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Republic Day (Kazakhstan)

Name: Republic Day (Kazakhstan)
Start: 2000-10-25
End: 2000-10-25
Location: Histories Today Editorial Team

On October 25, in the year 0, Republic Day (Kazakhstan). This event is recorded as a Holidays event in the history of October 25, one of 656 recorded events on this date across all of history.

Republic Day, observed on October 25, is a Public holiday in Kazakhstan, celebrating the declaration of sovereignty of the Kazakh SSR from the Soviet Union. In the waning days of Soviet rule, individual republics of the Soviet Union sought greater autonomy. The Soviet Union agreed in early 1990 to give up its monopoly of political power. Following the lead of the Lithuanian SSR, the Russian SFSR and others, the Kazakh SSR declared its sovereignty on 25 October 1990, and Kazakhstan subsequently became independent on 16 December 1991 as the Soviet Union collapsed.

Key Facts

This event took place on October 25, 0 (AD era).
It is categorised as a Holidays event in recorded history.
Referenced in 2 Wikipedia articles.
Wikipedia source last updated on 3 November 2025.

On This Date in History 656

Type	Year	Date	Event
Notable Deaths	2025	Oct 25	Satish Shah, Indian actor and comedian (born 1951)
Notable Deaths	2025	Oct 25	Rolf Dupuy, anarchist and historian of the anarchist movement in France and Spain (born 1946)
Notable Deaths	2024	Oct 25	Phil Lesh, American bassist (born 1940)
Notable Deaths	2024	Oct 25	Kim Soo-mi, South Korean actress (born 1949)
Historical Events	2023	Oct 25	A mass shooting occurs in two locations in Lewiston, Maine. 18 people are killed and 13 more injured.
Selected Events	2022	Oct 25	At 49 days, Liz Truss concluded the shortest tenure as prime minister of the United Kingdom.
Notable Deaths	2019	Oct 25	Dilip Parikh, Indian politician (born 1937)
Notable Deaths	2018	Oct 25	Thomas Keating, American Trappist monk and a principal developer of Centering Prayer (born 1923)
Notable Deaths	2016	Oct 25	Carlos Alberto Torres, Brazilian football player and manager (born 1944)
Notable Deaths	2016	Oct 25	Bob Hoover, USAF, Test, and Airshow pilot (born 1922)
Notable Deaths	2015	Oct 25	David Cesarani, English historian and author (born 1956)
Notable Deaths	2015	Oct 25	Lisa Jardine, English historian, author, and academic (born 1944)
Notable Deaths	2015	Oct 25	Cecil Lolo, South African footballer (born 1988)
Notable Deaths	2015	Oct 25	Flip Saunders, American basketball player and coach (born 1955)
Notable Deaths	2014	Oct 25	Jack Bruce, Scottish singer-songwriter and bass player (born 1943)
Notable Deaths	2014	Oct 25	Carlos Morales Troncoso, Dominican lawyer and politician, 34th Vice President of the Dominican Republic (born 1940)
Notable Deaths	2013	Oct 25	Ron Ackland, New Zealand rugby player and coach (born 1934)
Notable Deaths	2013	Oct 25	Arthur Danto, American philosopher and critic (born 1924)
Notable Deaths	2013	Oct 25	Nicholas Hunt, Welsh-English admiral (born 1930)
Notable Deaths	2013	Oct 25	Hal Needham, American actor, stuntman, director, and screenwriter (born 1931)
Notable Deaths	2013	Oct 25	Paul Reichmann, Austrian-Canadian businessman, founded Olympia and York (born 1930)
Notable Deaths	2013	Oct 25	Bill Sharman, American basketball player and coach (born 1926)
Notable Deaths	2013	Oct 25	Marcia Wallace, American actress and comedian (born 1942)
Notable Deaths	2012	Oct 25	Jacques Barzun, French-American historian and author (born 1907)
Notable Deaths	2012	Oct 25	Jaspal Bhatti, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1955)
Notable Deaths	2012	Oct 25	John Connelly, English footballer (born 1938)
Notable Deaths	2012	Oct 25	Emanuel Steward, American boxer, trainer, and sportscaster (born 1944)
Historical Events	2010	Oct 25	A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes off Indonesia's Mentawai Islands, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 400…
Notable Deaths	2010	Oct 25	Lisa Blount, American actress (born 1957)
Notable Deaths	2010	Oct 25	Gregory Isaacs, Jamaican-English singer-songwriter (born 1951)
Notable Deaths	2010	Oct 25	Vesna Parun, Croatian poet and author (born 1922)
Selected Events	2010	Oct 25	Mount Merapi in Central Java, Indonesia, began an increasingly violent series of eruptions that lasted over a month.
Historical Events	2009	Oct 25	The October 2009 Baghdad bombings kill 155 and wound at least 721.
Notable Deaths	2004	Oct 25	John Peel, English radio host and producer (born 1939)
Notable Deaths	2003	Oct 25	Pandurang Shastri Athavale, Indian spiritual leader and philosopher (born 1920)
Notable Deaths	2003	Oct 25	Veikko Hakulinen, Finnish skier and technician (born 1925)
Notable Deaths	2002	Oct 25	Richard Harris, Irish actor and singer (born 1930)
Notable Deaths	2002	Oct 25	René Thom, French mathematician and biologist (born 1923)
Notable Deaths	2002	Oct 25	Paul Wellstone, American academic and politician (born 1944)
Historical Events	2001	Oct 25	Microsoft releases Windows XP, which becomes one of Microsoft's most successful operating systems.
Notable Births	2001	Oct 25	Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant
Selected Events	2001	Oct 25	Windows XP, one of the most popular and widely used versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system, was released…
Notable Births	2000	Oct 25	Dominik Szoboszlai, Hungarian footballer
Notable Births	2000	Oct 25	Vincent Zhou, American figure skater
Notable Deaths	2000	Oct 25	Mochitsura Hashimoto, Japanese commander (born 1909)
Historical Events	1999	Oct 25	A Learjet 35 crashes in Mina near Aberdeen, South Dakota, killing all six people on board, including PGA golfer Payne…
Notable Births	1999	Oct 25	Clara Soccini, Italian singer-songwriter, actress and model
Notable Births	1999	Oct 25	Romeo Langford, American basketball player
Notable Deaths	1999	Oct 25	Leonard Boyle, Irish and Canadian palaeographer and medievalist (born 1923)
Notable Deaths	1999	Oct 25	Payne Stewart, American golfer (born 1957)