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.
• 1066 - Battle of Stamford Bridge, marking the end of the Viking era.
• 1513 - Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa reached the Pacific Ocean
• 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.
• 1789 - The Bill of Rights passes the United States Congress
• 1890 - Yosemite National Park established in California.
• 1957 - Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas is integrated through the use of United States Army troops
• 1978 - A Boeing 727 owned by PSA collides with a small private airplane and crashes in San Diego, California resulting in the death of 147.
• 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.

Births

• 1683 - Jean-Philippe Rameau[?], composer (+ 1764)
• 1866 - Thomas Morgan, geneticist
• 1725 - Nicolas Joseph Cugnot[?], automobile pioneer
• 1897 - William Faulkner, novelist (+ 1962)
• 1903 - Mark Rothko, painter (+ 1970)
• 1906 - Dmitri Shostakovich, composer (+ 1975)
• 1918 - Phil Rizzuto[?], baseball announcer
• 1920 - Sergei Bondarchuk, actor (+ 1994)
• 1926 - Aldo Ray[?], actor (+ 1991)
• 1930 - Shel Silverstein, humorist, author (+ 1999)
• 1918 - Phil Rizzuto[?], baseball player
• 1931 - Barbara Walters[?], broadcaster
• 1932 - Glenn Gould, pianist, composer (+ 1982)
• 1936 - Juliet Prowse[?], actress, dancer (+ 1996)
• 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
• 1952 - Christopher Reeve, actor
• 1958 - Michael Madsen[?], actor
• 1961 - Heather Locklear, actress, model
• 1965 - Scottie Pippen[?], basketball star
• 1968 - Will Smith, actor, rapper
• 1969 - Catherine Zeta-Jones, actress
• 1970 - Dean Ween[?], musician ("Ween")
• 1971 - Hal Sparks[?], actor

Deaths

• 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
• 2001 - Lani O'Grady[?], actress

Holidays

See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December - more historical anniversaries