On This Day: October 25

Soyuz 2 is launched.

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

World War II: Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.

Greek War of Independence: The First Siege of Missolonghi begins.

Emperor Leo I acclaims his grandson Leo II as Caesar of the East Roman Empire.