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What happened in history on this day: September 25?
On September 25 in ...
- 1789 - US Congress proposes Bill of Rights (10 of 12 will ratify).
- 1861 - Secretary of US Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves.
- 1890 - Sequoia is established as a National Park in California.
- 1919 - US President Woodrow Wilson becomes seriously ill and collapses after a speech.
- 1925 - SS City of Rome merchant ship rams and sinks USS S-51 submarine, killing 33.
- 1926 - Henry Ford announces the 8 hour, 5-day work week.
- 1929 - Lieutenant Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight at Mitchell Field in New York, proving that full Instrument Flying from take off to landing is possible.
- 1956 - TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.
- 1957 - 300 US Army troops guard nine black kids' return to Central High School in Arkansas.
- 1962 - A black church is destroyed by fire in Macon, Georgia, USA.
- 1973 - Three-man crew of Skylab II make safe splashdown in Pacific after 59 days.
- 1978 - PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides with a small private airplane and crashes in San Diego, California; 144 are killed.
- 1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor sworn in as US Supreme Court justice.
- 1982 - Pennsylvania prison guard George Banks kills 13 (5 are his own children).
- 1990 - Saddam Hussein warns US will repeat Vietnam experience.
- 1991 - The Paramount at Madison Square Garden in New York City opens.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2007 - Microsoft releases the Halo 3 video game for the Xbox 360 in the USA.
- 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.
Births on September 25
- 1897 - Birth of William Faulkner in Mississippi, USA; author (Sound and the Fury - Nobel Prize 1949) (dies 1962).
- 1905 - Birth of Red Smith in Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA; sportscaster/columnist (Fight Talk).
- 1918 - Birth of Phil Rizzuto in Brooklyn, New York, USA; sportscaster/shortstop (New York Yankees, Most Valuable Player 1950).
- 1931 - Birth of Barbara Walters in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; newscaster (Today, 20/20, ABC-TV).
- 1943 - Birth of John Locke in Louisiana, USA; rocker (Spirit - "I Got A Line on You").
- 1943 - Birth of Robert Walden in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Joe Rossi - Lou Grant, New Doctors).
- 1944 - Birth of Eugenia Zukerman in Cambridge, Mississippi, USA; flutist/novelist (Deceptive Cadence).
- 1944 - Birth of Michael Douglas in New Jersey, USA; actor (Coma, Wall Street, Jewel of the Nile).
- 1947 - Birth of Cheryl Tiegs in Minnesota, USA; model's figure.
- 1949 - Birth of Anson Williams in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Potsie - Happy Days).
- 1949 - Birth of Mimi Kennedy in Rochester, New York, USA; actress (Spencer, 3 girls 3, Under One Roof).
- 1951 - Birth of Mark Hamill in Oakland, California, USA; actor (Star Wars).
- 1961 - Birth of Heather Locklear in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Stacy - T.J. Hooker).
- 1967 - Birth of Lezlie Lund in Tolna, North Dakota, USA; Miss North Dakota-America (1991).
Deaths on September 25
- 1988 - Billy Carter, US President Jimmy Carter's brother, dies of cancer at age 51.
- 1995 - Death of Bessie Delany, American physician and author (born 1891).
- 2016 - Death of Arnold Palmer at age 87; American golfer (US Open winner, British Open winner (twice), Masters winner (4 times), won 92 professional tournaments).
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