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September 25

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

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays

Events

• 275 - M. Claudius Tacitus appointed Roman emperor by the senate.
• 1066 - Battle of Stamford Bridge, marking the end of the Viking era.
• 1513 - Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez 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. It was considered offensive and its publisher, Benjamin Harris, was ordered not to publish any more.
• 1780 - 'Overmountain Men' muster in East Tennessee in preparation for the march over the Appalachian Mountains to fight against the British in the American Revolutionary War at King's Mountain.
• 1789 - The Bill of Rights passes the United States Congress
• 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.
• 1957 - Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas is integrated through the use of United States Army troops
• 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.
• 1998 - A Pauknair BAE146 crashes into hillside in Morocco killing 38
• 2003 - Magnitude 8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore of Hokkaido, Japan.

Births

• 1644 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (d. 1710)
• 1683 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer (d. 1764)
• 1862 - Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952)
• 1866 - Thomas Morgan, geneticist (d. 1945)
• 1725 - Nicolas Joseph Cugnot, automobile pioneer
• 1897 - William Faulkner, novelist (d. 1962)
• 1903 - Mark Rothko, painter (d. 1970)
• 1906 - Dmitri Shostakovich, composer (d. 1975)
• 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)
• 1930 - Shel Silverstein, humorist, author (d. 1999)
• 1931 - Barbara Walters, broadcaster
• 1932 - Glenn Gould, pianist, composer (d. 1982)
• 1936 - Juliet Prowse, actress, dancer (d. 1996)
• 1938 - Jonathan Motzfeldt, first Prime Minister of Greenland
• 1944 - Michael Douglas, actor, producer
• 1947 - Cheryl Tiegs, model
• 1951 - Pedro Almodóvar, film director, writer, producer, actor
• 1952 - Christopher Reeve, actor
• 1952 - Mark Hamill, actor
• 1958 - Michael Madsen, actor
• 1961 - Heather Locklear, actress, model
• 1962 - Aida Turturro, actress
• 1965 - Scottie Pippen, basketball star
• 1968 - Will Smith, actor, rapper
• 1969 - Catherine Zeta-Jones, actress
• 1969 - Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer
• 1970 - Dean Ween, musician ("Ween")
• 1971 - Hal Sparks, actor

Deaths

• 1066 - Harald III of Norway, at the Battle of Stamford Bridge
• 1086 - William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine
• 1534 - Pope Clement VII
• 1849 - Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer
• 1867 - Oliver Loving, Texas pioneer, rancher
• 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
• 1999 - Marion Zimmer Bradley, science fiction author
• 2000 - R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (b. 1913)
• 2001 - Lani O'Grady, actress
• 2003 - Franco Modigliani, economist
• 2003 - Edward Said, professor at the New York Columbia University, proponent of Palestinian rights

Holidays

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