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French battleship Liberté
Peking opera performer
Peking opera performers
Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia
Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor
Vasco Núñez de Balboa
Sultan Bayezid I
Women of a Magdalene asylum
Sandra Day O'Connor
Kaweah Gap, Sequoia National Park
Keke Rosberg
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 |
| 1959 – S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon, was shot by a Buddhist monk, dying the following day. | Too much uncited |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1982 – Keke Rosberg (pictured) won his only Formula One championship with a fifth-place finish at the Caesars Palace Grand Prix. | Not moderate or significant historical event |
| 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1983 – In one of the largest prison escapes in British history, 38 Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners hijacked a meals lorry and broke out of HM Prison Maze in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
- Born/died this day: | Harald Hardrada |d|1066| Johann Heinrich Lambert |d|1777| John Lymburn |b|1880| 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| Mark Hamill |b|1951| Catherine Zeta-Jones |b|1969| Irakli Kobakhidze |b|1978| John Bonham |d|1980| Marian Breland Bailey |d|2001| Bella Ramsey |b|2003| Wang Bingzhang |d|2005|
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: Mid-Autumn Festival (2026) in China, Taiwan, and Korea
Tacitus
- 275 – After the assassination of Aurelian, Tacitus (depicted) 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Oliver Loving (d. 1867)
- Silvana Pampanini (b. 1925)
- Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (b. 1955)
- José Fernández (d. 2016)
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