September 25
1513 - Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama and sighted the Pacific Ocean.
1775 - Ethan Allen was captured by the British.
1789 - The first Congress adopted 12 amendments to the U.S. Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification; the first ten became the Bill of Rights.
1890 - Wilford Woodruff, president of the Mormon Church, renounced the practice of polygamy, which paved the way for Utah's acceptance as a state in 1896.
1956 - The first trans-Atlantic telephone cable officially went into service with a three-way ceremonial call between New York, Ottawa and London.
1957 - Nine Black students who had been forced to withdraw from Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, because of unruly white crowds were escorted to class by members of the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division and the National Guard.
1978 - A Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing 727 and a private plane collided over San Diego, killing 144.
1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor was sworn in as the first female justice of the United States Supreme Court.
2003 - It was reported that more than 14,000 people lost their lives in France in a summer heat wave.
2005 - In the presence of disarmament observers, the Irish Republican Army decommissioned its arsenal of weapons, officially ending a 36-year armed campaign for a unified Irish state.
2011 - King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia granted women the right to vote and run for office in future elections.
2012 - President Barack Obama, speaking to the U.N. General Assembly, pledged U.S. support for Syrians trying to oust President Bashar Assad, calling him “a dictator who massacres his own people.”
2018 - Bill Cosby was sentenced to three-to-10 years in prison for drugging and molesting a woman at his suburban Philadelphia home. (After serving nearly three years, Cosby went free in June 2021 after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned his conviction.)
Birthdays
21 - Emily Roman (actress)
27 - Jayda Cheaves (TV personality)
29 - Sofia Reyes (singer)
35 - Jordan Gavaris (actor)
40 - Zach Woods (actor)
41 - Donald Glover (actor)
47 - Clea DuVall (actress)
48 - Chauncey Billups (basketball player)
53 - John Lynch (football player)
55 - Catherine Zeta-Jones (actress)
56 - Will Smith (actor)
59 - Scottie Pippen (basketball player)
60 - Maria Doyle Kennedy (actress)
61 - Tate Donovan (actor)
62 - Aida Turturro (actress)
63 - Heather Locklear (actress)
66 - Michael Madsen (actor)
73 - Bob McAdoo (basketball player)
73 - Mark Hamill (actor)
75 - Anson Williams (actor)
76 - Mimi Kennedy (actress)
77 - Cheryl Tiegs (model)
80 - Michael Douglas (actor)
91 - Hubie Brown (basketball player)
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Today in Sports History - September 25
1882 - The first major league double header was played. It was between the Worcester and Providence teams.
1926 - The NHL awards franchises to the Chicago Blackhawks and Detroit Red Wings.
1965 - Willie Mays, at the age of 34, became the oldest man to hit 50 home runs in a single season. He had also set the record for the youngest to hit 50 ten years earlier.
1965 - Satchel Paige (Kansas City Athletics), at the age of 59, pitched three shutout innings against the Boston Red Sox.
1978 - Melissa Ludtke, a writer for "Sports Illustrated", filed a suit in U.S. District Court. The result was that Major League Baseball could not bar female writers from the locker room after the game.
1988 - American sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner wins the women's 100 meters at the Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea in world record time of 10.54 seconds.
1997 - The WNBA announces new franchises in Detroit and Washington, D.C.
2001 - Michael Jordan announced that he would return to the NBA as a player for the Washington Wizards. Jordan became the president of basketball operations for the team on January 19, 2000.
2013 - Skipper Jimmy Spithill and Oracle Team USA won the America’s Cup with one of the greatest comebacks in sports history, speeding past Dean Barker and Emirates Team New Zealand in the winner-take-all Race 19 on San Francisco Bay.
1513 - Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama and sighted the Pacific Ocean.
1775 - Ethan Allen was captured by the British.
1789 - The first Congress adopted 12 amendments to the U.S. Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification; the first ten became the Bill of Rights.
1890 - Wilford Woodruff, president of the Mormon Church, renounced the practice of polygamy, which paved the way for Utah's acceptance as a state in 1896.
1956 - The first trans-Atlantic telephone cable officially went into service with a three-way ceremonial call between New York, Ottawa and London.
1957 - Nine Black students who had been forced to withdraw from Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, because of unruly white crowds were escorted to class by members of the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division and the National Guard.
1978 - A Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing 727 and a private plane collided over San Diego, killing 144.
1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor was sworn in as the first female justice of the United States Supreme Court.
2003 - It was reported that more than 14,000 people lost their lives in France in a summer heat wave.
2005 - In the presence of disarmament observers, the Irish Republican Army decommissioned its arsenal of weapons, officially ending a 36-year armed campaign for a unified Irish state.
2011 - King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia granted women the right to vote and run for office in future elections.
2012 - President Barack Obama, speaking to the U.N. General Assembly, pledged U.S. support for Syrians trying to oust President Bashar Assad, calling him “a dictator who massacres his own people.”
2018 - Bill Cosby was sentenced to three-to-10 years in prison for drugging and molesting a woman at his suburban Philadelphia home. (After serving nearly three years, Cosby went free in June 2021 after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned his conviction.)
Birthdays
21 - Emily Roman (actress)
27 - Jayda Cheaves (TV personality)
29 - Sofia Reyes (singer)
35 - Jordan Gavaris (actor)
40 - Zach Woods (actor)
41 - Donald Glover (actor)
47 - Clea DuVall (actress)
48 - Chauncey Billups (basketball player)
53 - John Lynch (football player)
55 - Catherine Zeta-Jones (actress)
56 - Will Smith (actor)
59 - Scottie Pippen (basketball player)
60 - Maria Doyle Kennedy (actress)
61 - Tate Donovan (actor)
62 - Aida Turturro (actress)
63 - Heather Locklear (actress)
66 - Michael Madsen (actor)
73 - Bob McAdoo (basketball player)
73 - Mark Hamill (actor)
75 - Anson Williams (actor)
76 - Mimi Kennedy (actress)
77 - Cheryl Tiegs (model)
80 - Michael Douglas (actor)
91 - Hubie Brown (basketball player)
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Today in Sports History - September 25
1882 - The first major league double header was played. It was between the Worcester and Providence teams.
1926 - The NHL awards franchises to the Chicago Blackhawks and Detroit Red Wings.
1965 - Willie Mays, at the age of 34, became the oldest man to hit 50 home runs in a single season. He had also set the record for the youngest to hit 50 ten years earlier.
1965 - Satchel Paige (Kansas City Athletics), at the age of 59, pitched three shutout innings against the Boston Red Sox.
1978 - Melissa Ludtke, a writer for "Sports Illustrated", filed a suit in U.S. District Court. The result was that Major League Baseball could not bar female writers from the locker room after the game.
1988 - American sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner wins the women's 100 meters at the Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea in world record time of 10.54 seconds.
1997 - The WNBA announces new franchises in Detroit and Washington, D.C.
2001 - Michael Jordan announced that he would return to the NBA as a player for the Washington Wizards. Jordan became the president of basketball operations for the team on January 19, 2000.
2013 - Skipper Jimmy Spithill and Oracle Team USA won the America’s Cup with one of the greatest comebacks in sports history, speeding past Dean Barker and Emirates Team New Zealand in the winner-take-all Race 19 on San Francisco Bay.