IV ჯგუფი - 19 წწ და ზევით

Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 25 October.

1. Author Geoffrey Chaucer dies in London.
2. Battle of Agincourt Welsh longbow defeats the armored knight
3. Giovanni Cassini discovers Iapetus satellite of Saturn.
4. Iapetus moon of Saturn Discovered by Giovanni Cassini
5. George III ascends the British throne.
6. Erie Canal opens for business in NY
7. The Light Brigade charges (Battle of Balaklava) (Crimean War)
8. Senate begins investigating Teapot Dome scandals of Harding admin.
9. 1st scheduled transcontinental air service began
10. 1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale NYC
11. Stevenson demands USSR amb Zorin answer regarding Cuban missle bases saying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over
12. UN General Assembly admits Mainland China & expels Taiwan.
13. Roy Disney dedicates Walt Disney World
14. USSR Venera 10 made day Venus landing
15. US invades Grenada a country 1/2000 its population.
16. Rangers beat Devils 11-2

These famous people were born on 25 October.

1. 1759 - Baron Grenville, (Whig), British PM (1806-07)
2. 1825 - Johann Strauss, the Younger (Waltz King)
3. 1838 - Georges Bizet, composer
4. 1843 - Gleb Uspensky, Russian author (Power of the Soil)
5. 1877 - Henry Norris Russell, astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram)
6. 1881 - Pablo Picasso, doodler (Guernica) (or 10-05)
7. 1884 - Eduardo Barrios, Chilean novelist (The Love-Crazed Boy)
8. 1888 - Richard E Byrd, polar explorer
9. 1902 - Henry Steele Commager, historian
10. 1909 - Whit Bissell, Actor
11. 1912 - Minnie Pearl, in Tenn (Grand Old Oprey, Hee-Haw)
12. 1912 - Sarah Ophelia Colley, better known as Minnie Pearl
13. 1926 - Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian soprano
14. 1927 - Barbara Cook, in Atlanta Ga
15. 1928 - Marion Ross, in Minn (Happy Days)
16. 1928 - Tony Franciosa, Actor
17. 1931 - Annie Giradot, in Paris
18. 1935 - Russell L. (Rusty) Schweickart, astronaut (Apollo 9)
19. 1941 - Helen Reddy, in Melbourne Australia (I am Woman)