This Day in History for 25th September

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 192

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 marks the end of the Anglo-Saxon era
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 America
1513 - Vasco Nunez de Balboa is 1st European to see Pacific Ocean
1555 - Freedom of Religion in Augsburg
1560 - Spanish king Philip II names Frederik Schenck of Toutenburg, 1st archbishop of Utrecht
1597 - Amiens surrenders to French King Henri IV
1639 - 1st 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 Turkish invasion army
1690 - Publick Occurrences, 1st US (Boston) newspaper, publish 1st & last ed
1775 - American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen captured
1777 - English general William Howe conquers Philadelphia
US Defector General Benedict Arnold 1780 - Benedict Arnold joins the British
1781 - -26] Joan Derks scatters "On the People of Netherlands" pamphlets
1789 - Congress proposes Bill of Rights (10 of 12 will ratify)
1804 - 12th amendment to US constitution, regulating judicial power
1829 - Failed assassination attempt on Simon Bolívar
1836 - HMS Beagle anchors at St Michael
1844 - Canada defeat 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 Neuski shipwrecks off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei of Russia.
1882 - 1st baseball doubleheader (Providence & Worcester)
Military and Political Leader Simon Bolivar 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 pro 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 - -26] Battle at Loos: 8,246 British & 0 German casualties
1915 - The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
US President Woodrow Wilson 1919 - President Woodrow Wilson is paralyzed by a stroke
1920 - 34th US Womens Tennis: M B Mallory beats M Zinderstein (63 61)
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 GC Westbury NY
1926 - Canadian government of MacKenzie King forms
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 - Walter Hagen wins PGA golf tournament
1926 - Yankees take a doubleheader from Browns to clinch AL pennant
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
Ford Motor Company Founder Henry Ford 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 - 1st transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation (Scot-Canada)
1956 - Brooklyn Dodger Sal Maglie no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 5-0
1956 - Transatlantic telephone cable (Newfoundland-Oban) is used
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

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 237

1358 - Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1408)
1525 - Steven Borough, English explorer (d. 1584)
1593 - Matthew Merian, the Elder, engraver/bookseller
1599 - Francesco Borromini, Italian architect (d. 1667)
1612 - Mark Zuesius Boxhorn, Dutch historian
1644 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (d. 1710)
1683 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, Dijon France, composer (Traite) (baptized)
1711 - Qianlong Emperor of China (d. 1799)
1714 - Jean-Benoit Leclair, composer
1725 - Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, designed & built 1st automobile
1729 - Christian G Heyne, German archaeologist
1738 - Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (d. 1789)
1741 - Vaclav Pichl, composer
1744 - Frederik Willem II, king of Prussia (1786-97)
1752 - Carl Stenborg, composer
1764 - Fletcher Christian, English Bounty mutineer (d. 1793)
1766 - Armand-Emmanuel, duc de Richelieu, French PM (1815-18, 1820-21)
1773 - Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (d. 1856)
1780 - Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (d. 1801)
1782 - Charles Robert Maturin, Irish playwright and novelist (d. 1824)
1785 - George Frederic Pinto, composer
1793 - Felicia Dorothea Hermans, poet
1796 - Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (d. 1875)
1798 - Henri Scheffer, painter
1798 - JBAL Leonce Elie de Beaumont, French mine engineer/geologist
1805 - Henry P Scholte, Dutch/US vicar/founder (Pella colony in Iowa)
1822 - Adolph Wilhelm August Friedrich von Steinwehr, Brig Gen (Union vol)
1823 - Thomas John Wood, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906
1829 - William Michael Rossetti, civil servant
1830 - Karl Klindworth, pianist/conductor
1832 - William Le Baron Jenney, US, architect/"father of skyscraper"
1839 - Karl A von Zittel, German geologist/paleontologist (Libya)
1839 - [Wilhel]Mina JPR Kruseman, writer/feminist
1852 - Cornelis J Snijders, supreme commander of Dutch Navy (1910-18)
1852 - Hans Vaihinger, German philosopher (Nietzsche Philosophy)
1858 - Emmeline Pankhurst-Goulden, English feminist
1862 - Leon Boellmann, French organist/composer (Variations Symphoniques)
1862 - Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952)
1866 - Thomas Hunt Morgan, US, biologist (Nobel-1933)
1867 - Evgenii Miller, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1938)
1872 - Charles Blake Cochran, impresario
1877 - Plutarco Elias Calles, Mexican revolutionary, president (1924-28)
1879 - Luis da Costa, composer
1879 - Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer and labor leader, Father of the Philippine National Language and Grammar (d. 1963)
1881 - Lu Xun, Chinese writer (d. 1936)
1884 - Cornelis "Kees" Boeke, Dutch educationalist
1886 - Jesus Guridi, composer
1886 - John Howard Lawson, scriptwriter/playwright
1887 - May Sutton Bundy, US, 1st US woman to win Wimbledon (US 1904)
1889 - George Douglas Howard Cole, socialist/novelist
1889 - C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Scottish writer and translator (d. 1930)
1896 - Elsa Triolet, writer
1896 - Roberto Gerhard, composer
1896 - Sandro Pertini, president Italy
1897 - Teddy Hart, NYC, actor (3 Men on a Horse)
Author and Nobel Laureate William Faulkner (1897) 1897 - William Faulkner, New Albany Mississippi, author (Sound & Fury-Nobel 1949), (d. 1962)
1898 - Robert Brackman American artist (d. 1980)
1901 - Robert Bresson, French film director (d. 1999)
1902 - Ernst von Salomon, German writer (Kette Der Tausend Kraniche)
1902 - Jeno Takacs, composer
1903 - John Everett Allen, US businessman
1903 - Mark Rothko, [Marcus Rothkovich], US, painter (Green on Blue)
1905 - Nahman Avigad, Israeli archaeologist (Discovering Jerusalem)
1905 - Red Smith, Green Bay Wisc, sportscaster/columnist (Fight Talk)
1906 - Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, St Petersburg Russia, composer [NS]
1906 - Jaroslav Jezek, composer
1906 - Madeleine Bourdouxhe, writer
1906 - Phyllis Pearsall, painter/writer
1907 - Jan Felderhof, composer
1907 - Phyllis Pearsall-Gross, British Geographer (A to Z Map Company)
1907 - Robert Bresson, France, director (Pickpocket, Mouchette)
1908 - Eugen Suchon, composer
1909 - Florizel A Glasspole, governor-gen of Jamaica (1973-91)
1911 - Lionel Henry Nowak, composer
1911 - Eric Williams, first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 1981)
1913 - David Hunt, British diplomat/quiz winner
1914 - Frederick William Sternfield, musicologist
1915 - Ethel Rosenberg, American Communist (d. 1953)
1916 - Tolia Nikiprowetzsy, composer
1917 - Johnny Sain, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1918 - Phil Rizzuto, Bkln NY, sportscaster/shortstop (NY Yankees-MVP 1950)
1920 - Sergey Bondarchuk, Belozerka Ukraine, director (War & Peace)
1921 - Remy C, de Kerckhove, Flemish poet
1921 - Robert Muldoon, premier NZ (1975-84)/chairman (IMF)
1922 - John Farr, British MP
1922 - Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (d. 1992)
1924 - Norman Ayrton, opera director (Royal Shakespearean Acad - UK)
1925 - Silvana Pampanini, Rome Italy, actress (Day in Court, Island Sinner)
1925 - William Edgar Mitchell, physicist
1925 - Paul MacCready, engineer/inventor (1st man-powered aircraft)
1926 - Aldo Ray, Pen Argyl PA, actor (God's Little Acre, Green Beret)
1926 - John Ericson, Dusseldorf Germany, actor (Sam Bolt-Honey West)
1926 - Sergei Filatov, USSR, equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1960)
1926 - Jack Hyles, Baptist pastor (d. 2001)
1927 - Carl Braun, basketball player (NY Knicks)
1927 - Colin Rex Davis, Weybridge England, conductor (NY Met 1967-71)
1928 - Hendrika G "Tine" de Vries, actress (Seaman's Wife)
1929 - John Rutherford, cricketer (one Test for Australia 1956)
1929 - Ronnie Barker, British comedian (2 Ronnies)
1929 - Barbara Walters, American broadcaster

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 9 of 9

1940 - "Sullivan's Travels" actress Veronica Lake (18) weds American motion picture art director and set designer John S. Detlie (31)
1954 - "Roman Holiday" actress Audrey Hepburn (25) weds actor Mel Ferrer (37) in Burgenstock
1959 - Cosmopolitan founder Helen Gurley Brown and film (37) weds theatre producer David Brown (43)
2003 - Prince of Venice and Piedmont Emanuele Filiberto (31) weds French actress Clotilde Courau (34) at the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Rome
2004 - Academy Award winning actor Kevin Costner (49) weds model and handbag designer Christine Baumgartner (30) at his 165-acre ranch in Aspen, Colorado
2005 - "Gremlins" actor Zach Galligan (41) weds Ling-Ling Hu Ingerick at New York City's Yale Club in New York City
2010 - Actress Emily Deschanel (33) weds writer-actor David Hornsby (34) in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles
2010 - PayPal founder Elon Musk (39) weds actress Talulah Riley (24) at Dornoch Cathedral in Scotland
2010 - Charlie Sheen's daughter Cassandra Estevez (25) weds Casey Huffman (27) in Santa Barbara, California

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 124

813 - al-Amin, Arabic kalief of Islam (809-813), murdered
1066 - Harald III Hardrada, King of Norway (1047-66), dies in battle at 51
1066 - Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria, killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge
1086 - William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1025)
1333 - Prince Morikuni, Japanese shogun (b. 1301)
1392 - Sergius van Radonesj, Russian saint, dies at 78
1396 - Jean de Vienne, French admiral/crusader, dies in battle
1396 - Odard de Chasseron, French knight/crusader, dies in battle
1396 - Philip of Bar, French knight/crusader, dies in battle
1496 - Piero Capponi, Italian soldier and statesman (b. 1447)
1501 - Dzore Drzic, Croatish poet, dies
1506 - Felipe I, the handsome, King of Castile (Spain) (1504-06), dies
1525 - Johannes Pistorius, [Bakker], RC pastor/church reformer, burned at 26
1534 - Clement VII, [Giulio de' Medici], Italian Pope (1523-34), dies at 56
1602 - Caspar Peucer, German reformer (b. 1525)
1617 - Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan (b. 1617)
1617 - Francisco Suarez, Spanish Jesuit theologian (b. 1548)
1619 - Francesco Soto de Langa, composer, dies
1630 - Ambrogio Spinola, Spanish marquis of Balbases, dies at about 61
1665 - Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria (b. 1610)
1680 - Samuel Butler, poet/satirist, dies
1716 - Johann Christoph Pez, composer, dies at 52
1727 - Jacques Abbadie, French theologist, dies at about 73
1733 - Georg Motz, composer, dies at 79
1774 - John Bradstreet, Canadian-born soldier (b. 1714)
1777 - Johann Heinrich Lambert, mathematician, dies at 49
1791 - William Bradford, American printer (b. 1719)
1792 - Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (b. 1710)
1794 - Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (b. 1718)
1808 - Richard Porson, scholar, dies
1813 - Braz Francisco de Lima, composer, dies at 61
1825 - Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (b. 1879)
1840 - Jacques-Etienne-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald, Duc de Tarente, soldier
1849 - Johann Baptist Strauss, elder, composer (Radetzky-Marsch), dies at 45
1860 - Carl Friedrich Zollner, composer, dies at 60
1867 - Oliver Loving, American pioneer rancher (b. 1812)
1871 - Arvir A Afzelius, Swedish story teller, dies
1876 - A Glabbrenner, writer, dies at 66
1900 - Félix-Gabriel Marchand, premier of Québec (b. 1832)
1901 - Arthur Fremantle, British general and American Civil War observer (b. 1835)
1905 - Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (b. 1853)
1914 - A Lichtenstein, writer, dies at 25
1914 - Jan B Stobbaerts, Flemish painter, dies at 76
1916 - Julius Fucik, composer, dies at 44
1917 - Thomas Ashe, Irish revolutionary (b. 1885)
1918 - John Ireland, Irish/US archbishop of St Paul, dies at 80
1918 - Mikhail Alekseev, Russian general (b. 1857)
1920 - William F Sudds, composer, dies at 77
1926 - Herbert Booth, son of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1862)
1928 - Karl Schneider, cricketer (South Aust bat), dies of leukaemia at 23
1929 - Miller Huggins, manager (NY Yankees), dies from blood poisoning at 49
1933 - Paul Ehrenfest, Austria/Neth physicist, dies at 53
1933 - Ring Lardner, American writer (b. 1885)
1944 - Jakob Schaffner, Swiss writer (Irrfahrten), dies at 68
1944 - Leo Justinus Kauffmann, composer, dies at 43
1945 - Bela Bartok, composer, dies at 64
1945 - Charles A Ellwood, US sociologist/psychologist, dies at 72
1953 - Dimitur Poljanov, [Popov], Bulgaria poet (Iron Verses), dies
1954 - Eugenio d' Ors y Rovira, Spanish essayist/philosopher, dies at 71
1958 - John B Watson, US psychologist/behaviorist, dies
1959 - Ennio Porrino, composer, dies at 49
1959 - Helen Broderick, comedienne/actress (Swing Time, Top Hat), dies
1959 - S W R D Bandaranaike, Ceylon's PM, assassinated by a Buddhist monk
1960 - Emily Post, etiquette expert, dies at 86
1961 - Frank Fay, actor (God's Gift to Women), dies in Santa Monica CA
1961 - Frank Fay American actor (b. 1897)
1970 - Efim Golishev, composer, dies at 73
1970 - Erich M Remarque, German writer (Im West Nichts Neues), dies at 72
1971 - TC Jones, female impersonator, dies of cancer at 50
1974 - Coco the Clown, [Nikolai Poliakov], dies
1974 - William Sloane, publisher/writer ("Edge of Running Water"), dies
1975 - Bob Considine, newscaster (Tonight! America After Dark), dies at 68
1977 - Sidney van den Bergh, Dutch businessman/politician, dies at 78
1978 - Claire Adams, actress (Legally Dead, End of the Road), dies at 80
1979 - Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish athlete and actor (b. 1915)
1980 - John Bonham, English pop drummer (Led Zeppelin), overdoses at 32
1980 - Lewis Milestone, Moldovan film director (b. 1895)
1980 - Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (b. 1883)
1980 - Earl Curry, American religious author (b. 1890)
1983 - Leopold III, king of Belgium (1934-51), dies
1984 - Walter Pidgeon, actor (Forbidden Planet, Mrs Miniver), dies at 87
1985 - Albert Moeschinger, composer, dies at 88
1986 - Ben Sajet, physician/politician, dies at 99
1986 - Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist (b. 1909)
1986 - Donald MacDonald, Canadian politician (b.1909)
1987 - Emlyn Williams, actor/director (I Accuse, Ivanhoe, Scarf), dies at 81
1987 - Mary Astor, actress (Cynthia, Meet Me in St Louis, Fiesta), dies at 81
1988 - Billy Carter, Pres Carter's brother Billy, dies of cancer at 51
1991 - Klaus Barbie, Gestapo chief of Lyon, dies of cancer at 77
1991 - Max Koot, royal photographer, dies
1991 - Viviane Romance, French actress (b. 1912)
1994 - John Richard Ravensdale, historian, dies at 73
1994 - Kitty Masters, actress, dies at 92
1994 - Ludwig Ferdinand von Hohenzollern, Germ prince of Prussia, dies at 86
1994 - Mark Alexander Abrams, market Researcher, dies at 88
1995 - Bessie Annie Elizabeth Delany, dentist writer, dies at 104
1995 - Dave Bowen, footballer, dies at 67
1995 - Dorothy Dickson, actress/dancer (Paying the Piper), dies at 102
1996 - Betty Phyllis Gathergood, curator, dies at 80
1996 - Nicu Ceausescu, playboy, dies at 45