Historical Events
25 Sep 1212
Emperor Frederik II ends Golden Degree (Bohemia)
25 Sep 1396
Battle of Nicopolis Sultan Bajezid I defeats Crusades armies
25 Sep 1492
Crewman on Pinta sights land-a few weeks early
25 Sep 1513
Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa crosses the Panama Isthmus becoming first European to see the Pacific Ocean
25 Sep 1560
Spanish king Philip II names Frederik Schenck of Toutenburg as 1st archbishop of Utrecht
25 Sep 1639
Suzuki Shosan Samurai monk of Zen Buddhism found awakening
25 Sep 1663
Austrian Fort Neuhausl surrenders to invading Turkish army
25 Sep 1690
Publick Occurrences first newspaper in the American colonies (Boston) publishes first & last edition
25 Sep 1781
-26] Joan Derks scatters On the People of Netherlands pamphlets
25 Sep 1804
Twelfth Amendment to the US Constitution establishing the procedure for electing the President and Vice President becomes effective
25 Sep 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
25 Sep 1844
Canada defeats USA by 23 runs in the 1st cricket international
25 Sep 1846
US troops under Gen Taylor occupies Monterey Mexico
25 Sep 1861
Secretary of US Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves
25 Sep 1866
(Leonard W) Jerome Park opens in Bronx for horse racing
25 Sep 1867
Congress creates 1st all-black university Howard U in Washington D.C.
25 Sep 1868
The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Nevski shipwrecks off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei of Russia.
25 Sep 1878
British physician Dr. Charles Drysdale warns against the use of tobacco in a letter to The Times newspaper in one of the earliest public health announcements on the dangers of smoking
25 Sep 1882
1st baseball doubleheader (Providence & Worcester)
25 Sep 1886
Comedy opera Dorothy first produced in London
25 Sep 1904
Charles Follis is 1st black to play professional American football
25 Sep 1906
John Galsworthys Silver Box premieres in London
25 Sep 1906
Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the Telekino at Bilbao before a great crowd guiding a boat from the shore considered the birth of the remote control
25 Sep 1908
Cubs Ed Reulbach becomes only pitcher to throw doubleheader shutout
25 Sep 1911
French battleship Liberte explodes at Toulon Harbor 285 killed
25 Sep 1911
Groundbreaking begins in Boston for Fenway Park
25 Sep 1912
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City
25 Sep 1915
Battle of Loos commenced lasted until 14th October. Chlorine gas deployed by the British was blown back into their own trenches 59000 British & 26000 German casualties
25 Sep 1920
Vern Bradburn of Winnipeg Victorias kicks 9 singles in a game
25 Sep 1920
US National Championship Womens Tennis Philadelphia CC Molla Bjurstedt Mallory beats Marion Zinderstein 6-3 6-1 for her 5th US singles crown
25 Sep 1922
Giants beat St Louis to clinch John McGraws 8th pennant
25 Sep 1924
Malcolm Campbell sets world auto speed record at 146.16 MPH
25 Sep 1926
International slavery convention signed by 20 states
25 Sep 1926
NHL grants franchises to Chicago Black Hawks & Detroit Red Wings
25 Sep 1926
Yankees take a doubleheader from Browns to clinch AL pennant
25 Sep 1929
Queen-mother Emma opens Antonie van Leeuwenhoek House in Amsterdam
25 Sep 1930
Roger Hornsby replaces Joe McCarthy as Cubs manager
25 Sep 1930
Zoe Akins Greeks Had a Word for it premieres in NYC
25 Sep 1932
Jimmie Foxx hits his 58th HR in last game of season
25 Sep 1932
Poona Act signed by Madan Mohan Malaviya and B R. Amedkar in India reserving legislative seats for depressed classes (untouchables)
25 Sep 1933
5th extermination campaign against communists in Nanjing China
25 Sep 1934
John Van Drutens Distaff Side premieres in NYC
25 Sep 1934
Rainbow (US) beats Endeavour (England) in 16th Americas Cup
25 Sep 1935
Maxwell Andersons Winterset premieres in NYC
25 Sep 1936
Joe Medwick sets a still-standing NL record with his 64th double
25 Sep 1937
il duce visits Berlinnamed the Fuhrer to corporal 1st class
25 Sep 1939
German Luftwaffe strikes Warsaw with (fire)bombs
25 Sep 1939
Andorra and Germany sign a treaty ending WW I as Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra
25 Sep 1940
German High Commissioner in Norway sets up Vidkun Quisling government
25 Sep 1941
Brooklyn Dodgers win their 1st pennant in 21 years
25 Sep 1944
Operation Market Garden ends in Allied failure as the last British and Polish paratroopers are evacuated from Oosterbeek near the town of Arnhem
25 Sep 1948
Heaven on Earth closes at Century Theater NYC after 12 performances
25 Sep 1949
Despite 71 injuries Yankees have been in 1st place all season until Red Sox move into a tie for 1st place
25 Sep 1954
Francois Doc Duvalier wins Haitian presidential election
25 Sep 1954
WCBD TV channel 2 in Charleston South Carolina (ABC) begins broadcasting
25 Sep 1955
Detroit outfielder Al Kaline 20 is youngest batting champ
25 Sep 1956
Transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation from Newfoundland to Oban
25 Sep 1956
Brooklyn Dodger Sal Maglie no-hits Philadelphia Phillies 5-0
25 Sep 1957
300 US Army troops guard 9 black kids return to Central High School in Arkansas
25 Sep 1957
18th Venice Film Festival Influential Indian film Aparajito directed by Satyajit Ray is first film to win the Golden Lion and the Critics Award
25 Sep 1960
For 1st time since 1927 Pirates clinch NL pennant
25 Sep 1960
Phillies beat Reds 7-1 ending 16 consecutive Sunday loses
25 Sep 1961
KTPS TV channel 62 in Tacoma WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
25 Sep 1962
Black church is destroyed by fire in Macon Georgia
25 Sep 1962
Weatherly (US) beats Gretel (Aust) in 19th running of Americas Cup
25 Sep 1962
New Painting of Common Objects exhibition at Pasadena Art Museum opens - 1st show on American Pop Art
25 Sep 1964
Jens Otto Krag forms minority government in Denmark
25 Sep 1965
Do I Hear a Waltz closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 220 performances
25 Sep 1965
60 year old Satchel Paige of KC As pitches 3 scoreless innings
25 Sep 1965
Children find trunk with corpse in Amsterdam canal
25 Sep 1966
Smallest Yankee stadium crowd 413 see White Sox win 4-1
25 Sep 1967
WGBX TV channel 44 in Boston MA (PBS) begins broadcasting
25 Sep 1972
Dutch air force drives away Russian Tupolev-bomber
25 Sep 1972
KAVT (now KSMQ) TV channel 15 in Austin MN (PBS) begins broadcasting
25 Sep 1973
3-man crew of Skylab 3 make safe splashdown in Pacific after 59 days
25 Sep 1974
Scientists first report that freon gases from aerosol sprays are destroying the ozone layer
25 Sep 1975
Jackie Wilson suffers heart attack & lapse into a 9 yr terminal coma
25 Sep 1976
Porgy & Bess opens at Uris Theater NYC for 122 performances
25 Sep 1978
PSA Boeing 727 & a Cessna private plane collide by San Diego 144 die
25 Sep 1979
Evita opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 1568 performances
25 Sep 1979
California Angels win their 1st NL West pennant
25 Sep 1980
Jerry Mumphrey joins Ozzie Smith & Gene Richards to steal 50 bases this year for Padres
25 Sep 1980
The first congress of the Democratic Youth Organization of Afghanistan held in Kabul.
25 Sep 1981
Sandra Day OConnor becomes the first female US Supreme Court Justice
25 Sep 1981
Rolling Stones begin their 6th US tour (JFK Stadium Philadelphia)
25 Sep 1981
Sandra Day OConnor sworn in as 1st female supreme court justice
25 Sep 1982
Northwestern ends 34 football game losing streak beats No Ill 31-6
25 Sep 1982
Penn prison guard George Banks kills 13 (5 were his own children)
25 Sep 1982
Keke Rosberg becomes the first Fin to win the Formula 1 World Drivers Championship when he finishes 5th in season ending Caesars Palace Grand Prix in Las Vegas wins by 5 points from Didier Pironi
25 Sep 1983
35th Emmy Awards Hill Street Blues Cheers Ed Flanders & Shelley Long win
25 Sep 1983
Bob Forsch pitches 2nd career no-hitter Cards beat Expos 3-0
25 Sep 1984
Quilters opens at Jack Lawrence Theater NYC for 24 performances
25 Sep 1984
1st London performance of musical Stepping Out presented
25 Sep 1985
Palestinian terrorists kill 3 Israeli sailors at Lanaca Cyprus
25 Sep 1986
Houston Astro Mike Scott no-hits SF Giants 2-0
25 Sep 1987
2nd coup on Fiji led by Major General Sitiveni Rabuka
25 Sep 1988
American sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner wins womens 100m in Olympic record 10.54 beats team mate Evelyn Ashford by 0.29 1st leg of sprint double at Seoul Games
25 Sep 1988
Romanian gymnast Daniela Siliva wins 3 gold medals in one day at the Seoul Olympics balance beam floor exercise & uneven bars events records record equalling 7 perfect scores of 10
25 Sep 1988
Phoebe Mills finishes third in the balance beam at the Seoul Olympics to become the first American female gymnast to win a medal at a fully attended Games
25 Sep 1988
East German swimmer Kristin Otto swims Olympic record 25.49 to win the 50m freestyle gold at the Seoul Olympics her 6th gold medal of the Games
25 Sep 1988
Super swimmer Matt Biondi wins his 5th gold medal of the Seoul Olympics anchoring the victorious American 4 x 100m medley relay team
25 Sep 1988
Hungarian swimmer Tams Darnyi wins the 200m individual medley gold medal at the Seoul Olympics in world record 200.17 wraps up medley double at the Games
25 Sep 1989
Archaeologists open Titus of Rhine grave in Amsterdam
25 Sep 1989
Ronald Harwoods Another Time premieres in London
25 Sep 1989
Wade Boggs is 1st to get 200 hits & 100 walks in 4 consecutive seasons
25 Sep 1990
1st 8 NY Yankees hit safely vs Baltimore Orioles to tie record
25 Sep 1990
UN Security Council vote 14-1 to impose air embargo against Iraq
25 Sep 1991
Paramount at Madison Square Garden in NYC opens
25 Sep 1991
3rd World Championships in Athletics Carl Lewis wins gold in 100m
25 Sep 1992
Opening Main-Donau canal (North Sea-Black Sea)
25 Sep 1992
Gregory Kingsley 12 wins right to divorce his parents & live with his foster parents he takes name Shawn Russ
25 Sep 1996
The last of the Magdalen Asylums closes in Ireland.
25 Sep 1997
Britains Andy Green sets jet-powered car record (714 mph)
25 Sep 1997
WNBA announces it will add Detroit & Washington D.C. franchises
25 Sep 2000
American basketball player Vince Carter jumps over 7 foot 2 Frdric Weis in Summer Olympics known in France as le dunk de la mort (the dunk of death)
25 Sep 2002
The Vitim event a possible bolide impact in Siberia Russia.
25 Sep 2003
A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore of Hokkaid Japan.
25 Sep 2005
Spanish Renault driver Fernando Alonso takes 3rd place in the Brazilian Grand Prix at Autdromo Jos Carlos Pace to clinch his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship
25 Sep 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
25 Sep 2011
Solheim Cup Womens Golf Killeen Castle Ireland Europe regain Cup 15-13 Azahara Muoz beats Angela Stanford 1-up to clinch the Cup for Europe
25 Sep 2012
50 Taiwanese ships clash with the Japan Coast Guard in waters off the Senkaku Islands
25 Sep 2012
Anouchka van Miltenburg is elected President of the House of Representatives in the Netherlands
25 Sep 1820
French Physicist Franois Arago announces electromagnetism in his discovery that a copper wire between the poles of a voltaic cell could laterally attract iron filings to itself
25 Sep 1846
US troops under General Zachery Taylor occupy Monterey Mexico during Mexican-American War
25 Sep 1935
Maxwell Andersons play Winterset premieres in NYC
25 Sep 1976
George Gershwins Porgy & Bess opens at Uris Theater NYC for 122 performances
25 Sep 1981
Sandra Day OConnor sworn in as the 1st female US Supreme Court Justice
25 Sep 1988
American sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner wins womens 100m in Olympic record 10.54 beats teammate Evelyn Ashford by 0.29 1st leg of sprint double at Seoul Games
25 Sep 1989
Ronald Harwoods play Another Time premieres in London
25 Sep 1237
Treaty of York signed between kings Henry III of England and Alexander II of Scotland which establishes a boundary between the two countries (mostly unchanged in modern times)
25 Sep 1844
Canada defeats USA by 23 runs in the first cricket international match at the grounds of the St Georges Cricket Club in Manhattan NYC
25 Sep 1846
US troops under General Zachery Taylor occupy Monterey Mexico during MexicanAmerican War
25 Sep 1924
Malcolm Campbell sets world auto speed record at 146.16 miles per hour
25 Sep 1933
5th extermination campaign begins against communists in Nanjing and Jiangxi province China
25 Sep 1939
Andorra and Germany sign a treaty ending World War I as Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra
25 Sep 1987
Major General Sitiveni Rabuka stages a second Fijian coup and declares Fiji a republic
25 Sep 1997
American sportcaster Marv Albert plea bargains in his sexual assault case
25 Sep 2007
Columbia Records releases Bruce Springsteens 15th studio album Magic made with the E Street Band
25 Sep 1093
Anselmo dAosta Italian Benedictine monk seated as Anselm of Canterbury Archbisop of Canterbury
25 Sep 1396
Battle of Nicopolis forces of Ottoman Sultan Bajezid I defeat a combined Crusades army in northern Bulgaria
25 Sep 1639
First printing press in America set up in Cambridge under the guaranty of Harvard College
25 Sep 1915
The Second Battle of Champagne begins with French offensive against German army (ends with French retreat 6 Nov)
25 Sep 1937
Battle of Pingxingguan Pass Chinese force defeat the Japanese army in a key battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War
25 Sep 1947
2nd Cannes Film Festival ends with six different awards presented including Best Musical for Vincente Minnellis Ziegfeld Follies and Walt Disneys Dumbo Best Animation
25 Sep 1989
Boston Red Sox Wade Boggs is 1st to get 200 hits & 100 walks in 4 consecutive seasons
25 Sep 1492
Crewman on Pinta sights land- a few weeks early
25 Sep 1904
Charles Follis becomes 1st black American to play professional American football
25 Sep 1933
Netherlands opens the Afsluitdijk a dam and motorway that completes its damming of the Zuiderzee an inlet of the North Sea - considered one of the Seven Engineering Wonders of the Modern World
25 Sep 1984
Barbara Damasheks musical Quilters opens at Jack Lawrence Theater NYC runs for 24 performances
25 Sep 1904
Charles Follis becomes first American black man contracted to play pro football on an integrated team when he signs with Shelby Blues of the Ohio League
25 Sep 1978
PSA Boeing 727 and a Cessna private plane collide over San Diego California 144 die
25 Sep 2004
ICC Mens Cricket Champions Trophy The Oval London West Indies beat England by 2 wickets Player of Series Ramnaresh Sarwan WI 166 runs
25 Sep 2015
Singapore closes schools due to hazardous levels of air pollution from fires in Indonesia
25 Sep 2016
Worlds largest radio telescope called Tianyain or FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope) has first light in Guizhou Province China
25 Sep 1212
Emperor Frederick II ends Golden Degree (Bohemia)
25 Sep 1513
Spanish explorer Vasco Nez de Balboa crosses the Isthmus of Panama becoming the first European to see the Pacific Ocean
25 Sep 1690
Publick Occurrences the first newspaper in the American colonies (Boston) publishes its first and last edition because the publisher did not obtain a license to print
25 Sep 1781
Joan Derks scatters On the People of the Netherlands pamphlets
25 Sep 1844
Canada defeats the USA by 23 runs in the first international cricket match at the grounds of St. Georges Cricket Club in Manhattan New York
25 Sep 1846
US troops under General Zachary Taylor occupy Monterrey Mexico during the MexicanAmerican War
25 Sep 1857
Relief of Lucknow by Havelock and Outram begins
25 Sep 1861
Secretary of the US Navy authorizes the enlistment of slaves
25 Sep 1866
Jerome Park opens in the Bronx for horse racing
25 Sep 1867
Congress creates the first all-black university Howard University in Washington D.C.
25 Sep 1882
First baseball doubleheader (Providence and Worcester)
25 Sep 1886
Comedy opera Dorothy is first produced in London
25 Sep 1904
Charles Follis becomes the first African American man contracted to play professional football on an integrated team when he signs with the Shelby Blues of the Ohio League
25 Sep 1906
Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the Telekino in Bilbao before a large crowd guiding a boat from the shore considered the birth of remote control
25 Sep 1911
French battleship Libert explodes at Toulon Harbor killing 285
25 Sep 1911
Groundbreaking for Fenway Park begins in Boston
25 Sep 1915
Battle of Loos commences and lasts until 14th October chlorine gas deployed by the British is blown back into their own trenches resulting in 59000 British and 26000 German casualties
25 Sep 1915
The Second Battle of Champagne begins with a French offensive against the German army and ends with a French retreat on 6 November
25 Sep 1920
Vern Bradburn of the Winnipeg Victorias kicks nine singles in a game
25 Sep 1922
Giants beat St. Louis to clinch John McGraws eighth pennant
25 Sep 1926
International Slavery Convention is signed by 20 states
25 Sep 1926
NHL grants franchises to the Chicago Blackhawks and the Detroit Red Wings
25 Sep 1926
Yankees take a doubleheader from Browns to clinch the AL pennant
25 Sep 1930
Zoe Akins The Greeks Had a Word for It premieres in New York City
25 Sep 1932
Jimmie Foxx hits his 58th home run in the last game of the season
25 Sep 1932
Poona Pact signed by Madan Mohan Malaviya and B. R. Ambedkar in India reserving legislative seats for depressed classes (untouchables)
25 Sep 1933
First state poorhouse opens in Smyrna Georgia
25 Sep 1933
The fifth extermination campaign begins against communists in Nanjing and Jiangxi Province China
25 Sep 1934
Rainbow (USA) beats Endeavour (UK) in the 16th Americas Cup
25 Sep 1936
Joe Medwick sets a National League record with his 64th double
25 Sep 1937
Battle of Pingxingguan Pass Chinese forces defeat the Japanese army in a key battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War
25 Sep 1937
Il Duce visits Berlin named the Fhrer to Corporal First Class
25 Sep 1939
Andorra and Germany sign a treaty ending World War I as the Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra
25 Sep 1939
German Luftwaffe strikes Warsaw with incendiary bombs
25 Sep 1941
Brooklyn Dodgers win their first pennant in 21 years
25 Sep 1944
Operation Market Garden ends in Allied failure as the last British and Polish paratroopers are evacuated from Oosterbeek near the city of Arnhem
25 Sep 1949
Despite 71 injuries the Yankees have been in first place all season until the Red Sox move into a tie for first place
25 Sep 1952
Hal Newhouser of the Tigers wins his 200th game
25 Sep 1956
Brooklyn Dodger Sal Maglie no-hits the Philadelphia Phillies 5-0
25 Sep 1957
18th Venice Film Festival Influential Indian film Aparajito directed by Satyajit Ray is the first film to win both the Golden Lion and the Critics Award
25 Sep 1957
300 US Army troops guard nine Black students returning to Central High School in Arkansas
25 Sep 1957
Soviet Seven-Year Plan (1959-1965) is announced
25 Sep 1960
For the first time since 1927 the Pirates clinch the NL pennant
25 Sep 1960
Phillies beat Reds 7-1 ending 16 consecutive Sunday losses
25 Sep 1961
The Hustler directed by Robert Rossen and starring Paul Newman premieres in Washington D.C.
25 Sep 1962
New Painting of Common Objects exhibition at Pasadena Art Museum opens becoming the first show on American Pop Art
25 Sep 1962
A Black church is destroyed by fire in Macon Georgia
25 Sep 1962
Weatherly (US) beats Gretel (AUS) in the 19th running of the Americas Cup
25 Sep 1965
Children find a trunk with a corpse in an Amsterdam canal
25 Sep 1965
Sixty-year-old Satchel Paige of the Kansas City Athletics pitches three scoreless innings
25 Sep 1966
413 spectators the smallest Yankee Stadium crowd watch the White Sox win 4-1
25 Sep 1972
Dutch Air Force drives away Russian Tupolev bomber
25 Sep 1972
Norway votes to join the European Common Market
25 Sep 1973
The New York Mets beat the Montreal Expos 2-1 on Willie Mays Night at Shea Stadium in New York City
25 Sep 1973
Three-man crew of Skylab 3 makes a safe splashdown in the Pacific Ocean after 59 days
25 Sep 1978
PSA Boeing 727 and a Cessna private plane collide over San Diego California 144 people die
25 Sep 1979
California Angels win their first AL West pennant
25 Sep 1980
Jerry Mumphrey joins Ozzie Smith and Gene Richards to steal 50 bases this year for MLB San Diego Padres
25 Sep 1980
The first congress of the Democratic Youth Organization of Afghanistan is held in Kabul
25 Sep 1981
The Rolling Stones begin their sixth US tour at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia
25 Sep 1982
Keke Rosberg becomes the first Finn to win the Formula 1 World Drivers Championship when he finishes 5th in the season-ending Caesars Palace Grand Prix in Las Vegas winning by 5 points over Didier Pironi
25 Sep 1982
Northwestern ends a 34-game football losing streak beating Northern Illinois 31-6
25 Sep 1982
Penn prison guard George Banks kills 13 people including five of his own children
25 Sep 1984
First London performance of the musical Stepping Out is presented
25 Sep 1984
New York Mets Rusty Staub joins Ty Cobb who hit home runs as a teen and in his 40s
25 Sep 1985
MLB New York Yankees outfielder Rickey Henderson steals a franchise-record 75th base of the season
25 Sep 1985
Palestinian terrorists kill 3 Israeli sailors in Larnaca Cyprus
25 Sep 1986
Antonin Scalia is appointed to the US Supreme Court
25 Sep 1986
Houston Astro Mike Scott no-hits the SF Giants 2-0
25 Sep 1988
American sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner wins the womens 100m in an Olympic record of 10.54 seconds beating teammate Evelyn Ashford by 0.29 seconds first leg of the sprint double at the Seoul Games
25 Sep 1988
East German swimmer Kristin Otto swims an Olympic record of 25.49 to win the 50 m freestyle gold at the Seoul Olympics her sixth gold medal of the Games
25 Sep 1988
Hungarian swimmer Tams Darnyi wins the 200 m individual medley gold medal at the Seoul Olympics with a world record time of 200.17 and wraps up the medley double at the Games
25 Sep 1988
Phoebe Mills finishes third in the balance beam at the Seoul Olympics becoming the first American female gymnast to win a medal at a fully attended Games
25 Sep 1988
Romanian gymnast Daniela Siliva wins three gold medals in one day at the Seoul Olympics in the balance beam floor exercise and uneven bars events recording a record-equalling seven perfect scores of 10
25 Sep 1988
Super swimmer Matt Biondi wins his fifth gold medal of the Seoul Olympics anchoring the victorious American 4 x 100 m medley relay team
25 Sep 1989
Archaeologists open the grave of Titus of Rhine in Amsterdam
25 Sep 1989
Boston Red Soxs Wade Boggs is the first to achieve 200 hits and 100 walks in four consecutive seasons
25 Sep 1990
First eight New York Yankees hit safely against Baltimore Orioles to tie record
25 Sep 1990
Oakland As clinch third consecutive AL West title
25 Sep 1990
UN Security Council votes 14-1 to impose air embargo against Iraq
25 Sep 1991
Paramount at Madison Square Garden in New York City opens
25 Sep 1992
12-year-old Gregory Kingsley wins the right to divorce his parents and live with his foster parents he takes the name Shawn Russ
25 Sep 1992
China performs a nuclear test at Lop Nor China
25 Sep 1992
Opening of the Main-Danube Canal (North Sea-Black Sea)
25 Sep 1992
Sparky Anderson ties Hughie Jennings as the Detroit Tigers winningest manager
25 Sep 1996
Last of the Magdalene laundry asylums for fallen women closes in Dublin Ireland
25 Sep 1997
American sportscaster Marv Albert pleads guilty in his sexual assault case
25 Sep 1997
Britains Andy Green sets a jet-powered car record of 714 mph
25 Sep 1997
WNBA announces it will add Detroit and Washington D.C. franchises
25 Sep 2000
American basketball player Vince Carter steals the ball and jumps over 7 foot 2 inch Frdric Weis at the Summer Olympics known in France as le dunk de la mort (the dunk of death)
25 Sep 2002
Possible bolide meteor impact causes the Vitim event in Siberia Russia
25 Sep 2003
Magnitude 8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore of Hokkaid Japan
25 Sep 2004
ICC Mens Cricket Champions Trophy The Oval London West Indies beat England by 2 wickets Player of the Series Ramnaresh Sarwan WI 166 runs
25 Sep 2008
China launches its third human spaceflight the spacecraft Shenzhou 7
25 Sep 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
25 Sep 2016
Worlds largest radio telescope called Tianyan or FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope) has first light in Guizhou Province China
25 Sep 2017
First woman graduates from the US Marine Corps Infantry Officer Course
25 Sep 2010
Rocky Robinson (49) rides the Ack Attack a turbo-charged streamliner motorcycle at world record 376.4 mph (605.7 kmh) at the Bonneville Speedway in Bonneville Salt Flats Utah it is the third time he sets the record
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