On This Day: October 25th

A mass shooting occurs in two locations in Lewiston, Maine. 18 people are killed and 13 more injured.

Mount Merapi in Indonesia begins a month-long series of violent eruptions that kill 353 people and cause the evacuation of another 350,000 people.

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes off Indonesia's Mentawai Islands, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 400 people.

The October 2009 Baghdad bombings kill 155 and wound at least 721.

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

A Learjet 35 crashes in Mina near Aberdeen, South Dakota, killing all six people on board, including PGA golfer Payne Stewart and golf course designer Bruce Borland.

After a civil war, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself President of the Republic of the Congo.

A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.

The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic declares its sovereignty from the Soviet Union.

The first leg of the 1989 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira is held at the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon, Portugal.