September 25

Events

Pre-1600

* 275 – For the last time, the Roman Senate chooses an emperor; they elect 75-year-old Marcus Claudius Tacitus.
* 762 – Led by Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya, the Hasanid branch of the Alids begins the Alid Revolt against the Abbasid Caliphate.
* 1066 – In the Battle of Stamford Bridge, Harald Hardrada, the invading King of Norway, is defeated by King Harold II of England.
*1237 – England and Scotland sign the Treaty of York, establishing the location of their common border.
* 1396 – Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis.
*1513 – Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean.
*1555 – The Peace of Augsburg is signed by Emperor Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League.

1601–1900

*1690 – '' Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick'', the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.
* 1768 – Unification of Nepal
* 1775 – American Revolution: Ethan Allen surrenders to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal during the Battle of Longue-Pointe.
* 1775 – American Revolution: Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec sets off.
* 1789 – The United States Congress passes twelve constitutional amendments: the ten known as the Bill of Rights, the (unratified) Congressional Apportionment Amendment, and the Congressional Compensation Amendment.
*1790 – Four Great Anhui Troupes introduce Anhui opera to Beijing in honor of the Qianlong Emperor's eightieth birthday.
*1804 – The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for allowing the expedition to move further upriver.
* 1868 – The Imperial Russian steam frigate ''Alexander Nevsky'' is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia.
* 1890 – The United States Congress establishes Sequoia National Park.

1901–present

* 1906 – Leonardo Torres y Quevedo demonstrates the ''Telekino'', guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered to be the first use of a remote control.
* 1911 – An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship ''Liberté'' detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.
* 1912 – Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
* 1915 – World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
*1918 – World War I: The end of the Battle of Megiddo, the climax of the British Army's Sinai and Palestine campaign under General Edmund Allenby.
* 1926 – The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
* 1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan.
* 1944 – World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem via Oosterbeek.
* 1955 – The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
* 1956 – TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.
*1957 – Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
* 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.
* 1962 – The North Yemen Civil War begins when Abdullah al-Sallal dethrones the newly crowned Imam al-Badr and declares Yemen a republic under his presidency.
*1963 – Lord Denning releases the UK government's official report on the Profumo affair.
* 1964 – The Mozambican War of Independence against Portugal begins.
* 1969 – The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is signed.
* 1974 – Dr. Frank Jobe performs first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (better known as Tommy John surgery) on baseball player Tommy John.
*1977 – About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon.
* 1978 – PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, killing all 135 aboard Flight 182, both occupants of the Cessna, as well as seven people on the ground.
*1981 – Belize joins the United Nations.
* 1983 – Thirty-eight IRA prisoners, armed with six handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze Prison.
* 1992 – NASA launches the '' Mars Observer''. Eleven months later, the probe would fail while preparing for orbital insertion.
*1998 – PauknAir Flight 4101, a British Aerospace 146, crashes near Melilla Airport in Melilla, Spain, killing 38 people.
*2003 – The 8.3 Hokkaidō earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.
* 2018 – Bill Cosby is sentenced to three to ten years in prison for aggravated sexual assault.

Births

Pre-1600

* 1358 – Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shōgun (d. 1408)
*1403 – Louis III of Anjou (d. 1434)
* 1525 – Steven Borough, English explorer and navigator (d. 1584)
*1528 – Otto II, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg (d. 1603)
*1529 – Günther XLI, Count of Schwarzburg-Arnstadt (d. 1583)
*1599 – Francesco Borromini, Swiss-Italian architect, designed the San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane and Sant'Agnese in Agone (d. 1667)

1601–1900

*1636 – Ferdinand Joseph, Prince of Dietrichstein, German prince (d. 1698)
*1644 – Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer and instrument maker (d. 1710)
*1663 – Johann Nikolaus Hanff, German organist and composer (d. 1711)
* 1683 – Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer and theorist (d. 1764)
*1694 – Henry Pelham, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1754)
*1711 – Qianlong Emperor of China (d. 1799)
*1738 – Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and politician, 7th Governor of Delaware (d. 1789)
* 1741 – Wenzel Pichl, Czech violinist, composer, and director (d. 1805)
*1744 – Frederick William II of Prussia (d. 1797)
* 1758 – Josepha Barbara Auernhammer, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1820)
* 1761 – William Mullins, 2nd Baron Ventry, Anglo-Irish politician and peer (d. 1827)
* 1764 – Fletcher Christian, English sailor (d. 1793)
* 1766 – Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of France (d. 1822)
*1771 – Nikolay Raevsky, Russian general and politician (d. 1829)
*1773 – Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist and author (d. 1856)
* 1782 – Charles Maturin, Irish author and playwright (d. 1824)
* 1798 – Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist and engineer (d. 1874)
* 1816 – Georg August Rudolph, German lawyer and politician, 3rd Mayor of Marburg (d. 1893)
* 1825 – William Pitt Ballinger, American lawyer and politician (d. 1888)
* 1825 – Joachim Heer, Swiss lawyer and politician, President of the National Council (d. 1879)
* 1839 – Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist and geologist (d. 1904)
* 1862 – Léon Boëllmann, French organist and composer (d. 1897)
* 1862 – Billy Hughes, English-Australian carpenter and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952)
* 1865 – Henri Lebasque, French artist (d. 1937)
* 1866 – Thomas Hunt Morgan, American biologist, geneticist, and embryologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1945)
*1867 – Yevgeny Miller, Russian general (d. 1938)
*1877 – Plutarco Elías Calles, Mexican general and President (d. 1945)
*1879 – Lope K. Santos, Filipino lawyer and politician, 4th Governor of Rizal (d. 1963)
*1881 – Lu Xun, Chinese author and critic (d. 1936)
* 1884 – Adolf Bolm, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 1951)
*1888 – Hanna Ralph, German actress (d. 1978)
* 1889 – Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff, Scottish author and translator (d. 1930)
* 1893 – Harald Cramér, Swedish mathematician and statistician (d. 1985)
* 1896 – Sandro Pertini, Italian journalist and politician, 7th President of Italy (d. 1990)
*1897 – William Faulkner, American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
* 1898 – Robert Brackman, Ukrainian-American painter and educator (d. 1980)
*1899 – Udumalai Narayana Kavi, Indian poet and songwriter (d. 1981)
*1900 – Artur Sirk, Estonian soldier, lawyer, and politician (d. 1937)

1901–present

* 1901 – Robert Bresson, French director and screenwriter (d. 1999)
* 1901 – Gordon Coventry, Australian footballer (d. 1968)
*1903 – Mark Rothko, Latvian-American painter and educator (d. 1970)
* 1906 – Volfgangs Dārziņš, Latvian composer, pianist, and music critic (d. 1962)
* 1906 – Phyllis Pearsall, English painter, cartographer, and author (d. 1996)
* 1906 – Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1975)
*1908 – Jacqueline Audry, French director and screenwriter (d. 1977)
*1910 – Ralph Jordan, American football player and coach (d. 1980)
* 1911 – Eric Williams, Trinidadian historian and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 1981)
* 1914 – John Manners, English naval officer and cricketer (d. 2020)
* 1916 – Jessica Anderson, Australian author and playwright (d. 2010)
* 1916 – Deendayal Upadhyaya, Indian economist, sociologist, and journalist (d. 1968)
* 1917 – Phil Rizzuto, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2007)
* 1920 – Sergei Bondarchuk, Ukrainian-Russian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1994)
* 1920 – Satish Dhawan, Indian engineer (d. 2002)
* 1921 – Rob Muldoon, New Zealand sergeant, accountant, and politician, 31st Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1992)
* 1922 – Hammer DeRoburt, Nauruian educator and politician, 1st President of Nauru (d. 1992)
*1923 – Robert Laxalt, American author and academic (d. 2001)
* 1923 – Sam Rivers, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (d. 2011)
* 1924 – Norman Ayrton, English actor and director (d. 2017)
* 1924 – Red Webb, American baseball player (d. 1996)
* 1925 – Silvana Pampanini, Italian model, actress, and director, Miss Italy 1946 (d. 2016)
* 1926 – Jack Hyles, American pastor and author (d. 2001)
* 1926 – Aldo Ray, American actor (d. 1991)
*1927 – Carl Braun, American basketball player and coach (d. 2010)
* 1927 – Colin Davis, English conductor and educator (d. 2013)
* 1929 – Ronnie Barker, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2005)
* 1929 – Delia Scala, Italian ballerina and actress (d. 2004)
* 1929 – Barbara Walters, American journalist, producer, and author
*1930 – Nino Cerruti, Italian fashion designer, founded Cerruti (d. 2022)
* 1930 – Shel Silverstein, American author, poet, illustrator, and songwriter (d. 1999)
*1931 – Manouchehr Atashi, Iranian journalist and poet (d. 2005)
* 1931 – Bryan John Birch, English mathematician and scholar
* 1932 – Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and composer (d. 1982)
* 1932 – Terry Medwin, Welsh footballer and manager
* 1932 – Adolfo Suárez, Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Spain (d. 2014)
* 1933 – Hubie Brown, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
* 1933 – Ian Tyson, Canadian folk singer-songwriter and musician
* 1936 – Ken Forsse, American toy creator and author, created Teddy Ruxpin (d. 2014)
* 1936 – Juliet Prowse, South African-American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1996)
* 1936 – Moussa Traoré, Malian general and politician 2nd President of Mali (d. 2020)
* 1937 – Mary Allen Wilkes, American computer scientist and lawyer
* 1938 – Ron Hill, English runner and businessman (d. 2021)
* 1938 – Jonathan Motzfeldt, Greenlandic priest and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Greenland

HOME


Content is Copyleft
Website design, code, and AI is Copyrighted (c) 2014-2017 by Stephen Payne


Consider donating to Wikimedia



As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases