Today in History
25 September
271 births · 121 deaths · 46 events recorded
Featured Birthday · Born 1952
Christopher Reeve
American actor and activist (1952–2004)
Notable Births
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Bella Ramsey
b. 2003
English actor (born 2003)
Lilas Ikuta
b. 2000
Japanese singer-songwriter (born 2000)
Todd Hazelwood
b. 1995
Australian racing driver (born 1995)
Brandin Cooks
b. 1993
American football player (born 1993)
Toby Greene
b. 1993
Australian rules footballer (born 1993)
Zoël Amberg
b. 1992
Swiss racing driver
Massimo Luongo
b. 1992
Australian soccer player (born 1992)
Ruslan Zhiganshin
b. 1992
Russian ice dancer (born 1992)
Notable Deaths
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José Fernández (right-handed pitcher)
d. 2016
Cuban-born American baseball player (1992–2016)
Arnold Palmer
d. 2016
American professional golfer (1929–2016)
Nahed Hattar
d. 2016
Jordanian writer and political activist
Claudio Baggini
d. 2015
Italian Roman Catholic bishop
John Galvin (general)
d. 2015
United States Army General (1929–2015)
Moti Kirschenbaum
d. 2015
Israeli television presenter
Sulejman Tihić
d. 2014
Bosnian politician (1951–2014)
Dorothy Tyler-Odam
d. 2014
British athlete
On This Day in History
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2018
Bill Cosby is sentenced to three to ten years in prison for aggravated sexual assault.
Bill Cosby
2003
The 8.3 Mw Hokkaidō earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.
2003 Tokachi earthquake
1998
PauknAir Flight 4101, a British Aerospace 146, crashes near Melilla Airport in Melilla, Spain, killing 38 people.
PauknAir Flight 4101
1997
NASA launches Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-86 to the Mir space station.
Space Shuttle Atlantis
1992
NASA launches the Mars Observer. Eleven months later, the probe would fail while preparing for orbital insertion.
NASA
1987
Fijian Governor-General Penaia Ganilau is overthrown in a coup d'état led by Lieutenant colonel Sitiveni Rabuka.
Penaia Ganilau
1985
3 civilians killed by alleged supporters of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Larnaca yacht killings.
Palestine Liberation Organization
1983
Thirty-eight IRA prisoners, armed with six handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze Prison.
Maze Prison escape