September 25
is the 268th day of the year (269th in
leap years). There are 97 days remaining.
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275 -
Marcus Claudius Tacitus is appointed
Roman emperor by the
Senate.
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303 - On a voyage preaching the
gospel,
Saint Fermin of
Pamplona is
beheaded in
Amiens,
France.
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1066 - The
Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking era.
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1396 -
Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at the
Battle of Nicopolis.
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1513 - Spanish explorer
Vasco Núñez de Balboa reached the
Pacific Ocean.
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1555 - The
Peace of Augsburg is signed in
Augsburg by
Charles V and the
princes of the
Schmalkaldic League.
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1690 -
"Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick", the first newspaper published in the Americas, published for the first and only time.
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1789 - The
Congressional Apportionment Amendment to the
United States Constitution is proposed at the
U.S. Congress.
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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.
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1846 -
U.S. forces led by
Zachary Taylor captured the
Mexican city of
Monterrey.
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1890 -
Yosemite National Park established in
California.
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1911 - Groundbreaking for
Fenway Park in
Boston, Massachusetts begins.
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1912 -
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in
New York, New York.
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1929 -
Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from
General Mitchell leading to the development of
Instrument Flying.
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1955 - The
Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
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1957 - Central High School in
Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated through the use of
United States Army troops.
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1959 -
Solomon Bandaranaike, prime minister of
Sri Lanka is assassinated by a Buddhist monk,
Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
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1962 - The
People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed.
Ferhat Abbas is elected
President of the provisional government.
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1970 -
The Partridge Family debuts on
ABC-TV and would run for four years.
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1972 - In the
Norwegian EC referendum, 1972, the people of Norway reject membership.
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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.
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1980 - The first congress of the
Democratic Youth Organization of Afghanistan held in
Kabul.
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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.
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1988 -
Monty Python member
Michael Palin sets out from
London's
Reform Club to start his
BBC documentary
Around the World in 80 Days.
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1996 - The last of the
Magdalen Asylums was closed in
Ireland.
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2002 - The
Vitim event, a possible
bolide impact in Siberia, Russia.
*
2003 - A
magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore of
Hokkaido,
Japan.
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2005 - The Hide (Matsumoto "Hide" Hideto) museum closed due to the lack of funds. (Japan).
* 2005 - Spanish
Formula One racing driver
*
Fernando Alonso becomes the youngest
FIA Formula One World Champion.
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1358 -
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (d.
1408)
*
1525 -
Steven Borough, English explorer (d.
1584)
*
1599 -
Francesco Borromini, Swiss sculptor (d.
1667)
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1644 -
Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (d.
1710)
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1683 -
Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (d.
1764)
*
1694 -
Henry Pelham,
Prime Minister of Great Britain (d.
1754)
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1711 -
Qianlong Emperor of China (d.
1799)
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1725 -
Nicolas Joseph Cugnot, French automobile pioneer (d.
1804)
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1738 -
Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and
President of Delaware (d.
1789)
*
1764 -
Fletcher Christian, English Bounty mutineer (d.
1793)
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1766 -
Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French-Russian statesman (d.
1822)
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1773 -
Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (d.
1856)
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1780 -
Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (d.
1801)
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1782 -
Charles Robert Maturin, Irish playwright and novelist (d.
1824)
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1796 -
Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (d.
1875)
*
1798 -
Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist (d.
1874)
*
1839 -
Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist (d.
1904)
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1862 -
Billy Hughes, seventh
Prime Minister of Australia (d.
1952)
*
1866 -
Thomas Morgan, American geneticist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1945)
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1881 -
Lu Xun, Chinese writer (d.
1936)
*
1896 -
Sandro Pertini,
President of the Italian Republic (d.
1990)
*
1897 -
William Faulkner, American writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1962)
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1898 -
Robert Brackman American artist (d.
1980)
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1903 -
Mark Rothko, Latvian-born painter (d.
1970)
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1906 -
Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d.
1975)
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1917 -
Johnny Sain, baseball player
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1918 -
Phil Rizzuto, baseball player and announcer
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1920 -
Sergei Bondarchuk, Ukrainian-born actor (d.
1994)
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1921 -
Sir Robert Muldoon,
Prime Minister of New Zealand (d.
1992)
*
1922 -
Hammer DeRoburt, first
President of Nauru (d.
1992)
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1926 -
Aldo Ray, American actor (d.
1991)
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1927 - Sir
Colin Davis, English conductor
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1929 -
Ronnie Barker, British comedian and actor (d.
2005)
* 1929 -
Barbara Walters, American broadcaster
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1930 -
Shel Silverstein, American humorist and author (d.
1999)
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1932 -
Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and composer (d.
1982)
* 1932 -
Adolfo Suárez,
Prime Minister of Spain*
1933 -
Hubie Brown, American basketball coach and broadcaster
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1936 -
Juliet Prowse, British actress and dancer (d.
1996)
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1938 -
Jonathan Motzfeldt, first
Prime Minister of Greenland*
1943 -
Robert Gates, American director of the Central Intelligence Agency
*
1944 -
Michael Douglas, American actor and producer
* 1944 -
Doris Matsui, U.S. Congresswoman from California
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1945 -
Carol Vadnais, Canadian ice hockey player
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1946 -
Felicity Kendal, British actress
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1947 -
Cheryl Tiegs, American model
* 1947 -
Russ Abbott, British actor and singer
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1951 -
Mark Hamill, American actor
*
1952 -
Christopher Reeve, American actor and activist (d.
2004)
* 1952 -
Anson Williams, American actor and director
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1958 -
Michael Madsen, American actor
*
1960 -
Igor Belanov, Ukrainian footballer
*
1961 -
Heather Locklear, American actress and model
*
1962 -
Aida Turturro, American actress
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1964 -
Kikuko Inoue, Japanese singer and voice actresses (
seiyū)
*
1965 -
Gregory Cowan, Australian
architectural educator*
1965 -
Scottie Pippen, American basketball player
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1968 -
Will Smith, American actor and rapper
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1969 -
Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer
* 1969 -
Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
* 1969 -
Heather Stewart-Whyte, British
supermodel*
1970 -
Dean Ween, American musician (
Ween)
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1971 -
John Lynch, American football player
* 1971 -
Hal Sparks, American actor
*
1973 -
Tijani Babangida, Nigerian footballer
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1975 -
Declan Donnelly, English television presenter
* 1975 -
Matt Hasselbeck, American football player
*
1976 -
Chauncey Billups, American basketball player
*
1978 -
Ricardo Gardner, Jamaican footballer
* 1978 -
Jodie Kidd, English model
*
1980 -
T.I., rapper
*
1981 -
Jason Bergmann, Baseball pitcher
*
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)
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1333 -
Prince Morikuni, Japanese shogun (b.
1301)
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1496 -
Piero Capponi, Italian soldier and statesman (b.
1447)
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1506 - King
Philip I of Castile (b.
1478)
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1534 -
Pope Clement VII (b.
1478)
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1536 -
Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet (b.
1511)
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1602 -
Caspar Peucer, German reformer (b.
1525)
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1617 -
Francisco Suarez, Spanish Jesuit, philosopher/theologian (b.
1548)
* 1617 -
Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan, (b.
1617)
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1626 -
Lancelot Andrewes, English scholar and Bishop of the Church of England (b.
1555)
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1630 -
Ambrosio Spinola, marqués de los Balbases, Spanish general (b.
1569)
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1665 -
Maria Anna of Austria (b.
1610)
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1703 -
Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish privy councillor (b.
1658)
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1774 -
John Bradstreet, Canadian-born soldier (b.
1714)
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1791 -
William Bradford, American printer (b.
1719)
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1792 -
Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (b.
1710)
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1794 -
Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (b.
1718)
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1825 -
Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (b.
1879)
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1849 -
Johann Strauss, Senior, Austrian composer (b.
1804)
*
1867 -
Oliver Loving, American pioneer rancher (b.
1812)
* 1867 -
Evgenii Miller, Russian counter-revolutionary (d.
1938)
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1905 -
Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (b.
1853)
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1918 -
Mikhail Alekseev, Russian general (b.
1857)
*
1926 -
Herbert Booth, the third son of
William and
Catherine Booth (b.
1862)
*
1929 -
Miller Huggins, baseball player and manager (b.
1879)
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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 first husband of
Barbara Stanwyck (b.
1897)
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1970 -
Erich Maria Remarque, German author (b.
1898)
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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)
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1983 - King
Léopold III of Belgium (b.
1901)
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1984 -
Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (b.
1897)
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1986 -
Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1896)
*
1987 -
Mary Astor, American actress (b.
1906)
* 1987 -
Emlyn Williams, Welsh actor (b.
1905)
*
1991 -
Klaus Barbie, Nazi war criminal
*
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)
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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)
*
2005 -
Don Adams, American actor and comedian (b.
1923)
* 2005 -
George Archer, American golfer (b.
1939)
* 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)
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R.C. Saints - Virgin of Fuencisla;
Saint Finbarr* Also see
September 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)*
Mozambique -
Armed Forces Day*
French Republican Calendar -
Colchique (Crocus) Day, fourth day in the
Month of Vendémiaire*
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