Notable Historical Events on September 25th
September 25th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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 |
1066 |
The Battle of Stamford Bridge; an English army under King Harold Godwinson beat the invading Norwegians led by King Harald Hardrada and Harold's brother Tostig, who were both killed. Three weeks later Harold died fighting the Normans at Hastings. |
1212 |
Emperor Frederik II ends Golden Degree (Bohemia) |
1340 |
England & France sign disarmament treaty |
1396 |
Battle of Nicopolis: Sultan Bajezid I defeats Crusades armies |
1492 |
Crewman on Pinta sights "land"-a few weeks early |
1493 |
Columbus sails with 17 ships on 2nd voyage to the Americas |
1513 |
Vasco Nunez de Balboa is first European to see Pacific Ocean |
1555 |
Freedom of Religion in Augsburg |
1560 |
Spanish king Philip II names Frederik Schenck of Toutenburg as 1st archbishop of Utrecht |
1597 |
Amiens surrenders to French King Henri IV |
1639 |
First printing press in America |
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 |
1775 |
American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen captured |
1777 |
British general William Howe conquers Philadelphia |
1780 |
Benedict Arnold joins the British |
1781 |
-26] Joan Derks scatters "On the People of Netherlands" pamphlets |
1789 |
US Congress proposes Bill of Rights (10 of 12 will ratify) |
1804 |
12th amendment to US constitution, regulating judicial power |
1820 |
French Physicist Francois Arago announces electromagnetism in his discovery that a copper wire between the poles of a voltaic cell could laterally attract iron filings to itself |
1829 |
Failed assassination attempt on Simon Bolívar |
1836 |
HMS Beagle anchors at St Michael |
1844 |
Canada defeats USA by 23 runs in the 1st cricket international |
1846 |
US troops under Gen Taylor occupies Monterey Mexico |
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 Wash DC |
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 pubic health announcements on the dangers of smoking |
1882 |
1st baseball doubleheader (Providence & Worcester) |
1886 |
Comedy opera "Dorothy" 1st produced in London |
1888 |
Royal Court Theatre, London, opens |
1888 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes "Hound of Baskervilles" (BG) |
1890 |
Congress establishes Yosemite National Park (California) |
1890 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Silver Blaze" (BG) |
1897 |
1st British bus service opens |
1904 |
Charles Follis is 1st black to play proessional American football |
1906 |
John Galsworthy's "Silver Box" premieres in London |
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. |
1907 |
Jean Sibelius' 3rd Symphony premieres |
1908 |
Cubs' Ed Reulbach becomes only pitcher to throw doubleheader shutout |
1909 |
Hudson-Fulton Celebration opens in NY |
1911 |
French battleship Liberte explodes at Toulon Harbor, 285 killed |
1911 |
Ground breaking begins in Boston for Fenway Park |
1912 |
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York, New York. |
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. |
1919 |
President Woodrow Wilson is paralyzed by a stroke |
1920 |
34th US Women's Tennis: Molla Mallory beats M Zinderstein (6-3 6-1) |
1920 |
Vern Bradburn of Winnipeg Victorias kicks 9 singles in a game |
1922 |
Giants beat St Louis, to clinch John McGraw's 8th pennant |
1924 |
Malcolm Campbell sets world auto speed record at 146.16 MPH |
1926 |
9th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Salisbury Golf Club in Westbury, New York |
1926 |
Henry Ford announces 8 hour, 5-day work week |
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 |
1926 |
Mackenzie King is re-elected as Prime Minister of Canada |
1929 |
Queen-mother Emma opens Antonie van Leeuwenhoek House in Amsterdam |
1930 |
Austrian government of Vaugoin forms |
1930 |
Roger Hornsby replaces Joe McCarthy as Cubs manager |
1930 |
Zoe Akins' "Greeks Had a Word for it" premieres in NYC |
1932 |
Jimmie Foxx hits his 58th HR in last game of season |
1933 |
1st state poorhouse opens in Smyrna, Georgia |
1933 |
5th "extermination campaign" against communists in Nanjing China |
1934 |
John Van Druten's "Distaff Side" premieres in NYC |
1934 |
Lou Gehrig plays in his 1,500th consecutive game |
1934 |
Rainbow (US) beats Endeavour (England) in 16th America's Cup |
1935 |
Maxwell Anderson's "Winterset" premieres in NYC |
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 of P'ing-hsin-kuan Wutai Mountain |
1939 |
German Luftwaffe strikes Warsaw with (fire)bombs |
1939 |
Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra, so Andorra & Germany finally sign an official treaty ending WW I |
1940 |
German High Commissioner in Norway sets up Vidkun Quisling government |
1940 |
Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Southampton |
1941 |
Brooklyn Dodgers win their 1st pennant in 21 years |
1943 |
Russian troops liberate Smolensk |
1948 |
"Heaven on Earth" closes at Century Theater NYC after 12 performances |
1949 |
4th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Louise Suggs |
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 |
Francois "Doc" Duvalier wins Haitian presidential election |
1954 |
Indians win AL record 111 games |
1954 |
WCBD TV channel 2 in Charleston, SC (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1955 |
Detroit outfielder Al Kaline, 20, is youngest batting champ |
1955 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA Clock Golf Open |
1955 |
The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded. |
1956 |
First transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation (Newfoundland-Oban) |
1956 |
Brooklyn Dodger Sal Maglie no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 5-0 |
1957 |
300 US Army troops guard 9 black kids return to Central HS in Ark |
1957 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia |
1957 |
Soviet 7 year plan (1959-1965) announced |
1960 |
Chubby Checker's "Twist" hits #1 |
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 |
Black church is destroyed by fire in Macon Georgia |
1962 |
Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson in 1st round for heavyweight title |
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 |
"Do I Hear a Waltz?" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 220 perfs |
1965 |
60 year old Satchel Paige of KC A's pitches 3 scoreless innings |
1965 |
Beatle cartoon show begins in US |
1965 |
Children find trunk with corpse in Amsterdam canal |
1966 |
12th LPGA Championship won by Gloria Ehret |
1966 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 2nd Cello Concert premieres in Moscow |
1966 |
Smallest Yankee stadium crowd, 413 see White Sox win 4-1 |
1967 |
WGBX TV channel 44 in Boston, MA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1970 |
Ringo Starr releases his album "Beaucoups of Blues" |
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 |
1972 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open |
1973 |
3-man crew of Skylab 3 make safe splashdown in Pacific after 59 days |
1973 |
Mets beat Expos 2-1 on Willie Mays Night at Shea Stadium |
1974 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1974 |
Scientists first report that freon gases from aerosol sprays are destroying the ozone layer |
1975 |
Jackie Wilson, suffers heart attack & lapse into a 9 yr terminal coma |
1976 |
"Porgy & Bess" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 122 performances |
1976 |
Expo's last game at Montreal's Jarry Park |
1976 |
Bono, David Evans, his brother Dik and Adam Clayton respond to an advertisement on a bulletin board at Mount Temple posted by fellow student Larry Mullen Jr. to form a rock band, which would eventually become U2 |
1977 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament |
1978 |
PSA Boeing 727 & a Cessna private plane collide by San Diego, 144 die |
1979 |
"Evita" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 1568 performances |
1979 |
California Angels win their 1st NL West pennant |
1980 |
Chevy Chase calls Cary Grant a homo on Tomorrow show (suit follows) |
1980 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1980 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1980 |
Jerry Mumphrey joins Ozzie Smith, & Gene Richards to steal 50 bases this year for Padres |
1980 |
The first congress of the Democratic Youth Organization of Afghanistan held in Kabul. |
1981 |
Nolan Ryan's 5th career no-hitter as Astros beat Dodgers 5-0 |
1981 |
Rolling Stones begin their 6th US tour (JFK Stadium, Phila) |
1981 |
Sandra Day O'Connor sworn in as 1st female supreme court justice |
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 St Blue, Cheers, Ed Flanders & Shelley Long win |
1983 |
Bob Forsch pitches 2nd career no-hitter, Cards beat Expos 3-0 |
1983 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1984 |
"Quilters" opens at Jack Lawrence Theater NYC for 24 performances |
1984 |
1st London performance of musical "Stepping Out" presented |
1984 |
Egypt & Jordan regain diplomatic relations |
1984 |
NY Met Rusty Staub joins Ty Cobb, who hit HRs as a teen & in 40s |
1985 |
Akali Dal wins Punjab State election in India |
1985 |
Palestinian terrorists kill 3 Israeli sailors at Lanaca Cyprus |
1985 |
Rickey Henderson steals Yankee record 75th base of season |
1986 |
Antonin Scalia appointed to Supreme Court |
1986 |
Houston Astro Mike Scott no-hits SF Giants, 2-0 |
1987 |
2nd coup on Fiji led by Major General Sitiveni Rabuka |
1988 |
Florence Griffith Joyner runs Olympic record 100m in 10.54s |
1988 |
Kathy Guadagnino wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic |
1988 |
Christopher Jacobs, Troy Dalbey, Tom Hunter & Matt Biondi, swim world record 4x100 m freestyle (3:16.53) |
1989 |
Archaeologists open Titus of Rhine grave in Amsterdam |
1989 |
Ronald Harwood's "Another Time" premieres in London |
1989 |
Wade Boggs is 1st to get 200 hits & 100 walks in 4 consecutive seasons |
1990 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Forrest Theatre, Phila |
1990 |
1st 8 NY Yankees hit safely vs Balt Orioles to tie record |
1990 |
Oakland A's clinch 3rd straight AL West title |
1990 |
Saddam Hussein warns that US will repeat Vietnam experience |
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 |
"Barry Manilow's Showstoppers" opens at Paramount NYC |
1992 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
1992 |
Opening Main-Donau canal (North Sea-Black Sea) |
1992 |
Sparky Anderson ties Hughie Jennings as Detroit's winningest manager |
1992 |
US Mars Observer launched from Space shuttle |
1992 |
Gregory Kingsley, 12, wins right to divorce his parents & live with his foster parents, he takes name Shawn Russ |
1994 |
Oliver McCall TKOs Lennox Lewis in 2 for heavyweight boxing title |
1996 |
The last of the Magdalen Asylums closes in Ireland. |
1997 |
"ER" is performed live on TV |
1997 |
Britain's Andy Green sets jet-powered car record (714 mph) |
1997 |
Marv Albert plea bargains in assault case |
1997 |
STS 86 (Atlantis 20) launches into orbit |
1997 |
WNBA announces it will add Detroit & Wash DC franchises |
2002 |
The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia, Russia. |
2003 |
A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore of Hokkaidō, Japan. |
2005 |
E1 Train Disaster |
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; its last recession in 1983 saw thousands of people leave Ireland to seek work overseas |
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 |
2013 |
Oracle Team USA defeats Team New Zealand 9-8 to win the America's Cup |
2016 |
Suspect in shooting at Washington state mall captured: state police |
2016 |
Yemen plans UN complaint over Iran weapons transfers: minister |
2016 |
China, Cuba agree to deepen ties during PM Li's Havana visit |
2017 |
Trump issues new travel ban restricting entry from 8 countries |
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