Today in History, English
Today in History, English


IDTimeCategoryEvent
109681September 25Event1978 – PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, killing 144 people.
109682September 25Event1981 – Belize joins the United Nations.
109683September 25Event1983 – Maze Prison escape: Thirty-eight republican prisoners, armed with six handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze prison. It is the largest prison escape since World War II and in British history.
109684September 25Event1992 – 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.
109685September 25Event1996 – The last of the Magdalene asylums closes in Ireland.
109686September 25Event2002 – The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact, occurs in Siberia, Russia.
109687September 25Event2003 – A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.
109688September 25Event2008 – China launches the spacecraft Shenzhou 7.
109689September 25Event2009 – 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, accuse Iran of building a secret nuclear enrichment facility.
109690September 25Birth1358 – Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1408)
109691September 25Birth1403 – Louis III of Naples (d. 1434)
109692September 25Birth1525 – Steven Borough, English explorer and navigator (d. 1584)
109693September 25Birth1599 – Francesco Borromini, Swiss-Italian architect, designed the San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane and Sant'Agnese in Agone (d. 1667)
109694September 25Birth1644 – Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer and instrument maker (d. 1710)
109695September 25Birth1663 – Johann Nikolaus Hanff, German organist and composer (d. 1711)
109696September 25Birth1683 – Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer and theorist (d. 1764)
109697September 25Birth1694 – Henry Pelham, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1754)
109698September 25Birth1711 – Qianlong Emperor of China (d. 1799)
109699September 25Birth1738 – Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and politician, 7th Governor of Delaware (d. 1789)
109700September 25Birth1741 – Wenzel Pichl, Czech violinist, composer, and director (d. 1805)
109701September 25Birth1744 – Frederick William II of Prussia (d. 1797)
109702September 25Birth1758 – Josepha Barbara Auernhammer, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1820)
109703September 25Birth1764 – Fletcher Christian, English sailor (d. 1793)
109704September 25Birth1766 – Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of France (d. 1822)
109705September 25Birth1771 – Nikolay Raevsky, Russian general and politician (d. 1829)
109706September 25Birth1773 – Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist and author (d. 1856)
109707September 25Birth1780 – Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (d. 1801)
109708September 25Birth1782 – Charles Maturin, Irish author and playwright (d. 1824)
109709September 25Birth1798 – Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist and engineer (d. 1874)
109710September 25Birth1816 – Georg August Rudolph, German lawyer and politician, 3rd Mayor of Marburg (d. 1893)

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