History for October 25 - On-This-Day.com
Pablo Picasso 1881, Richard Byrd 1888, Minnie Pearl (Sarah Ophelia Colley) 1912
Marion Ross 1928 - Actress ("Happy Days"), Bobby Knight 1940 - Basketball coach, Helen Reddy 1942
1854 - The Charge of the Light Brigade took place during the Crimean War. The British were winning the Battle of Balaclava when Lord James Cardigan received an order to attack the Russians. He took his troops into a valley and suffered 40 percent caualties. Later it was revealed that the order was the result of confusion and was not given intentionally.
1917 - The Bolsheviks (Communists) under Vladimir Ilyich Lenin seized power in Russia.
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