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This day in history: 25 September

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Key facts

449 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 25 September.
Entries come from Wikipedia’s day pages and are ordered by page views.
2018: Bill Cosby is sentenced to three to ten years in prison for aggravated sexual assault.

Holidays and observances

Armed Forces Day or Revolution Day (Mozambique)

Bangladeshi Immigration Day (United States)

Christian feast day: Abadir and Iraja and Companions (Coptic Church)

Christian feast day: Anathalon (Archdiocese of Milan)

Christian feast day: Aunarius (Aunacharius)

Christian feast day: Cadoc

Christian feast day: Ceolfrith

Christian feast day: Cleopas

Christian feast day: Euphrosyne of Alexandria

Christian feast day: Fermin of Amiens

Christian feast day: Finbarr

Christian feast day: Lancelot Andrewes (Church of England)

Events

2018Bill Cosby is sentenced to three to ten years in prison for aggravated sexual assault.

2003The 8.3 Mw Hokkaidō earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.

1998PauknAir Flight 4101, a British Aerospace 146, crashes near Melilla Airport in Melilla, Spain, killing 38 people.

1997NASA launches Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-86 to the Mir space station.

1992NASA launches the Mars Observer. Eleven months later, the probe would fail while preparing for orbital insertion.

1987Fijian Governor-General Penaia Ganilau is overthrown in a coup d'état led by Lieutenant colonel Sitiveni Rabuka.

1985Three civilians killed by alleged supporters of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Larnaca yacht killings.

1983Thirty-eight IRA prisoners, armed with six handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze Prison.

1981Belize joins the United Nations.

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.

1977About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon.

1974Dr. Frank Jobe performs first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (better known as Tommy John surgery) on baseball player Tommy John.

1969The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is signed.

1964The Mozambican War of Independence against Portugal begins.

1963Lord Denning releases the UK government's official report on the Profumo affair.

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.

1962The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.

1959S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon, is mortally shot by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.

1957Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.

1956TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.

1955The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.

1944World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem via Oosterbeek.

1937Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan.

1926The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.

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.

1915World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.

1912Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.

1911An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.

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 mod

1890The United States Congress establishes Sequoia National Park.

1868The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Nevsky is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia.

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.

1790Four Great Anhui Troupes introduce Anhui opera to Beijing in honor of the Qianlong Emperor's eightieth birthday.

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.

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.

1775American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec sets off to join the American invasion.

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.

1768Unification of Nepal

1690Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.

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.

Born on this day

2009Leah Jeffries, American actress

2003Bella Ramsey, English actor

2001Cade Cunningham, American basketball player

2000Lilas Ikuta, Japanese singer and songwriter

1997Antonia Gentry, American actress

1995Todd Hazelwood, Australian race car driver

1993Brandin Cooks, American football player

1993Toby Greene, Australian footballer

1992Keauna McLaughlin, American figure skater

1992Massimo Luongo, Australian footballer

1992Rosalía, Spanish singer-songwriter

1992Ruslan Zhiganshin, Russian ice dancer

1992Teddy Swims, American singer and songwriter

1992Zoël Amberg, Swiss race car driver

1991Calle Järnkrok, Swedish ice hockey player

1990Mao Asada, Japanese figure skater

1989Aldon Smith, American football player

1989Cuco Martina, Curaçaoan footballer

1989Jordan Gavaris, Canadian actor

1987Monica Niculescu, Romanian tennis player

1986Choi Yoon-young, South Korean actress

1986Heidi El Tabakh, Egyptian-Canadian tennis player

1986Jamie O'Hara, English footballer

1984Cherine Anderson, Jamaican singer-songwriter and actress

1984Ivory Latta, American basketball player

1984Matías Silvestre, Argentinian footballer

1984Matt Carle, American ice hockey player

1984Zach Woods, American actor and comedian

1983Donald Glover (also known as Childish Gambino), American actor, rapper, producer, and screenwriter

1982Hyun Bin, South Korean actor

1981Jason Bergmann, American baseball player

1981Lee Norris, American actor

1981Rocco Baldelli, American baseball player and manager

1980Chris Owen, American actor

1980T.I., American rapper, songwriter, producer, and actor

1979Jason Koumas, Welsh footballer

1979Kyle Bennett, American BMX rider (died 2012)

1979Rashad Evans, American mixed martial artist and wrestler

1978Jodie Kidd, English model and actress

1978Joe Cotton, Canadian-New Zealand singer

Died on this day

2023David McCallum, Scottish actor (born 1933)

2017Jan Tříska, Czech actor (born 1936)

2016Arnold Palmer, American golfer (born 1929)

2016José Fernández, Cuban-American baseball player (born 1992)

2016Nahid Hattar, Jordanian writer and political activist (born 1960)

2015Claudio Baggini, Italian Roman Catholic prelate (born 1936)

2015John Galvin, American general (born 1929)

2015Moti Kirschenbaum, Israeli journalist (born 1939)

2015Tom Kelley, American baseball player and manager (born 1944)

2014Dorothy Tyler-Odam, English high jumper (born 1920)

2014Sulejman Tihić, Bosnian lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1951)

2014Ulrick Chérubin, Haitian-Canadian educator and politician (born 1943)

2013Bennet Wong, Canadian psychiatrist and academic, co-founded Haven Institute (Gabriola Island, Canada) (born 1930)

2013Billy Mure, American guitarist and composer (born 1915)

2013Choi In-ho, South Korean author and screenwriter (born 1945)

2013José Montoya, American poet and academic (born 1932)

2013Pablo Verani, Italian-Argentinian lawyer and politician (born 1938)

2013Ron Fenton, English footballer, coach, and manager (born 1940)

2012Alonso Lujambio, Mexican academic and politician (born 1962)

2012Andy Williams, American singer (born 1927)

2012Billy Barnes, American composer and songwriter (born 1927)

2012Eric Ives, English historian and academic (born 1931)

2012John Bond, English footballer and manager (born 1932)

2011Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1940)

2009Alicia de Larrocha, Spanish pianist (born 1923)

2009Pierre Falardeau, Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1946)

2008Derog Gioura, Nauruan politician, 23rd President of Nauru (born 1932)

2007André Emmerich, German-American art dealer (born 1924)

2007Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian physician and politician (born 1919)

2006Jeff Cooper, American target shooter and author (born 1920)

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“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”

Marcus Aurelius

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