If you're a cynic, today is a day for you. As the opposite of Sweetest Day (third Saturday in October), Sourest Day allows pessimsists to gripe and complains about the lemons that life has dealt them.
October 25th is also Saint Crispin's Day, the religious feast day for twins who were martyred around 286 A.D., but the day is most famous for two battles that occured on this day. In "Henry V," Shakespeare writes about the Battle of Agincourt, in 1415. This play features a St. Crispin's Day Speech in which Henry inspired his much outnumbered English forces to fight the French. The Battle of Balaklava (Charge of the Light Brigade) during the Crimean War in 1854 and the Battle of Leyte Gulf in the Pacific theater in 1944 also both happened on this day. Ironically, Saints Crispin and Crispinian were removed from the liturgical calendar (but not declared to no longer be saints) during the Catholic Church's Vatican II reforms.
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