Historical timeline for October 25

A mass shooting occurs in two locations in Lewiston, Maine. 18 people are killed and 13 more injured.

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes off Indonesia's Mentawai Islands, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 400 people.

The October 2009 Baghdad bombings kill 155 and wound at least 721.

Microsoft releases Windows XP, which becomes one of Microsoft's most successful operating systems.

A Learjet 35 crashes in Mina near Aberdeen, South Dakota, killing all six people on board, including PGA golfer Payne Stewart and golf course designer Bruce Borland.

After a civil war, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself President of the Republic of the Congo.

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

The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic declares its sovereignty from the Soviet Union.

The first leg of the 1989 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira is held at the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon, Portugal.

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.

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

Egypt and Israel accept United Nations Security Council Resolution 339.

The People's Republic of China replaces the Republic of China at the United Nations.

A Fairchild F-27 crashes into Moose Mountain while on approach to Lebanon Municipal Airport in Lebanon, New Hampshire, killing 32 people.

Soyuz 2 is launched.

Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba.

The Battle of Guningtou in the Taiwan Strait begins.

Fifty years of Japanese administration of Taiwan formally ends when the Republic of China assumes control.

World War II: The final attempt of the Imperial Japanese Navy to win the war climaxes at the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

World War II: Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.