# What happened on September 25 in history?

**Date:** September 25  
**Events recorded:** 46  
**Years spanned:** 275 – 2018  
**Full page:** https://thisday.info/events/september/25/

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## Featured Event

**2018** — Bill Cosby is sentenced to three to ten years in prison for aggravated sexual assault.

[Read more on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Cosby)

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## Events on this date

- **275** — For the last time, the Roman Senate chooses an emperor; they elect 75-year-old Marcus Claudius Tacitus. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus_(emperor)))
- **762** — Led by Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya, the Hasanid branch of the Alids begins the Alid Revolt against the Abbasid Caliphate. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_al-Nafs_al-Zakiyya))
- **1066** — In the Battle of Stamford Bridge, Harald Hardrada, the invading King of Norway, is defeated by King Harold II of England. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stamford_Bridge))
- **1237** — England and Scotland sign the Treaty of York, establishing the location of their common border. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_York))
- **1396** — Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Nicopolis))
- **1513** — Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasco_N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez_de_Balboa))
- **1555** — The Peace of Augsburg is signed by Emperor Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_of_Augsburg))
- **1690** — Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publick_Occurrences_Both_Forreign_and_Domestick))
- **1768** — Unification of Nepal ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_of_Nepal))
- **1775** — American Revolutionary War: Ethan Allen surrenders to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal in the Battle of Longue-Pointe during the invasion of Quebec. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War))
- **1775** — American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec sets off to join the American invasion. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Arnold))
- **1786** — The mine of Huancavelica in the Peruvian Andes collapses, killing more than hundred people. The event was a major setback for quicksilver production in the Spanish Empire. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huancavelica))
- **1789** — The United States Congress passes twelve constitutional amendments: the ten known as the Bill of Rights, the (unratified) Congressional Apportionment Amendment, and the Congressional Compensation Amendment. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights))
- **1790** — Four Great Anhui Troupes introduce Anhui opera to Beijing in honor of the Qianlong Emperor's eightieth birthday. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hui_opera))
- **1804** — The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for allowing the expedition to move further upriver. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_and_Clark_Expedition))
- **1868** — The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Nevsky is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_frigate_Alexander_Nevsky))
- **1890** — The United States Congress establishes Sequoia National Park. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoia_National_Park))
- **1906** — Leonardo 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 2 km (1.2 mi), in what is considered to be the origin of modern wireless remote-control operation principles. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_Torres_Quevedo))
- **1911** — An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_battleship_Libert%C3%A9))
- **1912** — Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_University_Graduate_School_of_Journalism))
- **1915** — World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Megiddo_(1918)))
- **1926** — The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1926_Slavery_Convention))
- **1937** — Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War))
- **1944** — World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem via Oosterbeek. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II))
- **1955** — The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Jordanian_Air_Force))
- **1956** — TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAT-1))
- **1957** — Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rock_Central_High_School))
- **1959** — S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon, is mortally shot by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._W._R._D._Bandaranaike))
- **1962** — The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algeria))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Yemen_civil_war))
- **1963** — Lord Denning releases the UK government's official report on the Profumo affair. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Denning%2C_Baron_Denning))
- **1964** — The Mozambican War of Independence against Portugal begins. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozambican_War_of_Independence))
- **1969** — The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is signed. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisation_of_Islamic_Cooperation))
- **1974** — Dr. Frank Jobe performs first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (better known as Tommy John surgery) on baseball player Tommy John. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Jobe))
- **1977** — About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Marathon))
- **1978** — PSA 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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Southwest_Airlines_Flight_182))
- **1981** — Belize joins the United Nations. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize))
- **1983** — Thirty-eight IRA prisoners, armed with six handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze Prison. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze_Prison_escape))
- **1985** — 3 civilians killed by alleged supporters of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Larnaca yacht killings. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Liberation_Organization))
- **1987** — Fijian Governor-General Penaia Ganilau is overthrown in a coup d'état led by Lieutenant colonel Sitiveni Rabuka. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penaia_Ganilau))
- **1992** — NASA launches the Mars Observer. Eleven months later, the probe would fail while preparing for orbital insertion. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA))
- **1997** — NASA launches Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-86 to the Mir space station. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Atlantis))
- **1998** — PauknAir Flight 4101, a British Aerospace 146, crashes near Melilla Airport in Melilla, Spain, killing 38 people. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PauknAir_Flight_4101))
- **2003** — The 8.3 Mw  Hokkaidō earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Tokachi_earthquake))
- **2018** — Bill Cosby is sentenced to three to ten years in prison for aggravated sexual assault. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Cosby))

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## Notable births on September 25

- **2009** — **Leah Jeffries** — American actress ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leah_Jeffries))
- **2003** — **Bella Ramsey** — English actor ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_Ramsey))
- **2001** — **Cade Cunningham** — American basketball player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cade_Cunningham))
- **2000** — **Lilas Ikuta** — Japanese singer and songwriter ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilas_Ikuta))
- **1995** — **Todd Hazelwood** — Australian race car driver ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Hazelwood))
- **1993** — **Brandin Cooks** — American football player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandin_Cooks))
- **1993** — **Toby Greene** — Australian footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby_Greene))
- **1992** — **Zoël Amberg** — Swiss race car driver ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zo%C3%ABl_Amberg))
- **1992** — **Massimo Luongo** — Australian footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massimo_Luongo))
- **1992** — **Keauna McLaughlin** — American figure skater ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keauna_McLaughlin))

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## Notable deaths on September 25

- **2023** — **David McCallum** — Scottish actor (born 1933) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McCallum))
- **2017** — **Jan Tříska** — Czech actor (born 1936) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_T%C5%99%C3%ADska))
- **2016** — **José Fernández** — Cuban-American baseball player (born 1992) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Fern%C3%A1ndez_(right-handed_pitcher)))
- **2016** — **Arnold Palmer** — American golfer (born 1929) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Palmer))
- **2016** — **Nahid Hattar** — Jordanian writer and political activist (born 1960) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahed_Hattar))
- **2015** — **Claudio Baggini** — Italian Roman Catholic prelate (born 1936) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudio_Baggini))
- **2015** — **John Galvin** — American general (born 1929) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Galvin_(general)))
- **2015** — **Tom Kelley** — American baseball player and manager (born 1944) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Kelley_(baseball)))
- **2015** — **Moti Kirschenbaum** — Israeli journalist (born 1939) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moti_Kirschenbaum))
- **2014** — **Ulrick Chérubin** — Haitian-Canadian educator and politician (born 1943) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrick_Ch%C3%A9rubin))

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