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Notable anniversaries in history for today: September 25
- 100th: 1924 - Malcolm Campbell sets world auto speed record at 146.16 MPH.
- 90th: 1934 - Lou Gehrig plays in his 1500th consecutive Major League Baseball game.
- 90th: 1934 - Rainbow (US) beats Endeavour (England) in 16th America's Cup.
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Eugenia Zukerman in Cambridge, Mississippi, USA; flutist/novelist (Deceptive Cadence).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Michael Douglas in New Jersey, USA; actor (Coma, Wall Street, Jewel of the Nile).
- 60th: 1964 - NBC begins airing The Jack Benny Program 30-minute comedy variety show.
- 50th: 1974 - William Sloane, publisher/writer (The Edge of Running Water), dies.
- 40th: 1984 - Birth of Rashad McCants, National Basketball Association player.
- 40th: 1984 - Walter Pidgeon of New Brunswick, Canada, actor (MGM-Mrs Miniver, Madame Curie), dies at age 87 after a series of strokes (born 1897).
- 20th: 2004 - Port Adelaide Power win their first premiership against Brisbane Lions in AFL Grand Final.
- 20th: 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.
- 15th: 2009 - At the G-20 Pittsburgh summit, world leaders announce that the G-20 will assume greater leverage over the world economy, replacing the role of the G-8, in an effort to prevent another financial crisis like that in 2008.
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