September 25

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

Events

• 275 – In Rome, (after the assassination of Aurelian), the Senate proclaims Marcus Claudius Tacitus Emperor.
• 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 invasions of England.
• 1396 – Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis.
• 1513 – Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would become 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.
• 1775 – Ethan Allen surrenders to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal during the Battle of Longue-Pointe. At the same time, Benedict Arnold and his expeditionary company set off from Fort Western, bound for Quebec City (Invasion of Canada (1775)).
• 1789 – The U.S. Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: the Congressional Apportionment Amendment (which was never ratified), 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 capture the Mexican city of Monterrey.
• 1868 – The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Neuski is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei 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 – World War I: 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.
• 1942 – World War II: Swiss Police Instruction of September 25, 1942 – this instruction denied entry into Switzerland to Jewish refugees.
• 1944 – World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem in the Netherlands, thus ending the Battle of Arnhem and Operation Market Garden.
• 1955 – The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
• 1956 – TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.
• 1957 – Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by 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 a referendum, the people of Norway reject membership of the European Community.
• 1977 – About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon.
• 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.
• 1981 – Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the 102nd person sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and the first woman to hold the office.
• 1981 – Belize joins the United Nations.
• 1983 – Maze Prison escape: 38 republican prisoners, armed with 6 handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze prison. It is the largest prison escape since WWII and in British history.
• 1996 – The last of the Magdalene Asylums closes in Ireland.
• 2002 – The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia, Russia.
• 2003 – A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.
• 2008 – China launches the spacecraft Shenzhou 7.

Births

• 1358 – Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1408)
• 1525 – Steven Borough, English explorer (d. 1584)
• 1599 – Francesco Borromini, Swiss 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 steam vehicle 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)
• 1771 – Nikolay Nikolayevich Raevsky, Russian general (d. 1829)
• 1773 – Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (d. 1856)
• 1780 – Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (d. 1801)
• 1782 – Charles Robert Maturin, Irish playwright and novelist (d. 1824)
• 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 – Léon Boëllmann, French composer (d. 1897)
• 1862 – Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952)
• 1866 – Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1945)
• 1867 – Evgenii Miller, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1938)
• 1879 – Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer and labor leader, Father of the Philippine National Language and Grammar (d. 1963)
• 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 laureate (d. 1962)
• 1898 – Robert Brackman American artist (d. 1980)
• 1901 – Gordon Coventry, Australian rules footballer (d. 1968)
• 1901 – Robert Bresson, French film director (d. 1999)
• 1903 – Mark Rothko, Latvian-born American painter (d. 1970)
• 1906 – Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d. 1975)
• 1908 – Jacqueline Audry, French film director (d. 1977)
• 1911 – Eric Williams, first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 1981)
• 1915 – Ethel Rosenberg, American Communist (d. 1953)
• 1916 – Jessica Anderson, Australian author
• 1917 – Phil Rizzuto, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2007)
• 1917 – Johnny Sain, American baseball player (d. 2006)
• 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)
• 1923 – Sam Rivers, American musician
• 1925 – Paul B. MacCready, Jr., American aeronautical engineer (d. 2007)
• 1925 – Silvana Pampanini, Italian actress
• 1926 – Aldo Ray, American actor (d. 1991)
• 1926 – Jack Hyles, Baptist pastor (d. 2001)
• 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)
• 1931 – Manouchehr Atashi, Iranian poet (d. 2005)
• 1932 – Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and composer (d. 1982)
• 1932 – Terry Medwin, Welsh retired footballer
• 1932 – Adolfo Suárez, Prime Minister of Spain (1977–1981)
• 1933 – Hubie Brown, American basketball coach and broadcaster
• 1933 – Erik Darling, American folk singer/songwriter (d. 2008)
• 1933 – Brian Murphy, British actor
• 1933 – Ian Tyson, Canadian singer-songwriter and rancher
• 1934 – Jean Sorel, French actor
• 1936 – Juliet Prowse, South African actress and dancer (d. 1996)
• 1938 – Jonathan Motzfeldt, first Prime Minister of Greenland
• 1939 – Feroz Khan, Indian actor (d. 2009)
• 1939 – David S. Mann, American politician
• 1943 – Robert Gates, American Secretary of Defense
• 1943 – Robert Walden, American actor
• 1943 – John Locke, American musician (d. 2006)
• 1943 – Josh Taylor, American actor
• 1944 – Michael Douglas, American actor and producer
• 1944 – Grayson Shillingford, West Indian cricket bowler
• 1944 – Doris Matsui, American politician
• 1945 – Dee Dee Warwick, American singer (d. 2008)
• 1945 – Carol Vadnais, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1945 – Kathleen Brown, American politician
• 1946 – Felicity Kendal, British actress
• 1946 – Bryan MacLean, American musician and songwriter (Love) (d. 1998)
• 1946 – Jerry Penrod, American bass player
• 1947 – Giannos Kranidiotis, Greek diplomat and politician (d. 1999)
• 1947 – Cheryl Tiegs, American model
• 1947 – Cecil Womack, American musician
• 1947 – Firmine Richard, French actress
• 1949 – Mimi Kennedy, American actress
• 1951 – Mark Hamill, American actor
• 1951 – Bob McAdoo, American basketball player
• 1952 – Jimmy Garvin, American professional wrestler
• 1952 – Colin Friels, Scottish actor
• 1952 – Christopher Reeve, American actor (d. 2004)
• 1952 – Gloria Jean Watkins, American scholar
• 1952 – Cherríe Moraga, American writer
• 1952 – Tommy Norden, American actor
• 1952 – Anson Williams, American actor and director
• 1953 – Richard Harvey, British musician and composer (Gryphon)
• 1954 – Sylvester Croom, American college football coach
• 1954 – Juande Ramos, Spanish Football Manager
• 1955 – Steven Severin, British musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
• 1955 – Amyr Klink, Brazilian explorer
• 1955 – Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, German footballer
• 1955 – Zucchero, Italian musician
• 1955 – Ludo Coeck, Belgian footballer (d. 1985)
• 1956 – Jamie Hyneman, American visual effects technician
• 1957 – Ian Reddington, English actor
• 1958 – Michael Madsen, American actor
• 1958 – Randy Kerber, American composer
• 1958 – Eamonn Healy, Irish chemist
• 1960 – Igor Belanov, Ukrainian footballer
• 1960 – Eduardo Yáñez, Mexican actor
• 1960 – Sonia Benezra, Canadian television host
• 1961 – Heather Locklear, American actress and model
• 1962 – Aida Turturro, American actress
• 1962 – Kalthoum Sarrai, Tunisian Anchorwoman (d. 2010)
• 1962 – Shreela Ghosh, Indian actress
• 1963 – Keely Shaye Smith, American journalist
• 1963 – Tate Donovan, American actor
• 1963 – Mikael Persbrandt, Swedish actor
• 1964 – Anita Barone, American actress
• 1964 – Chris Impellitteri, American musician (Impellitteri)
• 1964 – Kikuko Inoue, Japanese singer and voice actress (seiyū)
• 1964 – Joey Saputo, Canadian businessman and sports executive
• 1964 – Gary Ayles, British racing driver
• 1964 – Maria Doyle Kennedy, Irish actress and singer
• 1965 – Scottie Pippen, American basketball player
• 1965 – Matt Battaglia, American actor
• 1965 – Herminia Bouza, Cuban javelin thrower
• 1965 – Anne Roumanoff, French humorist
• 1965 – Saffron Henderson, Canadian voice actress
• 1965 – Gordon Currie, Canadian actor
• 1965 – Rob Schmidt, American director
• 1965 – Dave Rundle, former South African cricketer
• 1966 – Jason Flemyng, English actor
• 1966 – Todd Philcox, former NFL quarterback (Tampa Bay Bucs)
• 1967 – Kim Issel, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1967 – Melissa De Sousa, American actress
• 1968 – Will Smith, American actor and rapper
• 1968 – John Worsfold, Australian rules football coach
• 1968 – Heather Stewart-Whyte, British supermodel
• 1968 – Prince Johan-Friso of Orange-Nassau
• 1968 – John A. List, American economist
• 1969 – Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
• 1969 – Hal Sparks, American actor
• 1969 – Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (d. 2002)
• 1969 – Bill Simmons, ESPN columnist and author
• 1970 – Aja Kong, Japanese professional wrestler
• 1970 – Kerri Kendall, American model
• 1970 – Curtis Buckley, NFL safety (Tampa Bay Bucs)
• 1970 – Misa Shimizu, Japanese actress
• 1970 – Dean Ween, American musician (Ween)
• 1971 – John Lynch, American football player
• 1971 – Brian Dunkleman, American actor
• 1971 – Jessie Wallace, English actress
• 1973 – Bridgette Wilson, American actress
• 1973 – Tijani Babangida, Nigerian footballer
• 1973 – Bridget Marquardt, American model
• 1974 – Igor Bogdanović, Serbian footballer
• 1974 – Bill Bowler, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1974 – Richie Edwards (known locally as Wamma), British bassist
• 1974 – John M. Granville, American diplomat
• 1974 – Tye Harvey, American pole vaulter
• 1974 – Paul Hurst, English footballer
• 1974 – Daniel Kessler, American musician
• 1974 – Frank Leder, German fashion designer
• 1974 – Bente Elin Lilleøkseth, Norwegian politician
• 1974 – Robert "Robbie" Mears, Australian rugby league player
• 1974 – Eric Moss, American football player
• 1974 – Víctor Danilo Pacheco, Colombian footballer
• 1974 – Olivier Dacourt, French professional footballer
• 1974 – Joel Prpic, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1974 – Javier Rosas Sierra, Mexican athlete
• 1974 – Kemel Thompson, Jamaican athlete
• 1975 – Matt Hasselbeck, American football player
• 1975 – Maya Sansa, Italian actress
• 1975 – Dat Nguyen, American football player
• 1975 – Daniel Hyde, British actor
• 1975 – Declan Donnelly, British actor, television presenter and musician
• 1976 – Chauncey Billups, American basketball player
• 1976 – Charlotte Ayanna, American actress
• 1976 – Santigold, American singer
• 1976 – Chiara Siracusa, Maltese singer
• 1977 – Clea DuVall, American actress
• 1977 – Mike Krahulik, Illustrator
• 1977 – Joel Moore, American actor
• 1977 – Wil Nieves, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1977 – Kiyoshi Ijichi, Japanese drummer (Asian Kung-Fu Generation)
• 1978 – Roudolphe Douala, Cameroonian footballer
• 1978 – Ricardo Gardner, Jamaican footballer
• 1978 – Rossif Sutherland, Canadian actor
• 1978 – Jodie Kidd, English model
• 1978 – Joe Cotton, Canadian pop singer
• 1978 – Ryan Leslie, American music producer and singer
• 1978 – Joel Pineiro, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1979 – Rashad Evans, American mixed martial artist
• 1979 – Jason Koumas, Welsh footballer
• 1979 – Jean-René Lisnard, French tennis player
• 1980 – T.I., American rapper
• 1980 – Chris Owen, American actor
• 1981 – Rocco Baldelli, American baseball player
• 1981 – Jason Bergmann, American baseball player
• 1981 – Van Hansis, American actor
• 1981 – Sarah Jayne Dunn, English actress
• 1981 – Shane Tutmarc, American songwriter and musician
• 1982 – Kany García, Puerto Rican singer-songwritter
• 1982 – Hyun Bin, South Korean actor
• 1983 – Terrance Pennington, American football player
• 1983 – Donald Glover, American actor and comedian
• 1983 – Amber Gristak, American actress
• 1984 – Rashad McCants, American basketball player
• 1984 – Esther Baxter, American model
• 1984 – Annabelle Wallace, English actress
• 1985 – Calvin Johnson, American football player
• 1986 – Marten Strauch, German rugby player
• 1989 – Jordan Gavaris, Canadian actor
• 1990 – Mao Asada, Japanese figure skater
• 1990 – Zac Fox, English actor
• 1992 – Keauna McLaughlin, American figure skater
• 1993 – Megan Corletto, American actress
• 1994 – Jansen Panettiere, American actor

Deaths

• 303 – Saint Fermin of Pamplona, Roman Catholic Bishop, Martyr, and Saint
• 1066 – Killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge:

• Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria
• Harald III of Norway (b. 1015)

• 1086 – William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1025)
• 1333 – Prince Morikuni, Japanese shogun (b. 1301)
• 1396 – Killed at the Battle of Nicopolis:

• Jean de Vienne, Admiral of France (b. 1341)
• Jean de Carrouges (b. circa 1330)

• 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 theologian (b. 1548)
• 1617 – Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan (b. 1572)
• 1626 – Lancelot Andrewes, English scholar and Bishop of the Church of England (b. 1555)
• 1630 – Ambrogio Spinola, marqués de los Balbases, Italian 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)
• 1901 – Arthur Fremantle, British general and American Civil War observer (b. 1835)
• 1905 – Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (b. 1853)
• 1917 – Thomas Ashe, Irish revolutionary (b. 1885)
• 1918 – Mikhail Alekseev, Russian general (b. 1857)
• 1926 – Herbert Booth, 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)
• 1958 – John B. Watson, American psychologist (b. 1878)
• 1960 – Emily Post, American etiquette expert (b. 1873)
• 1961 – Frank Fay American actor (b. 1897)
• 1968 – Hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist (b. 1891)
• 1970 – Erich Maria Remarque, German author (b. 1898)
• 1971 – Hugo Lafayette Black, American jurist (b. 1886)
• 1979 – Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish athlete and actor (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, Canadian politician (b. 1909)
• 1986 – Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist (b. 1909)
• 1986 – Darshan Singh Canadian, Indian communist leader (b. 1917)
• 1987 – Mary Astor, 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 – Dave Bowen, Welsh football manager (b. 1928)
• 1995 – Bessie Delany, American physician and author (b. 1891)
• 1996 – Nicu Ceauşescu, Romanian politician (b. 1951)
• 1997 – Jean Françaix, French composer (b. 1912)
• 1997 – Hélène Baillargeon, Quebec singer and folklorist (b. 1916)
• 1999 – Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (b. 1930)
• 2000 – R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (b. 1913)
• 2003 – Aquila al-Hashimi, Iraqi politician (b. 1953)
• 2003 – Herb Gardner, American playwright (b. 1934)
• 2003 – Franco Modigliani, Italian 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 critic and linguist (b. 1912)
• 2005 – Urie Bronfenbrenner, American psychologist (b. 1917)
• 2005 – M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and writer (b. 1936)
• 2005 – Friedrich Peter, Austrian politician (b. 1921)
• 2006 – Jeff Cooper, American firearms expert (b. 1920)
• 2006 – John M. Ford, American author and poet (b. 1957)
• 2007 – Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian negotiator (b. 1919)
• 2009 – Alicia de Larrocha, Catalan pianist (b. 1923)

Holidays and observances

• Armed Forces Day (Mozambique)
• Christian Feast Day
  • Abadir and Iraja and companions (Coptic Church)
  • Finbarr
  • Sergius of Radonezh (repose)
  • September 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada