September 25
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September 25 is the 268th day of the year (269th in leap years). There are 97 days remaining.
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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)
- 1922 - Hammer DeRoburt, first president of Nauru († 1992)
- 1926 - Aldo Ray, actor († 1991)
- 1930 - Shel Silverstein, humorist, author († 1999)
- 1931 - Barbara Walters, broadcaster
- 1932 - Glenn Gould, pianist, composer († 1982)
- 1936 - Juliet Prowse, actress, dancer († 1996)
- 1938 - Jonathan Motzfeldt, first Prime Minister of Greenland
- 1944 - Michael Douglas, actor, producer
- 1947 - Cheryl Tiegs, model
- 1951 - [[Pedro Almod�var]], film director, writer, producer, actor
- 1952 - Christopher Reeve, actor
- 1952 - Mark Hamill, 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
September 24 � September 26 � August 25 � October 25 � more historical anniversaries
See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December - more historical anniversaries
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "September 25" http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_25 September 25, 2003
