Today is Thursday, October 25, the 298th day of 2007. There are 67 days left in the year.
625 _ Boniface V ends his reign as Catholic pope
1760 _ George III ascends the British throne
1900 _ England annexes Transvaal
1918 _ Canadian steamship ``Princess Sophia" hits a reef off Alaska, 398 die
1930 _ The first scheduled transcontinental air service begins
1944 _ Japanese navy defeated at the battle of Leyte Gulf
1945 _ Japanese surrender Taiwan to Gen. Chiang Kai-shek
1951 _ Peace talks aimed at ending Korean War resumed in Panmunjeom
1962 _ American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature
1971 _ Roy Disney dedicates Walt Disney World
1971 _ The U.N. General Assembly admits Mainland China and expels Taiwan
1983 _ The U.S. invades Grenada, a country 1/2,000 its population
1986 _ International Red Cross ousted from South Africa