This Day in History Oct. 25

Oct. 25

1760 George III ascends the British throne
1812 US frigate United States captures British vessel Macedonian
1854 The Light Brigade charges (Battle of Balaklava) (Crimean War)
1861 The Toronto Stock Exchange is created
1870 Postcards 1st used in US
1903 Senate begins investigating Teapot Dome scandals of Harding admin
1929 Former Interior Sec Albert Fall convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe
1930 1st scheduled transcontinental air service began
1944 Japanese navy defeated at battle of Leyte Gulf
1944 The USS Tang under Richard O'Kane is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo
1945 Japanese surrender Taiwan to Gen Chiang Kai-shek
1951 Peace talks aimed at ending Korean War resumed in Panmunjom
1962 110th member of the UN admitted (Uganda)
1962 Adlai Stevenson shows photos to the UN proving that Soviet missiles are in Cuba
1968 Chicago recognizes Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable as its 1st settler
1971 UN General Assembly admits Mainland China & expels Taiwan
1975 USSR's Venera 10 makes day-side Venus landing
1976 5th Enterprise, approach & lands test (ALT) flight
1978 Israeli Cabinet approves "in principle," a draft compromise peace
1983 US invades Grenada, a country 1/2,000 its population
1985 Kosmos 1700 communications satellite placed in geostationary orbit
1986 International Red Cross ousted from South Africa
1988 ABC News reports on potbellied pygmy porkers' popularity as pets
1997 After a brief civil war which has driven President Pascal Lissouba out of Brazzaville, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself the President of the Republic of the Congo

1415, Henry V, with an army suffering from dysentery and starving, defeats a numerically superior French army at Agincourt.

Teapot Dome scandal was 1923, not 1903.

not sure how I messed that one up
typo, fat fingers or sumthin
sorry