September 25Birthdays & History

On this day: September 25 in history

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1. 275For the last time, the Roman Senate chooses an emperor; Marcus Claudius Tacitus is elected.Europe
2. 762Led by Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya, the Hasanid branch of the Alids begins the Alid Revolt against the Abbasid Caliphate.Middle East
3. 867Basil I is crowned Byzantine emperor in the Hagia Sophia after he murdered the previous emperor Michael III in the night before.Europe
4. 1066In the Battle of Stamford Bridge, Harald Hardrada, the invading King of Norway, is defeated by King Harold II of England.Europe
5. 1237England and Scotland sign the Treaty of York, establishing the location of their common border.Europe
6. 1396Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis.Middle East
7. 1513Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean.Europe
8. 1555The Peace of Augsburg is signed by Emperor Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League.Europe
9. 1643The House of Commons of England accepts the Solemn League and Covenant, which promises religious reforms in England and Ireland in exchange for support of Scottish troops against king Charles I in the First English Civil War.Europe
10. 1690Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.North America
11. 1768Unification of NepalAsia
12. 1775American Revolutionary War: Ethan Allen surrenders to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal in the Battle of Longue-Pointe during the invasion of Quebec.North AmericaEurope
13. 1775American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec sets off to join the American invasion.North America
14. 1786The mine of Huancavelica in the Peruvian Andes collapses, killing more than two hundred people. The event was a major setback for mercury production in the Spanish Empire.Latin AmericaEurope
15. 1789The 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.North America
16. 1790Four Great Anhui Troupes introduce Anhui opera to Beijing in honor of the Qianlong Emperor's eightieth birthday.Asia
17. 1804The 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.North America
18. 1868The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Nevsky is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia.Europe
19. 1890The United States Congress establishes Sequoia National Park.North America
20. 1906Leonardo Torres Quevedo demonstrates the Telekino in the Bilbao Abra (Spain), guiding an electric boat from the shore with people on board, which was controlled at a distance over 2 km (1.2 mi), in what is considered to be the origin of modern wireless remote-control operation principles.Europe
21. 1911An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.Europe
22. 1912Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.North America
23. 1915World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.Europe
24. 1918World War I: The end of the Battle of Megiddo, the climax of the British Army's Sinai and Palestine campaign under General Edmund Allenby.EuropeMiddle East
25. 1926The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.World
26. 1937Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan.AsiaAsia
27. 1944World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem via Oosterbeek.Europe
28. 1955The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.Middle East
29. 1956TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.North AmericaEurope
30. 1957Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.North America
31. 1959S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon, is mortally shot by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.Asia
32. 1962The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.Africa
33. 1962The North Yemen Civil War begins when Abdullah al-Sallal dethrones the newly crowned Imam al-Badr and declares Yemen a republic under his presidency.Middle East
34. 1963Lord Denning releases the UK government's official report on the Profumo affair.Europe
35. 1964The Mozambican War of Independence against Portugal begins.AfricaEurope
36. 1969The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is signed.Middle EastAfrica
37. 1974Dr. Frank Jobe performs first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (better known as Tommy John surgery) on baseball player Tommy John.North America
38. 1977About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon.North America
39. 1978PSA 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.North America
40. 1981Belize joins the United Nations.Latin America
41. 1983Thirty-eight IRA prisoners, armed with six handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze Prison.Europe
42. 1985Three civilians killed by alleged supporters of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Larnaca yacht killings.Middle East
43. 1987Fijian Governor-General Penaia Ganilau is overthrown in a coup d'état led by Lieutenant colonel Sitiveni Rabuka.Oceania
44. 1992NASA launches the Mars Observer. Eleven months later, the probe would fail while preparing for orbital insertion.North America
45. 1997NASA launches Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-86 to the Mir space station.North America
46. 1998PauknAir Flight 4101, a British Aerospace 146, crashes near Melilla Airport in Melilla, Spain, killing 38 people.Europe
47. 2003The 8.3 Mw Hokkaidō earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.Asia
48. 2018Bill Cosby is sentenced to three to ten years in prison for aggravated sexual assault.North America

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