September 25

September 25 is the 268th day of the year (269th in leap years). There are 97 days remaining.

Events:

• 1513 - Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa reached the Pacific Ocean
• 1690 - "Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick," the first newspaper published in the Americas, published for the first and only time. It was considered offensive and its publisher, Benjamin Harris, was ordered not to publish any more.
• 1890 - Sequoia National Park established in California.
• 1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor was the 102nd Justice sworn in for the United States Supreme Court, the first woman to hold the office.

Births:

• 1866 - Thomas Morgan, geneticist
• 1897 - William Faulkner, novelist
• 1903 - Mark Rothko, painter
• 1906 - Dmitri Shostakovich, composer
• 1918 - Phil Rizzuto, baseball player
• 1931 - Barbara Walters, broadcaster
• 1932 - Glenn Gould, pianist, composer
• 1944 - Michael Douglas, actor
• 1952 - Christopher Reeve, actor
• 1952 - Mark Hamill, actor
• 1961 - Heather Locklear, actress, model
• 1968 - Will Smith, actor, rapper
• 1969 - Catherine Zeta-Jones, actress
• 1985 - Waseem Sebastian Daher, student

Deaths:

• 1970 - Erich Maria Remarque, author
• 1980 - John Bonham, drummer (Led Zeppelin)
• 1983 - Leopold III of Belgium
• 1984 - Walter Pigeon, actor

Holidays:

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