At A Glance

25 October 2013 at a glance

Day of the week
25 October 2013 was a Friday.
Billboard Hot 100 No. 1
The Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 was “Royals” by Lorde.
Top Film of 2013
The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2013 was Frozen.
Top-Rated TV Show
“Sunday Night Football” (NBC) and “NCIS” (CBS) were joint No. 1 in the Nielsen ratings for the 2013–14 season.
Star sign
The star sign for 25 October is Scorpio.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 25 October 2013 fell in the Year of the Snake.
Birthstone
The birthstone for October is Opal.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 25 October 2013 was Waning Gibbous.

On this day: 25 October

  • 1973 Egypt and Israel accept United Nations Security Council Resolution 339.
  • 1989 The first leg of the 1989 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira is held at the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon, Portugal.
  • 1990 The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic declares its sovereignty from the Soviet Union.
  • 1997 After a civil war, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself President of the Republic of the Congo.
  • 2001 Microsoft releases Windows XP, which becomes one of Microsoft's most successful operating systems.

Famous people born on October 25

  • Katy Perry, American singer-songwriter and actress (born 1984)
  • Shaun Wright-Phillips, English footballer (born 1981)
  • Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)
  • Ciara, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (born 1985)

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Events of 2013 in the United States

A selection from Wikipedia's '2013 in the United States'. Not a complete list.

  • January 10 – 85th Academy Awards: Nominations are announced at Samuel Goldwyn Theater. The Best Picture nominees are Amour, Argo, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Django Unchained, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Les Misérables, Silver Linings Playbook, and Zero Dark Thirty.
  • April 23 – Teen Titans Go! debuts on Cartoon Network.
  • May 3 – Iron Man 3, directed by Shane Black, is released by Marvel Studios as the seventh film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) the first in its "Phase Two" slate and the direct sequel to 2008's Iron Man and 2010's Iron Man 2.

Life in the US in 2013

President

Barack Obama

Gas (per gallon)

$3.53

Loaf of Bread

$1.90

Average House

$272,900

Weekly Wage

$776

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