SomeFacts | September 25

On this day - September 25

275 — For the last time, the Roman Senate chooses an emperor; they ...

762 — Led by Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya, the Hasanid branch of the ...

1066 — In the Battle of Stamford Bridge, Harald Hardrada, the ...

1237 — England and Scotland sign the Treaty of York, establishing the ...

1396 — Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at the ...

1513 — Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would ...

1555 — The Peace of Augsburg is signed by Emperor Charles V and the ...

1690 — Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, the first ...

1768 — Unification of Nepal

1775 — American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold's expedition ...

1775 — American Revolutionary War: Ethan Allen surrenders to British ...

1786 — The mine of Huancavelica in the Peruvian Andes collapses ...

1789 — The United States Congress passes twelve constitutional ...

1790 — Four Great Anhui Troupes introduce Anhui opera to Beijing in ...

1804 — The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of ...

1868 — The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Nevsky is ...

1890 — The United States Congress establishes Sequoia National Park.

1906 — Leonardo Torres Quevedo demonstrates the Telekino in the ...

1911 — An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the ...

1912 — Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded ...

1915 — World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.

1918 — World War I: The end of the Battle of Megiddo, the climax of ...

1926 — The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and ...

1937 — Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains ...

1944 — World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne ...

1955 — The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.

1956 — TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable ...

1957 — Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by ...

1959 — S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon, is ...

1962 — The North Yemen Civil War begins when Abdullah al-Sallal ...

1962 — The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally ...

1963 — Lord Denning releases the UK government's official report ...

1964 — The Mozambican War of Independence against Portugal begins.

1969 — The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic ...

1974 — Dr. Frank Jobe performs first ulnar collateral ligament ...

1977 — About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the ...

1978 — PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a ...

1981 — Belize joins the United Nations.

1983 — Thirty-eight IRA prisoners, armed with six handguns, hijack a ...

1985 — 3 civilians killed by alleged supporters of the Palestine ...

1987 — Fijian Governor-General Penaia Ganilau is overthrown in a coup ...

1992 — NASA launches the Mars Observer. Eleven months later, the ...

1997 — NASA launches Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-86 to the Mir ...

1998 — PauknAir Flight 4101, a British Aerospace 146, crashes near ...

2003 — The 8.3 Mw Hokkaidō earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, ...

2018 — Bill Cosby is sentenced to three to ten years in prison for ...