Events September 25 P 2 | History by KabAstro

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Kurdistan Independence Referendum

2017 92% of Iraqi Kurds vote in favour of independence in controversial referendum

2017 Ex-New York congressman Anthony Weiner sentenced to 21 months in jail for sexting underage girl
2017 First ever woman graduates from the US Marine Corps' Infantry Officer Course
2017 TV show "Young Sheldon", prequel to "The Big Bang Theory" premieres, starring Iain Armitage
2017 Uber's licence to operate is not renewed by Transport for London in the UK, citing problems with background checks

2018 Comedian Bill Cosby sentenced to 3-10 years in jail for 2004 sexual assault, first celebrity to be jailed in the #MeToo era

2018 Instagram’s co-founders, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger resign from Instagram and parent company Facebook

2018 Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven loses a confidence vote after election results in a hung parliament
2018 US fashion company Michael Kors buys Italian brand Versace for $2.1 billion

2018 US President Donald Trump criticizes Globalism and Iran speaking at the UN General Assembly

2019 Australia's Capital Territory becomes the 1st state in Australia to legalize recreational marijuana
2019 Bulgarian economist Kristalina Georgieva named as the new head of the IMF

2019 Chinese President Xi Jinping opens Beijing's new Daxing International Airport designed by Zaha Hadid

2019 Hazzaa Al Mansoori becomes first Emirati in space and the first Arab astronaut to travel to the International Space Station, travelling on Russian Soyuz-MS 15 spacecraft
2019 Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige reported to have been asked to develop a Star Wars film by the Walt Disney Company
2019 Oaxaca becomes the second Mexican state to decriminalize abortion, during the first 12 weeks
2020 18 people in a government convoy killed by Islamist militants in Borno State, Nigeria

2020 Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg becomes the 1st woman to lie in state in the US Capitol in Washington D.C.

2020 Magawa, an African Giant Pouched Rat, is the first rat to be awarded a prestigious PDSA hero award, for sniffing out landmines in Cambodia
2020 Singapore announces it will be the first country in the world to use facial verification as part of its national identity scheme

2021 Brian Ortega competes for the UFC Featherweight Championship against Alexander Volkanovski at UFC 266, loses but earns Fight of the Night

2021 UK announces temporary visas to try and counteract shortage of lorry drivers for deliveries to the UK amid panic buying on fuel
2022 Cuba legalizes same-sex marriage as part of a new family code in a national referendum [1]

2022 Laver Cup Men's Tennis, London: Team World sweeps final day for 13-8 victory over Team Europe; tournament marks retirement of Roger Federer

2023 At least 68 people killed in a fuel depot explosion as ethnic Armenians rush to leave Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, after military offensive by Azerbaijan [1]
2023 Ukraine's military claims a missile strike three days ago killed the commander of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol [1]