Historical Events on September 25

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• 303 On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France.
• 953 Ratherius becomes bishop of Luik
• 955 Bishop Ratherius of Luik flees

• 1093 Anselmo d'Aosta, Italian Benedictine monk seated as Anselm of Canterbury, Archbisop of Canterbury
• 1212 Emperor Frederik II ends Golden Degree (Bohemia)
• 1237 Treaty of York signed between kings Henry III of England and Alexander II of Scotland which establishes a boundary between the two countries (mostly unchanged in modern times)
• 1340 England & France sign disarmament treaty
• 1396 Battle of Nicopolis: forces of Ottoman Sultan Bajezid I defeat a combined Crusades army in northern Bulgaria
• 1492 Crewman on Pinta sights "land"- a few weeks early
• 1513 Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa crosses the Panama Isthmus becoming first European to see the Pacific Ocean
• 1555 Freedom of Religion in Augsburg

• 1639 First printing press in America set up in Cambridge under the guaranty of Harvard College
• 1639 Suzuki Shosan, Samurai monk of Zen Buddhism, found awakening
• 1654 England & Denmark sign trade agreement
• 1663 Austrian Fort Neuhausl surrenders to invading Turkish army
• 1690 Publick Occurrences, first newspaper in the American colonies (Boston), publishes first & last edition

• 1781 -26] Joan Derks scatters "On the People of Netherlands" pamphlets

• 1804 Twelfth Amendment to the US Constitution, establishing the procedure for electing the President and Vice President, becomes effective
• 1820 French Physicist François Arago announces electromagnetism in his discovery that a copper wire between the poles of a voltaic cell could laterally attract iron filings to itself

• 1836 HMS Beagle anchors at St Michael
• 1844 Canada defeats USA by 23 runs in the first cricket international match at the grounds of the St George's Cricket Club in Manhattan, NYC
• 1846 US troops under General Zachery Taylor occupy Monterey, Mexico, during Mexican–American War
• 1857 Relief of Lucknow by Havelock & Outram begins
• 1861 Secretary of US Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves
• 1862 Skirmish at Davis' Bridge, Tennessee
• 1866 (Leonard W) Jerome Park opens in Bronx for horse racing
• 1867 Congress creates 1st all-black university, Howard U in Washington, D.C.
• 1868 The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Nevski shipwrecks off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei of Russia

• 1878 British physician Dr. Charles Drysdale warns against the use of tobacco in a letter to The Times newspaper in one of the earliest public health announcements on the dangers of smoking
• 1882 1st baseball doubleheader (Providence & Worcester)
• 1886 Comedy opera "Dorothy" first produced in London
• 1888 Royal Court Theatre, London, opens

• 1897 1st British bus service opens
• 1904 Charles Follis becomes first American black man contracted to play pro football on an integrated team when he signs with Shelby Blues of the "Ohio League"
• 1906 John Galsworthy's "Silver Box" premieres in London
• 1906 Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the Telekino at Bilbao before a great crowd, guiding a boat from the shore, considered the birth of the remote control

• 1909 Hudson-Fulton Celebration opens in NY
• 1911 French battleship Liberte explodes at Toulon Harbor, 285 killed
• 1911 Groundbreaking begins in Boston for Fenway Park
• 1912 Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City
• 1915 Battle of Loos commenced, lasted until 14th October. Chlorine gas deployed by the British was blown back into their own trenches: 59,000 British & 26,000 German casualties
• 1915 The Second Battle of Champagne begins with French offensive against German army (ends with French retreat 6 Nov)

• 1920 Vern Bradburn of Winnipeg Victorias kicks 9 singles in a game
• 1922 Giants beat St Louis, to clinch John McGraw's 8th pennant

• 1926 International slavery convention signed by 20 states

• 1926 NHL grants franchises to Chicago Black Hawks & Detroit Red Wings
• 1926 Yankees take a doubleheader from Browns to clinch AL pennant

• 1930 Austrian government of Vaugoin forms
• 1930 Zoe Akins' "Greeks Had a Word for it" premieres in NYC

• 1932 Poona Act signed by Madan Mohan Malaviya and B R. Amedkar in India, reserving legislative seats for depressed classes (untouchables)
• 1933 1st state poorhouse opens in Smyrna, Georgia
• 1933 5th "extermination campaign" begins against communists in Nanjing and Jiangxi province, China
• 1933 Netherlands opens the Afsluitdijk, a dam and motorway that completes its damming of the Zuiderzee, an inlet of the North Sea - considered one of the Seven Engineering Wonders of the Modern World

• 1934 Rainbow (US) beats Endeavour (England) in 16th America's Cup

• 1936 Joe Medwick sets a still-standing NL record with his 64th double
• 1937 "il duce" visits Berlin/named "the Fuhrer" to corporal 1st class
• 1937 Battle of Pingxingguan Pass: Chinese force defeat the Japanese army in a key battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War
• 1939 Andorra and Germany sign a treaty ending World War I, as Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra
• 1939 German Luftwaffe strikes Warsaw with (fire)bombs

• 1941 Brooklyn Dodgers win their 1st pennant in 21 years
• 1943 Soviet troops liberate Smolensk
• 1944 Operation Market Garden ends in Allied failure as the last British and Polish paratroopers are evacuated from Oosterbeek, near the town of Arnhem

• 1949 Despite 71 injuries, Yankees have been in 1st place all season until Red Sox move into a tie for 1st place

• 1952 Hal Newhouser of Tigers wins his 200th game

• 1954 Indians win AL record 111 games
• 1954 WCBD TV channel 2 in Charleston, South Carolina (ABC) begins broadcasting

• 1955 The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded
• 1956 Brooklyn Dodger Sal Maglie no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 5-0
• 1956 Transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation from Newfoundland to Oban
• 1957 18th Venice Film Festival: Influential Indian film "Aparajito" directed by Satyajit Ray is first film to win the Golden Lion and the Critics Award
• 1957 300 US Army troops guard 9 black kids return to Central High School in Arkansas
• 1957 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga, Australia
• 1957 Soviet 7 year plan (1959-1965) announced

• 1960 For 1st time since 1927, Pirates clinch NL pennant
• 1960 NY Yankees clinch AL pennant
• 1960 Phillies beat Reds 7-1, ending 16 consecutive Sunday loses
• 1961 KTPS TV channel 62 in Tacoma, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1962 "New Painting of Common Objects" exhibition at Pasadena Art Museum opens - 1st show on American Pop Art
• 1962 Black church is destroyed by fire in Macon, Georgia

• 1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1962 Weatherly (US) beats Gretel (Aust) in 19th running of America's Cup
• 1962 Yankees clinch AL pennant
• 1964 Jens Otto Krag forms minority government in Denmark

• 1965 Beatle cartoon show begins in US
• 1965 Children find trunk with corpse in Amsterdam canal

• 1966 Smallest Yankee stadium crowd, 413 see White Sox win 4-1
• 1967 WGBX TV channel 44 in Boston, MA (PBS) begins broadcasting

• 1972 Dutch air force drives away Russian Tupolev-bomber
• 1972 KAVT (now KSMQ) TV channel 15 in Austin, MN (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1972 Norway votes to join European common market
• 1973 3-man crew of Skylab 3 make safe splashdown in Pacific after 59 days

• 1974 Scientists first report that freon gases from aerosol sprays are destroying the ozone layer
• 1974 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• 1976 Expo's last game at Montreal's Jarry Park
• 1978 PSA Boeing 727 and a Cessna private plane collide over San Diego, California; 144 die
• 1979 California Angels win their 1st NL West pennant

• 1980 The first congress of the Democratic Youth Organization of Afghanistan held in Kabul
• 1980 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1980 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

• 1981 Rolling Stones begin their 6th US tour (JFK Stadium, Philadelphia)

• 1982 Keke Rosberg becomes the first Fin to win the Formula 1 World Drivers Championship when he finishes 5th in season ending Caesars Palace Grand Prix in Las Vegas; wins by 5 points from Didier Pironi
• 1982 Northwestern ends 34 football game losing streak, beats No Ill 31-6
• 1982 Penn prison guard George Banks kills 13 (5 were his own children)
• 1982 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1983 35th Emmy Awards: "Hill Street Blues", "Cheers", Ed Flanders & Shelley Long win
• 1983 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, USSR
• 1984 1st London performance of musical "Stepping Out" presented
• 1984 Egypt & Jordan regain diplomatic relations

• 1985 Akali Dal wins Punjab State election in India
• 1985 Palestinian terrorists kill 3 Israeli sailors at Lanaca Cyprus

• 1986 Antonin Scalia appointed to US Supreme Court
• 1986 Houston Astro Mike Scott no-hits SF Giants, 2-0

• 1988 East German swimmer Kristin Otto swims Olympic record 25.49 to win the 50m freestyle gold at the Seoul Olympics; her 6th gold medal of the Games
• 1988 Hungarian swimmer Tamás Darnyi wins the 200m individual medley gold medal at the Seoul Olympics in world record 2:00.17; wraps up medley double at the Games
• 1988 Phoebe Mills finishes third in the balance beam at the Seoul Olympics to become the first American female gymnast to win a medal at a fully attended Games

• 1988 Romanian gymnast Daniela Silivaș wins 3 gold medals in one day at the Seoul Olympics; balance beam, floor exercise & uneven bars events; records record equalling 7 perfect scores of 10

• 1989 Archaeologists open Titus of Rhine grave in Amsterdam

• 1989 Ronald Harwood's play "Another Time" premieres in London
• 1990 1st 8 NY Yankees hit safely vs Baltimore Orioles to tie record
• 1990 Oakland A's clinch 3rd straight AL West title

• 1990 UN Security Council vote 14-1 to impose air embargo against Iraq
• 1991 "Good & Evil" premieres on ABC TV
• 1991 Paramount at Madison Square Garden in NYC opens

• 1992 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
• 1992 Gregory Kingsley, 12, wins right to divorce his parents & live with his foster parents, he takes name Shawn Russ
• 1992 Opening Main-Donau canal (North Sea-Black Sea)

• 1992 US Mars Observer launched from Space shuttle

• 1996 The last of the Magdalen Asylums closes in Ireland.
• 1997 American sportcaster Marv Albert plea bargains in his sexual assault case
• 1997 Britain's Andy Green sets jet-powered car record (714 mph)
• 1997 Medical drama "ER" is performed live on TV
• 1997 STS 86 (Atlantis 20) launches into orbit
• 1997 WNBA announces it will add Detroit & Washington, D.C. franchises
• 2000 American basketball player Vince Carter jumps over 7 foot 2 Frédéric Weis in 2000 Summer Olympics, known in France as "le dunk de la mort" (the dunk of death)
• 2002 The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia, Russia.
• 2003 A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore of Hokkaidō, Japan.
• 2004 ICC Men's Cricket Champions Trophy, The Oval, London: West Indies beat England by 2 wickets; Player of Series: Ramnaresh Sarwan, WI 166 runs

• 2007 Bungie Studios release Halo 3 for Xbox 360

• 2008 China launches the spacecraft Shenzhou 7.

• 2008 The "Celtic Tiger" slides into recession for the first time in over two decades, recording a 0.5% fall in second quarter GDP, following a 0.3% decline in the first quarter
• 2012 50 Taiwanese ships clash with the Japan Coast Guard in waters off the Senkaku Islands
• 2012 Anouchka van Miltenburg is elected President of the House of Representatives in the Netherlands

• 2015 Singapore closes schools due to hazardous levels of air pollution from fires in Indonesia

• 2016 World's largest radio telescope called Tianyain or FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope) has first light in Guizhou Province, China

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