On This Day October 25th

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October 25th is the 298th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 67 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

1760 – King George III succeeded to the British throne on the death of his grandfather, George II.

1812 – War of 1812: The American frigate, USS United States, commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate HMS Macedonian.

1868 – The Uspenski Cathedral, designed by Aleksey Gornostayev, is inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland.

1920 – After 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney, dies.

1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba.

1983 – 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.

2001 – Microsoft releases Windows XP, which becomes one of Microsoft's most successful operating systems.

 

Birthdays

1709 – Georg Gebel, German organist and composer (d. 1753)

1757 – Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein, Prussian statesman (d. 1831)

1853 – Karl August Otto Hoffmann, German botanist (d. 1909)

1877 – Henry Norris Russell, American astronomer (d. 1957)

1881 – Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 1973)

1902 – Eddie Lang, American jazz guitarist (d. 1933)

1910 – Johnny Mauro, American race car driver (d. 2003)

1912 – Minnie Pearl, American entertainer and philanthropist (d. 1996)

1940 – Bob Knight, American basketball player and coach

1947 – Glenn Tipton, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

1957 – Nancy Cartwright, American voice actress

1971 – Pedro Martínez, Dominican-American baseball player and sportscaster

1994 – Ray Robson, American chess Grandmaster

 

Holiday Spotlight

World Pasta Day

This may be a shock, but Chef Boyardee did not invent pasta, although real-life Italian cook Hector Boiardi started the company in Pennsylvania over 80 years ago.

(By the way, he accumulated a net worth of $60 million.) Honestly, the world has enjoyed this dish since the first century AD.

While legend has it that Marco Polo imported pasta from China in the 1200s, British food writer Jane Grigson believes a Canadian spaghetti company may have started that tale in the 1920s.

Dried pasta surged in popularity during the 14th and 15th centuries — mainly for its easy storage. This allowed people to bring pasta on ships when exploring the New World.

Hungary boasted a pasta factory in 1859, while central Italy’s Buitoni Company began churning pasta eight years later. The trend moved into the present-day Czech Republic by 1884.

During a stay in Paris, President Jefferson ate what he called “macaroni,” but it might have been any pasta.

He eventually returned to America with two cases. Pasta’s popularity blossomed in the U.S. during the late 19th century when many Italian immigrants (mainly from Naples) moved to America.

The World Pasta Day holiday itself only recently began in 1995 when 40 pasta producers worldwide gathered to hold the first World Pasta Congress.

Since then, diners worldwide have joined forces each October to pay tribute to one of the most delicious and versatile foods ever.

 

 Others Include

Chucky, The Notorious Killer Doll Day

International Artists Day

MDS World Awareness Day

National Fine Art Appreciation Day

National Cartoonists Against Crime Day

National Greasy Foods Day

National I Care About You Day

Punk For a Day

Sourest Day

St. Crispin's Day

World Pasta Day

World Pizza Makers Day

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