September 25

Historic Events

2018

Bill Cosby is sentenced to three to ten years in prison for aggravated sexual assault. ›

2003

The 8.3 Mw Hokkaidō earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan. ›

1998

PauknAir Flight 4101, a British Aerospace 146, crashes near Melilla Airport in Melilla, Spain, killing 38 people. ›

1997

NASA launches Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-86 to the Mir space station. ›

1992

NASA launches the Mars Observer. Eleven months later, the probe would fail while preparing for orbital insertion. ›

1987

Fijian Governor-General Penaia Ganilau is overthrown in a coup d'état led by Lieutenant colonel Sitiveni Rabuka. ›

1985

3 civilians killed by alleged supporters of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Larnaca yacht killings. ›

1983

Thirty-eight IRA prisoners, armed with six handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze Prison. ›

1981

Belize joins the United Nations. ›

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. ›

1977

About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon. ›

1974

Dr. Frank Jobe performs first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (better known as Tommy John surgery) on baseball player Tommy John. ›

1969

The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is signed. ›

1964

The Mozambican War of Independence against Portugal begins. ›

1963

Lord Denning releases the UK government's official report on the Profumo affair. ›

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. ›

1959

S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon, is mortally shot by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day. ›

1957

Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops. ›

1956

TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated. ›

1955

The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded. ›

1937

Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan. ›

1926

The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed. ›

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. ›

1915

World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins. ›

1912

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City. ›

1911

An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship. ›

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. ›

1890

The United States Congress establishes Sequoia National Park. ›

1868

The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Nevsky is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia. ›

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. ›

1790

Four Great Anhui Troupes introduce Anhui opera to Beijing in honor of the Qianlong Emperor's eightieth birthday. ›

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. ›

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. ›

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. ›

1775

American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec sets off to join the American invasion. ›

1768

Unification of Nepal ›

1690

Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time. ›

1555

The Peace of Augsburg is signed by Emperor Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League. ›

1513

Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean. ›

1396

Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis. ›

1237

England and Scotland sign the Treaty of York, establishing the location of their common border. ›

1066

In the Battle of Stamford Bridge, Harald Hardrada, the invading King of Norway, is defeated by King Harold II of England. ›

762

Led by Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya, the Hasanid branch of the Alids begins the Alid Revolt against the Abbasid Caliphate. ›

275

For the last time, the Roman Senate chooses an emperor; they elect 75-year-old Marcus Claudius Tacitus. ›