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September 25 is the 268th day of the year (269th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 97 days remaining in the year on this date.
[edit] Events
- 3760 BC - Creation of Earth, bevlieved by the Jews.
- 275 - Marcus Claudius Tacitus is appointed Roman emperor by the Senate.
- 303 - On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France.
- 1066 - The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking era.
- 1396 - Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis.
- 1513 - Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reached what would be known as 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 to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.
- 1789 - The U.S. Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: the Congressional Apportionment Amendment, the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights.
- 1804 - The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for moving further upriver.
- 1846 - U.S. forces led by Zachary Taylor captured the Mexican city of Monterrey.
- 1868 - The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Neuski shipwrecks off Jutland while carrying the Grand Duke of Russia.
- 1906 - In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the Remote control.
- 1911 - Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1912 - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York, New York.
- 1915 - The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
- 1929 - Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full Instrument Flying from take off to landing is possible.
- 1955 - The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
- 1957 - Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated through the use of United States Army troops.
- 1959 - Solomon Bandaranaike, prime minister of Sri Lanka is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
- 1962 - The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.
- 1970 - Cease-fire between Jordan and the fedayeen ends fighting triggered by four hijackings on September 6 and 9.
- 1972 - In the Norwegian EC referendum, 1972, the people of Norway reject membership.
- 1976 - The rock band U2 forms at a meeting at drummer Larry Mullen's home.
- 1978 - PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727-214, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, California, resulting in the deaths of 144 people.
- 1980 - The first congress of the Democratic Youth Organization of Afghanistan held in Kabul.
- 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.
- 1988 - Monty Python member Michael Palin sets out from London's Reform Club to start his BBC documentary Around the World in 80 Days.
- 1996 - The last of the Magdalen Asylums closes in Ireland.
- 2002 - The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia, Russia.
- 2003 - A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore of Hokkaidō, Japan.
- 2005 - Spanish Formula One racing driver Fernando Alonso becomes the youngest FIA Formula One World Champion.
- 2006 - The Louisiana Superdome reopens after 13 months of reconstruction due to Hurricane Katrina.
[edit] Births
- 1358 - Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1408)
- 1525 - Steven Borough, English explorer (d. 1584)
- 1599 - Francesco Borromini, Italian architect (d. 1667)
- 1644 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (d. 1710)
- 1683 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (d. 1764)
- 1694 - Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1754)
- 1711 - Qianlong Emperor of China (d. 1799)
- 1725 - Nicolas Joseph Cugnot, French automobile pioneer (d. 1804)
- 1738 - Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (d. 1789)
- 1764 - Fletcher Christian, English Bounty mutineer (d. 1793)
- 1766 - Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French-Russian statesman (d. 1822)
- 1773 - Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (d. 1856)
- 1780 - Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (d. 1801)
- 1782 - Charles Robert Maturin, Irish playwright and novelist (d. 1824)
- 1796 - Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (d. 1875)
- 1798 - Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist (d. 1874)
- 1825 - William Pitt Ballinger, Texas lawyer and statesman (d. 1888)
- 1839 - Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist (d. 1904)
- 1862 - Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952)
- 1866 - Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1945)
- 1867 - Evgenii Miller, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1938)
- 1881 - Lu Xun, Chinese writer (d. 1936)
- 1889 - C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Scottish writer and translator (d. 1930)
- 1896 - Sandro Pertini, President of the Italian Republic (d. 1990)
- 1897 - William Faulkner, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
- 1898 - Robert Brackman American artist (d. 1980)
- 1901 - Robert Bresson, French film director (d. 1999)
- 1903 - Mark Rothko, Latvian-born painter (d. 1970)
- 1906 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d. 1975)
- 1916 - Phil Rizzuto, American baseball player and announcer
- 1917 - Johnny Sain, American baseball player
- 1920 - Sergei Bondarchuk, Ukrainian-born actor (d. 1994)
- 1921 - Sir Robert Muldoon, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1992)
- 1922 - Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (d. 1992)
- 1926 - Aldo Ray, American actor (d. 1991)
- 1927 - Sir Colin Davis, English conductor
- 1929 - Ronnie Barker, British comedian and actor (d. 2005)
- 1929 - Barbara Walters, American broadcaster
- 1930 - Shel Silverstein, American humorist and author (d. 1999)
- 1932 - Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and composer (d. 1982)
- 1932 - Adolfo Suárez, Prime Minister of Spain
- 1933 - Hubie Brown, American basketball coach and broadcaster
- 1936 - Juliet Prowse, British actress and dancer (d. 1996)
- 1938 - Jonathan Motzfeldt, first Prime Minister of Greenland
- 1939 - Feroz Khan, Indian actor
- 1943 - Robert Gates, American director of the Central Intelligence Agency
- 1944 - Michael Douglas, American actor and producer
- 1944 - Doris Matsui, American politician
- 1945 - Carol Vadnais, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1946 - Felicity Kendal, British actress
- 1947 - Cheryl Tiegs, American model
- 1951 - Mark Hamill, American actor
- 1952 - Christopher Reeve, American actor and activist (d. 2004)
- 1952 - Anson Williams, American actor and director
- 1953 - Richard Harvey, British musician and composer (Gryphon)
- 1954 - Sylvester Croom, American college football coach
- 1955 - Steven Severin, British musician (Siouxsie & the Banshees)
- 1955 - Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, German footballer
- 1955 - Ludo Coeck, Belgian footballer (d. 1985)
- 1958 - Michael Madsen, American actor
- 1960 - Igor Belanov, Ukrainian footballer
- 1960 - Sonia Benezra, Canadian television host
- 1961 - Heather Locklear, American actress and model
- 1962 - Aida Turturro, American actress
- 1964 - Anita Barone, American actress
- 1964 - Kikuko Inoue, Japanese singer and voice actress (seiyū)
- 1964 - Joey Saputo, Canadian businessman and sports executive
- 1965 - Scottie Pippen, American basketball player
- 1967 - Kim Issel, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1968 - Will Smith, American actor and rapper
- 1969 - Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (d. 2002)
- 1969 - Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
- 1969 - Heather Stewart-Whyte, British supermodel
- 1970 - Dean Ween, American musician (Ween)
- 1971 - John Lynch, American football player
- 1971 - Hal Sparks, American actor
- 1973 - Bridgette Wilson, American actress
- 1973 - Tijani Babangida, Nigerian footballer
- 1975 - Declan Donnelly, English television presenter
- 1975 - Matt Hasselbeck, American football player
- 1975 - Daniel Hyde, British actor
- 1976 - Chauncey Billups, American basketball player
- 1977 - Clea DuVall, American actress
- 1978 - Ricardo Gardner, Jamaican footballer
- 1978 - Jodie Kidd, English model
- 1978 - Roudolphe Douala, Cameroonian footballer
- 1980 - T.I., rapper
- 1981 - Jason Bergmann, American baseball pitcher
- 1981 - Shane Tutmarc, American songwriter/musician
- 1982 - Hyun Bin, South Korean actor
- 1984 - Matt Carle, American ice hockey player
- 1991 - Emmy Clarke, American actress
[edit] Deaths
- 1066 - Killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge:
- 1086 - William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1025)
- 1333 - Prince Morikuni, Japanese shogun (b. 1301)
- 1496 - Piero Capponi, Italian soldier and statesman (b. 1447)
- 1506 - King Philip I of Castile (b. 1478)
- 1534 - Pope Clement VII (b. 1478)
- 1536 - Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet (b. 1511)
- 1602 - Caspar Peucer, German reformer (b. 1525)
- 1617 - Francisco Suarez, Spanish Jesuit, philosopher/theologian (b. 1548)
- 1617 - Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan, (b. 1617)
- 1626 - Lancelot Andrewes, English scholar and Bishop of the Church of England (b. 1555)
- 1630 - Ambrosio Spinola, marqués de los Balbases, Spanish general (b. 1569)
- 1665 - Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria (b. 1610)
- 1703 - Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish privy councillor (b. 1658)
- 1774 - John Bradstreet, Canadian-born soldier (b. 1714)
- 1777 - Johann Heinrich Lambert, German scientist (b. 1728)
- 1791 - William Bradford, American printer (b. 1719)
- 1792 - Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (b. 1710)
- 1794 - Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (b. 1718)
- 1825 - Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (b. 1879)
- 1849 - Johann Strauss, Senior, Austrian composer (b. 1804)
- 1867 - Oliver Loving, American pioneer rancher (b. 1812)
- 1900 - Félix-Gabriel Marchand, premier of Québec (b. 1832)
- 1905 - Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (b. 1853)
- 1918 - Mikhail Alekseev, Russian general (b. 1857)
- 1926 - Herbert Booth, the third son of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1862)
- 1929 - Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (b. 1879)
- 1933 - Ring Lardner, American writer (b. 1885)
- 1946 - Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician and war criminal (b. 1879)
- 1960 - Emily Post, American author & etiquette expert (b. 1873)
- 1961 - Frank Fay American actor (b. 1897)
- 1970 - Erich Maria Remarque, German author (b. 1898)
- 1979 - Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish athlete, actor, and singer (b. 1915)
- 1980 - John Bonham, British drummer (Led Zeppelin) (b. 1948)
- 1980 - Lewis Milestone, Moldovan film director (b. 1895)
- 1980 - Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (b. 1883)
- 1983 - King Léopold III of Belgium (b. 1901)
- 1984 - Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (b. 1897)
- 1986 - Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
- 1986 - Donald MacDonald former president of the Canadian Labour Congress and politician (b.1909)
- 1987 - Mary Astor, Academy Award-winning American actress (b. 1906)
- 1987 - Emlyn Williams, Welsh actor (b. 1905)
- 1988 - Billy Carter, brother of Jimmy Carter (b. 1937)
- 1991 - Klaus Barbie, Nazi war criminal (b. 1913)
- 1991 - Viviane Romance, French actress (b. 1912)
- 1995 - Bessie Delany, American physician and author (b. 1891)
- 1996 - Nicu Ceauşescu, Romanian politician (b. 1951)
- 1997 - Jean Françaix, French composer (b. 1912)
- 1999 - Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (b. 1930)
- 2000 - R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (b. 1913)
- 2003 - Aquila al-Hashimi, Iraqi politician
- 2003 - Herb Gardner, American playwright (b. 1934)
- 2003 - Franco Modigliani, Italian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
- 2003 - George Plimpton, American writer and actor (b. 1927)
- 2003 - Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic (b. 1935)
- 2005 - Don Adams, American actor and comedian (b. 1923)
- 2005 - George Archer, American golfer (b. 1939)
- 2005 - Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani researcher, critic and linguist (b. 1912)
- 2005 - Urie Bronfenbrenner, American psychologist, founder of Head Start program (b. 1917)
- 2005 - M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and writer (b. 1936)
- 2005 - Friedrich Peter, Austrian politician (b. 1921)
- 2006 - Jeff Cooper, renowned firearms expert (b. 1920)
- 2006 - John M. Ford, American author and poet (b. 1957)
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