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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.
- 1066 - Battle of Stamford Bridge, marking the end of the Viking era.
- 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. It was considered offensive and its publisher, Benjamin Harris, was ordered not to
publish any more.
- 1780 - 'Overmountain Men' muster in East Tennessee in preparation for the march over the Appalachian Mountains to fight against the British in the American Revolutionary War at King's Mountain.
- 1789 - The Bill of Rights passes the United States Congress
- 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.
- 1957 - Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas is integrated through the use of United States Army troops
- 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.
- 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
- 1644 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer
(d. 1710)
- 1683 - Jean-Philippe
Rameau, 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,
novelist (d. 1962)
- 1903 - Mark Rothko, painter (d.
1970)
- 1906 - Dmitri
Shostakovich, composer (d. 1975)
- 1917 - Johnny Sain, baseball pithcer
- 1918 - Phil Rizzuto, baseball announcer
- 1920 - Sergei
Bondarchuk, actor (d. 1994)
- 1922 - Hammer DeRoburt,
first president of Nauru (d. 1992)
- 1926 - Aldo Ray, actor (d. 1991)
- 1930 - Shel Silverstein,
humorist, author (d. 1999)
- 1931 - Barbara Walters,
broadcaster
- 1932 - Glenn Gould, pianist,
composer (d. 1982)
- 1936 - Juliet Prowse, actress, dancer (d. 1996)
- 1938 - Jonathan
Motzfeldt, first Prime Minister of
Greenland
- 1944 - Michael Douglas,
actor, producer
- 1947 - Cheryl Tiegs, model
- 1952 - Christopher
Reeve, actor
- 1952 - Mark Hamill, actor
- 1958 - Michael Madsen,
actor
- 1961 - Heather Locklear,
actress, model
- 1962 - Aida Turturro,
actress
- 1965 - Scottie Pippen,
basketball star
- 1968 - Will Smith, actor, rapper
- 1969 - Catherine
Zeta-Jones, actress
- 1969 - Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer
- 1970 - Dean Ween, musician ("Ween")
- 1971 - Hal Sparks, actor
- 1975 - Declan Donnelly, English television presenter
- 1976 - Chauncey Billups,
basketball player
Deaths
- 1066 - Harald III of
Norway, at the Battle of Stamford Bridge
- 1086 - William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine
- 1534 - Pope Clement
VII
- 1849 - Johann Strauss I,
Austrian composer
- 1867 - Oliver Loving, Texas pioneer, rancher
- 1970 - Erich Maria
Remarque, author
- 1979 - Tapio Rautavaara,
athlete, actor, singer
- 1980 - John Bonham, drummer
(Led Zeppelin)
- 1980 - Lewis Milestone,
film director
- 1983 - King Leopold III of Belgium
- 1984 - Walter Pidgeon,
actor
- 1987 - Mary Astor, actress
- 1987 - Emlyn Williams,
actor
- 1999 - Marion
Zimmer Bradley, science fiction author
- 2000 - R. S.
Thomas, Welsh poet (b. 1913)
- 2001 - Lani O'Grady, actress
- 2003 - Franco
Modigliani, economist
- 2003 - Edward Said, professor at
the New York Columbia University, proponent of Palestinian
rights
Holidays
September 24 · September 26 · August 25 · October 25 · more historical
anniversaries
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