Today is Saturday, Oct. 25, the 298th day of 2025. There are 67 days left in the year.

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 1760, Britain’s King George III succeeded his late grandfather, George II.

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