September 25

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on September 25. From 1900 until now. September 25 is under the sign of Libra. Famous birthdays on this day include Catherine Zeta-Jones (1969), Will Smith (1968) and Will Smith (1968). Several movies were released around September 25 over the years, such as The Bridge on the River Kwai in 1957 directed by David Lean and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner in 1962 directed by Tony Richardson.
But much more happened on September 25 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Also see September 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
R.C. Saints - Virgin of Fuencisla; Saint Finbarr
Mozambique - Armed Forces Day
French Republican Calendar - Colchique (Crocus) Day, fourth day in the Month of VendTmiaire

Events

2018 Inspire Brands announces its purchase of fast food chain Sonic Drive-In for US$2.3 billion. (USA Today)
2017 Northern Rakhine State clashes: A mass grave of 28 Hindus, including children, allegedly slain by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, is discovered by the Myanmar Army. (The Australian)
2016 Syrian Civil War: The United States, United Kingdom, and France seek a meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the declining security situation in Aleppo. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
2015 2015 Burkinabé coup d'état: Burkina Faso's cabinet dissolves the elite presidential guard behind last week's coup d'état, creates a commission to investigate these events, and dismisses the minister in charge of security. (Reuters)
2014 Syrian Civil War: Several Syrian rebel groups sign an agreement to unite in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and President Bashar al-Assad's forces. (CNN)
2013 A three-day national mourning period begins in Kenya for the victims of a four-day siege that began on September 21 when heavily armed Al-Shabaab militants stormed the Westgate shopping mall in the capital, Nairobi, killing 61 civilians and 6 soldiers. (BBC)
2012 Syrian civil war:: A Save the Children report details the plight of children in Syria. (CBS)
2011 A suicide bombing near a church in Central Java, Indonesia, kills at least two people and injures several others. (BBC)
2010 Mahmoud Abbas speaks at United Nations General Assembly to request that Israel is to cease its policy of building settlements in the West Bank.
2009 U.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.
2008 U.S. regulators seize bank Washington Mutual, the biggest bank failure in the nation's history, and sell its assets to JPMorgan Chase & Company for US$1.9 billion. Washington Mutual was the largest savings and loan bank, with $307 billion of assets and $188 billion of deposits.
2007 Microsoft releases the Halo 3 video game for the Xbox 360 in the USA.
2006 The Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans re-opens 13 months after Hurricane Katrina with extensive repairs, including the largest re-roofing project in the United States.
2005 American psychiatrist and best-selling author M. Scott Peck, M.D. Dies after suffering from Parkinson's disease and pancreatic and liver duct cancer. Peck, 69, was the author of The Road Less Traveled. (New York Times), (NPR)
2004 Hurricane Jeanne makes landfall near Port Saint Lucie, Florida, near location Hurricane Frances hit two weeks earlier. Jeanne kills over 3,030, mostly in Haiti.
2003 Terrorism: FBI probes Hamas-linked 'criminal enterprises' associated with the radical Islamic group Hamas that has taken responsibility for a string of bombings in Israel. Hamas also declares the organization would not participate with other Palestinian groups in a proposed cease-fire nor join the next Palestinian government. Sheik Ahmed Yassin states ampquotthe enemy is continuing his aggression, killing, and settlement activities.ampquot
2002 The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia, Russia.
2001 The national satellite radio service XM went live.
1998 (to September 28) Major creditors of Long-Term Capital Management, a Greenwich, Connecticut-based hedge fund, after days of tough bargaining and some informal mediation by Federal Reserve officials, agree on terms of a re-capitalization.
1997 ER is performed live on TV
1996 IBM launches OS/2 Warp 4, in San Francisco, California. New features include Java technology, voice recognition software, and Open32 Win32 APIs. Price is US$249; upgrade is US$149. It is the first operating system to include built-in speech navigation and recognition.
1994 Oliver McCall TKOs Lennox Lewis in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1992 Gregory Kingsley, 12, wins right to divorce his parents and live with his foster parents, he takes name Shawn Russ
1991 The Paramount at Madison Square Garden in New York City opens.
1990 Saddam Hussein warns that US will repeat Vietnam experience
1989 Archaeologists open Titus of Rhine grave in Amsterdam
1988 Christopher Jacobs, Troy Dalbey, Tom Hunter and Matt Biondi, swim world record 4x100 m freestyle (3:16.53)
1987 2nd coup on Fiji led by Major General Sitiveni Rabuka
1986 Antonin Scalia appointed to Supreme Court
1985 Palestinian terrorists kill 3 Israeli sailors at Lanaca Cyprus
1984 Quilters opens at Jack Lawrence Theater NYC for 24 performances
1983 35th Emmy Awards: Hill St. Blue, Cheers, Ed Flanders and Shelley Long
1982 Northwestern ends 34 football game losing streak, beats No Ill 31-6
1981 Rolling Stones begin their 6th US tour (JFK Stadium, Philadelphia)
1980 Chevy Chase calls Cary Grant a homo on Tomorrow show (suit follows)
1979 Evita opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 1568 performances
1978 PSA 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.
1977 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament
1976 Porgy & Bess opens at Uris Theater NYC for 122 performances
1975 Jackie Wilson, suffers heart attack and lapse into a 9 yr terminal coma
1973 Mets beat Expos 2-1 on Willie Mays Night at Shea Stadium
1972 Dutch air force drives away Russian Tupolev-bomber
1970 Ringo releases his Beaucoups of Blues album
1969 Organisation of the Islamic Conference founded.
1967 WGBX TV channel 44 in Boston, MA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 12th LPGA Championship won by Gloria Ehret
1965 Do I Hear a Waltz? closes at 46th St. Theater NYC after 220 performances
1964 Jens Otto Krag forms minority government in Denmark
1963 The Denning Report on the Profumo affair is published in Great Britain.
1962 Yankees clinch AL pennant
1961 KTPS TV channel 62 in Tacoma, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 1st Atomic powered aircraft carrier (Enterprise) launched (US)
1959 Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley (37) and David Brown (43) wed
1957 300 US Army troops guard nine black kids' return to Central High School in Arkansas.
1956 1st transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation (Scot-Canada)
1955 Detroit outfielder Al Kaline, 20, is youngest batting champ
1954 Francois Doc Duvalier wins Haitian presidential election
1952 Hal Newhouser of Tigers wins his 200th game
1949 Despite 71 injuries, Yankees have been in 1st place all season until Red Sox move into a tie for 1st place
1948 Heaven on Earth closes at Century Theater NYC after 12 performances
1944 World 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.
1943 Russian troops liberate Smolensk
1942 World War II: Swiss Police Instruction of September 25, 1942 : this instruction denied entry into Switzerland to Jewish refugees.
1941 Brooklyn Dodgers win their 1st pennant in 21 years
1940 German High Commissioner in Norway sets up Vidkun Quisling government
1939 German Luftwaffe strikes Warsaw with (fire)bombs
1937 Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Pingxingguan: The Communist Chinese National Revolutionary Army defeats the Japanese.
1936 Joe Medwick sets a still-standing NL record with his 64th double
1934 Lou Gehrig plays in his 1500th consecutive Major League Baseball game.
1933 1st state poorhouse opens in Smyrna, Georgia
1932 Jimmie Foxx hits his 58th HR in last game of season
1930 Austrian government of Vaugoin forms
1929 Queen-mother Emma opens Antonie van Leeuwenhoek House in Amsterdam
1928 Paul Galvin and his brother Joseph incorporate the Galvin Manufacturing Corporation (now known as ''Motorola'').
1927 A treaty signed by the League of Nations Slavery Commission abolished all types of slavery.
1926 9th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Salisbury Golf Club - Westbury, New York
1924 Malcolm Campbell sets world auto speed record at 146.16 MPH.
1920 34th US Womens Tennis: M B Mallory beats M Zinderstein (63 61)
1919 President Wilson becomes seriously ill and collapses after a speech.
1915 World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
1912 Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York, New York.
1911 Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
1909 Hudson-Fulton Celebration opens in New York.
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.
1904 Charles Follis is 1st black to play pro football
1900 In the British general election, the recently formed Labour Party gains two seats. Winston Churchill is also elected to Parliament for the first time.
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