September 25

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Events

=Pre-1600=

  • 275 – For the last time, the Roman Senate chooses an emperor; they elect 75-year-old Marcus Claudius Tacitus.{{cite book|author1=Edward Smedley|author2=Hugh James Rose|author3=Henry John Rose|title=Encyclopaedia Metropolitana: History and biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MD5OAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA57|year=1845|publisher=B. Fellowes|pages=57}}
  • 762 – Led by Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya, the Hasanid branch of the Alids begins the Alid Revolt against the Abbasid Caliphate.
  • 1066 – In the Battle of Stamford Bridge, Harald Hardrada, the invading King of Norway, is defeated by King Harold II of England.{{cite book|author=Martin Collier|title=Changing Times 1066-1500|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mp79f2als4oC&pg=PA42|year=2003|publisher=Heinemann|isbn=978-0-435-31334-0|pages=42}}
  • 1237 – England and Scotland sign the Treaty of York, establishing the location of their common border.
  • 1396 – Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis.
  • 1513 – Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean.
  • 1555 – The Peace of Augsburg is signed by Emperor Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League.

=1601–1900=

=1901–present=

  • 1906Leonardo Torres Quevedo demonstrates the Telekino in the Bilbao Abra (Spain), guiding an electric boat from the shore with people on board, which was controlled at a distance over {{cvt|2|km}}, in what is considered to be the origin of modern wireless remote-control operation principles.{{cite web|title=1902 – Telekine (Telekino) – Leonardo Torres Quevedo (Spanish)|date=2010-12-17|url=https://cyberneticzoo.com/early-robot-enabling-technologies/1902-telekine-telekino-leonardo-torres-quevedo-spanish/}}Randy Alfred, "[https://www.wired.com/2011/11/1107wireless-remote-control/ Nov. 7, 1905: Remote Control Wows Public]", Wired, 7 November 2011.{{cite journal |author=A.P. Yuste |title=Electrical Engineering Hall of Fame. Early Developments of Wireless Remote Control: The Telekino of Torres-Quevedo |volume=96 |issue=1 |date=January 2008 |journal=Proceedings of the IEEE|doi=10.1109/JPROC.2007.909931 |s2cid=111010868 |url=http://oa.upm.es/1968/ }}
  • 1911 – An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.
  • 1912Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
  • 1915World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
  • 1918 – World War I: The end of the Battle of Megiddo, the climax of the British Army's Sinai and Palestine campaign under General Edmund Allenby.{{cite web |title=Battle of Megiddo {{!}} National Army Museum |url=https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/battle-megiddo |website=www.nam.ac.uk |access-date=23 August 2022 |language=en}}
  • 1926 – The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
  • 1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan.
  • 1944World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem via Oosterbeek.
  • 1955 – The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
  • 1956TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.
  • 1957Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
  • 1959Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
  • 1962 – The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.
  • 1962 – The North Yemen Civil War begins when Abdullah al-Sallal dethrones the newly crowned Imam al-Badr and declares Yemen a republic under his presidency.
  • 1963Lord Denning releases the UK government's official report on the Profumo affair.
  • 1964 – The Mozambican War of Independence against Portugal begins.
  • 1969 – The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is signed.
  • 1974 – Dr. Frank Jobe performs first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (better known as Tommy John surgery) on baseball player Tommy John.
  • 1977 – About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon.
  • 1978PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, killing all 135 aboard Flight 182, both occupants of the Cessna, as well as seven people on the ground.{{ASN accident|id=19780925-0}}
  • 1981Belize joins the United Nations.
  • 1983 – Thirty-eight IRA prisoners, armed with six handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze Prison.
  • 1985 – 3 civilians killed by alleged supporters of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Larnaca yacht killings.{{Cite news|last=Rogg|first=Margaret L.|date=1985-09-26|title=3 Israelis Slain by Palestinians in Cyprus |language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/26/world/3-israelis-slain-by-palestinians-in-cyprus.html|access-date=2022-02-17|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2018-10-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181021182314/https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/26/world/3-israelis-slain-by-palestinians-in-cyprus.html|url-status=live}}
  • 1987 – Fijian Governor-General Penaia Ganilau is overthrown in a coup d'état led by Lieutenant colonel Sitiveni Rabuka.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/07/world/fiji-coup-leader-declares-republic.html|title=Fiji coup leader declares republic|work=The New York Times|date=7 October 1987|access-date=26 November 2024}}
  • 1992NASA launches the Mars Observer. Eleven months later, the probe would fail while preparing for orbital insertion.
  • 1997 – NASA launches Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-86 to the Mir space station.{{Cite web |title=STS-86 |url=http://spacefacts.de/mission/english/sts-86.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180520023309/http://www.spacefacts.de/mission/english/sts-80.htm |archive-date=May 20, 2018 |access-date=January 3, 2018 |publisher=Spacefacts}}
  • 1998PauknAir Flight 4101, a British Aerospace 146, crashes near Melilla Airport in Melilla, Spain, killing 38 people.{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident British Aerospace BAe-146-100 EC-GEO Melilla Airport (MLN)|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19980925-0|access-date=2021-06-01|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=Aviation Safety Network}}
  • 2003 – The 8.3 {{M|w}} Hokkaidō earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.
  • 2018Bill Cosby is sentenced to three to ten years in prison for aggravated sexual assault.

Births

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=1601–1900=

=1901–present=

Deaths

=Pre-1600=

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=1901–present=

Holidays and observances

  • Armed Forces Day or Revolution Day (Mozambique)
  • Bangladeshi Immigration Day (United States){{cite news|url=https://bangla.thedailystar.net/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%83%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF/%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8-%E0%A6%90%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B9%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF/%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8/%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%98%E0%A7%87-%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%9C-%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A7%9F-%E0%A6%AD%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B7%E0%A6%A3-%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BF%E0%A7%9F%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%9B%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8-%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%99%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%97%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A7%E0%A7%81-264721|title=জাতিসংঘে আজ বাংলায় ভাষণ দিয়েছিলেন বঙ্গবন্ধু|language=bn|date=25 September 2021|access-date=12 July 2024|newspaper=The Daily Star|archive-date=13 July 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240713110815/https://bangla.thedailystar.net/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%83%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF/%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8-%E0%A6%90%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B9%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF/%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8/%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%98%E0%A7%87-%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%9C-%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A7%9F-%E0%A6%AD%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B7%E0%A6%A3-%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BF%E0%A7%9F%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%9B%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8-%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%99%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%97%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A7%E0%A7%81-264721|url-status=live}}
  • Christian feast day:
  • Abadir and Iraja and Companions (Coptic Church)
  • Aunarius (Aunacharius)
  • Anathalon (Archdiocese of Milan)
  • Cadoc
  • Ceolfrith
  • Cleopas
  • Euphrosyne of Alexandria
  • Finbarr
  • Fermin of Amiens
  • Lancelot Andrewes (Church of England)
  • Sergius of Radonezh (repose)
  • Vincent Strambi
  • September 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  • Day of National Recognition for the Harkis (France)
  • National Research Administrators Day (United States){{Cite news|url=https://nationaldaycalendar.com/national-research-administrator-day/|title=National Research Administrator Day – National Day Calendar|work=National Day Calendar|access-date=2018-09-25|language=en-US}}
  • National Youth Day (Nauru)

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