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Today's Milestones (October 25)

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52 Milestones Observed

🎂 Birthday

Katy Perry

Global Pop Music Superstar, 5-Time Billboard Hot 100 Diamond Single Artist & Super Bowl Icon • United States

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🎂 Birthday

Ciara

Grammy Award-Winning American R&B and Hip-Hop Superstar, Master Dancer, Model & Entrepreneur • United States

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🎂 Birthday

Richard E. Byrd

Pioneering American Naval Officer, Aviator, Polar Explorer & Medal of Honor Recipient Who Flew Over the South Pole • United States

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Bob Knight

Hall of Fame Basketball Coach, 3-Time NCAA National Champion, Olympic Gold Medal Coach & Motion Offense Architect • United States

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🥀 Memorial

Khan Jahan Ali

15th-Century Sufi Saint, Regional Ruler of Khalifatabad & Master Builder of the Sixty Dome Mosque (UNESCO World Heritage) • Bangladesh

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🥀 Memorial

Geoffrey Chaucer

"The Father of English Literature", Legendary Poet, Diplomat, Bureaucrat & Author of The Canterbury Tales • United Kingdom

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Memorial Anniversary

King John of England

John, King of England (John Lackland)

King of England (1199–1216) Who Granted the Magna Carta (1215), Bedrock of Modern Constitutional Liberty & Human Rights

United Kingdom History

Dec 24, 1166 — Oct 19, 1216

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Birthday

King Mongkut (Rama IV)

พระบาทสมเด็จพระปรเมนทรมหามงกุฎ พระจอมเกล้าเจ้าอยู่หัว

Visionary King of Siam (Thailand) Who Modernized Science, Astronomy & Western Diplomacy to Preserve Siamese Sovereignty

Thailand Leadership

Oct 18, 1804 — Oct 18, 1868

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Memorial Anniversary

Kingsley Amis

Sir Kingsley William Amis CBE

Booker Prize-Winning English Novelist, Poet, Satirist & Critic (Author of "Lucky Jim")

United Kingdom Literature

Apr 16, 1922 — Oct 22, 1995

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Birthday

Kiran Sankar Roy

কিরণশঙ্কর রায়

Revered Indian Freedom Fighter, Barrister, Leader of Bengal Provincial Congress & Home Minister of West Bengal

India Politics

Oct 25, 1891 — Feb 20, 1949

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Memorial Anniversary

Kishore Kumar

Legendary Playback Singer, Actor, Composer & Director

India Arts

Aug 4, 1929 — Oct 13, 1987

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Birthday

Lakshmi Sahgal

লক্ষ্মী সেহগল / लक्ष्मी सहगल

Legendary Revolutionary, Commander of the Rani of Jhansi Regiment (INA) & Pioneer Physician

India Politics

Oct 24, 1914 — Jul 23, 2012

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Birthday

Leo Tolstoy

Novelist, Essayist & Moral Philosopher

Russia Literature

Sep 9, 1828 — Nov 20, 1910

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Birthday

Leon Trotsky

Лев Давидович Бронштейн (Лев Троцкий)

Marxist Revolutionary, Founder and Commander of the Red Army, Soviet Commissar for War & Theorist of Permanent Revolution

Russia Politics

Oct 26, 1879 — Aug 21, 1940

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Birthday

Leonardo da Vinci

High Renaissance Polymath, Painter & Engineer

Italy Arts

Apr 15, 1452 — May 2, 1519

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Memorial Anniversary

Lev Yashin

Лев Иванович Яшин

Legendary Soviet Football Goalkeeper ("The Black Spider"), Only Goalkeeper in History to Win the Ballon d’Or

Soviet Union / Russia Sports

Oct 22, 1929 — Mar 20, 1990

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Birthday

Levi Eshkol

לוי אשכול

3rd Prime Minister of Israel, Statesman, National Water Carrier Architect & Defense Modernizer

Israel Politics

Oct 25, 1895 — Feb 26, 1969

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Memorial Anniversary

Liaquat Ali Khan

نوابزادہ لیاقت علی خان

First Prime Minister of Pakistan, Freedom Fighter & "Quaid-e-Millat"

Pakistan Leadership

Oct 1, 1895 — Oct 16, 1951

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Memorial Anniversary

Lionel Murphy

Lionel Keith Murphy QC

22nd Attorney-General of Australia, High Court Justice, Creator of the Family Court & Legal Aid Pioneer

Australia Politics

Aug 30, 1922 — Oct 21, 1986

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Lord Palmerston

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

Two-Time Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1855–1858, 1859–1865) & Dominant Architect of Victorian Foreign Policy

United Kingdom Politics

Oct 20, 1784 — Oct 18, 1865

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Memorial Anniversary

Louis Althusser

Louis Pierre Althusser

Influential French-Algerian Marxist Philosopher, Structuralist Theorist & Academic

Algeria / France Philosophy

Oct 16, 1918 — Oct 22, 1990

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Birthday

Luciano Berio

Visionary Italian Avant-Garde Composer, Pioneer of Electroacoustic Music & Musical Modernist

Italy Music

Oct 24, 1925 — May 27, 2003

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