25 September

275      In Rome, (after the assassination of Aurelian), the Senate proclaims Marcus Claudius Tacitus Emperor.

1237    England and Scotland sign the Treaty of York, establishing the location of their common border.

1513    Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean.

1525    Steven Borough (born), English explorer and navigator (died 1584)

1534    Pope Clement VII (died) (born 1478)

1690   Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.

1703    Archibald Campbell (died), 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish captain (born 1658)

1744    Frederick William II of Prussia (born) (died 1797)

1764    Fletcher Christian (born), English navy officer (died 1793)

1773    Agostino Bassi (born), Italian entomologist (died 1856)

1775    American Revolutionary War: Ethan Allen surrenders to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal during the Battle of Longue-Pointe. Benedict Arnold and his expeditionary company set off from Fort Western, bound for Quebec City.

1777    Johann Heinrich Lambert (died), Swiss mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (born 1728)

1789    The United States Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: the Congressional Apportionment Amendment (which was never ratified), the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights.

1791    William Bradford (died), American soldier and publisher (born 1719)

1804   The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for moving further upriver.

1828   Charlotta Seuerling (died), Swedish singer, harpsichord player, and composer (born 1783)

1846   U.S. forces led by Zachary Taylor capture the Mexican city of Monterrey.

1849   Johann Strauss I (died), Austrian composer (born 1804)

1866   Thomas Hunt Morgan (born), American biologist, geneticist, and embryologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1945)

1890   The U.S. Congress establishes Sequoia National Park.

1897    William Faulkner (born), American author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1962)

1911     Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston

1912    Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.

1915    Ethel Rosenberg (born), American spy (died 1953)

1917    Phil Rizzuto (born), American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2007)

1926    Aldo Ray (born), American actor (died 1991)

1926    The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.

1928   Richard F. Outcault (died), American cartoonist, created The Yellow Kid and Buster Brown (born 1863)

1929    Barbara Walters (born), American journalist, producer, and author

1929    Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.

1930   Nino Cerruti (born), Italian fashion designer, founded Cerruti

1930   Shel Silverstein (born), American author, poet, illustrator, and songwriter (died 1999)

1931    Bryan John Birch (born), English mathematician

1932    Glenn Gould (born), Canadian pianist and composer (died 1982)

1933    Ring Lardner (died), American journalist and author (born 1885)

1936    Juliet Prowse (born), Indian-South African actress, singer, and dancer (died 1996)

1942    Henri Pescarolo (born), French race car driver

1943    Aram Saroyan (born), American author, poet, and playwright

1943    John Locke (born), American keyboard player (Spirit and Nazareth) (died 2006)

1944    Michael Douglas (born), American actor and producer

1946    Bryan MacLean, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Love) (died 1998)

1947    Cecil Womack (born), American singer-songwriter and producer (The Valentinos and Womack & Womack) (died 2013)

1947    Cheryl Tiegs (born), American model and actress

1951    Mark Hamill (born), American actor, singer, and producer

1952    Christopher Reeve (born), American actor, producer, and activist (died 2004)

1955    The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.

1956    Jamie Hyneman (born), American special effects designer and television host, founded M5 Industries

1956    TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.

1956    W. Daniel Hillis (born), American computer scientist, engineer, and author, founded the Thinking Machines Corporation

1957    Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.

1958    John B. Watson (died), American psychologist (born 1878)

1960 – Emily Post (died), American author (born 1873)

1961    Heather Locklear (born), American actress and producer

1968   Cornell Woolrich (died), American author (born 1903)

1968   Hans F. K. Günther (died), German eugenicist (born 1891)

1968   Will Smith (born), American actor, producer, and rapper (DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince)

1969    Catherine Zeta-Jones (born), Welsh-American actress and singer

1969    Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal (born), American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Guns N’ Roses)

1970    Cease-fire between Jordan and the Fedayeen ends fighting triggered by four hijackings on September 6 and 9.

1971 – Hugo Black (died), American captain, jurist, and politician (born 1886)

1972    In a referendum, the people of Norway reject membership of the European Community.

1974    Frank Leder (born), German fashion designer

1974    The first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (Tommy John surgery) performed, on baseball player Tommy John.

1977    About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon.

1979    Kyle Bennett (born), American BMX rider (died 2012)

1980 – John Bonham (died), English drummer and songwriter (Led Zeppelin and Band of Joy) (born 1948)

1981    Belize joins the United Nations.

1983 – Leopold III of Belgium (died) (born 1901)

1983   Maze Prison escape: 38 republican prisoners, armed with 6 handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze prison. It is the largest prison escape since WWII and in British history.

1984 – Walter Pidgeon (died), Canadian-American actor and singer (born 1897)

1986 – Nikolay Semyonov (died), Russian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1896)

1986   Greg Mighall (born), English drummer (The Rascals and The Little Flames)

1987    Mary Astor (died), American actress and singer (born 1906)

1988   Billy Carter (died), American businessman (born 1937)

1991    Klaus Barbie (died), German captain (born 1913)

1992    NASA launches the Mars Observer, a $511 million probe to Mars, in the first U.S. mission to the planet in 17 years. Eleven months later, the probe would fail.

2003   George Plimpton (died), American journalist, author, and actor (born 1927)

2003   Herb Gardner (died), American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1934)

2005   M. Scott Peck (died), American psychiatrist and author (born 1936)

2006   John M. Ford (died), American author and poet (born 1957)

2008  China launches the spacecraft Shenzhou 7.

2009   U.S. President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in a joint TV appearance for a G-20 summit, accused Iran of building a secret nuclear enrichment facility.

2011    Wangari Maathai (died), Kenyan environmentalist (born 1940)

2012   Andy Williams (died), American singer and actor (The Williams Brothers) (born 1927)

2012   Billy Barnes (died), American composer and songwriter (born 1927)

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Interests include biological anthropology, evolution, social behavior, and human behavior. Conducted field research in the Tana River National Primate Reserve, Kenya and on Angaur, Palau, Micronesia, as well as research with captive nonhuman primates at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center and the Institute for Primate Research, National Museums of Kenya.
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