What happened on September 25? There are more than 363 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About September 25
September 25 is the 269th day of the year 2024. There are 97 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday. This day falls under the 39th week of the year 2024.
On this day in West Concord, Minnesota 55985 sunrise will occur at 07:01 AM and sunset will occur at 07:04 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Libra. The modern birthstone for this month is Sapphire while the mystical birthstone is Agate.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 126 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For September 25
- 275In Rome, (after the assassination of Aurelian), the Senate proclaims Marcus Claudius Tacitus Emperor.
- 303On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France.
- 1066The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking invasions of England.
- 1396Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis.
- 1513Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean.
- 1555The Peace of Augsburg is signed in Augsburg by Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League.
- 1690Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.
- 1775Ethan Allen surrenders to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal during the Battle of Longue-Pointe. At the same time, Benedict Arnold and his expeditionary company set off from Fort Western, bound for Quebec City (Invasion of Canada (1775)).
- 1789The U.S. Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: the Congressional Apportionment Amendment (which was never ratified), the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights.
- 1804The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for moving further upriver.
- 1846U.S. forces led by Zachary Taylor capture the Mexican city of Monterrey.
- 1868The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Neuski is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei of Russia.
- 1890The U.S. Congress establishes Sequoia National Park.
- 1906In 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.
- 1911Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1912Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York, New York.
- 1915World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
- 1929Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
- 1942World War II: Swiss Police Instruction of September 25, 1942 – this instruction denied entry into Switzerland to Jewish refugees.
- 1944World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem in the Netherlands, thus ending the Battle of Arnhem and Operation Market Garden.
- 1955The 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.
- 1962The People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.
- 1970Cease-fire between Jordan and the Fedayeen ends fighting triggered by four hijackings on September 6 and 9.
- 1972In a referendum, the people of Norway reject membership of the European Community.
- 1977About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon.
- 1978PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727-214, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, California, resulting in the deaths of 144 people.
- 1981Belize joins the United Nations.
- 1981Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the 102nd person sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and the first woman to hold the office.
- 1983Maze Prison escape: 38 republican prisoners, armed with 6 handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze prison. It is the largest prison escape since WWII and in British history.
- 1992NASA launched a $511 million probe to Mars in the first U.S. mission to the planet in 17 years. Eleven months later, the probe would fail.
- 1996The last of the Magdalene Asylums closes in Ireland.
- 2002The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia, Russia.
- 2003A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.
- 2008China launches the spacecraft Shenzhou 7.
- 2009U.S. President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in a joint TV appearance for a G-20 summit, accused Iran of building a secret nuclear enrichment facility.
- 2010Mahmoud Abbas speaks at United Nations General Assembly to request that Israel end its policy of building settlements in the West Bank.
Who Were Born On September 25?
- 1358Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1408)
- 1525Steven Borough, English explorer (d. 1584)
- 1599Francesco Borromini, Swiss Italian architect (d. 1667)
- 1644Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (d. 1710)
- 1683Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (d. 1764)
- 1694Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1754)
- 1711Qianlong Emperor of China (d. 1799)
- 1725Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French steam vehicle pioneer (d. 1804)
- 1738Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (d. 1789)
- 1744Frederick William II of Prussia (d. 1797)
- 1764Fletcher Christian, English Bounty mutineer (d. 1793)
- 1766Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French-Russian statesman (d. 1822)
- 1771Nikolay Nikolayevich Raevsky, Russian general (d. 1829)
- 1773Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (d. 1856)
- 1780Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (d. 1801)
- 1782Charles Robert Maturin, Irish playwright and novelist (d. 1824)
- 1798Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist (d. 1874)
- 1816Georg August Rudolph, German politician (d. 1893)
- 1825Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (d. 1879)
- 1825William Pitt Ballinger, American lawyer and statesman (d. 1888)
- 1839Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist (d. 1904)
- 1862Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952)
- 1862Léon Boëllmann, French composer (d. 1897)
- 1866Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1945)
- 1867Evgenii Miller, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1938)
- 1879Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer and labor leader (d. 1963)
- 1881Lu Xun, Chinese writer (d. 1936)
- 1888Hanna Ralph, German actress (d. 1978)
- 1889C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Scottish writer and translator (d. 1930)
- 1896Sandro Pertini, Italian statesman (d. 1990)
- 1897William Faulkner, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1962)
- 1898Robert Brackman American artist (d. 1980)
- 1901Gordon Coventry, Australian rules footballer (d. 1968)
- 1901Robert Bresson, French film director (d. 1999)
- 1903Mark Rothko, Latvian-born American painter (d. 1970)
- 1906Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d. 1975)
- 1908Jacqueline Audry, French film director (d. 1977)
- 1911Eric Williams, Trinidad and Tobago statesman (d. 1981)
- 1916Deendayal Upadhyaya, Indian philosopher and leader (d. 1968)
- 1916Jessica Anderson, Australian author (d. 2010)
- 1917Johnny Sain, American baseball player (d. 2006)
- 1917Phil Rizzuto, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2007)
- 1920Sergei Bondarchuk, Ukrainian-born actor (d. 1994)
- 1921Sir Robert Muldoon, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1992)
- 1922Hammer DeRoburt, Nauruian statesman (d. 1992)
- 1923Sam Rivers, American musician
- 1925Paul B. MacCready, Jr., American aeronautical engineer (d. 2007)
- 1925Silvana Pampanini, Italian actress
- 1926Aldo Ray, American actor (d. 1991)
- 1926Jack Hyles, Baptist pastor (d. 2001)
- 1927Sir Colin Davis, English conductor
- 1929Barbara Walters, American broadcaster
- 1929Delia Scala, Italian actress (d. 2004)
- 1929Ronnie Barker, British comedian and actor (d. 2005)
- 1930Shel Silverstein, American humorist, singer-songwriter and author (d. 1999)
- 1931Manouchehr Atashi, Iranian poet (d. 2005)
- 1932Adolfo Suárez, Prime Minister of Spain (1977–1981)
- 1932Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and composer (d. 1982)
- 1932Terry Medwin, Welsh retired footballer
- 1933Brian Murphy, British actor
- 1933Erik Darling, American folk singer/songwriter (d. 2008)
- 1933Hubie Brown, American basketball coach and broadcaster
- 1933Ian Tyson, Canadian singer-songwriter and rancher
- 1934Jean Sorel, French actor
- 1936Juliet Prowse, South African actress and dancer (d. 1996)
- 1938Jonathan Motzfeldt, Greenlander statesman (d. 2010)
- 1938Ron Hill, British runner
- 1939David S. Mann, American politician
- 1939Feroz Khan, Indian actor (d. 2009)
- 1942Oscar Bonavena, Argentine heavyweight boxer (d. 1976)
- 1943John Locke, American musician (d. 2006)
- 1943Josh Taylor, American actor
- 1943Robert Gates, American Secretary of Defense
- 1943Robert Walden, American actor
- 1944Doris Matsui, American politician
- 1944Grayson Shillingford, West Indian cricket bowler
- 1944Michael Douglas, American actor and producer
- 1945Carol Vadnais, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1945Dee Dee Warwick, American singer (d. 2008)
- 1945Kathleen Brown, American politician
- 1946Bryan MacLean, American musician and songwriter (Love) (d. 1998)
- 1946Felicity Kendal, British actress
- 1946Jerry Penrod, American bass player
- 1947Cecil Womack, American musician
- 1947Cheryl Tiegs, American model
- 1947Firmine Richard, French actress
- 1947Giannos Kranidiotis, Greek diplomat and politician (d. 1999)
- 1948Mimi Kennedy, American actress
- 1951Bob McAdoo, American basketball player
- 1951Mark Hamill, American actor
- 1951Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish film director, screenwriter, and producer
- 1952Anson Williams, American actor and director
- 1952Cherríe Moraga, American writer
- 1952Christopher Reeve, American actor (d. 2004)
- 1952Colin Friels, Scottish actor
- 1952Gloria Jean Watkins, American scholar
- 1952Jimmy Garvin, American professional wrestler
- 1952Tommy Norden, American actor
- 1953Richard Harvey, British musician and composer (Gryphon)
- 1954Juande Ramos, Spanish Football Manager
- 1954Sylvester Croom, American college football coach
- 1955Amyr Klink, Brazilian explorer
- 1955Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, German footballer
- 1955Ludo Coeck, Belgian footballer (d. 1985)
- 1955Steven Severin, British musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
- 1955Zucchero, Italian musician
- 1956Danny Hillis, American inventor, entrepreneur, scientist, engineer, and author
- 1956Jamie Hyneman, American visual effects technician
- 1956Winfried Stradt, German footballer
- 1957Ian Reddington, English actor
- 1957Michael Madsen, American actor
- 1958Eamonn Healy, Irish chemist
- 1958Randy Kerber, American composer
- 1959Jeon Soo-il, South Korean director
- 1960Eduardo Yáñez, Mexican actor
- 1960Igor Belanov, Ukrainian footballer
- 1960Sonia Benezra, Canadian television host
- 1961Heather Locklear, American actress and model
- 1962Aida Turturro, American actress
- 1962Beth Toussaint, American actress
- 1962Kalthoum Sarrai, Tunisian television reporter (d. 2010)
- 1962Shreela Ghosh, Indian actress
- 1963Keely Shaye Smith, American journalist
- 1963Mikael Persbrandt, Swedish actor
- 1963Tate Donovan, American actor
- 1964Anita Barone, American actress
- 1964Chris Impellitteri, American musician (Impellitteri)
- 1964Gary Ayles, British racing driver
- 1964Joey Saputo, Canadian businessman and sports executive
- 1964Kikuko Inoue, Japanese singer and voice actress (seiyū)
- 1964Maria Doyle Kennedy, Irish actress and singer
- 1965Anne Roumanoff, French humorist
- 1965Dave Rundle, South African cricketer
- 1965Gordon Currie, Canadian actor
- 1965Herminia Bouza, Cuban javelin thrower
- 1965Matt Battaglia, American actor
- 1965Rob Schmidt, American director
- 1965Saffron Henderson, Canadian voice actress
- 1965Scottie Pippen, American basketball player
- 1966Jason Flemyng, English actor
- 1966Todd Philcox, American football player
- 1967Kim Issel, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1967Melissa De Sousa, American actress
- 1968John A. List, American economist
- 1968John Worsfold, Australian rules football coach
- 1968Prince Johan-Friso of Orange-Nassau
- 1968Will Smith, American actor and rapper
- 1969Bill Simmons, American sportswriter
- 1969Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
- 1969Hal Sparks, American actor
- 1969Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (d. 2002)
- 1969Heather Stewart-Whyte, British supermodel
- 1969Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal, American guitarist, songwriter, recording artist and producer
- 1969Tony Womack, American baseball player
- 1970Aja Kong, Japanese professional wrestler
- 1970Curtis Buckley, American football player
- 1970Dean Ween, American musician (Ween)
- 1970Kerri Kendall, American model
- 1970Misa Shimizu, Japanese actress
- 1971Brian Dunkleman, American actor
- 1971Jessie Wallace, English actress
- 1971John Lynch, American football player
- 1971Nikos Boudouris, Greek basketball player
- 1972Douglas September, Canadian musician
- 1973Bridget Marquardt, American model
- 1973Bridgette Wilson, American actress
- 1973Tijani Babangida, Nigerian footballer
- 1974Bente Elin Lilleøkseth, Norwegian politician
- 1974Bill Bowler, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1974Daniel Kessler, American musician
- 1974Eric Moss, American football player
- 1974Frank Leder, German fashion designer
- 1974Igor Bogdanović, Serbian footballer
- 1974Javier Rosas Sierra, Mexican athlete
- 1974Joel Prpic, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1974John Granville, American diplomat (d. 2008)
- 1974Kemel Thompson, Jamaican athlete
- 1974Olivier Dacourt, French professional footballer
- 1974Paul Hurst, English footballer
- 1974Richie Edwards, British bassist
- 1974Robbie Mears, Australian rugby league player
- 1974Tye Harvey, American pole vaulter
- 1974Víctor Pacheco, Colombian footballer
- 1975Daniel Hyde, British actor
- 1975Dat Nguyen, American football player
- 1975Declan Donnelly, British actor, television presenter and musician
- 1975Matt Hasselbeck, American football player
- 1975Maya Sansa, Italian actress
- 1976Charlotte Ayanna, American actress
- 1976Chauncey Billups, American basketball player
- 1976Chiara Siracusa, Maltese singer
- 1976Eric Roberson, American singer and songwriter
- 1976Santigold, American singer
- 1977Clea DuVall, American actress
- 1977Joel David Moore, American actor
- 1977Kiyoshi Ijichi, Japanese drummer (Asian Kung-Fu Generation)
- 1977Mike Krahulik, Illustrator
- 1977Wil Nieves, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1978Jodie Kidd, English model
- 1978Joe Cotton, Canadian pop singer
- 1978Joel Pineiro, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1978Ricardo Gardner, Jamaican footballer
- 1978Rossif Sutherland, Canadian actor
- 1978Roudolphe Douala, Cameroonian footballer
- 1978Ryan Leslie, American music producer and singer
- 1979Jason Koumas, Welsh footballer
- 1979Jean-René Lisnard, French tennis player
- 1979Rashad Evans, American mixed martial artist
- 1980Chris Owen, American actor
- 1980Elio Germano, Italian actor
- 1980T.I., American rapper
- 1981Gemma Garrett, British model
- 1981Jason Bergmann, American baseball player
- 1981Lee Norris, American actor
- 1981Rocco Baldelli, American baseball player
- 1981Sarah Jayne Dunn, English actress
- 1981Shane Tutmarc, American songwriter and musician
- 1981Van Hansis, American actor
- 1982Hyun Bin, South Korean actor
- 1982Kany García, Puerto Rican singer-songwritter
- 1983Donald Glover, American actor and comedian
- 1983Terrance Pennington, American football player
- 1984Annabelle Wallis, English actress
- 1984Cherine Anderson, Jamaican actress
- 1984Esther Baxter, American model
- 1984Matías Silvestre, Argentine footballer
- 1984Rashad McCants, American basketball player
- 1985Calvin Johnson, American football player
- 1986Greg Mighall, English musician
- 1986Marten Strauch, German rugby player
- 1986Nicole Fugere, American actress and model
- 1987Monica Niculescu, Romanian tennis player
- 1988Joe Prospero, British actor
- 1989Jordan Gavaris, Canadian actor
- 1990Mao Asada, Japanese figure skater
- 1990Zac Fox, British actor
- 1991Emmy Clarke, American actress
- 1992Keauna McLaughlin, American figure skater
- 1992Ruslan Zhiganshin, Russian ice dancer
- 1992Zoël Amberg, Swiss race car driver
- 1993Megan Corletto, American actress
- 1994Jansen Panettiere, American actor
Who Died On September 25?
- 303Saint Fermin of Pamplona
- 1066Killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge: Harald III of Norway (b. 1015)
- 1066Killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge: Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria
- 1086William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1025)
- 1333Prince Morikuni, Japanese shogun (b. 1301)
- 1396Killed at the Battle of Nicopolis: Jean de Carrouges (b. circa 1330)
- 1396Killed at the Battle of Nicopolis: Jean de Vienne, Admiral of France (b. 1341)
- 1496Piero Capponi, Italian soldier and statesman (b. 1447)
- 1506King Philip I of Castile (b. 1478)
- 1534Pope Clement VII (b. 1478)
- 1536Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet (b. 1511)
- 1602Caspar Peucer, German reformer (b. 1525)
- 1617Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan (b. 1572)
- 1617Francisco Suarez, Spanish Jesuit theologian (b. 1548)
- 1626Lancelot Andrewes, English scholar and Bishop of the Church of England (b. 1555)
- 1630Ambrogio Spinola, marqués de los Balbases, Italian general (b. 1569)
- 1665Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria (b. 1610)
- 1703Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish privy councillor (b. 1658)
- 1774John Bradstreet, Canadian-born soldier (b. 1714)
- 1777Johann Heinrich Lambert, German scientist (b. 1728)
- 1791William Bradford, American printer (b. 1719)
- 1792Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (b. 1710)
- 1794Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (b. 1718)
- 1828Charlotta Seuerling, Swedish musician and poet (b. c. 1783)
- 1849Johann Strauss, Senior, Austrian composer (b. 1804)
- 1867Oliver Loving, American pioneer rancher (b. 1812)
- 1893Louise von François, German writer (b. 1817)
- 1900Félix-Gabriel Marchand, premier of Québec (b. 1832)
- 1901Arthur Fremantle, British general and American Civil War observer (b. 1835)
- 1905Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (b. 1853)
- 1917Thomas Ashe, Irish revolutionary (b. 1885)
- 1918Mikhail Alekseev, Russian general (b. 1857)
- 1926Herbert Booth, son of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1862)
- 1929Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (b. 1879)
- 1933Ring Lardner, American writer (b. 1885)
- 1946Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician and war criminal (b. 1879)
- 1958John B. Watson, American psychologist (b. 1878)
- 1960Emily Post, American etiquette expert (b. 1873)
- 1961Frank Fay American actor (b. 1897)
- 1968Hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist (b. 1891)
- 1970Erich Maria Remarque, German author (b. 1898)
- 1971Hugo Lafayette Black, American jurist (b. 1886)
- 1979Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish athlete and actor (b. 1915)
- 1980John Bonham, British drummer (Led Zeppelin) (b. 1948)
- 1980Lewis Milestone, Moldovan film director (b. 1895)
- 1980Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (b. 1883)
- 1983King Léopold III of Belgium (b. 1901)
- 1984Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (b. 1897)
- 1986Darshan Singh Canadian, Indian communist leader (b. 1917)
- 1986Donald MacDonald, Canadian politician (b. 1909)
- 1986Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist (b. 1909)
- 1986Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
- 1987Emlyn Williams, Welsh actor (b. 1905)
- 1987Mary Astor, American actress (b. 1906)
- 1988Billy Carter, brother of Jimmy Carter (b. 1937)
- 1991Klaus Barbie, German Nazi war criminal (b. 1913)
- 1991Viviane Romance, French actress (b. 1912)
- 1995Bessie Delany, American physician and author (b. 1891)
- 1995Dave Bowen, Welsh football manager (b. 1928)
- 1996Nicu Ceauşescu, Romanian politician (b. 1951)
- 1997Hélène Baillargeon, Quebec singer and folklorist (b. 1916)
- 1997Jean Françaix, French composer (b. 1912)
- 1999Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (b. 1930)
- 2000R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (b. 1913)
- 2003Aquila al-Hashimi, Iraqi politician (b. 1953)
- 2003Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic (b. 1935)
- 2003Franco Modigliani, Italian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
- 2003George Plimpton, American writer and actor (b. 1927)
- 2003Herb Gardner, American playwright (b. 1934)
- 2005Don Adams, American actor and comedian (b. 1923)
- 2005Friedrich Peter, Austrian politician (b. 1921)
- 2005George Archer, American golfer (b. 1939)
- 2005Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani critic and linguist (b. 1912)
- 2005M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and writer (b. 1936)
- 2005Madeline-Ann Aksich, Canadian philanthropist and artist (b. 1956)
- 2005Urie Bronfenbrenner, American psychologist (b. 1917)
- 2006Jeff Cooper, American firearms expert (b. 1920)
- 2006John M. Ford, American author and poet (b. 1957)
- 2007Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian negotiator (b. 1919)
- 2009Alicia de Larrocha, Catalan pianist (b. 1923)
- 2009Pierre Falardeau, Canadian director, writer and activist (b. 1946)
- 2010Art Gilmore, American actor (b. 1912)
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