october 25th in history: what happened

In Moscow in 1817, on the Sparrow Hills in the presence of Emperor Alexander I, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior was founded according to the project of Alexander Vitberg.

In 1839, the world’s first railway timetable was issued in Manchester.

On this day, but in 1955, the American company “Tappan Company” first introduced the microwave oven.

In 1977, the title of People's Doctor of the USSR was established.

On October 25, the Swiss writer, politician Benjamin Constant (1767); the French mathematician, founder of modern higher algebra Evariste Galois (1811); the Austrian composer, conductor and violinist, “king of the waltz” Johann Strauss (son) (1825); the Russian violin virtuoso, nicknamed “Russian Sarasate” Karl Grigorovich (1868).