September 25

Sunday 25, 2005:

Fernando Alonso wins his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by finishing 3rd in the Brazilian Grand Prix.

Thursday 25, 2003:

A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore of Hokkaido, Japan.

Wednesday 25, 2002:

The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia, Russia.

Friday 25, 1998:

A Pauknair BAE146 crashes into hillside in Morocco killing 38.

Wednesday 25, 1996:

The last of the Magdalen Asylums was closed in Ireland

Friday 25, 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.

Monday 25, 1978:

PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, California, resulting in the deaths of 144 people.

Monday 25, 1972:

In the Norwegian EC referendum, 1972, the people of Norway reject membership

Tuesday 25, 1962:

The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.

Wednesday 25, 1957:

Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated through the use of United States Army troops

Friday 25, 1959:

Solomon Bandaranaike, prime minister of Sri Lanka is assassinated by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.

Sunday 25, 1955:

The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.

Wednesday 25, 1912:

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York,_New York.

Thursday 25, 1890:

Yosemite National Park established in California.

Friday 25, 1846:

U.S. forces led by Zachary Taylor captured the Mexican city of Monterrey.

Tuesday 25, 1804:

The Teton Sioux (a subdivison of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Corps of Discovery as a toll for moving further upriver.

Friday 25, 1789:

The Congressional Apportionment Amendment to the United States Constitution is proposed at the U.S. Congress

Monday 25, 1690:

"Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick", the first newspaper published in the Americas, published for the first and only time.

Sunday 25, 1555:

The Peace of Augsburg is signed in Augsburg by Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League.

Thursday 25, 1513:

Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reached the Pacific Ocean.

Sunday 25, 1396:

Ottoman Emperor Beyazid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis

Tuesday 25, 1066:

The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking era.

Friday 25, 303:

On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France.

Saturday 25, 275:

M. Claudius Tacitus is appointed Roman emperor by the senate.

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