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.
- 1972 - Norwegian EC referendum, 1972 - the people of Norway reject membership
- 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, advocate for stem-cell research (d. 2004)
- 1952 - Anson Williams, American actor and director
- 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
- 1978 - Jodie Kidd, English model
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
External links
September 24 · September 26 · August 25 · October 25 · more historical anniversaries
See also: September 25, 1066, 1086, 1301, 1333
