25 September
Notable Births
Leah Jeffries
b. 2009
American actress (born 2009)
Bella Ramsey
b. 2003
English actor (born 2003)
Cade Cunningham
b. 2001
American basketball player (born 2001)
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)
Keauna McLaughlin
b. 1992
American pair skater (born 1992)
Rosalía
b. 1992
Spanish singer-songwriter (born 1992)
Ruslan Zhiganshin
b. 1992
Russian ice dancer (born 1992)
Calle Järnkrok
b. 1991
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1991)
Mao Asada
b. 1990
Japanese figure skater (born 1990)
Jordan Gavaris
b. 1989
Canadian actor (born 1989)
Cuco Martina
b. 1989
Footballer (born 1989)
Aldon Smith
b. 1989
American football player (born 1989)
Monica Niculescu
b. 1987
Romanian tennis player (born 1987)
Heidi El Tabakh
b. 1986
Egyptian and Canadian tennis player
Eric Williams
b. 1911
Leader of Trinidad and Tobago from 1956 to 1981
Notable Deaths
David McCallum
d. 2023
British actor (1933–2023)
Jan Tříska
d. 2017
Czech actor (1936–2017)
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)
Tom Kelley (baseball)
d. 2015
American baseball player (1944–2015)
Moti Kirschenbaum
d. 2015
Israeli television presenter
Ulrick Chérubin
d. 2014
Canadian politician
Sulejman Tihić
d. 2014
Bosnian politician (1951–2014)
Dorothy Tyler-Odam
d. 2014
British athlete
José Montoya
d. 2013
American poet (1932–2013)
Pablo Verani
d. 2013
Argentine politician
Bennet Wong
d. 2013
Canadian psychiatrist, author and lecturer
John Bond (footballer)
d. 2012
English footballer & manager (1932–2012)
Alonso Lujambio
d. 2012
Mexican politician
Andy Williams
d. 2012
American singer (1927–2012)
Wangarĩ Maathai
d. 2011
Kenyan environmental activist (1940–2011)
Don Adams
d. 2005
American actor (1923–2005)
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
1981
Belize joins the United Nations.
Belize
1978
PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, killing all 135 aboard Flight 182, both occupants of the Cessna, as well as seven people on the ground.
Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182
1977
About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon.
Chicago Marathon
1974
Dr. Frank Jobe performs first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (better known as Tommy John surgery) on baseball player Tommy John.
Frank Jobe
1969
The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is signed.
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
1964
The Mozambican War of Independence against Portugal begins.
Mozambican War of Independence
1963
Lord Denning releases the UK government's official report on the Profumo affair.
Tom Denning, Baron Denning
1962
The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.
Algeria
1962
The North Yemen Civil War begins when Abdullah al-Sallal dethrones the newly crowned Imam al-Badr and declares Yemen a republic under his presidency.
North Yemen civil war
1959
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon, is mortally shot by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike
1957
Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
Little Rock Central High School
1956
TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.
TAT-1