September 25......

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

EVENTS

● 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.

● 1493 - Christopher Columbus set sail from Cadiz, Spain, with a flotilla of 17 ships on his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere.

● 1513 - Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama to reach 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.

● 1775 - American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen was captured by the British as he led an attack on Montreal.

● 1789 - The first United States Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification. (The first ten of the amendments became the Bill of Rights.)

● 1789 - The Congressional Apportionment Amendment to the United States Constitution is proposed at the U.S. Congress.

● 1804 - The Teton Sioux (a subdivison 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.

● 1890 - Yosemite National Park established in California.

● 1890 - Mormon president Wilford Woodruff issued a manifesto formally renouncing the practice of polygamy.

● 1911 - Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.

● 1912 - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York, New York.

● 1919 - President Woodrow Wilson collapsed after a speech in Pueblo, Colo., during a tour in support of the Treaty of Versailles.

● 1929 - Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full Instrument Flying from take off to landing is possible.

● 1950 - Seoul in UN hands; United Nations forces have taken control of the South Korean capital Seoul, three months after it fell to North Korea, the US Army announces.

● 1955 - The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.

● 1957 - With 300 United States Army troops standing guard, nine black children were escorted to Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas; days after unruly white crowds had forced them to withdraw. (New York Times article) -- Troops end Little Rock school crisis; More than 1,000 paratroopers in full battle dress escort nine black children to high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. (BBC article)

● 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.

● 1970 - The Partridge Family debuts on ABC-TV and would run for four years.

● 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

● 1977 - 15,000 attend Steve Biko's funeral in South Africa

● 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.

● 1983 - Dozens escape in Maze break-out; Thirty-eight prisoners escape from a high-security jail in Northern Ireland killing one guard in the process.

● 1988 - Monty Python member Michael Palin sets out from London's Reform Club to start his BBC documentary Around the World in 80 Days.

● 1988 - Oh My Goddess! (ああっ女神さまっ, Aa! Megami-sama!) is first published

● 1996 - The last of the Magdalen Asylums closes in Ireland.

● 1996 - Taleban gains threaten Kabul; Opposition fighters in Afghanistan reach the eastern suburbs of Kabul and are poised to take control of the country's capital.

● 2001 - Saudi Arabia cut its relations with Afghanistan's ruling Taliban.

● 2001 - Michael Jordan announced he was returning to basketball with the NBA's Washington Wizards.

● 2002 - The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia, Russia.

● 2003 - A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore of Hokkaido, Japan.

● 2003 - France reported a staggering death toll of 14,802 from the summer heat wave.

● 2003 - Hutton Inquiry hears final arguments; On the final day of the Hutton Inquiry, the court hears closing statements bitterly criticising the Ministry of Defence and the BBC.

● 2005 - Spanish Formula One racing driver Fernando Alonso becomes the youngest FIA Formula One World Champion.

BIRTHS

● 1358 - Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1408)

● 1525 - Steven Borough, English explorer (d. 1584)

● 1599 - Francesco Borromini, Italian Baroque architect (d. 1667)

● 1613 - Claude Perrault, French physician, architect and engineer (d. 1688)

● 1644 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (d. 1710)

● 1683 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (d. 1764)

● 1694 - Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of Great Britain (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)

● 1839 - Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist (d. 1904)

● 1843 - Melville Bissell, American inventor of the carpet sweeper (d. 1889)

● 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)

● 1881 - Lu Xun, Chinese writer (d. 1936)

● 1896 - Sandro Pertini, President of the Italian Republic (d. 1990)

● 1897 - William Faulkner, American Nobel Prize-winning author of the American South born in New Albany, Miss. (d. 1962)

● 1898 - Robert Brackman American artist (d. 1980)

● 1901 - Robert Bresson, French film director (d. 1999)

● 1903 - Mark Rothko, Latvian-born American Abstract Expressionist painter (d. 1970)

● 1904 - Columbus Iselin, American oceanographer (d. 1971)

● 1905 - Red Smith, American syndicated sports columnist (d. 1982)

● 1906 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d. 1975)

● 1909 - John V. Dodge, American publishing executive of the Encyclopedia Britannica (d. 1991)

● 1916(17NYT?) - Phil Rizzuto, baseball player, announcer and Hall Of Fame member

● 1917 - Johnny Sain, 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

● 1933 - Ian Tyson, Country singer

● 1936 - Juliet Prowse, British actress and dancer (d. 1996)

● 1938 - Jonathan Motzfeldt, first Prime Minister of Greenland

● 1939 - Joe Russell, R&B singer (The Persuasions)

● 1943 - Robert Gates, American; Former director of the Central Intelligence Agency

● 1943 - Robert Walden, Actor

● 1944 - Michael Douglas, American actor and producer

● 1944 - Doris Matsui, U.S. Congresswoman from California

● 1945 - Carol Vadnais, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1946 - Felicity Kendal, British actress

● 1947 - Cheryl Tiegs, American model

● 1947 - Russ Abbott, British actor and singer

● 1949 - Mimi Kennedy, Actress

● 1951 - Mark Hamill, American actor (''Star Wars'')

● 1951 - Bob McAdoo, American basketball player and Hall of Fame member

● 1952 - Christopher Reeve, American actor and activist (d. 2004)

● 1952(49NYT?) - Anson Williams, American director and actor (''Happy Days'')

● 1952 - Colin Friels, Actor

● 1958(59NYT?) - Michael Madsen, American actor

● 1960 - Igor Belanov, Ukrainian footballer

● 1960 - Sonia Benezra, Canadian television host

● 1961 - Heather Locklear, American actress and model (''Melrose Place,'' ''Spin City'')

● 1962 - Aida Turturro, American actress (''The Sopranos'')

● 1963 - Tate Donovan, Actor

● 1964 - Kikuko Inoue, Japanese singer and voice actresses (seiyū)

● 1964 - Joey Saputo, Canadian businessman (Saputo) and sports executive (Montreal Impact)

● 1965 - Scottie Pippen, American basketball player

● 1966 - Jason Flemyng, Actor

● 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

● 1969 - Hal Sparks, Actor (''Queer as Folk'')

● 1970 - Dean Ween, American musician (Ween)

● 1971 - John Lynch, American football player

● 1971 - Hal Sparks, American actor

● 1973 - Tijani Babangida, Nigerian footballer

● 1973 - Bridgette Wilson, Actress

● 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

● 1978 - Roudolphe Douala, Cameroonian footballer

● 1980 - T.I., rapper

● 1980 - Chris Owen, Actor

● 1981 - Rocco Baldelli, Baseball player

● 1981 - Jason Bergmann, baseball pitcher

● 1981 - Lee Norris, Actor

● 1981 - Emmy Clarke, American actress

DEATHS

● 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)

● 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 (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)

● 1867 - Evgenii Miller, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1938)

● 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, 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 first husband of Barbara Stanwyck (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)

● 1987 - Mary Astor, American actress (b. 1906)

● 1987 - Emlyn Williams, Welsh actor (b. 1905)

● 1991 - Klaus Barbie, Nazi war criminal

● 1991 - Viviane Romance, French actress (b. 1912)

● 1995 - Bessie Delany, African-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 author, journalist, editor 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)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● 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


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

The BBC Take on the day

On this day in the New York Times