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Today in History ~ September 25
Events1066 - Battle of Stampford Bridge King Harold Godwinson II of England, beaten by his brother King Harold Hardrada of Norway
1396 - Battle of Nicopolis: Sultan Bajezid I defeats Crusaders
1493 - Columbus sails with 17 ships on 2nd voyage to America
1513 - Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa is the first known European to see the east shore of the Pacific Ocean.
1555 - Freedom of Religion in Augsburg
1639 - 1st printing press in America
1690 - The first newspaper in what is now the US was published. called "Publick Occurrences, Both Foreign and Domestic,", published its first - and last - edition in Boston.
1775 - American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen was captured by the British as he led an attack on Montreal.
1777 - English general William Howe conquers Philadelphia
1780 - American General Benedict Arnold joins the British
1789 - The first Congress of the United States adopted twelve amendments to the Constitution, and sent them to the states for ratification. (10 of the 12 will ratify and become the Bill of Rights) [H]
1804 - 12th amendment to US Constitution, regulating judicial power
1829 - Failed assassination attempt on Simon Bolivar
1847 - General Zachary "Old Rough and Ready" Taylor Captures Monterrey Mexico
1861 - Secretary of US Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves
1866 - (Leonard W) Jerome Park opens in Bronx for horse racing
1867 - Congress creates 1st all black university, Howard U in Wash DC
1882 - The first major league baseball double-header was played between the Providence, R.I., and Worchester, Mass., teams.
1888 - Royal Court Theatre, London, opens
1890 - Congress establishes Yosemite National Park (Caliph), President Benjamin Harrison signed a measure establishing Sequoia National Park.
1907 - Jean Sibelius' 3rd Symphony premieres
1908 - The Casablanca Affair Occurred
1911 - Italy declares war on Turkey
1915 - -26] Battle at Loos: 8,246 British & 0 German casualties
1919 - President Woodrow Wilson is paralyzed by a stroke
1926 - Henry Ford announces 8 hour, 5 day work week
1933 - 1st state poorhouse opens in Smyrna, Georgia
1933 - 5th "extermination campaign" against communists in Nanjing China
1935 - Maxwell Anderson's "Winterset," premieres in NYC
1939 - German Luftwaffe strikes Warsaw with (fire)bombs
1939 - Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra, so Andorra and Germany finally sign an official treaty ending WW I
1940 - German High Commissioner in Norway sets up Vidikun Quisling government
1940 - Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Southampton
1954 - Francois "Doc" Duvalier wins Haitian presidential election
1955 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Clock Golf Open
1957 - Central High School in to Little Rock, Arkansas Integrated. Under escort from the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division, nine black students entered the all-white school. [H]
1959 - Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley (37) & David Brown (43) wed
1959 - Mob assassins shoot Little Augie Carfano to death in New York City on Meyer Lansky's orders. [H]
1962 - Black church is destroyed by fire in Macon Georgia
1965 - 60 year old Satchel Paige of KC A's pitches 3 scoreless innings
1966 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 2nd Cello Concert premieres in Moscow
1973 - The three-man crew of the U.S. space laboratory Skylab Two splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean after spending 59 days in orbit.
1978 - PSA Boeing 727 and a Cessna private plane collide near San Diego, 144 die
1979 - "Evita" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 1568 performances
1980 - Sale of The Source to Reader's Digest barred
1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor was sworn in as the first woman U.S. Supreme Court justice. Takes Her Seat as Associate Justice
1982 - Penn prison guard George Banks kills 13 (5 were his own children)
1984 - Jordan announced it would restore relations with Egypt, something no Arab country had done since 17 Arab nations broke relations with Cairo over the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty of 1979.
1986 - Antonin Scalia appointed to Supreme Court
1987 - Wydah's Treasure auctioned off.
1989 - Archaeologists open Titus of Rhine grave in Amsterdam
1990 - Saddam Hussein warns that US will repeat Vietnam experience
1990 - UN Security Council vote 14-1 to impose air embargo against Iraq
1991 - The U.N. Security Council unanimously ordered a worldwide arms embargo against Yugoslavia and all its warring factions.
1991 - The United States and Israel agreed to postpone consideration of Israel's request for $10 billion to help settle Soviet immigrants.
1991 - President Alfredo Christiani of El Salvador and five commanders of the guerrilla forces reached an agreement that was seen as prelude to a ceasefire.
1991 - A national commission faulted the government for a lack of leadership in the fight against AIDS.
1992 - NASA launched a $511 million probe to Mars in the first U.S. mission to the Red Planet in 17 years. 11 months later, the probe would fail.
1992 - HIV-infected basketball star Magic Johnson quit the National Commission on AIDS; he said he was not satisfied with the Bush administration's efforts to fight the disease.
1992 - A judge in Orlando, Fla., granted 12-year-old Gregory Kingsley's precedent-setting petition to "divorce" his mother, & live with his foster parents, he takes name Shawn Russ
1993 - Three U.S. soldiers were killed in Somalia when their helicopter was shot down.
1996 - Stone-throwing protests by thousands of Palestinians angered by Israel's decision to open an archaeological tunnel near Jerusalem's Al Aqsa Mosque compound led to battles with Israeli troops in which 70 were killed and hundreds injured.
1998 - Hurricane Georges battered the Florida Keys with 105-mph winds.
2000 - In Yugoslavia, opposition presidential candidate Vojislav Kostunica claimed victory in weekend elections over incumbent Slobodan Milosevic. Milosevic refused to accept the results.
2000 - In Sydney, Australia, Cathy Freeman became the first Aborigine to win an individual Olympic gold medal, capturing the women's 400 meters. Michael Johnson of the United States became the first man to successfully defend a 400-meter title.
Birthdays Today
1627 - Jacques-Benigne Bossuet, theologian
1644 - Olaus Rímer, Denmark, 1st to accurately measured speed of light
1683 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, Dijon France, composer
1714 - Jean-Benoit Leclair, composer
1725 - Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, designed & built 1st automobile.
1832 - William Le Baron Jenney, US, architect/"father of skyscraper"
1897 - William Faulkner (Nobel Prize-winning writer [1949]; The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Absalom, Absolom!, Sanctuary, The Bear; movie scripts: The Big Sleep, To Have and Have Not)
1903 - Mark Rothko, [Marcus Rothkovich], US, painter (Green on Blue)
1905 - Red (Walter) Smith (sportswriter)
1906 - Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, St Petersburg Russia, composer
1917 - Johnny Sain (baseball: Boston Red Sox pitcher)
1918 - Phil Rizzuto ('The Scooter': Baseball Hall of Famer: baseball: NY Yankees short stop: Baseball Writers' Award [1950]; TV sportscaster: Yankees TV)
1926 - Aldo Ray (daRe) (actor: Battle Cry, God's Little Acre, The Green Berets, Miss Sadie Thompson, The Naked and the Dead, Nightstalker)
1931 - Barbara Walters, Boston Mass, newscaster (Today, 20/20, ABC-TV)
1932 - Glenn Herbert Gould, Toronto Canada, pianist (sued Steinway Piano)
1933 - Erik Darling (folk singer: group: The Tarriers: Cindy, Oh Cindy, Banana Boat Song; Rooftop Singers: Walk Right In; solo: LP: True Religion, Train Time)
1936 - Juliet Prowse (dancer, actress: Can-Can, G.I. Blues, Mona McCluskey; L'Eggs commercials)
1942 - Oscar Bonavena (boxer)
1943 - Robert Walden (actor: Lou Grant, All the King's Men)
1944 - Michael Douglas (Academy Award-winning actor: Wall Street [1987]; Disclosure, The China Syndrome, Fatal Attraction, A Chorus Line, The Jewel of the Nile, Romancing the Stone, Basic Instinct, The Streets of San Francisco; son of actor, Kirk Douglas)
1949 - Anson Williams (Heimlick) (actor: Happy Days)
1950 - E.C. Coleman (basketball)
1951 - Bob McAdoo (basketball: Buffalo Braves: NBA MVP [1975]; LA Lakers, Detroit Pistons, Boston Celtics, NY Knicks)
1951 - Mark Hamill (actor: Star Wars, The Texas Wheelers, Eight is Enough, Batman-The Animated Series, General Hospital)
1952 - Booker Brown (football)
1952 - Christopher Reeve (actor: Superman series, Blood Horse, Black Fox, Somewhere in Time, Village of the Damned, The Remains of the Day; champion of people with paralytic injuries)
1952 - Mike Stanton (baseball)
1961 - Heather Locklear (actress: Melrose Place, Dynasty, T.J. Hooker)
1965 - Scotty Pippen (basketball: Chicago Bulls; member of 1992 Olympic Gold Medal-winning dream team)
1968 - Will Smith (actor: Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Six Degrees of Separation, Made in America; singer: Nightmare on My Street, Parents Just Don't Understand)
Famous deaths
0813 - al-Amin, Arabic Caliph of Islam (809-813), murdered
1066 - Harald III Hardrada, king of Norway and England (1047-66), dies in battle at 51
1525 - Johannes Pistorius, [Bakker], RC pastor/church reformer, burned at 26
1680 - Samuel Butler, poet/satirist, dies
1849 - Johann Baptist Strauss, elder, composer (Radetzky March), dies at 45
1867 - Cattle pioneer Oliver Loving dies of gangrene
1918 - John Ireland, Irish/US archbishop of St Paul, dies at 80
1945 - Bela Bartok, composer, dies at 64
1958 - John B Watson, US psychologist/behaviorist, dies
1960 - Emily Post, etiquette expert, dies at 86
1970 - Erich M Remarque, German writer (Im West Nichts Neues), dies at 72
1988 - Billy Carter, Pres Carter's brother Billy, dies of cancer at 51
1991 - Klaus Barbie, Gestapo chief/torturer of Lyon, dies of cancer at 77
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