TIME TRAVELING, September 25: 1493 Christopher Colombus leaves Spain with 17 ships on his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere. 1513 Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa crosses the Isthmus of Panama and discovers the Pacific Ocean. He was the first European to see that body of water, which he named the South Sea. 1775 Continental Army Colonel Ethan Allen is captured by the British while leading an attack on British-controlled Montreal during the American Revolutionary War. 1789 The first U.S. Congress adopts 12 amendments to the Constitution, 10 of which become the Bill of Rights. 1890 Sequoia National Park is established in Central California by the National Park Service. 1894 President Grover Cleveland issues a proclamation pardoning Mormons who had previously been convicted of polygamous marriages or habitation arrangements considered unlawful by the U.S. government. 1919 President Woodrow Wilson collapses after a stroke while giving a speech in Pueblo, Colo., in support of the Treaty of Versailles. He thereafter became an invalid in the White House, closely monitored and managed by his wife, Edith. 1942 British bombers launch an attack on the local headquarters of the German secret state police, the Gestapo, in Norway. 1957 President Dwight Eisenhower federalizes the Arkansas National Guard and sends 1,000 Army paratroopers to Little Rock, Ark., to enforce the court-ordered racial integration of Central High School. Nine black students are escorted into the school after having withdrawn days earlier due to unruly mobs outside the school supported by Gov. Orval Faubus, who opposed integration. 1959 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and President Dwight D. Eisenhower begin two days of meetings at Camp David in Maryland to discuss Cold War issues. 1959 Mob assassins shoot Anthony Carfano, known as Little Augie Pisano, to death in New York City on orders from organized crime boss Meyer Lansky. 1965 The Kansas City Athletics start 59-year-old Satchel Paige on the pitcher’s mound in a game against the Boston Red Sox. Pitching for three innings, Paige gives up only one hit. 1973 After spending 59 days on the U.S. space laboratory, the three crewmen of “Skylab II” land safely in the Pacific Ocean. 1978 153 people are killed when a Pacific Southwest Airlines flight carrying 144 people and a private jet collide in midair over a populous neighborhood in San Diego, Calif. 1978 Melissa Ludtke, a writer for “Sports Illustrated,” files suit in U.S. District Court after being denied access to baseball locker rooms. The result was that Major League Baseball could no longer bar females from locker rooms following games. 1981 Sandra Day O’Connor, nominated the previous July by President Ronald Reagan, is sworn in by Chief Justice Warren Burger as the 102nd justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the first female on the court. 1992 A Florida judge rules in favor of 12-year-old Gregory Kingsley, who was seeking a divorce from his biological parents. 1992 The “Mars Observer” blasts off on a mission that cost $980 million. It has not been heard from since it reached Mars in August 1993. 1995 Ross Perot announces plans to form the Independence Party. 2012 China launches its first aircraft carrier into service.
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