📜 This Day in History

October 25

• 1147Reconquista: Forces under Afonso I of Portugal captured Lisbon from the Moors after a four-month siege in one of the few Christian victories during the Second Crusade.
• 1760George III became King of Great Britain and Ireland, succeeding his grandfather George II.
• 1920Irish playwright and politician Terence MacSwiney died after a hunger strike in Brixton Prison, bringing the Irish struggle for independence to international attention.
• 1929Hundreds of students at Armstrong College in Newcastle, England, tarred and feathered Statue of Industry, a sculpture by Herbert Maryon.
• 1950The People's Volunteer Army ambushed the South Korean II Corps at the Battle of Onjong, and elsewhere engaged the 1st Infantry Division at the Battle of Unsan, marking China's entry into the Korean War.
• 2022At 49 days, Liz Truss concluded the shortest tenure as prime minister of the United Kingdom.

Born on this day

• 1811Évariste Galois, French mathematician and theorist (died 1832)
• 1838Georges Bizet, French pianist and composer (died 1875)
• 1881Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (died 1973)
• 1984Katy Perry, American singer-songwriter and actress