October 25: More photos of Russian missiles in Cuba surface, US invades Grenada

October 26, 7:37 PMPortland History ExaminerNatalie Leavitt

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Maine Fast Fact: Maine borders New Hampshire, the Canadian provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick, the Atlantic Ocean and the Bay of Fundy.

Births:

• 1864: John Francis Dodge, American automobile pioneer, co-founder of the Dodge Brothers Company
• 1881: Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor
• 1889: Smokey Joe Wood, American baseball player
• 1933: Eugene Gordon Lee, American child actor, known for playing Porky on the television series Our Gang
• 1935: Russell Schweickart, American astronaut
• 1944: James Carville, American political consultant, commentator, actor and liberal pundit
• 1957: Nancy Cartwright, American actress, comedienne and voice artist, known as the voice of Bart Simpson on the television series The Simpsons
• 1961: Chad Smith, American musician, drummer for the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers
• 1970: Adam Goldberg, American actor; Ed Robertson, lead singer, guitarist and songwriter for the band The Barenaked Ladies
• 1971: Pedro Martinez, Dominican baseball player
• 1984: Katy Perry, American singer
• 1985: Ciara, American R&B singer

Deaths:

• 1400: Geoffrey Chaucer, British poet and author, writer of The Canterbury Tales
• 1806: Henry Knox, American bookseller from Boston, chief artillery officer of the Continental Army and the first Secretary of War for the United States
• 2002: Richard Harris, Irish actor

History:

• 1760: George III becomes the King of Great Britain.
• 1935: A hurricane floods Haiti, killing over 2,000 people.
• 1944: The largest naval battle in history takes place around the Philippines between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the U.S. at the Battle of Leyte Gulf during World War II.
• 1945: The Republic of China takes over the administration of Taiwan after Japan’s surrender to the Allies.
• 1962: U.S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson presents photos of Soviet missile bases in Cuba to the U.N. Security Council; Author John Steinbeck is awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.
• 1970: The wreck of the Civil War Confederate submarine Hunley is discovered off Charleston, South Carolina by E. Lee Spence, the first submarine to sink a ship in warfare.
• 1971: The United Nations General Assembly admits mainland China and expels Taiwan.
• 1983: President Ronald Reagan orders a U.S.-led invasion of Grenada six days after Grenada’s Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters were executed.
• 1986: A ground ball rolls through Boston Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner’s legs, allowing the winning run to score for the New York Mets in the 10th inning of Game 6 during the World Series.
• 2004: Cuban president Fidel Castro announces that transactions using the American dollar will be banned by November 8, 2004.
• 2005: U.S. military deaths in Iraq reach 2,000.

October 25 is Thanksgiving Day in Grenada celebrating the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada. The invasion led to the change in government for the Caribbean island nation after being ruled by a military government from 1979 until the invasion.  It is Retrocession Day in Taiwan, celebrating the anniversary of the end of Japanese rule for the nation in 1945 when its administration was taken over by the Republic of China.