12 History Lessons + 7 Births & 7 Deaths for September 25, 2025
Today’s History:
- 1066 – Battle of Stamford Bridge: King Harold II of England defeats Norway’s Harald Hardrada.
- 1237 – Treaty of York sets much of the England–Scotland border.
- 1513 – Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches the Pacific Ocean from the New World.
- 1555 – Peace of Augsburg grants German princes the right to choose Lutheranism or Catholicism.
- 1690 – First American newspaper, Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, is published in Boston.
- 1789 – U.S. Congress passes 12 constitutional amendments; 10 become the Bill of Rights.
- 1890 – Sequoia National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.
- 1956 – TAT-1, the first transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.
- 1957 – U.S. Army escorts the Little Rock Nine into Central High School to enforce desegregation.
- 1978 – PSA Flight 182 collides with a Cessna and crashes over San Diego; 144 people are killed.
- 2005 – IRA decommissioning is confirmed, marking a milestone in the Northern Ireland peace process.
- 2013 – Oracle Team USA completes a historic comeback to win the America’s Cup.
Today’s Birthdays:
- 1944 – Michael Douglas, Academy Award–winning actor/producer (81).
- 1951 – Mark Hamill, actor best known as Luke Skywalker (74).
- 1968 – Will Smith, Grammy- and Oscar-winning actor/rapper (57).
- 1969 – Catherine Zeta-Jones, Academy Award–winning actress (56).
- 1976 – Chauncey Billups, NBA champion and coach (49).
- 1980 – T.I., rapper, actor, and entrepreneur (45).
- 1983 – Donald Glover, Emmy- and Grammy-winning actor/musician (Childish Gambino) (42).
Today’s Deaths:
- 1980 – John Bonham, Led Zeppelin drummer (32).
- 2005 – Don Adams, Get Smart actor (82).
- 2011 – Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel laureate (71).
- 2016 – Arnold Palmer, golf legend (87).
- 2016 – José Fernández, Miami Marlins pitcher (24).
- 2016 – Kashif, R&B singer/songwriter and producer (57).
- 2023 – David McCallum, actor (NCIS, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) (90).
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