"On Oct. 25, 1929, former Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall was convicted of accepting bribes in exchange for oil field leases at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and the Elk Hills and Buena Vista oil fields in California. As a result of the Teapot Dome Scandal Fall would become the first U.S. Cabinet member to be imprisoned for crimes committed while in office."
"In 1962, during an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council, U.S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson II demanded that Soviet Ambassador Valerian Zorin confirm or deny the existence of Soviet-built missile bases in Cuba. Stevenson then presented the council with photographic evidence of the bases, a key moment in the Cuban missile crisis. In 1983, a U.S.-led force invaded Grenada at the order of President Ronald Reagan, who said the action was needed to protect U.S. citizens there."
"In 1986, in Game 6 of the World Series, the New York Mets rallied for three runs with two outs in the 10th inning, defeating the Boston Red Sox 6-5 and forcing a seventh game; the tiebreaking run scored on Boston first baseman Bill Buckner's error on Mookie Wilson's slow grounder. (The Mets went on to win Game 7 and the Series.)"
"In 1999, golfer Payne Stewart and five others were killed when their Learjet lost cabin pressure, flew hundreds of miles off course on autopilot, and crashed in a field in South Dakota. Stewart was 42. In 2002, Democratic U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone of Minnesota was killed in a plane crash in northern Minnesota along with his wife, daughter and five others, a week-and-a-half before the election."
Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025 is the 298th day of 2025 with 67 days remaining in the year. On Oct. 25, 1929 Albert B. Fall was convicted of accepting bribes for oil field leases at Teapot Dome, Elk Hills and Buena Vista, becoming the first U.S. Cabinet member imprisoned for crimes committed while in office. In 1760 King George III succeeded George II. In 1859 John Brown went on trial for the Harpers Ferry raid and was later hanged. In 1962 Adlai E. Stevenson presented photographic evidence of Soviet missile bases in Cuba. In 1983 U.S.-led forces invaded Grenada. In 1986 the Mets rallied in Game 6 and Bill Buckner's error produced the tiebreaking run. Plane crashes in 1999 and 2002 killed Payne Stewart and Sen. Paul Wellstone. In 2022 Rishi Sunak became Britain's first prime minister of color.
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