On this day in History - Sep 25

• 0275 - M. Claudius Tacitus is appointed Roman emperor by the senate.
• 0303 - On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France.
• 0813 - Al-Amin, Arabic Caliph of Islam (809-813), was murdered.
• 1066 - The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking era.
• 1066 - Harald III Hardrada dies (killed in battle) (b. 1015). King of Norway and England (1047-66),
• 1066 - Tostig Godwinson dies killed in battle of Stamford Bridge. Earl of Northumbria.
• 1086 - William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine dies (b. 1025)
• 1333 - Prince Morikuni dies (b. 1301). Japanese shogun.
• 1358 - Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was born (d. 1408). Japanese shogun.
• 1396 - Ottoman Emperor Beyazid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis
• 1493 - Christopher Columbus set sail from Cadiz, Spain, with a flotilla of 17 ships on his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere
• 1496 - Piero Capponi was born (d. 1447). Italian soldier and statesman.
• 1506 - King Philip I of Castile dies (b. 1478)
• 1513 - Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama and claimed the Pacific Ocean for Spain. He was named governor of Panama and the Pacific by King Ferdinand
• 1525 - Steven Borough was born (d. 1584). English explorer
• 1534 - Pope Clement VII dies (b. 1478)
• 1536 - Johannes Secundus dies (b. 1511). Dutch poet.
• 1555 - The Peace of Augsburg is signed in Augsburg by Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League.
• 1599 - Francesco Borromini was born (d. 1667). Swiss sculptor.
• 1602 - Caspar Peucer dies (b. 1515). German reformer.
• 1617 - Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan dies (b. 1617)
• 1617 - Francisco Suarez dies (b. 1548). Spanish Jesuit, philosopher/theologian.
• 1626 - Lancelot Andrewes dies (b. 1555). English scholar.
• 1630 - Ambrosio Spinola, marqués de los Balbases dies (b. 1569). Spanish general.
• 1644 - Ole Rømer was born (d. 1710). Danish astronomer.
• 1665 - Maria Anna of Austria dies (b. 1610)
• 1680 - Samuel Butler dies (b. 1613). English poet and satirist.
• 1683 - Jean-Philippe Rameau was born (b. 1764). French composer (Treatise of Harmony, Hippolyte and Aricie, Castor and Pollux, Zoroastre, Les Indes Galants).
• 1690 - "Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick", the first newspaper published in the Americas, published for the first and only time.
• 1694 - Henry Pelham was born (d. 1754). Prime Minister of Great Britain.
• 1698 - D. Diogo de Faro e Sousa dies. Portuguese noble.
• 1703 - Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll dies (b. 1658). Scottish privy councillor.
• 1711 - Qianlong Emperor of China was born (d. 1799)
• 1725 - Nicolas Joseph Cugnot was born († 1804). French automobile pioneer.
• 1738 - Nicholas Van Dyke was born (d. 1789). American lawyer and President of Delaware.
• 1764 - Fletcher Christian was born (d. 1793). English Bounty mutineer.
• 1766 - Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu was born (d. 1822). French-Russian statesman.
• 1773 - Agostino Bassi was born (d. 1856). Italian entomologist.
• 1777 - Johann Heinrich Lambert dies (b. 1728). French-German mathematicien.
• 1780 - Jason Fairbanks was born (d. 1801). American murderer.
• 1782 - Charles Robert Maturin was born (d. 1824). Irish playwright and novelist.
• 1789 - The Congressional Apportionment Amendment to the United States Constitution is proposed at the U.S. Congress.
• 1791 - William Bradford dies (b. 1719). American printer.
• 1792 - Adam Gottlob Moltke dies (b. 1710). Danish statesman.
• 1794 - Paul Rabaut dies (b. 1718). French Huguenot pastor.
• 1796 - Antoine-Louis Barye was born (d. 1875). French sculptor.
• 1798 - Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont was born (d. 1874). French geologist.
• 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.
• 1825 - Joachim Heer dies (b. 1879). Swiss politician.
• 1839 - Karl Alfred von Zittel was born (d. 1904). German palaeontologist.
• 1846 - U.S. forces led by Zachary Taylor captured the Mexican city of Monterrey.
• 1849 - Johann Strauss, Senior dies (b. 1804). Austrian composer.
• 1862 - Billy Hughes was born (d. 1952). Seventh Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1866 - Thomas Morgan was born (d. 1945). American geneticist.
• 1867 - Oliver Loving dies (b. 1812). American pioneer rancher.
• 1867 - Evgenii Miller was born (d. 1938). Russian counter-revolutionary.
• 1873 - Affonso Camargo was born († 1954). Brazilian politician.
• 1881 - Lu Xun was born (d.1936). Chinese writer.
• 1884 - Edgard Roquette-Pinto was born († 1954). Brazilian physician, ethnologist and essayist.
• 1888 - The Royal Court Theatre, London, opened.
• 1890 - Yosemite National Park established in California.
• 1896 - Sandro Pertini, President of the Italian Republic (d. 1990)
• 1897 - William Faulkner was born (d. 1962). American novelist. Nobel Prize-winning writer in 1949. ( The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Absalom, Absolom!, Sanctuary, The Bear, Soldiers’ Pay, The Reivers)
• 1898 - Austregésilo de Athayde was born († 1993). Brazilian journalist and writer.
• 1898 - Robert Brackman was born (d. 1980). American artist.
• 1900 - Félix-Gabriel Marchand dies (b. 1832). Premier of Québec
• 1901 - Robert Bresson was born (d. 1999). French film director.
• 1903 - Mark Rothko was born (d. 1970). Latvian-born painter. His work included “Subway” (1936/1939), “Street Scene” (1936/1938), “Untitled” (1942), “Untitled” (1942/1943), “Phalanx of the Mind” (1945), “The Source” (1946), “Sacrificial Moment” (1946), “Number 18” (1948), and “Untitled” (1945-1946).
• 1905 - Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac dies (b. 1853). French politician.
• 1906 - Dmitri Shostakovich was born (d. 1975). Russian composer.
• 1906 - José Figueres Ferrer was born. President of Costa Rica (1948-1949, 1953-1958 e 1970-1974)
• 1911 - Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
• 1912 - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York,_New York.
• 1915 - Herculano Pires was born († 1979). Brazilian writer.
• 1916 - Phil Rizzuto was born. Baseball player and announcer.
• 1917 - Johnny Sain was born. Baseball player.
• 1918 - Mikhail Alekseev dies (b. 1857). Russian general.
• 1920 - Sergei Bondarchuk was born (d. 1994). Ukrainian-born actor.
• 1921 - Sir Robert Muldoon was born (d. 1992). Prime Minister of New Zealand.
• 1922 - Hammer DeRoburt was born (d. 1992). First President of Nauru.
• 1926 - Aldo Ray was born (d. 1991). American actor.
• 1926 - Herbert Booth dies (b. 1862). The third son of William and Catherine Booth
• 1927 - Sir Colin Davis was born. English conductor.
• 1929 - Ronnie Barker was born. British comedian and actor.
• 1929 - Miller Huggins dies (b. 1879). Baseball player and manager.
• 1929 - Barbara Walters was born. American media personality known for her many years as the first woman network news anchor, on ABC News starting in 1976.
• 1929 - Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full Instrument Flying from take off to landing is possible.
• 1930 - Shel Silverstein was born (d. 1999). American humorist and author.
• 1931 - Barbara Walters was born. American broadcaster
• 1932 - Glenn Gould was born (d. 1982). Canadian pianist and composer.
• 1932 - Adolfo Suárez González was born. Spanish President.
• 1933 - Hubie Brown was born. American basketball coach and broadcaster.
• 1933 - Ring Lardner dies (b. 1885). American writer.
• 1936 - Juliet Prowse was born (d. 1996). British actress and dancer.
• 1938 - Jonathan Motzfeldt was born. First Prime Minister of Greenland
• 1943 - Robert Gates was born. American director of the Central Intelligence Agency
• 1944 - Michael Douglas was born. Academy Award-winning actor ( Wall Street [1987]; Disclosure, The China Syndrome, Fatal Attraction, Black Rain, A Chorus Line, The Jewel of the Nile, Romancing the Stone, Basic Instinct, The Game, The Streets of San Francisco). Son of actor Kirk Douglas.
• 1944 - Doris Matsui was born. U.S. Congresswoman from California
• 1944 - Mário de Carvalho was born in Lisbon. Portuguese writer (A Paixão do Conde de Fróis, Os Alferes, Era Bom que Trocássemos umas Ideias sobre o Assunto, Um Deus Passeando Pela Brisa da Tarde).
• 1945 - Carol Vadnais was born. Canadian ice hockey player
• 1946 - Felicity Kendal was born. British actress
• 1946 - Hans Eppinger dies (b. 1879). Austrian physician and war criminal.
• 1947 - Russ Abbott was born. British actor and singer
• 1947 - Cheryl Tiegs was born. American model.
• 1947 - Ali Parvin was born. Iranian football player.
• 1948 - Glória Pérez was born. Brazilian telenovelist.
• 1951 - Mark Hamill was born. American actor (Star Wars, The Texas Wheelers, Eight is Enough, Batman-The Animated Series, General Hospital).
• 1951 - Pedro Almodovar was born. Spanish film director.
• 1952 - Christopher Reeve was born († 2004). American actor (Superman, Somewhere in Time) and activist.
• 1952 - Anson Williams was born. American actor and director .
• 1952 - Mark Hamill was born. American actor.
• 1954 - François Duvalier is elected President of Haiti.
• 1955 - The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
• 1955 - Amyr Klink was born. Brazilian navigator.
• 1955 - Karl-Heinz Rummenigge was born. German football player.
• 1957 - Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated through the use of United States Army troops
• 1958 - John B. Watson dies (b. 1878). American psychologist. He is considered the father of behaviorism
• 1958 - Michael Madsen was born. American actor.
• 1959 - Solomon Bandaranaike, prime minister of Sri Lanka is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
• 1960 - Igor Belanov was born. Ukrainian footballer.
• 1960 - Sonia Benezra was born. Canadian television host.
• 1960 - Emily Post dies (b. 1873). American author & etiquette expert.
• 1961 - Frank Fay dies (b. 1897). American actor first husband of Barbara Stanwyck
• 1961 - Heather Locklear was born. American actress and model (Melrose Place, Dynasty, T.J. Hooker).
• 1962 - Aida Turturro was born. American actress
• 1962 - The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.
• 1964 - Início da luta armada em Moçambique
• 1964 - Kikuko Inoue was born. Japanese singer and voice actresses (seiyū)
• 1964 - Joey Saputo, Canadian businessman (Saputo) and sports executive (Montreal Impact)
• 1965 - Scottie Pippen was born. American basketball player.
• 1968 - Marcelo Caetano assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal.
• 1968 - Will Smith was born. American actor and rapper
• 1969 - Hansie Cronje was born (d. 2002). South African cricketer.
• 1969 - Heather Stewart-Whyte was born. British supermodel.
• 1969 - Hansie Cronje was born. South African cricketer.
• 1969 - Catherine Zeta-Jones was born. Welsh actress ( The Phantom, The Mask of Zorro, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Christopher Columbus: The Discovery, Entrapment ).
• 1970 - Cease-fire between Jordan and the fedayeen ends fighting triggered by four hijackings on September 6 and 9.
• 1970 - The Partridge Family debuts on ABC-TV and would run for four years.
• 1970 - Dean Ween was born. American musician (Ween)
• 1970 - Erich Maria Remarque dies (b. 1898). German author.
• 1971 - John Lynch was born. American football player
• 1971 - Hal Sparks was born. American actor
• 1972 - In the Norwegian EC referendum, 1972, the people of Norway reject membership.
• 1972 - Alejandra Pizernick dies (suicide) (b. 25 Apr 1936). Argentine poetess.
• 1973 - Tijani Babangida was born. Nigerian footballer.
• 1973 - Adam Edwards was born. American film composer-writer-producer
• 1975 - Declan Donnelly was born. English television presenter
• 1975 - Matt Hasselbeck was born. American football player
• 1976 - The Rock band U2 forms at a meeting at drummer Larry Mullen's home
• 1976 - Chauncey Billups was born. American basketball player
• 1978 - Ricardo Gardner was born. Jamaican footballer
• 1978 - Roudolphe Douala was born. Cameroonian footballer.
• 1978 - Jodie Kidd was born. English model see photo
• 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.
• 1979 - Tapio Rautavaara dies (b. 1915). Finniah athlete, actor, and singer.
• 1980 - The first congress of the Democratic Youth Organization of Afghanistan held in Kabul.
• 1980 - T.I. was born. Rapper
• 1980 - John Bonham dies (b. 1948). British drummer (Led Zeppelin).
• 1980 - Lewis Milestone dies (b. 1895). Moldovan film director.
• 1980 - Marie Under dies (b. 1883). Estonian author and poet.
• 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.
• 1981 - Belize é admitido como Estado-Membro da ONU
• 1981 - Jason Bergmann was born. Baseball pitcher.
• 1981 - Emmy Clarke was born. American actress
• 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)
• 1983 - King Léopold III of Belgium dies (b. 1901) .
• 1983 - In the 35th Emmy Awards the winners included Hill St Blues, Cheers, Ed Flanders and Shelley Long.
• 1984 - Walter Pidgeon dies (b. 1897). Canadian actor.
• 1986 - Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov dies (b. 1896). Russian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1987 - Mary Astor dies (b. 1906). American actress.
• 1987 - Emlyn Williams dies (b. 1905). Welsh actor.
• 1988 - Alain Prost (Equipe McLaren) vence o Grande Prémio do Estoril.
• 1988 - Florence Griffith Joyner won the women's 100-meter dash at the Seoul Olympics.
• 1988 - Monty Python member Michael Palin sets out from London's Reform Club to start his BBC documentary Around the World in 80 Days.
• 1988 - Oh My Goddess! ( Aa! Megami-sama!) is first published
• 1990 - Marion Zimmer Bradley dies (b. 1930). American writer.
• 1991 - Klaus Barbie dies (b. 1913). German SS official.
• 1991 - Viviane Romance dies (b. 1912). French actress.
• 1994 - Damon Hill (Equipe Williams) vence o Grande Prémio do Estoril.
• 1995 - Bessie Delany dies (b. 1891). African-American physician and author.
• 1995 - Manuel Quina dies. Portuguese banker.
• 1996 - Nicu Ceauşescu dies (b. 1951). Romanian politician.
• 1996 - The last of the Magdalen Asylums was closed in Ireland
• 1997 - Jean Françaix dies (b. 1912). French composer.
• 1998 - A Pauknair BAE146 crashes into hillside in Morocco killing 38.
• 1998 - Reinauguração do Museu do Café do Brasil
• 1999 - Marion Zimmer Bradley dies (b. 1930) American writer.
• 2000 - R. S. Thomas dies (b. 1913). Welsh poet.
• 2002 - The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia, Russia.
• 2003 - A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore of Hokkaido, Japan.
• 2003 - Aquila al-Hashimi dies. Iraqi politician
• 2003 - Herb Gardner dies (b. 1934). American playwright.
• 2003 - Franco Modigliani dies (b. 1918). Italian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 2003 - George Plimpton dies (b. 1927). American writer and actor.
• 2004 - A film about Iraqi children victims of war "Turtles can fly" directed by Iranian Bahman Ghobadi won the Concha de Oro (Golden Shell) at the prestigious San Sebastian film festival.
• 2005 - Don Adams dies (b. 1923) American actor and comedian
• 2005 - George Archer dies (b. 1939). American golfer.
• 2005 - Urie Bronfenbrenner dies (b. 1917). American psychologist, founder of Head Start program
• 2005 - M. Scott Peck dies (b. 1936). American psychiatrist and writer.
• 2005 - Friedrich Peter dies (b. 1921). Austrian politician
• 2005 - Spanish Formula One racing driver Fernando Alonso becomes the youngest FIA Formula One World Champion.
• R.C. Saints - Virgin of Fuencisla; Saint Finbarr
• Mozambique - Armed Forces Day