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Saturday, 25 October 2025

2009

The 25 October 2009 Baghdad bombings kills 155 and wounds at least 721.

2007

The first Airbus A380 passenger flight, operating for Singapore Airlines, with flight number SQ 380, flying scheduled service between Singapore and Sydney, Australia.

2004

Fidel Castro, Cuba's President, announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned by November 8.

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.

1995

A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.

1992

Lithuania holds a referendum on its first post-Soviet constitution.

1991

History of Slovenia: Three months after the end of the Ten-Day War, the last soldier of the Yugoslav People's Army leaves the territory of the Republic of Slovenia.

1983

Operation Urgent Fury: The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d'état.

1980

Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude at The Hague.

1977

Digital Equipment Corporation releases OpenVMS V1.0.

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