History Events on September 25

An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.

#French_battleship_Liberté

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

#Battle_of_Nicopolis

PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, killing 144 people.

#PSA_Flight_182

The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for allowing the expedition to move further upriver.

#Lewis_and_Clark_Expedition

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

#Ferhat_Abbas

TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.

#TAT-1

NASA launches the Mars Observer. Eleven months later, the probe would fail while preparing for orbital insertion.

#Mars_Observer

In the Battle of Stamford Bridge, Harald Hardrada, the invading King of Norway, is defeated by King Harold II of England.

#Battle_of_Stamford_Bridge

Bill Cosby is sentenced to three to ten years in prison.

#Bill_Cosby

The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Nevsky is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia.

#Grand_Duke_Alexei_Alexandrovich_of_Russia

Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean.

#Vasco_Núñez_de_Balboa

Dr. Frank Jobe performs first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (better known as Tommy John surgery) on baseball player Tommy John.

#Frank_Jobe

Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan.

#Battle_of_Pingxingguan

The 8.3 Mw? Hokkaid? earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaid?, Japan.

#2003_Hokkaid?_earthquake

The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is signed.

#Organisation_of_Islamic_Cooperation

The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.

#1926_Slavery_Convention

American Revolution: Ethan Allen surrenders to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal during the Battle of Longue-Pointe.

#American_Revolution

Leonardo Torres y Quevedo demonstrates the Telekino, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered to be the first use of a remote control.

#Leonardo_Torres_y_Quevedo

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

#Peace_of_Augsburg

The United States Congress passes twelve constitutional amendments: the ten known as the Bill of Rights, the (unratified) Congressional Apportionment Amendment, and the Congressional Compensation Amendment.

#United_States_Bill_of_Rights

The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.

#Royal_Jordanian_Air_Force

World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.

#Second_Battle_of_Champagne

Belize joins the United Nations.

#Belize

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

#Little_Rock_Central_High_School

The Mozambican War of Independence against Portugal begins.

#Mozambican_War_of_Independence

For the last time, the Roman Senate chooses an emperor; they elect 75-year-old Marcus Claudius Tacitus.

#Marcus_Claudius_Tacitus

The United States Congress establishes Sequoia National Park.

#Sequoia_National_Park

American Revolution: Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec sets off.

#Benedict_Arnold's_expedition_to_Quebec

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

Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.

#Publick_Occurrences_Both_Forreign_and_Domestick

Thirty-eight IRA prisoners, armed with six handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze Prison.

About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon.

Lord Denning releases the UK government's official report on the Profumo affair.

Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.

World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem via Oosterbeek.

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

Four Great Anhui Troupes introduce Anhui opera to Beijing in honor of the Qianlong Emperor's eightieth birthday.

England and Scotland sign the Treaty of York, establishing the location of their common border.

Led by Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya, the Hasanid branch of the Alids begins the Alid Revolt against the Abbasid Caliphate.