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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 .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 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 1789 - The Bill of Rights passes the U.S. 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 .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 troops1962 - 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 38.2003 - Magnitude 8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore of Japan .
Births 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 pioneer1862 - Billy Hughes , seventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952 )1866 - Thomas Morgan , geneticist (d. 1945 )1897 - William Faulkner , novelist (d. 1962 )1903 - Mark Rothko , painter (d. 1970 )1906 - Dmitri Shostakovich , composer (d. 1975 )1917 - Johnny Sain , baseball pitcher1918 - Phil Rizzuto , baseball announcer1920 - 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 conductor1930 - Shel Silverstein , humorist, author (d. 1999 )1931 - Barbara Walters , broadcaster1932 - Glenn Gould , pianist, composer (d. 1982 )1933 - Hubie Brown , basketball coach, television analyst1936 - 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, producer1947 - Cheryl Tiegs , model1951 - Mark Hamill , actor1952 - Christopher Reeve , actor (d. 2004 )1958 - Michael Madsen , actor1961 - Heather Locklear, actress, model1962 - Aida Turturro , actress1965 - Scottie Pippen , basketball star1968 - Will Smith , actor, rapper1969 - Hansie Cronje , South African cricketer 1969 - Catherine Zeta-Jones , actress 1970 - Dean Ween , musician ("Ween ")1971 - John Lynch , American football player1971 - Hal Sparks , actor 1975 - Declan Donnelly , English television presenter1975 - Matt Hasselbeck , American football quarterback 1976 - Chauncey Billups , basketball player
Deaths 1066 - Harald III of Norway , at the Battle of Stamford Bridge1086 - William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine 1333 - Prince Morikuni , 9th Kamakura shogun of Japan (b. 1301 )1506 - Philip I of Castile 1534 - Pope Clement VII 1825 - Joachim Heer , Swiss politician († 1879 )1849 - Johann Strauss I , Austrian composer 1867 - Oliver Loving , Texas pioneer, rancher1970 - Erich Maria Remarque , author1979 - Tapio Rautavaara , athlete, actor, singer1980 - John Bonham , drummer (Led Zeppelin )1980 - Lewis Milestone , film director 1983 - King Leopold III of Belgium 1984 - Walter Pidgeon , actor1987 - Mary Astor , actress1987 - Emlyn Williams , actor 1996 - Nicu Ceausescu , Romanian politician, son of Nicolae Ceausescu 1999 - Marion Zimmer Bradley , science fiction author2000 - R. S. Thomas , Welsh poet (b. 1913 )2003 - Aquila al-Hashimi, Iraqi politician, member of the Governing Council2003 - Franco Modigliani , economist 2003 - George Plimpton , American Renaissance man 2003 - Edward Said , professor at the New York Columbia University , proponent of Palestinian rights
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