September 25:
Events:
275 - M. Claudius Tacitus appointed Roman emperor by the senate.
303 - On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona was beheaded in Amiens, France.
1066 - Battle of Stamford Bridge, marking the end of the Viking era.
1396 - Ottoman Emperor Beyazid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis
1513 - Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reached the Pacific Ocean
1789 - The Bill of Rights passes the U.S. Congress
1890 - Yosemite National Park established in California.
1957 - Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas is integrated through the use of United States Army troops .
1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor was the 102nd Justice sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, the first woman to hold the office.
1983 - Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war (because of time-zone differences, the date was Sept. 25 in the West, and Sept. 26 in the Soviet Union)
Births:
1897 - William Faulkner, American novelist (d. 1962) 1903 - Mark Rothko, painter (d. 1970) 1906 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d. 1975) 1931 - Barbara Walters, American broadcaster 1944 - Michael Douglas, actor and producer 1951 - Mark Hamill, American actor 1952 - Christopher Reeve, American actor (d. 2004) 1958 - Michael Madsen, actor 1961 - Heather Locklear, actress and model 1968 - Will Smith, actor and rapper 1969 - Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
Deaths:
1066 - Harald III of Norway (killed in battle) 1849 - Johann Strauss, Senior, Austrian composer 1970 - Erich Maria Remarque, author 1980 - John Bonham, British musician, drummer with Led Zeppelin (b. May 31, 1948) 2003 - Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic
Gonna be a big party this year then... Phil pays the bills...