100 Years Ago This Month: October 2025

OCTOBER 2025

• The Lerma River in Guanajuato, Mexico, flooded on October 1, leaving thousands of people

homeless as a result.

• Three workers are burned alive when the Church Hill Tunnel in Richmond, Virginia, collapses on October 2. The tragedy is partly responsible for the emergence of an urban legend known as the "Richmond Vampire" more than 80 years after the tunnel's collapse.

• The Soviet Union removes all restrictions on the alcohol content of beverages on October 4. Alcohol had been prohibited on a limited basis for 11 years prior to the removal of the limitation.

• Legendary baseball...