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What happened on October 25 in American history
October 25 is the 298th day of the year (the 299th in leap years). Patriot Compass has published 6 stories from October 25 spanning 1812 to 1983. Among them: in 1812, Decatur's guns dismast the Macedonian; she strikes her colors by noon; and in 1864, Price's line disintegrates "like a row of bricks" at Mine Creek.
1812
Decatur's guns dismast the Macedonian; she strikes her colors by noon
Five hundred miles south of the Azores, range and gunnery decide a two-hour fight before either crew closes to boarding distance.
1864Member story · 1776 Club
Price's line disintegrates "like a row of bricks" at Mine Creek
Three battles in one day along the Kansas-Missouri line leave two Confederate generals and six cannon in Union hands.
1940
Davis becomes the Army's first Black general
Weeks after being left off the promotion list, the colonel gets his star from Roosevelt himself.
1944
Tang's own torpedo circles back and sinks her; nine men swim through the night
America's deadliest submarine of the war sinks from its own last torpedo, hours after her best night of the patrol.
1962Member story · 1776 Club
Stevenson waits for an answer that never comes
The U.S. ambassador puts missile photographs before the U.N. Security Council and dares the Soviets to deny them.
1983Member story · 1776 Club
Rangers drop onto Point Salines; Marines storm Pearls as Grenada invasion begins
Six days after Maurice Bishop's execution, 7,600 American and Caribbean troops hit the island before sunrise.
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