On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on September 25:
1644 Olaus Rímer Denmark, 1st to accurately measure speed of light
1657 Imre Thokoly, Hungarian patriot, opposed Habsburg rule
1725 Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot designed & built 1st automobile
1766 Armand-Emmanuel duc de Richelieu, French PM (1815-18, 1820-21)
1877 Plutarco El¡as Calles Mexican revolutionary, president (1924-28)
1897 William Faulkner Mississippi, author (Sound & the Fury-Nobel 1949)
1905 Red Smith Green Bay Wisc, sportscaster/columnist (Fight Talk)
1906 Dimitri Shostakovich St Petersburg Russia, composer (9th-1945)
1918 Phil Rizzuto Bkln NY, sportscaster/shortstop (NY Yankees-MVP 1950)
1920 Sergey Bondarchuk Belozerka Ukraine, director (War & Peace)
1926 Aldo Ray actor (God's Little Acre, Naked & the Dead, Green Beret)
1926 Sergei Filatov USSR, equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1960)
1931 Barbara Walters Boston Mass, newscaster (Today, 20/20, ABC-TV)
1936 Juliet Prowse Bombay India, actress/dancer
1943 Robert Walden NYC, actor (Joe Rossi-Lou Grant, New Doctors)
1944 Michael Douglas NJ, actor (Coma, Wall St, Jewel of the Nile)
1949 Anson Williams LA Calif, actor (Potsie-Happy Days)
1951 Mark Hamill Oakland Calif, actor (Star Wars)
1952 Christopher Reeve actor (Superman)
1961 Heather Locklear LA Calif, actress (Stacy-T.J. Hooker)
1965 Fresh Prince [Will Smith], rapper/actor (Wild Wild West, Men In Black)
1967 Lezlie Lund Tolna ND, Miss ND-America (1991)
Deaths which occurred on September 25:
0813 al-Amin, Arabic Caliph of Islam (809-813), murdered
1066 Harald III Hardrada, king of Norway and England (1047-66), dies in battle at 51
1525 Johannes Pistorius, [Bakker], RC pastor/church reformer, burned at 26
1680 Samuel Butler, poet/satirist, dies
1849 Johann Baptist Strauss, elder, composer (Radetzky March), dies at 45
1867 Oliver Loving cattle pioneer dies of gangrene (Goodnight Loving trail)
1918 John Ireland, Irish/US archbishop of St Paul, dies at 80
1945 Bela Bartok, composer, dies at 64
1959 S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike Ceylon's PM, assassinated by a Buddhist monk
1960 Emily Post etiquette expert, dies at 86
1975 Bob Considine newscaster (Tonight! America After Dark), dies at 68
1984 Walter Pidgeon New Brunswick Canada, actor (MGM-Mrs Miniver, Madame Curie), dies at 87 after a series of strokes
1988 Billy Carter Pres Carter's brother Billy, dies of cancer at 51
1991 Klaus Barbie, Gestapo chief/torturer of Lyon, dies of cancer at 77
Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
25-Sep-2003 3 | US: 3 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Sergeant 1st Class Robert E. Rooney Shuabai Port Non-hostile - vehicle accident
US Specialist Kyle G. Thomas Kirkuk/Tikrit? - At Ta'mim Hostile - hostile fire - RPG attack
US Captain Robert L. Lucero Tikrit - Salah ad Din Hostile - hostile fire - bomb
25-Sep-2004 3 | US: 3 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Specialist Robert Oliver Unruh Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Specialist Clifford L. Moxley Jr. Baghdad Non-hostile - illness - died in sleep
US Specialist David W. Johnson Baghdad (2 mi. S of Taji) Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
Afghanistan
A GOOD DAY
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On this day...
1066 Battle of Stampford Bridge King Harold Godwinson II of England, beaten by his brother King Harold Hardrada of Norway
1396 The last great Christian crusade, led jointly by John the Fearless of Nevers and King Sigismund of Hungary, ends in disaster at the hands of Sultan Bajazet I's Ottoman army at Nicopolis.
1492 Crewman on the Pinta sights "land"-a few weeks early
1493 Columbus sails on 2nd voyage to America
1513 Vasco Nunez de Balboa is the 1st European to see the Pacific Ocean
1639 1st printing press in America
1690 Publick Occurrences, 1st US (Boston) newspaper, publish 1st & last ed
1775 American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen captured
1777 English general William Howe "conquers" Philadelphia
1789 Congress proposes Bill of Rights (10 of 12 will ratify)
1804 12th amendment to the US constitution, regulating judicial power
1861 Secretary of US Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves
1867 Congress creates 1st all black university, Howard U in Wash DC
1882 1st baseball doubleheader (Providence & Worcester)
1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (BG)
1890 Congress establishes Yosemite National Park (Calif)
1904 A New York City police officer ordered a female passenger in an automobile on Fifth Avenue to stop smoking a cigarette. A male companion was arrested and later fined two dollars for "abusing" the officer.
1908 Cubs' Ed Reulbach becomes only pitcher to throw Doubleheader shutout
1911 Ground breaking begins in Boston for Fenway Park
1919 Pres Wilson becomes seriously ill & collapses after a speech
1924 Malcolm Campbell sets world auto speed record at 146.16 MPH
1926 Henry Ford announces the 8 hour, 5-day work week
1926 International slavery convention signed by 20 states
1926 NHL grants franchises to Chicago Black Hawks & Detroit Red Wings
1934 Lou Gehrig plays in his 1500th consecutive game
1934 Rainbow (US) beats Endeavour (England) in 16th America's Cup
1939 Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra, so Andorra & Germany finally sign an official treaty ending WW I
1940 German High Commissioner in Norway sets up Vidikun Quisling government
1956 1st transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation
1957 300 US Army troops guard 9 black kids return to Central HS in Ark
1957 Soviet 7 year plan (1959-1965) announced
1959 President Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Khrushchev begin Camp David talks.
1959 Mob assassins shoot Little Augie Carfano to death in New York City on Meyer Lansky's orders. (It's just business)
1962 A black church is destroyed by fire in Macon Georgia
1962 Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson in 1st round for heavyweight title
1962 Weatherly (US) beats Gretel (Aust) in 19th running of America's Cup
1965 Beatle cartoon show begins in the US
1966 Smallest Yankee stadium crowd, 413 see White Sox win 4-1
1970 Ringo releases his "Beaucoups of Blues" album
1973 3-man crew of Skylab II make safe splashdown in Pacific after 59 days
1973 Willie Mays night at Shea Stadium
1974 Scientists warn that continued use of aerosol sprays will cause ozone depletion, which will lead to an increased risk of skin cancer and global weather changes. (WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!)
1980 Chevy Chase calls Cary Grant a homo on Tomorrow show (suit follows)
1981 Rolling Stones begin their 6th US tour (JFK Stadium, Phila)
1981 Sandra Day O'Connor sworn in as 1st female supreme court justice
1983 Bob Forsch pitches 2nd career no-hitter, Cards beat Expos 3-0
1984 Jordan announced it would restore relations with Egypt, something no Arab country had done since 17 Arab nations broke relations with Cairo over the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty of 1979.
1986 Antonin Scalia appointed to the Supreme Court
1990 Saddam Hussein warns US will repeat Vietnam experience
1990 UN Security Council vote 14-1 to impose air embargo against Iraq
1992 A judge in Orlando, Fla., granted 12-year-old Gregory Kingsley's precedent-setting petition to "divorce" his mother, & live with his foster parents, he takes name Shawn Russ
1993 Three U.S. soldiers were killed in Somalia when their helicopter was shot down.
2000 Vojislav Kostunica claims victory in weekend elections over incumbent Slobodan Milosevic. Milosevic refused to accept the results.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Rwanda : Government Day/National Assembly Day/Referendum Day
US : Pacific Ocean Day (1513)
US : Gold Star Mother's Day (Last Sunday in September)
National Singles Week (Day 6)
National Sports Junkie Week (Day 6)
National Rehabilitation Week (Day 6)
National Comic Book Day
Library Card Sign-Up Month
Religious Observances
Ang, Luth : Commemoration of Sergius, abbot of Holy Trinity, Moscow
Russian Orthodox : Feast of Saint Sergius of Radonezh
Feast of St. Cleophus, martyr
Religious History
1555 The Peace of Augsburg was signed, resolving bitter disputes between Protestants and Catholics in the German states. Its wider significance, however, meant that both the political unity of Germany and the medieval unity of Christendom was permanently dissolved.
1789 The establishment of religion on a national level was expressly prohibited in the U.S. with the adoption of the First Amendment, the opening words of which read: 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.' Final ratification of the First Amendment came in 1791.
1872 Death of Peter Cartwright, 87, early American Methodist circuit rider. Converted at age 29, Cartwright possessed a rough, uneducated and eccentric personality; but he spent over 50 of his 87 years spreading the Gospel through the Midwestern frontiers of Kentucky and Illinois.
1890 Polygamy was officially banned by the Mormon Church. (This announcement followed on the heels of an 1890 Supreme Court ruling denying all privileges of U.S. citizenship to Mormons who practiced this outlawed form of marriage.)
1908 Death of English Old Testament textual scholar Henry A. Redpath, 60. From 1892-1906, Redpath and Edwin Hatch compiled "A Concordance to the Septuagint and Other Greek Versions of the Old Testament"-- still in print today!
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Germans break shower record
Seven Germans have broken the world shower record after standing under running water for more than four days.
The five men and two women, aged between 17 and 25, from Hoevelhof, showered for over 101 hours to break the 100 hour record set in 2000 by a group of Berliners.
The rules of the record attempt allowed the group just a 10-minute break every hour and a number of the swimwear-clad participants slept standing up under the shower.
Ten people began the wet feat on Wednesday, with three dropping out on Saturday.
A 17-year-old boy who managed to stay under the shower for the longest won £1,360.
Marion Sander, spokeswoman for the Hotel Victoria where the event took place said afterwards: "The participants are physically in good health, but very tired. We'll now register their successful attempt with the Guinness Book or Records."
Thought for the day :
"The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past."
William Faulkner