January 10 » The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
February 2 » Funeral of Queen Victoria.
May 3 » The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
September 14 » U.S. President William McKinley dies after being mortally wounded on September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.
September 17 » Second Boer War: Boers capture a squadron of the 17th Lancers at the Battle of Elands River.
Day of death October 25, 1953
The temperature on October 25, 1953 was between 9.3 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (76%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 3 » The Batepá massacre occurred in São Tomé when the colonial administration and Portuguese landowners unleashed a wave of violence against the native creoles known as forros.
March 1 » Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later.
March 3 » A De Havilland Comet (Canadian Pacific Air Lines) crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.
July 26 » Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek raid.
September 21 » Lieutenant No Kum-sok, a North Korean pilot, defects to South Korea with his jet fighter.
December 24 » Tangiwai disaster: In New Zealand's North Island, at Tangiwai, a railway bridge is damaged by a lahar and collapses beneath a passenger train, killing 151 people.
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