Today In History - September 25

1492 Crewman on the Pinta sights land
1493 Columbus sails on his 2nd voyage to America
1513 Vasco Nunez de Balboa becomes the first European to see the Pacific Ocean
1639 The first printing press in America
1690 Publick Occurrences, the first US newspaper, publishes its first and last editions
1775 American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen is captured
1789 Congress proposes Bill of Rights
1804 12th amendment to the US constitution, regulating judicial power
1861 Secretary of the US Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves
1882 The first baseball doubleheader is played
1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Hound of the Baskervilles"
1890 Congress establishes Yosemite National Park
1909 Hudson-Fulton Celebration opens in NY
1911 Ground breaking begins in Boston for Fenway Park
1919 President Wilson becomes seriously ill and collapses after making a speech
1924 Malcolm Campbell sets world auto speed record at 146.16 MPH
1926 Henry Ford announces the 8 hour, 5-day work week
1926 International slavery convention is signed by 20 states
1926 The NHL grants franchises to Chicago Black Hawks and Detroit Red Wings
1934 Lou Gehrig plays in his 1500th consecutive game
1934 Rainbow (US) beats Endeavour (England) in 16th America's Cup
1949 Louis Suggs wins the US Woman's Golf championship
1956 The first transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation
1957 300 US Army troops guard nine black children's return to Central High School in Arkansas
1957 The Soviet 7 year plan (1959-1965) is announced
1962 A black church is destroyed by fire in Macon Georgia
1962 Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson in first round for heavyweight title
1965 Beatle cartoon show begins in the US
1966 Smallest Yankee stadium crowd ever, 413 fans, see the White Sox win 4-1
1973 3-man crew of Skylab II make safe splashdown in Pacific after 59 days
1973 Willie Mays night at Shea Stadium
1978 PSA Boeing 727 and a Cessna private plane collide near San Diego and 144 people die
1980 Chevy Chase calls Cary Grant a homo on Tomorrow show and a law suit follows
1981 The Rolling Stones begin their 6th US tour
1981 Sandra Day O'Connor sworn in as first female supreme court justice
1982 Pennsylvania prison guard George Banks kills 13: five were his own children
1984 Walter Pidgeon dies at age 87
1986 Antonin Scalia appointed to the Supreme Court
1990 Saddam Hussein warns that the US will repeat Vietnam experience
1990 UN Security Council votes 14-1 to impose air embargo against Iraq
1991 "Good and Evil" premiers on ABC TV
1991 The Paramount at Madison Square Garden in New York City opens

Today In History - September 25

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