This Day in History
25 Feb 1095
Council of Rockingham bishop Anselmus vs King William II Rufus
25 Feb 1502
Austrian emperor Maximilian I reformats government machine
25 Feb 1605
Portuguese garrison on Ambon surrenders to Admiral Van der Haghen
25 Feb 1623
Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria becomes monarch of Palts
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First African American congressman sworn in
Hiram Rhoades Revels a Republican from Natchez Mississippi is sworn into the U.S. Senate becoming the first African American ever to sit in Congress.During ...
German troops capture Fort Douaumont (Verdun)
On February 25 1916 German troops seize Fort Douaumont the most formidable of the forts guarding the walled city of Verdun France four days after launching...
Young Muhammad Ali knocks out Sonny Liston for first world title
On February 25 1964 22-year-old Cassius Clay shocks the odds-makers by dethroning world heavyweight boxing champ Sonny Liston in a seventh-round technical kno...
Molotov is born
Vlacheslav Mikhaylovich Skryabin foreign minister for the Soviet Union who took the revolutionary name Molotov is born in Kurkaka Russia.Molotov was an enthu...
U.S. troops fight biggest battle in nearly a year
U.S. troops clash with North Vietnamese forces in a major battle 42 miles east of Saigon the biggest single U.S. engagement with an enemy force in nearly a yea...
Congress moves to block widening of the war
In both houses of Congress legislation is initiated to forbid U.S. military support of any South Vietnamese invasion of North Vietnam without congressional app...
Cassius Clay defeats Sonny Liston
On February 25 1964 underdog Cassius Clay age 22 defeats champion Sonny Liston in a technical knockout to win the world heavyweight boxing crown. The highly...
John Quincy Adams’ son marries relative at the White House
On this day in 1828 John Adams son of President John Quincy Adams marries his first cousin and inadvertently follows a pattern of keeping marriages within th...
Railroad baron Edward Harriman is born
Edward Harriman the controversial savior of the transcontinental Union Pacific Railroad is born in Hempstead New York.The son of an Episcopal minister Harri...
Enrico Caruso, the greatest tenor who ever lived, is born
There was a time in America early in the last century when the top-selling record of all time was of the operatic tenor Enrico Caruso performing Vesti ...
Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes meet
On this day in 1956 Sylvia Plath meets her future husband Ted Hughes at a party in Cambridge UK. The two poets fell in love at first sight and married ...
The Passion of the Christ opens in the United States
The Passion of the Christ Mel Gibsons film about the last 44 hours of Jesus of Nazareths life opens in theaters across the United States on th...
Explosion kills hundreds in Brazil
On this day in 1984 a huge explosion destroys a shantytown in Brazil killing at least 500 people mostly young children. An investigation into the disaster la...
Actor Robert Mitchum is released after serving time for marijuana possession
Actor Robert Mitchum is released from a Los Angeles County prison farm after spending the final week of his two-month sentence for marijuana possession there.In...
Communists take power in Czechoslovakia
Under pressure from the Czechoslovakian Communist Party President Eduard Benes allows a communist-dominated government to be organized. Although the Soviet Un...
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