September 25
September 25 is the 268th day of the year (269th in leap years). There are 97 days remaining. Events275 - M. Claudius Tacitus appointed Roman emperor by the senate.303 - On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona was beheaded in Amiens, France.1066 - Battle of Stamford Bridge, marking the end of the Viking era.1396 - Ottoman Emperor Beyazid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis1513 - Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reached the Pacific Ocean1555 - The Peace of Augsburg is signed in Augsburg by Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League.1690 - "Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick", the first newspaper published in the Americas, published for the first and only time. 1789 - The Bill of Rights passes the U.S. Congress1804 - The Teton Sioux (a subdivison of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Corps of Discovery as a toll for moving further upriver.1846 - American forces led by Zachary Taylor captured the Mexican city of Monterrey.1890 - Yosemite National Park established in California.1912 - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism founded in New York,_New York.1955 - The Royal Jordanian Air Force was founded.1957 - Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas is integrated through the use of United States Army troops1962 - The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria was formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas was elected President of the provisional government.1978 - PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, California resulting in the deaths of 144 people.1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor was the 102nd Justice sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, the first woman to hold the office.1983 - Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war (because of time-zone differences, the date was Sept. 25 in the West, and Sept. 26 in the Soviet Union)1996 - The last of the Magdalen Asylums was closed in Ireland1998 - A Pauknair BAE146 crashes into hillside in Morocco killing 38.2003 - Magnitude 8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore of Hokkaido, Japan.
Births1358 - Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Ashikaga shogun (b. 1408)1599 - Francesco Borromini, Swiss baroque sculptor (d. 1667)1644 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (d. 1710)1683 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer (d. 1764)1725 - Nicolas Joseph Cugnot, automobile pioneer1862 - Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952)1866 - Thomas Morgan, geneticist (d. 1945)1897 - William Faulkner, novelist (d. 1962)1903 - Mark Rothko, painter (d. 1970)1906 - Dmitri Shostakovich, composer (d. 1975)1917 - Johnny Sain, baseball pitcher1918 - Phil Rizzuto, Baseball Hall of Famer and announcer1920 - Sergei Bondarchuk, actor (d. 1994)1922 - Hammer DeRoburt, first president of Nauru (d. 1992)1926 - Aldo Ray, actor (d. 1991)1927 - Sir Colin Davis, English conductor1930 - Shel Silverstein, humorist, author (d. 1999)1931 - Barbara Walters, broadcaster1932 - Glenn Gould, pianist, composer (d. 1982)1933 - Hubie Brown, basketball coach, television analyst1936 - Juliet Prowse, actress, dancer (d. 1996)1938 - Jonathan Motzfeldt, first Prime Minister of Greenland1943 - Robert Gates, fifteenth Director of Central Intelligence1944*Michael Douglas, actor, producer*Doris Matsui, U.S. Representative from California1947 - Cheryl Tiegs, model1951 - Mark Hamill, actor1952 - Christopher Reeve, actor (d. 2004)1958 - Michael Madsen, actor1961 - Heather Locklear, actress, model1962 - Aida Turturro, actress1965 - Scottie Pippen, basketball star1968 - Will Smith, actor, rapper1969:*Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer*Catherine Zeta-Jones, actress1970 - Dean Ween, musician ("Ween")1971:*John Lynch, American football player*Hal Sparks, actor1975:*Declan Donnelly, English television presenter*Matt Hasselbeck, American football quarterback1976 - Chauncey Billups, basketball player
Deaths 1066 - Harald III of Norway, at the Battle of Stamford Bridge1086 - William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine1333 - Prince Morikuni, 9th Kamakura shogun of Japan (b. 1301)1506 - Philip I of Castile1534 - Pope Clement VII1825 - Joachim Heer, Swiss politician († 1879)1849 - Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer1867 - Oliver Loving, Texas pioneer, rancher1970 - Erich Maria Remarque, author1979 - Tapio Rautavaara, athlete, actor, singer1980 - John Bonham, drummer (Led Zeppelin) 1980 - Lewis Milestone, film director1983 - King Leopold III of Belgium1984 - Walter Pidgeon, actor1987 - Mary Astor, actress 1987 - Emlyn Williams, actor1996 - Nicu Ceausescu, Romanian politician, son of Nicolae Ceausescu1999 - Marion Zimmer Bradley, science fiction author2000 - R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (b. 1913)2003 - Aquila al-Hashimi, Iraqi politician, member of the Governing Council 2003 - Franco Modigliani, economist 2003 - George Plimpton, American Renaissance man 2003 - Edward Said, professor at the New York Columbia University, proponent of Palestinian rights
Holidays and observances Mozambique - Armed Forces' Day External links BBC: On This Day
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