275 – In Rome, (after the assassination of Aurelian), the Senate proclaims Marcus Claudius Tacitus Emperor.
762 – Led by Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya, the Hasanid branch of the Alids begins the Alid Revolt against the Abbasid Caliphate.
1066 – The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking invasions of England.
1237 – England and Scotland sign the Treaty of York, establishing the location of their common border.
1396 – Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis.
1513 – Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean.
1555 – The Peace of Augsburg is signed in Augsburg by Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League.
1639 – The first printing press is used in America.
1690 – Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.
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.
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.
1790 – Peking opera is born when the Four Great Anhui Troupes introduce Anhui opera to Beijing in honor of the Qianlong Emperor's eightieth birthday.
1804 – The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for allowing the expedition to move further upriver.
1846 – U.S. forces led by Zachary Taylor capture the Mexican city of Monterrey.
1868 – The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Nevsky is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei of Russia.
1890 – The United States Congress establishes Sequoia National Park.
1906 – In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the remote control.
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1911 – An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.
1912 – Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
1915 – World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
1919 – President Woodrow Wilson suffers a breakdown in Colorado, his health would never recover.
1926 – The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
1926 – Ford Motor Company founder Henry Ford announces a 5 day a week, 8 hours a day, work week.
1929 – Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan.
1942 – World War II: Swiss Police Instruction of September 25, 1942: This instruction denied entry into Switzerland to Jewish refugees.
1944 – World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem in the Netherlands, thus ending the Battle of Arnhem and Operation Market Garden.
1955 – The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
1956 – TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.
1957 – Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
1959 – Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
1962 – The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.
1962 – The North Yemen Civil War begins when Abdullah as-Sallal dethrones the newly crowned Imam al-Badr and declares Yemen a republic under his presidency.
1963 – Lord Denning releases the UK government's official report on the Profumo Affair.
1964 – The Mozambican War of Independence against Portugal begins.
1969 – The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is signed.
1970 – Cease-fire between Jordan and the Fedayeen ends fighting triggered by four hijackings on September 6 and 9.
1972 – In a referendum, the people of Norway reject membership of the European Community.
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.
1978 – PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, killing 144 people.
1981 – Belize joins the United Nations.
1983 – 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 WWII and in British history.
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.
1996 – The last of the Magdalene asylums closes in Ireland.
2002 – The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact, occurs in Siberia, Russia.
2003 – A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.
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, accuse Iran of building a secret nuclear enrichment facility.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Confessor. Double
Contemporary Western
Cadoc
Ceolfrith
Finbarr
Ceolfrith
Finbarr
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Translator of the Scriptures, AD 1626 (Anglicanism)
Eastern Orthodox
September 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Repose of Saint Sergius, Abbot and Wonderworker of Radonezh (1392)
Venerable Euphrosyne of Alexandria (5th century)
Martyr Paphnutius and 546 companions in Egypt (3rd century)
St. Arsenius the Great, catholicos of Georgia (887)
Saint Euphrosyne of Suzdal, nun (1250)
Martyrs Paul and Tatta and their children:
Sabinian, Maximos, Rufus, and Eugene of Damascus
Commemoration of the Earthquake in Constantinople in 447,
when a boy was lifted up to heaven and heard the "Trisagion"
Translation of the relics (1595) of Saint Herman, Archbishop of Kazan (1567)
Repose of Elder Dositheus (monastic woman who took up the struggle
"in the guise of a man"), recluse of the Kiev Caves who blessed
Saint Seraphim to go to Sarov (1776)
Repose of Saint Sergius, Abbot and Wonderworker of Radonezh (1392)
Venerable Euphrosyne of Alexandria (5th century)
Martyr Paphnutius and 546 companions in Egypt (3rd century)
St. Arsenius the Great, catholicos of Georgia (887)
Saint Euphrosyne of Suzdal, nun (1250)
Martyrs Paul and Tatta and their children:
Sabinian, Maximos, Rufus, and Eugene of Damascus
Commemoration of the Earthquake in Constantinople in 447,
when a boy was lifted up to heaven and heard the "Trisagion"
Translation of the relics (1595) of Saint Herman, Archbishop of Kazan (1567)
Repose of Elder Dositheus (monastic woman who took up the struggle
"in the guise of a man"), recluse of the Kiev Caves who blessed
Saint Seraphim to go to Sarov (1776)
Coptic Orthodox
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