Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 25

This is a list of selected September 25 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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  French battleship Liberté
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  Peking opera performer
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  Peking opera performers
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  Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia
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  Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor
• Vasco Núñez de Balboa
  Vasco Núñez de Balboa
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  Vasco Núñez de Balboa
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  Sultan Bayezid I
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  Women of a Magdalene asylum
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  Sandra Day O'Connor

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Feast day of Sergius of Radonezh (Eastern Orthodox Church)	refimprove
1513 – Conquistador Vasco Núñez de Balboa, upon a peak in present-day Darién, Panama, became the first European known to have seen the Pacific Ocean from the New World, naming it Mar del Sur, or South Sea, a few days later.	needs more footnotes
1555 – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and the forces of the Schmalkaldic League signed the Peace of Augsburg, ending the religious struggle between the two groups and made the legal division of Christendom permanent within the Holy Roman Empire.	refimprove
1868 – The Russian frigate Alexander Nevsky wrecked off northwestern Jutland, nearly drowning Grand Duke Alexei.	refimprove
1955 – The Royal Jordanian Air Force, the aviation branch of the Jordanian Armed Forces, was founded.	refimprove section
1974 – The first surgery to replace the ulnar collateral ligament, commonly known as the Tommy John surgery after the first patient, was performed by Dr. Frank Jobe.	Refimprove section
1962 – The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria was formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas was elected president of the provisional government, with Ahmed Ben Bella as prime minister.	refimprove
1964 – Unrest and frustration among indigenous Mozambican people against Portuguese rule erupted in a war for independence that lasted nearly ten years.	page numbers needed
1996 – The last Irish Magdalene asylum, an institution to rehabilitate so-called "fallen women", was closed.	page numbers needed
2008 – Shenzhou 7, the third spaceflight of the Chinese space program and their first to include a spacewalk, launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.	refimprove section
Billy Hughes |b|1862|	Citation issues
Arthur Lyon Fremantle |d|1901|	primary sources
Jessica Anderson |b|1916	unreferenced section

Eligible

• 275 – After the assassination of Aurelian, Tacitus was chosen by the Senate to succeed him as Roman emperor.
• 1066 – Harold Godwinson defeated King Harald III of Norway and his English ally Tostig Godwinson at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, ending the last Norse invasion of the British Isles.
• 1237 – Henry III of England and Alexander II of Scotland signed the Treaty of York, establishing the Anglo-Scottish border, which mostly remains the same today.
• 1396 – Ottoman wars in Europe: Ottoman forces under Bayezid I defeated a Christian alliance led by Sigismund of Hungary near present-day Nikopol, Bulgaria.
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Ethan Allen and a small force of American and Quebec militia failed to capture the city of Montreal from British forces.
• 1800 – French Revolutionary Wars: After U.S. ships became involved, French forces abandoned their invasion of the Batavian island of Curaçao.
• 1911 – An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonated the forward ammunition magazines and destroyed the ship.
• 1944 – Second World War: British troops began their withdrawal from the Battle of Arnhem in the Netherlands, ending the Allies' Operation Market Garden in defeat.
• 1957 – United States Army troops escorted nine students as Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas was integrated.
• 1962 – The North Yemen Civil War began when Abdullah al-Sallal dethroned the newly crowned Imam al-Badr and declared Yemen to be a republic under his presidency.
• 1977 – About 4,200 people took part in the first modern Chicago Marathon.
• 1981 – Sandra Day O'Connor (pictured) became the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
• 1990 – The Ram Rath Yatra, a political–religious rally organised to erect a temple to the Hindu deity Rama on the site of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, began in the Indian state of Gujarat.
• Born/died this day: | Johann Heinrich Lambert |d|1777| Oliver Loving |d|1867| Robert Brackman |b|1898| Jacqueline Audry |b|1908| Jessie Murray |d|1920| Miller Huggins |d|1929| Glenn Gould |b|1932| Johannes Brost |b|1946| Cheryl Tiegs |b|1947| Catherine Zeta-Jones |b|1969| John Bonham |d|1980| José Fernández |d|2016

Notes

• Operation Market Garden is featured on September 17, so Operation Berlin/Battle of Arnhem should not appear in the same year.
• Battle of Fulford is featured on September 20, so Harald III should not appear in the same year.

September 25

Kaweah Gap, Sequoia National Park

• 844 – Viking expansion: A Viking fleet arrived near Seville, then part of the Emirate of Córdoba, and began a raid of the city that was eventually repelled by Muslim defenders.
• 1790 – Peking opera was born with the introduction of Hui opera to Beijing by the "Four Great Anhui Troupes" in honour of the Qianlong Emperor's 80th birthday.
• 1890 – Sequoia National Park (pictured) was established to conserve giant sequoia trees in an area affected by logging in the southern Sierra Nevada in California.
• 1983 – In one of the largest prison escapes in British history, 38 Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners hijacked a prison meals lorry and broke out of HM Prison Maze in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
• 2005 – Typhoon Longwang, the deadliest tropical cyclone to hit China in that year, formed just north of the Mariana Islands.

• Harald Hardrada (d. 1066)
• John Lymburn (b. 1880)
• Marian Breland Bailey (d. 2001)
• Wang Bingzhang (d. 2005)

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• September 25
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