September 25

September 25 is the 268th day of the year (269th in leap years). There are 97 days remaining.

Events

• 275 – 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 Nicopolis
• 1513 – Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reached the Pacific Ocean
• 1555 – 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. Congress
• 1804 – 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 troops
• 1962 – 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 Ireland
• 1998 – A Pauknair BAE146 crashes into hillside in Morocco killing 38.
• 2003 – Magnitude 8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore of Hokkaido, Japan.

Births

• 1358 – Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Ashikaga shogun (b. 1408)
• 1599 – Francesco Borromini, Swiss sculptor (d. 1667)
• 1644 – Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (d. 1710)
• 1683 – Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (d. 1764)
• 1725 – Nicolas Joseph Cugnot, automobile pioneer
• 1862 – Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952)
• 1866 – Thomas Morgan, geneticist (d. 1945)
• 1897 – William Faulkner, American novelist (d. 1962)
• 1903 – Mark Rothko, painter (d. 1970)
• 1906 – Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d. 1975)
• 1917 – Johnny Sain, baseball player
• 1918 – Phil Rizzuto, Baseball Hall of Famer and announcer
• 1920 – 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 conductor
• 1930 – Shel Silverstein, American humorist and author (d. 1999)
• 1931 – Barbara Walters, American broadcaster
• 1932 – Glenn Gould, pianist and composer (d. 1982)
• 1933 – Hubie Brown, basketball coach and broadcaster
• 1936 – Juliet Prowse, actress and dancer (d. 1996)
• 1938 – Jonathan Motzfeldt, first Prime Minister of Greenland
• 1943 – Robert Gates, American director of the Central Intelligence Agency
• 1944 – Michael Douglas, actor and producer
• 1944 – Doris Matsui, U.S. Congresswoman from California
• 1947 – Cheryl Tiegs, American model
• 1951 – Mark Hamill, American actor
• 1952 – Christopher Reeve, American actor (d. 2004)
• 1958 – Michael Madsen, actor
• 1961 – Heather Locklear, actress and model
• 1962 – Aida Turturro, actress
• 1965 – Scottie Pippen, basketball star
• 1968 – Will Smith, actor and rapper
• 1969 – Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer
• 1969 – Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
• 1970 – Dean Ween, musician (Ween)
• 1971 – John Lynch, American football player
• 1971 – Hal Sparks, actor
• 1975 – Declan Donnelly, English television presenter
• 1975 – Matt Hasselbeck, American football player
• 1976 – Chauncey Billups, basketball player

Deaths

• 1066 – Harald III of Norway (killed in battle)
• 1086 – William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine
• 1333 – Prince Morikuni, Japanese shogun (b. 1301)
• 1506 – Philip I of Castile
• 1534 – Pope Clement VII
• 1825 – Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (b. 1879)
• 1849 – Johann Strauss, Senior, Austrian composer
• 1867 – Oliver Loving, American pioneer rancher
• 1970 – Erich Maria Remarque, author
• 1979 – Tapio Rautavaara, athlete, actor, and singer
• 1980 – John Bonham, British musician, drummer with Led Zeppelin (b. May 31, 1948)
• 1980  – Lewis Milestone, film director
• 1983 – King Leopold III of Belgium
• 1984 – Walter Pidgeon, actor
• 1987 – Mary Astor, actress
• 1987  – Emlyn Williams, actor
• 1996 – Nicu Ceausescu, Romanian politician and son of Nicolae Ceausescu
• 1997 – Jean Françaix, French composer (b. 1912)
• 1999 – Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer
• 2000 – R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (b. 1913)
• 2003 – Aquila al-Hashimi, Iraqi politician
• 2003  – Franco Modigliani, economist
• 2003  – George Plimpton, American writer, actor, and journalist
• 2003  – Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic

Holidays and observances

• Mozambique – Armed Forces' Day

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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