Happy birthday and many happy returns Kathleen Kek, Lambert Okodeh and Tola Sun. Born on the same day, across the years, as 1968 – Will Smith, American actor, producer, and rapper (DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince), 1961 – Heather Locklear, American actress and model, 1952 – Christopher Reeve, American actor (d. 2004), 1946 – Felicity Kendal, English actress, 1944 – Michael Douglas, American actor and producer, 1929 – Barbara Walters, American journalist, broadcaster, and author, 1929 – Ronnie Barker, English comedian and actor (d. 2005), 1921 – Robert Muldoon, New Zealand politician, 31st Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1992), 1915 – Ethel Rosenberg, Soviet spy (d. 1953) and 1862 – Billy Hughes, Australian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952). September 25: Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year)(2014, 5775 AM) Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia 762 – Led by Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya, the Hasanid branch of the Alidsbegan the Alid Revolt against the Abbasid Caliphate. 1868 – The Russian frigate Alexander Nevsky wrecked off northwestern Jutland, nearly drowning Grand Duke Alexei (pictured). 1944 – World War II: British troops began their withdrawal from the Battle of Arnhem in the Netherlands, ending the Allies Operation Market Gardenin defeat. 1974 – The first surgery to replace the ulnar collateral ligament, commonly known as the Tommy John surgery after the first patient, was performed by Dr.Frank Jobe. 1996 – The last Magdalene asylum, an Irish institution to rehabilitate so-called fallen women, was closed. You have revolted and wrecked the frigate. Your market garden is defeated. But the surgery is a success. Finally you are free. Time to party. Enjoy your day. Matches 275 – In Rome, (after the assassination of Aurelian), the Senate proclaims Marcus Claudius TacitusEmperor. 762 – Led by Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya, the Hasanid branch of the Alids begins the Alid Revoltagainst 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. 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 Emperors 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 moving 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 U.S. 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 theTelekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the remote control. 1911 – Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston 1911 – An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunitionmagazines 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. 1926 – The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed. 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 theBattle 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 Peoples 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 governments 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 727-214, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, resulting in the deaths of 144 people. 1981 – Belize joins the United Nations. 1983 – Maze Prison escape: 38 republican prisoners, armed with 6 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 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, accused Iran of building a secret nuclear enrichment facility. Hatches 1358 – Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1408) 1525 – Steven Borough, English explorer and navigator (d. 1584) 1599 – Francesco Borromini, Swiss-Italian architect, designed the San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane and SantAgnese in Agone (d. 1667) 1644 – Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (d. 1710) 1663 – Johann Nikolaus Hanff, German organist and composer (d. 1711) 1683 – Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer and theorist (d. 1764) 1694 – Henry Pelham, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1754) 1711 – Qianlong Emperor of China (d. 1799) 1741 – Wenzel Pichl, Czech violinist, composer, and director (d. 1805) 1758 – Josepha Barbara Auernhammer, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1820) 1764 – Fletcher Christian, English navy officer (d. 1793) 1766 – Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French politician, 2nd Prime Minister of France (d. 1822) 1773 – Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (d. 1856) 1780 – Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (d. 1801) 1782 – Charles Maturin, Irish author and playwright (d. 1824) 1798 – Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist (d. 1874) 1839 – Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist (d. 1904) 1862 – Léon Boëllmann, French organist and composer (d. 1897) 1862 – Billy Hughes, English-Australian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952) 1881 – Lu Xun, Chinese author and critic (d. 1936) 1888 – Hanna Ralph, German actress (d. 1978) 1889 – Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff, Scottish author (d. 1930) 1893 – Harald Cramér, Swedish mathematician (d. 1985) 1898 – Robert Brackman, Ukrainian-American painter (d. 1980) 1901 – Robert Bresson, French director and screenwriter (d. 1999) 1903 – Mark Rothko, Latvian-American painter (d. 1970) 1906 – Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1975) 1908 – Jacqueline Audry, French director and screenwriter (d. 1977) 1913 – Maria Tănase, Romanian singer and actress (d. 1963) 1915 – Ethel Rosenberg, American spy (d. 1953) 1916 – Jessica Anderson, Australian author (d. 2010) 1916 – Deendayal Upadhyaya, Indian economist, sociologist, and journalist (d. 1968) 1920 – Sergei Bondarchuk, Ukrainian-Russian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1994) 1920 – Satish Dhawan, Indian engineer (d. 2002) 1921 – Robert Muldoon, New Zealand sergeant, accountant, and politician, 31st Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1992) 1923 – Robert Laxalt, American author (d. 2001) 1923 – Sam Rivers, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (d. 2011) 1925 – Paul MacCready, American engineer, founded AeroVironment (d. 2007) 1925 – Silvana Pampanini, Italian actress and director 1926 – Jack Hyles, American pastor (d. 2001) 1926 – Aldo Ray, American actor (d. 1991) 1927 – Colin Davis, English conductor (d. 2013) 1929 – Ronnie Barker, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2005) 1929 – Delia Scala, Italian ballerina and actress (d. 2004) 1929 – Barbara Walters, American journalist, producer, and author 1930 – Elsa Aguirre, Mexican actress 1930 – Nino Cerruti, Italian fashion designer, founded Cerruti 1930 – Shel Silverstein, American author, poet, illustrator, and songwriter (d. 1999) 1931 – Manouchehr Atashi, Iranian journalist and poet (d. 2005) 1931 – Bryan John Birch, English mathematician 1932 – Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and composer (d. 1982) 1933 – Erik Darling, American singer-songwriter (The Weavers and The Tarriers) (d. 2008) 1933 – Brian Murphy, English actor and singer 1933 – Ian Tyson, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Ian & Sylvia and Great Speckled Bird) 1934 – Jean Sorel, French actor 1936 – Ken Forsse, American toy creator and author, created Teddy Ruxpin (d. 2014) 1936 – Juliet Prowse, Indian-South African actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1996) 1936 – Ileana Sărăroiu, Romanian singer (d. 1979) 1939 – Feroz Khan, Indian actor, director, and producer (d. 2009) 1942 – Robert Miano, American actor and producer 1943 – John Locke, American keyboard player (Spirit and Nazareth) (d. 2006) 1943 – Aram Saroyan, American author, poet, and playwright 1943 – Josh Taylor, American actor 1943 – Robert Walden, American actor, director, and screenwriter 1944 – Michael Douglas, American actor and producer 1945 – Dee Dee Warwick, American singer (d. 2008) 1946 – Felicity Kendal, English actress 1946 – Bryan MacLean, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Love) (d. 1998) 1946 – Janusz Majer, Polish mountaineer 1946 – Jerry Penrod, American bass player (Iron Butterfly and Rhinoceros) 1947 – Firmine Richard, French actress 1947 – Cheryl Tiegs, American model and actress 1947 – Cecil Womack, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Valentinos and Womack & Womack) (d. 2013) 1948 – Mimi Kennedy, American actress 1948 – Kathi McDonald, American singer (d. 2012) 1949 – Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter 1951 – Burleigh Drummond, drummer/percussionist for the band Ambrosia 1951 – Yardena Arazi, Israeli singer 1952 – Colin Friels, Scottish-Australian actor 1952 – Bell Hooks, American author and activist 1952 – Cherríe Moraga, American poet, playwright, and activist 1952 – Christopher Reeve, American actor, producer, and activist (d. 2004) 1953 – Richard Harvey, English mandolin player, keyboard player, and composer (Gryphon) 1955 – Zucchero Fornaciari, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist 1955 – Steven Severin, English bass player, songwriter, and producer (Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Glove) 1956 – W. Daniel Hillis, American computer scientist, engineer, and author, founded the Thinking Machines Corporation 1956 – Jamie Hyneman, American special effects designer and television host, founded M5 Industries 1956 – Winfried Stradt, German footballer 1956 – Kim Thompson, American publisher 1957 – Michael Madsen, American actor and producer 1957 – Vladimir Popovkin, Russian general (d. 2014) 1957 – Ian Reddington, English actor 1958 – Randy Kerber, American keyboard player, composer, and conductor 1959 – Jeon Soo-il, South Korean director, producer, and screenwriter 1960 – Sonia Benezra, Canadian radio and television host 1960 – Eduardo Yáñez, Mexican actor 1961 – Mark Gil, Filipino actor (d. 2014) 1961 – Heather Locklear, American actress and producer 1962 – Shreela Ghosh, Indian-English actress and dancer 1962 – Kalthoum Sarrai, Tunisian-French journalist (d. 2010) 1962 – Beth Toussaint, American actress 1962 – Aida Turturro, American actress 1963 – Mikael Persbrandt, Swedish actor 1963 – Keely Shaye Smith, American journalist and author 1964 – Anita Barone, American actress 1964 – Barbara Dennerlein, German organist 1964 – Kikuko Inoue, Japanese voice actress and singer 1964 – Chris Impellitteri, American guitarist and songwriter (Impellitteri and Animetal USA) 1964 – Kikuko Inoue, Japanese singer-songwriter and voice actress (DoCo) 1965 – Anne Roumanoff, French actress 1965 – Rob Schmidt, American director and screenwriter 1966 – Stanislav Bunin, Russian pianist 1967 – Ashwin Sood, English-Canadian drummer 1968 – John A. List, American economist 1968 – Will Smith, American actor, producer, and rapper (DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince) 1969 – Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (d. 2002) 1969 – Bill Simmons, American journalist and author 1969 – Hal Sparks, American actor and singer 1969 – Heather Stewart-Whyte, English model 1969 – Ron Bumblefoot Thal, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Guns N Roses) 1969 – Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh-American actress and singer 1970 – Kerri Kendall, American model and actress 1970 – Misa Shimizu, Japanese actress 1970 – Dean Ween, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Ween) 1971 – Jessie Wallace, English actress 1972 – Douglas September, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1973 – Bridget Marquardt, American model and actress 1973 – Bridgette Wilson, American actress and singer, Miss Teen USA 1990 1974 – Richie Edwards, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Stone Gods, The Darkness, and Onion Trump) 1974 – John Granville, American diplomat (d. 2008) 1974 – Daniel Kessler, English-American singer and guitarist (Interpol) 1974 – Frank Leder, German fashion designer 1975 – Declan Donnelly, English actor and singer 1975 – Dat Nguyen, American football player and coach 1975 – Maya Sansa, Italian actress 1976 – Santigold, American singer-songwriter and producer (Stiffed) 1976 – Charlotte Ayanna, Puerto Rican-American actress, Miss Teen USA 1993 1976 – Eric Roberson, American singer-songwriter and producer 1976 – Chiara Siracusa, Maltese singer 1977 – Clea DuVall, American actress 1977 – Kiyoshi Ijichi, Japanese drummer (Asian Kung-Fu Generation) 1977 – Robbie Jones, American actor 1977 – Mike Krahulik, American illustrator 1977 – Divya Dutta, Indian actress 1978 – Joe Cotton, Canadian-New Zealand singer (TrueBliss) 1978 – Jodie Kidd, English model 1978 – Ryan Leslie, American singer-songwriter and producer 1979 – Kyle Bennett, American BMX rider (d. 2012) 1979 – An Choyoung, South Korean Go player 1980 – Elio Germano, Italian actor 1980 – Chris Owen, American actor 1981 – Sarah Jayne Dunn, English actress 1981 – Gemma Garrett, Irish model, Miss Great Britain 2007 1981 – Van Hansis, American actor 1981 – Lee Norris, American actor 1981 – Shane Tutmarc, American singer-songwriter and producer (Dolour) 1982 – Hyun Bin, South Korean actor and singer 1982 – Kany García, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter 1983 – Son Dam-bi, South Korean singer and actress 1984 – Cherine Anderson, Jamaican singer-songwriter and actress 1986 – Heidi El Tabakh, Egyptian-Canadian tennis player 1986 – Nicole Fugere, American model and actress 1986 – Greg Mighall, English drummer (The Rascals and The Little Flames) 1987 – Monica Niculescu, Romanian tennis player 1988 – Mariya Ise, Japanese voice actress 1988 – Tamaryn Payne, English actress 1990 – Daria Strokous, Russian model, actress, and photographer 1991 – Emmy Clarke, American actress 1994 – Jansen Panettiere, American actor 1995 – Ryan Beatty, American singer Despatches 744 – Yazid III, Muslim caliph (b. 701) 1066 – Tostig Godwinson, English brother of Harold Godwinson 1066 – Harald Hardrada, Norwegian king (b. 1015) 1086 – William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1025) 1333 – Prince Morikuni, Japanese shogun (b. 1301) 1536 – Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet (b. 1511) 1550 – Georg von Blumenthal, the last Catholic Bishop in North Germany (b.1490). 1602 – Caspar Peucer, German physician, scholar, and reformer (b. 1525) 1617 – Emperor Go-Yōzei of Japan (b. 1572) 1617 – Francisco Suárez, Spanish priest, philosopher, and theologian (b. 1548) 1777 – Johann Heinrich Lambert, Swiss mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1728) 1791 – William Bradford, American soldier and publisher (b. 1719) 1794 – Paul Rabaut, French pastor (b. 1718) 1828 – Charlotta Seuerling, Swedish singer, harpsichord player, and composer (b. 1783) 1849 – Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer (b. 1804) 1867 – Oliver Loving, American rancher, co-developed the Goodnight–Loving Trail (b. 1812) 1926 – Herbert Booth, English songwriter and bandleader (b. 1862) 1928 – Richard F. Outcault, American cartoonist, created The Yellow Kid and Buster Brown (b. 1863) 1958 – John B. Watson, American psychologist (b. 1878) 1960 – Emily Post, American author (b. 1873) 1968 – Hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist (b. 1891) 1980 – John Bonham, English drummer and songwriter (Led Zeppelin and Band of Joy) (b. 1948) 1987 – Mary Astor, American actress and singer (b. 1906) 1988 – Billy Carter, American businessman (b. 1937) 1991 – Klaus Barbie, German captain (b. 1913) 1999 – Marion Zimmer Bradley, American author (b. 1930) 2000 – R. S. Thomas, Welsh priest and poet (b. 1913) 2005 – Don Adams, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1923) 2005 – M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and author (b. 1936) 2010 – Art Gilmore, American voice actor (b. 1912) 2012 – Eric Ives, English historian (b. 1931) 2012 – Andy Williams, American singer and actor (The Williams Brothers) (b. 1927) 2013 – Choi In-ho, South Korean author (b. 1945) 2013 – José Montoya, American poet and educator (b. 1932) 2013 – Bennet Wong, Canadian psychiatrist and academic, co-founded Haven Institute (b. 1930) === 2014 Armed Forces Day or Revolution Day (Mozambique) Christian feast day: Abadir and Iraja and companions (Coptic Church) Cadoc Ceolfrith Finbarr Sergius of Radonezh (repose) September 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Translator of the Scriptures, AD 1626 (commemoration, Anglicanism)
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