On This Day: September 25

Historical Events 📜

• 2018: Bill Cosby is sentenced to three to ten years in prison for aggravated sexual assault.
• 2003: The 8.3 Mw  Hokkaidō earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.
• 1998: PauknAir Flight 4101, a British Aerospace 146, crashes near Melilla Airport in Melilla, Spain, killing 38 people.
• 1997: NASA launches Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-86 to the Mir space station.
• 1992: NASA launches the Mars Observer. Eleven months later, the probe would fail while preparing for orbital insertion.
• 1987: Fijian Governor-General Penaia Ganilau is overthrown in a coup d’état led by Lieutenant colonel Sitiveni Rabuka.
• 1985: 3 civilians killed by alleged supporters of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Larnaca yacht killings.
• 1983: Thirty-eight IRA prisoners, armed with six handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze Prison.
• 1981: Belize joins the United Nations.
• 1978: PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, killing all 135 aboard Flight 182, both occupants of the Cessna, as well as seven people on the ground.
• 1977: About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon.
• 1974: Dr. Frank Jobe performs first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (better known as Tommy John surgery) on baseball player Tommy John.
• 1969: The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is signed.
• 1964: The Mozambican War of Independence against Portugal begins.
• 1963: Lord Denning releases the UK government’s official report on the Profumo affair.

Famous Births 👶

• 2009: Leah Jeffries, American actress
• 2003: Bella Ramsey, English actor
• 2001: Cade Cunningham, American basketball player
• 2000: Lilas Ikuta, Japanese singer and songwriter
• 1995: Todd Hazelwood, Australian race car driver
• 1993: Brandin Cooks, American football player
• 1993: Toby Greene, Australian footballer
• 1992: Zoël Amberg, Swiss race car driver
• 1992: Massimo Luongo, Australian footballer
• 1992: Keauna McLaughlin, American figure skater
• 1992: Rosalía, Spanish singer-songwriter
• 1992: Ruslan Zhiganshin, Russian ice dancer
• 1991: Calle Järnkrok, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1990: Mao Asada, Japanese figure skater
• 1989: Jordan Gavaris, Canadian actor

Notable Deaths 🕊️

• 2023: David McCallum, Scottish actor (born 1933)
• 2017: Jan Tříska, Czech actor (born 1936)
• 2016: José Fernández, Cuban-American baseball player (born 1992)
• 2016: Arnold Palmer, American golfer (born 1929)
• 2016: Nahid Hattar, Jordanian writer and political activist (born 1960)
• 2015: Claudio Baggini, Italian Roman Catholic prelate (born 1936)
• 2015: John Galvin, American general (born 1929)
• 2015: Tom Kelley, American baseball player and manager (born 1944)
• 2015: Moti Kirschenbaum, Israeli journalist (born 1939)
• 2014: Ulrick Chérubin, Haitian-Canadian educator and politician (born 1943)
• 2014: Sulejman Tihić, Bosnian lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1951)
• 2014: Dorothy Tyler-Odam, English high jumper (born 1920)
• 2013: Ron Fenton, English footballer, coach, and manager (born 1940)
• 2013: Choi In-ho, South Korean author and screenwriter (born 1945)
• 2013: José Montoya, American poet and academic (born 1932)

Holidays & Observances 🎉

• Armed Forces Day or Revolution Day (Mozambique)
• Bangladeshi Immigration Day (United States)
• Christian feast day:
  Abadir and Iraja and Companions (Coptic Church)
• Christian feast day:
  Aunarius (Aunacharius)
• Christian feast day:
  Anathalon (Archdiocese of Milan)
• Christian feast day:
  Cadoc
• Christian feast day:
  Ceolfrith
• Christian feast day:
  Cleopas
• Christian feast day:
  Euphrosyne of Alexandria
• Christian feast day:
  Finbarr
• Christian feast day:
  Fermin of Amiens
• Christian feast day:
  Lancelot Andrewes (Church of England)
• Christian feast day:
  Sergius of Radonezh (repose)
• Christian feast day:
  Vincent Strambi
• Christian feast day:
  September 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)