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October 25, 2025

1400: Geoffrey Chaucer, author of The Canterbury Tales, died.

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1415: The heavily outnumbered English army of Henry V defeated the French at the Battle of Agincourt.

1825: Johann Strauss the Younger, Austrian composer of waltzes such as “The Blue Danube” and operettas including Die Fledermaus, was born in Vienna.

1881: Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and creator of Cubism, was born in Malaga, Andalusia.

1900: Britain annexed the former Boer South African Republic and renamed it the Transvaal Colony.

1936: The first radio request programme was broadcast. A station in Berlin introduced You Ask - We Play.

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