 25, 1714 - Isaac Newton informed Field Marshal Alexander Danilovich Menshikov that he had been elected a member of the Royal Society of England - as a faithful assistant to Peter I "not only in the management of military and civilian affairs, but above all in the distribution of good books and sciences". October 25, 1817 - in Moscow on the Sparrow Hills, in the presence of Emperor Alexander I, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior was founded according to the design of A. to. Wittberg. October 25, 1854 - Battle of Balaclava, the largest battle of the Crimean War. October 25, 1865 - Abolition of serfdom in Kutaisi province. October 25, 1900 - England annexed the South African Boer state of the Transvaal. October 25, 1922 - units of the People's Revolutionary Army of the Far Eastern Republic under the command of I. Oborevich entered Vladivostok, which marked the end of the main theater of the civil war. October 25, 1929 - The stock market crash of 1929, which became the beginning of the world economic crisis of 1929-1933. October 25, 1943 - the liberation of the cities of Dnipropetrovsk and Dniprodzinsk by the soldiers of the 3rd Ukrainian Front during the Dnipropetrovsk operation. October 25, 1945 - The Kuomintang government of China, led by Chiang Kai-shek, included the island of Taiwan, which had belonged to Japan since 1895, into China. October 25, 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis: US Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson presents photographs of Soviet missiles in Cuba at a Security Council meeting. October 25, 1962 - N. Khrushchev, in a personal message to Jay Kennedy, agreed to withdraw the Soviet missiles from Cuba if the United States refused to occupy Cuba. October 25, 1971 - Taiwan is expelled from the United Nations. October 25, 1983 - Operation Urgent Fury: US forces invade Grenada. October 25, 1990 - The first episode of Vlad Listev's TV play "Field of Miracles". October 25, 1990 - The declaration of the sovereignty of the state of Kazakhstan was accepted. old water