September 25 September 25 is the 268th day of the year (269th in leap years). There are 97 days remaining. Events 1200-1899 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 United States 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. 1900-1999 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. 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. 2000-2099 2003 - Magnitude 8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore of Hokkaido, Japan. Births 1300-1899 1358 - Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Ashikaga shogun (b. 1408) 1644 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (d. 1710) 1683 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, 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, novelist (d. 1962) 1900-1999 1903 - Mark Rothko, painter (d. 1970) 1906 - Dmitri Shostakovich, composer (d. 1975) 1917 - Johnny Sain, baseball pitcher 1918 - Phil Rizzuto, baseball 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, humorist, author (d. 1999) 1931 - Barbara Walters, broadcaster 1932 - Glenn Gould, pianist, composer (d. 1982) 1933 - Hubie Brown, basketball coach, television analyst 1936 - Juliet Prowse, actress, dancer (d. 1996) 1938 - Jonathan Motzfeldt, first Prime Minister of Greenland 1943 - Robert Gates, fifteenth Director of Central Intelligence 1944 - Michael Douglas, actor, producer 1947 - Cheryl Tiegs, model 1951 - Mark Hamill, actor 1952 - Christopher Reeve, actor (d. 2004) 1958 - Michael Madsen, actor 1961 - Heather Locklear, actress, model 1962 - Aida Turturro, actress 1965 - Scottie Pippen, basketball star 1968 - Will Smith, actor, rapper 1969 - Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer 1969 - Catherine Zeta-Jones, actress 1970 - Dean Ween, musician ("Ween") 1971 - Hal Sparks, actor 1975 - Declan Donnelly, English television presenter 1976 - Chauncey Billups, basketball player Deaths 1000-1899 1066 - Harald III of Norway, at the Battle of Stamford Bridge 1086 - William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine 1333 - Prince Morikuni, 9th Kamakura shogun of Japan (b. 1301) 1534 - Pope Clement VII 1825 - Joachim Heer, Swiss politician († 1879) 1849 - Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer 1867 - Oliver Loving, Texas pioneer, rancher 1900-1999 1970 - Erich Maria Remarque, author 1979 - Tapio Rautavaara, athlete, actor, singer 1980 - John Bonham, drummer (Led Zeppelin) 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, son of Nicolae Ceausescu 1999 - Marion Zimmer Bradley, science fiction author 2000-2099 2000 - R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (b. 1913) 2003 - Aquila al-Hashimi, Iraqi politician, member of the Governing Council 2003 - Franco Modigliani, economist 2003 - George Plimpton, American Renaissance man 2003 - Edward Said, professor at the New York Columbia University, proponent of Palestinian rights Holidays Most Popular Articles: Music    Musical Instruments    Guitar    Classical Music    History    Music Definition    Country Music    Rock Music    Pop Music    Hip Hop    Rap    DJ    Video Games    Casino Games    Poker    Blackjack    Casinos    Real Estate    Loan    Auction    eBay    Marketing    Search Engine Optimization    File Sharing    MP3    Music Industry    Kazaa    Internet    Supermodel    Fashion    Fashion Designers    Erotica    Modeling    Clothing    Boots    Shoes    Diamond Engagement Rings    Diamond    Rugs    Gospel Music    Affiliate    E-Commerce    Radio This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html You may copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license. 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