On this day in History - Sep. 25
- 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.
- 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). Electress of Bavaria.
- 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.
- 1774 - John Bradstreet dies (b. 1714). Canadian-born soldier.
- 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 U.S. Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: the Congressional Apportionment Amendment, the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights.
- 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.
- 1825 - William Pitt Ballinger was born (d. 1888). Texas lawyer and statesman.
- 1825 - Joachim Heer dies (b. 1879). Swiss politician.
- 1839 - Karl Alfred von Zittel was born (d. 1904). German palaeontologist.
- 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.
- 1868 - The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Neuski shipwrecks off Jutland while carrying the Grand Duke of Russia.
- 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.
- 1889 - C. K. Scott-Moncrieff was born (d. 1930). Scottish writer and translator.
- 1890 - Yosemite National Park established in California.
- 1896 - Sandro Pertini was born (d. 1990). President of the Italian Republic.
- 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 - In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the Remote control.
- 1906 - Dmitri Shostakovich was born (d. 1975). Russian composer.
- 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 - The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
- 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.
- 1925 - Paul B. MacCready, Jr. was born (d. 2007). American aeronautical engineer.
- 1925 - Silvana Pampanini was born. Italian actress.
- 1926 - Aldo Ray was born (d. 1991). American actor.
- 1927 - Sir Colin Davis was born. English conductor.
- 1929 - Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full Instrument Flying from take off to landing is possible.
- 1929 - Ronnie Barker was born (d. 2005). British comedian and actor
- 1929 - Barbara Walters was born. American broadcaster known for her many years as the first woman network news anchor, on ABC News starting in 1976.
- 1929 - Miller Huggins dies (b. 1879). American baseball player and manager.
- 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.
- 1934 - Jean Sorel was born. French actor
- 1936 - Juliet Prowse was born (d. 1996). British actress and dancer.
- 1938 - Jonathan Motzfeldt was born. First Prime Minister of Greenland
- 1939 - Feroz Khan was born. Indian actor
- 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. American politician.
- 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.
- 1949 - Pedro Almodóvar was born. Spanish filmmaker
- 1950 - Sebastião Lazaroni was born. Brazilian football (soccer) coach.
- 1951 - Mark Hamill was born. American actor (Star Wars, The Texas Wheelers, Eight is Enough, Batman-The Animated Series, General Hospital).
- 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.
- 1952 - Gloria Jean Watkins was born. American scholar
- 1953 - Richard Harvey was born. British musician and composer (Gryphon)
- 1954 - François Duvalier is elected President of Haiti.
- 1954 - Sylvester Croom was born. American college football coach
- 1955 - The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
- 1955 - Amyr Klink was born. Brazilian navigator.
- 1955 - Steven Severin was born. British musician (Siouxsie & the Banshees)
- 1955 - Karl-Heinz Rummenigge was born. German footballer.
- 1955 - Ludo Coeck was born (d. 1985). Belgian footballer.
- 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 - Michael Madsen was born. American actor
- 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 - Anita Barone was born. American actress
- 1964 - Gary Ayles was born. British racing driver
- 1964 - Kikuko Inoue was born. Japanese singer and voice actresses (seiyū)
- 1965 - Scottie Pippen was born. American basketball player.
- 1967 - Kim Issel was born. Canadian ice hockey player
- 1968 - Marcelo Caetano sworns as Prime-Minister of Portugal
- 1968 - John Worsfold was born. Australian rules football coach
- 1968 - Prince Johan-Friso of Orange-Nassau was born.
- 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 - The Partridge Family debuts on ABC-TV and would run for four years.
- 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 - Bridgette Wilson was born. American actress
- 1973 - Tijani Babangida was born. Nigerian footballer.
- 1973 - Adam Edwards was born. American film composer-writer-producer
- 1975 - Daniel Hyde was born. British actor
- 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
- 1977 - Clea DuVall was born. American actress
- 1977 - Wil Nieves was born. Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1978 - Joel Pineiro was born. Puerto Rican baseball 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). Finnish athlete, actor, and singer.
- 1980 - The first congress of the Democratic Youth Organization of Afghanistan held in Kabul.
- 1980 - T.I. was born. American 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.
- 1980 - Earl Curry dies (b. 1890). Religious thinker and Kirtland Temple overseer.
- 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 is admited as member of United Nations
- 1981 - Jason Bergmann was born. American baseball pitcher.
- 1981 - Emmy Clarke was born. American actress
- 1981 - Rocco Baldelli was born. American baseball player
- 1981 - Shane Tutmarc was born. American songwriter/musician
- 1982 - Hyun Bin was born. South Korean actor
- 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 - In the 35th Emmy Awards the winners included Hill St Blues, Cheers, Ed Flanders and Shelley Long.
- 1983 - King Léopold III of Belgium dies (b. 1901).
- 1984 - Matt Carle was born. American ice hockey player
- 1984 - Walter Pidgeon dies (b. 1897). Canadian actor.
- 1985 - Calvin Johnson was born. American football player
- 1986 - Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov dies (b. 1896). Russian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
- 1986 - Donald MacDonald dies (b. 1909). Former president of the Canadian Labour Congress and politician.
- 1986 - Hans Vogt dies (b. 1909). Norwegian linguists.
- 1986 - Darshan Singh Canadian dies (b. 1917). Indian communist leader.
- 1987 - Mary Astor dies (b. 1906). American actress.
- 1987 - Emlyn Williams dies (b. 1905). Welsh actor.
- 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
- 1988 - Billy Carter dies (b. 1937). Brother of Jimmy Carter.
- 1990 - Marion Zimmer Bradley dies (b. 1930). American writer.
- 1991 - Emmy Clarke was born. American actress
- 1991 - Klaus Barbie dies (b. 1913). German SS official.
- 1991 - Viviane Romance dies (b. 1912). French actress.
- 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.
- 1997 - Hélène Baillargeon dies (b. 1916). Quebec singer, actor and folklorist.
- 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 - Edward Said dies (b. 1935). Palestinian-born literary critic.
- 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 - Spanish Formula One racing driver Fernando Alonso becomes the youngest FIA Formula One World Champion.
- 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 - Ghulam Mustafa Khan dies (b. 1912). Pakistani researcher, critic and linguist.
- 2005 - Friedrich Peter dies (b. 1921). Austrian politician.
- 2006 - The Louisiana Superdome reopens after 13 months of reconstruction necessitated by Hurricane Katrina.
- 2006 - Jeff Cooper dies (b. 1920). Renowned firearms expert.
- 2006 - John M. Ford dies (b. 1957). American author and poet.
- R.C. Saints - Virgin of Fuencisla; Saint Finbarr
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