October 25: What Happened on This Day in History (Elementary Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1616 - Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast.
2. 1861 - The Toronto Stock Exchange is created.
3. 1940 - Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.
4. 1962 - Nelson Mandela is sentenced to five years in prison.
5. 2010 - Mount Merapi in Central Java, Indonesia, begins over a month of eruptions.
6. Famous Birthdays: Johann Strauss II (Austrian composer), John Francis Dodge (American automobile pioneer), Pablo Picasso (Spanish painter and sculptor), Richard E. Byrd (American explorer), William Higinbotham (American physicist)

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