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What happened in history on this day: September 25?
On September 25 in ...
- 1066 - Battle of Stamford Bridge, Yorkshire, England: King Harold II defeats Harold Hardrada of Norway, who dies in battle.
- 1492 - Crewman on the Pinta sights "land"-a few weeks early.
- 1493 - 17 ships with 1200+ men leave Spain under Christopher Columbus' command with plans for establishing colonies in the New World.
- 1513 - Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa is the first European to reach what will be known as the Pacific Ocean.
- 1555 - Peace of Augsburg takes effect ending conflicts between Catholics and Protestants.
- 1629 - Sweden and Poland sign a six-year truce at Altmark, near Danzig. Sweden retains control of Livonia and the mouth of the River Vistula. Poland regains other Swedish gains since the 1625 invasion. Sweden will receive all shipping tolls at ports of Poland and Prussia for the six years.
- 1639 - First printing press in America.
- 1644 - Birth of Olaus Rímer Denmark, first to accurately measure speed of light.
- 1657 - Birth of Imre Thököly Hungary, patriot, opposed Habsburg rule.
- 1683 - Birth of Jean-Philippe Rameau Dijon France, composer (Traite) (baptized).
- 1690 - Publick Occurrences, first US (Boston) newspaper, publish first and last ed.
- 1725 - Birth of Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot designed and built first automobile.
- 1766 - Birth of Armand-Emmanuel duc de Richelieu, French Prime Minister (1815-18, 1820-21).
- 1789 - US Congress proposes Bill of Rights (10 of 12 will ratify).
- 1861 - Secretary of US Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves.
- 1866 - Birth of Thomas Hunt Morgan; US biologist (Nobel Prize-1933).
- 1877 - Birth of Plutarco Elías Calles; Mexican revolutionary, president (1924-28).
- 1882 - First baseball doubleheader (Providence and Worcester).
- 1887 - Birth of May Sutton Bundy; first US woman to win Wimbledon (US 1904).
- 1890 - Sequoia is established as a National Park in California.
- 1897 - Birth of William Faulkner in Mississippi, USA; author (Sound and the Fury - Nobel Prize 1949) (dies 1962).
- 1903 - Birth of Mark Rothko; US painter (Green on Blue).
- 1905 - Birth of Red Smith in Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA; sportscaster/columnist (Fight Talk).
- 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 - Birth of Dimitri Shostakovich in Saint Petersburg, Russia; composer (9th-1945).
- 1907 - Birth of Robert Bresson in France; director (Pickpocket, Mouchette).
- 1911 - Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- 1918 - Birth of Phil Rizzuto in Brooklyn, New York, USA; sportscaster/shortstop (New York Yankees, Most Valuable Player 1950).
- 1919 - US President Woodrow Wilson becomes seriously ill and collapses after a speech.
- 1920 - Birth of Sergey Bondarchuk in Belozerka, Ukraine; director (War and Peace).
- 1920 - Vern Bradburn of Winnipeg Victorias kicks 9 singles in a game.
- 1924 - Malcolm Campbell sets world auto speed record at 146.16 MPH.
- 1925 - SS City of Rome merchant ship rams and sinks USS S-51 submarine, killing 33.
- 1925 - Birth of Silvana Pampanini in Rome, Italy; actress (Day in Court, Island Sinner).
- 1926 - Birth of Aldo Ray; actor (God's Little Acre, Naked and the Dead, Green Beret).
- 1926 - Birth of John Ericson in Dusseldorf, Germany; actor (Sam Bolt - Honey West).
- 1926 - Birth of Sergei Filatov in USSR; equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1960).
- 1926 - Henry Ford announces the 8 hour, 5-day work week.
- 1926 - International slavery convention signed by 20 states.
- 1926 - NHL grants franchises to Chicago Black Hawks and Detroit Red Wings.
- 1927 - Birth of Carl Braun; basketball player (New York Knicks).
- 1927 - Birth of Colin Rex Davis in Weybridge, England; conductor (New York Metropolitan 1967-71).
- 1929 - Lieutenant Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight at Mitchell Field in New York, proving that full Instrument Flying from take off to landing is possible.
- 1929 - Miller Huggins, New York Yankees manager, dies at age 50.
- 1930 - Birth of Shel Silverstein in Chicago, Illinois, USA; children's author and illustrator (The Giving Tree (1964), Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974), A Light in the Attic (1981), Falling Up (1996)).
- 1931 - Birth of Barbara Walters in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; newscaster (Today, 20/20, ABC-TV).
- 1932 - Birth of Glenn Herbert Gould in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; pianist (sued Steinway Piano).
- 1934 - Lou Gehrig plays in his 1500th consecutive Major League Baseball game.
- 1934 - Rainbow (US) beats Endeavour (England) in 16th America's Cup.
- 1936 - Birth of Juliet Prowse in Bombay, India; actress/dancer (Who Killed Teddy Bear).
- 1939 - Guns of the French Maginot Line and German Westwall along the 80-mile front from Lauterbourg to Basle exchange fire for 24 hours.
- 1939 - Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra, so Andorra and Germany finally sign an official treaty ending World War I.
- 1940 - Operation Menace ends at Dakar in French West Africa, as the occupation force withdraws at night.
- 1940 - Vidkun Quisling installed as prime minister of Norway.
- 1941 - USSR recognizes General Charles de Gaulle as the leader of all Free French Forces.
- 1943 - Birth of John Locke in Louisiana, USA; rocker (Spirit - "I Got A Line on You").
- 1943 - Birth of Robert Walden in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Joe Rossi - Lou Grant, New Doctors).
- 1943 - Soviet forces re-capture Smolensk.
- 1944 - Birth of Eugenia Zukerman in Cambridge, Mississippi, USA; flutist/novelist (Deceptive Cadence).
- 1944 - Birth of Michael Douglas in New Jersey, USA; actor (Coma, Wall Street, Jewel of the Nile).
- 1945 - Birth of Cathy Burns; actress (Last Summer).
- 1947 - Birth of Cheryl Tiegs in Minnesota, USA; model's figure.
- 1949 - Birth of Anson Williams in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Potsie - Happy Days).
- 1949 - Birth of Mimi Kennedy in Rochester, New York, USA; actress (Spencer, 3 girls 3, Under One Roof).
- 1949 - Louis Suggs wins US Woman's Golf championship.
- 1951 - Birth of Bob McAdoo; NBA forward/center (Buffalo Braves, Los Angeles Lakers).
- 1951 - Birth of Mark Hamill in Oakland, California, USA; actor (Star Wars).
- 1952 - Birth of Christopher Reeve; actor (Superman) (dies 2004).
- 1955 - Birth of Steve Severin; rocker (Siouxsie and the Banshees - Wild Thing).
- 1955 - CBS premieres The Ed Sullivan Show 60-minute variety show.
- 1956 - TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.
- 1956 - Brooklyn Dodgers' pitcher Sal Maglie no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 5-0.
- 1957 - 300 US Army troops guard nine black kids' return to Central High School in Arkansas.
- 1957 - Soviet seven-year plan (1959-1965) announced.
- 1958 - NBC resumes airing The Ed Wynn Show 30-minute comedy variety show, absent since 1950.
- 1959 - The ABC TV network airs the last episode of the Mickey Mouse Club TV show.
- 1959 - S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, Ceylon's Prime Minister, assassinated by a Buddhist monk.
- 1960 - Emily Post, etiquette expert, dies at age 86.
- 1960 - Philadelphia Phillies beat Cincinnati Reds 7-1, ending 16 consecutive Sunday losses.
- 1961 - Birth of Heather Locklear in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Stacy - T.J. Hooker).
- 1962 - A black church is destroyed by fire in Macon, Georgia, USA.
- 1962 - Sonny Liston knocks out Floyd Patterson in first round for heavyweight title.
- 1962 - Weatherly (US) beats Gretel (Australia) in 19th running of America's Cup.
- 1963 - CBS premieres The Danny Kaye Show 60-minute variety TV show.
- 1964 - NBC begins airing The Jack Benny Program 30-minute comedy variety show.
- 1965 - NBC airs the last Truth or Consequences TV show.
- 1965 - ABC-TV begins airing the half hour Saturday morning cartoon The Beatles.
- 1965 - At age 34, Willie Mays becomes the oldest Major League Baseball player to hit 50 home runs in a season. The Giants' center fielder was also the youngest to accomplish the feat hitting 51 homers in 1955.
- 1965 - Birth of Will "Fresh Prince" Smith, rapper ("Parents Just Don't Understand").
- 1966 - Smallest Yankee stadium crowd, 413 see Chicago White Sox win 4-1.
- 1967 - Birth of Lezlie Lund in Tolna, North Dakota, USA; Miss North Dakota-America (1991).
- 1968 - Birth of Prince Johan Friso of the Netherlands.
- 1968 - In Chiapas, Mexico, a magnitude 5.7 earthquake occurs, causing 20 deaths and 500 injuries in Mexico's southern Chiapas region. About half the houses of the village of Acapetagua are leveled.
- 1969 - Death of Paul Scherrer in Sankt Gallen, Switzerland; physicist, developed Debye-Scherrer method of X-ray diffraction analysis with Peter Debbie.
- 1970 - ABC airs the first episode of The Partridge Family TV show, featuring Shirley Jones, David Cassidy, Susan Dey, and Danny Bonaduce.
- 1970 - Death of the novelist Erich Maria Remarque (Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front)), in Locarno, Switzerland.
- 1973 - Three-man crew of Skylab II make safe splashdown in Pacific after 59 days.
- 1973 - Willie Mays night at Shea Stadium.
- 1974 - William Sloane, publisher/writer (The Edge of Running Water), dies.
- 1975 - Bob Considine, newscaster (Tonight! America After Dark), dies at age 68.
- 1976 - Montreal Expo's last game at Montreal's Jarry Park.
- 1978 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera Otello makes its first appearance on Live from the Met, in a complete production of the opera starring Jon Vickers. This is the first complete television broadcast of the opera in the U.S. since the historic 1948 broadcast.
- 1978 - PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides with a small private airplane and crashes in San Diego, California; 144 are killed.
- 1979 - The California Angels defeat the Kansas City Royals, 4-1, to win their first American League West title.
- 1980 - Death of John Bonham, British drummer (Led Zeppelin) (born 1948).
- 1980 - Chevy Chase calls Cary Grant a homo on Tomorrow show (lawsuit follows).
- 1981 - The Rolling Stones begin their tour in support of their "Tattoo You" album at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia.
- 1981 - Columbia releases the film Chariots of Fire to theaters.
- 1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor sworn in as US Supreme Court justice.
- 1982 - In Israel, 400,000 marchers demand the resignation of Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
- 1982 - Pennsylvania prison guard George Banks kills 13 (5 are his own children).
- 1983 - 38 Irish republican prisoners of Maze Prison, armed with six handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the prison; the largest prison escape in British history.
- 1983 - Death of King Léopold III of Belgium (born 1901).
- 1984 - Birth of Rashad McCants, National Basketball Association player.
- 1984 - Walter Pidgeon of New Brunswick, Canada, actor (MGM-Mrs Miniver, Madame Curie), dies at age 87 after a series of strokes (born 1897).
- 1985 - Akali Dal wins Punjab State election in India.
- 1986 - Houston Astros' Mike Scott no-hits San Francisco Giants, 2-0.
- 1986 - Death of Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1896).
- 1988 - Billy Carter, US President Jimmy Carter's brother, dies of cancer at age 51.
- 1988 - Florence Griffith Joyner runs Olympic record 100m in 10.54 seconds.
- 1990 - First eight New York Yankeesl players hit safely versus Baltimore Orioles to tie record.
- 1990 - Oakland Athletics clinch third straight American League West title.
- 1990 - Saddam Hussein warns US will repeat Vietnam experience.
- 1990 - United Nations Security Council vote 14-1 to impose air embargo against Iraq.
- 1991 - The ABC TV network premieres the Disney TV series Good and Evil.
- 1991 - The Paramount at Madison Square Garden in New York City opens.
- 1991 - Death of the "Butcher of Lyon", Klaus Barbie, in Lyon, France; head of the Gestapo in Lyon from 1942-1944, had 4,000 people executed.
- 1995 - Death of Bessie Delany, American physician and author (born 1891).
- 1996 - The last of the Magdalen Asylums is closed in Ireland.
- 1996 - IBM launches OS/2 Warp 4, in San Francisco, California. New features include Java technology, voice recognition software, and Open32 Win32 APIs. Price is US$249; upgrade is US$149. It is the first operating system to include built-in speech navigation and recognition.
- 1997 - UNSCOM inspector Dr. Diane Seaman catches several Iraqi men sneaking out the back door of an inspection site, with log books for the creation of prohibited bacteria and chemicals.
- 1997 - NBC airs the first episode of TV show Veronica's Closet.
- 1998 - Sammy Sosa hits homerun number 66 to take the lead in the Major League Baseball homerun race. Less than an hour later Mark McGwire also hits his 66th.
- 1998 - (to September 28) Major creditors of Long-Term Capital Management, a Greenwich, Connecticut-based hedge fund, after days of tough bargaining and some informal mediation by Federal Reserve officials, agree on terms of a re-capitalization.
- 2003 - Death of Franco Modigliani, Italian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918).
- 2003 - In Hokkaido, Japan, a magnitude 8.3 earthquake occurs, the world's largest earthquake of 2003. At least 589 people injured, many roads damaged, landslides and power outages in southeastern Hokkaido. A tsunami is generated with an estimated wave height of 4m along the southeastern coast of Hokkaido.
- 2004 - Port Adelaide Power win their first premiership against Brisbane Lions in AFL Grand Final.
- 2004 - Hurricane Jeanne makes landfall near Port Saint Lucie, Florida, near location Hurricane Frances hit two weeks earlier. Jeanne kills over 3,030, mostly in Haiti.
- 2006 - The Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans re-opens 13 months after Hurricane Katrina with extensive repairs, including the largest re-roofing project in the United States.
- 2007 - Microsoft releases the Halo 3 video game for the Xbox 360 in the USA.
- 2007 - Death of Haidar Abdel Shafi, at age 88, founder and member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, medical doctor.
- 2008 - Kgalema Motlanthe is sworn in as interim president (until an election) of South Africa, replacing Thabo Mbeki.
- 2008 - From the Jiuquan spaceport in Gansu province, China launches the Shenzhou VII capsule atop a Long-March II-F rocket. This is China's third manned space mission, with astronauts Zhai Zhigang, Liu Boming, and Jing Haipeng.
- 2008 - U.S. regulators seize bank Washington Mutual, the biggest bank failure in the nation's history, and sell its assets to JPMorgan Chase & Company for US$1.9 billion. Washington Mutual was the largest savings and loan bank, with $307 billion of assets and $188 billion of deposits.
- 2009 - At the G-20 Pittsburgh summit, world leaders announce that the G-20 will assume greater leverage over the world economy, replacing the role of the G-8, in an effort to prevent another financial crisis like that in 2008.
- 2017 - Iraqi Kurdistan votes in a referendum to become an independent state, in defiance of the Iraq government.
- 2022 - General election in Italy. A coalition led by Giorgia Meloni and the Brothers of Italy party wins 237 seats of the 400-seat Chamber of Deputies.
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