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1513 - The first European to see it took a glance at what we call the Pacific Ocean. Vasco Nunez de Balboa thought he was the first to discover the large body of water. He named it the South Sea, claiming it in the name of the King of Spain.1690 - Many immigrants came to the New World to escape persecution; yet the land of the free was not necessarily free. On this day, the first newspaper was published in America. It was never published again. Censorship raised its ugly head. Authorities considered Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick to be offensive and ordered the publisher, Benjamin Harris, to cease publishing.
1789 - The first U.S. Congress, meeting in New York, adopted twelve amendments to the Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification. Ten of the amendments were finally ratified on Dec 15, 1791 and became The Bill of Rights.
1890 - A U.S. National Park was established in Central California. It was called Sequoia National Park after the giant sequoia trees that grow there.
1890 - The president of the Mormon Church in Salt Lake City, Utah issued a manifesto, or ‘Official Declaration’, against polygamy. Wilford Woodruff advised, “Inasmuch as laws have been enacted by Congress forbidding plural marriage, which laws have been pronounced constitutional by the court of last resort, I hereby declare my intention to submit to those laws, and to use my influence with the members of the church over which I preside to have them do likewise ... And I now publicly declare that my advice to the Latter-day Saints is to refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land.”
1933 - America’s favorite cowboy, Tom Mix, was heard for the first time on NBC radio. The Tom Mix Ralston Straight Shooters continued on the air until June 1950.
1934 - Hot Lips was recorded by Henry Busse and his orchestra in Chicago, IL.
1943 - The Russians liberated the ancient city of Smolensk, one of the most important bastions left to the Germans in Russia. The battle for Smolensk was the greatest battle of the initial period of World War II.
1948 - Iva Toguri D’Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist ‘Tokyo Rose’, arrived in San Francisco aboard the General Hodges and was taken away by FBI agents. On Sep 9, 1949, she was found guilty of “speaking into a microphone concerning the loss of U.S. ships.” She was sentenced to ten years in prison and fined $10,000. D’Aquino was released in 1956 and was pardoned by U.S. President Gerald R. Ford in 1977.
1950 - NBC-TV introduced a new concept in daytime programming. Kate Smith debuted an hourlong show. Her theme song for the show was When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain. Kate’s daytime show ran for four years. God Bless America.
1953 - Following in the footlights of musical greats like Ignace Paderewski and Victor Borge, a piano player named Liberace debuted at Carnegie Hall. Liberace performed before a sellout audience. His candelabra and concert grand piano were instant trademarks that lasted throughout his career.
1956 - The world’s first transatlantic telephone cable (TAT 1) was put into service. The cable initially connected Clarenville, Newfoundland with Oban, Scotland.
1957 - With 300 U.S. Army troops standing guard, nine black children were escorted to class at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Earlier, the kids had been forced to leave the school because of unruly white crowds.
1962 - John Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Steinbeck won the prize “for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception.”
1965 - Willie Mays hit his fiftieth home run of the baseball season, making him the oldest player to accomplish this. He was 34 years old. Ten years before, at the age of 24, he was the youngest man to accomplish the same feat.
1965 - Satchel Paige became the oldest pitcher in major-league baseball history as he went three scoreless innings for the Kansas City Athletics -- at the age of 59.
1973 - The three crewmen of Skylab II splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean. They had been on the U.S. space laboratory in orbit for 59 days.
1978 - A Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing 727 and a Cessna private plane collided over San Diego, California. 144 people were killed (135 on the airliner, 2 in the Cessna, and 7 on the ground).
1979 - The third musical resulting from the collaboration of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Weber lit up the Great White Way. Evita opened on Broadway to rave reviews. It was the first British musical to receive the Tony Award for Best Musical and ran for an impressive 1,567 performances, closing on Jun 26, 1983.
1981 - Sandra Day O’Connor became the first woman to sit on the bench of the U.S. Supreme Court. She was sworn in as the 102nd Justice.
1986 - An 1884-S Barber Head dime - one of only a dozen in existence - brought $83,000 in a California coin auction.
1988 - The brother of former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, Billy Carter, died in Plains, GA at the age of 51.
1991 - The U.N. Security Council unanimously ordered a worldwide arms embargo against Yugoslavia and all of its warring factions.
1992 - The Mars Observer blasted off on a $980 million mission to the Red Planet. The probe reached Mars in August 1993, but has not been heard from since.
1992 - A Florida judge ruled that it was legal for a child to divorce biological parents. The court case involved twelve-year-old Gregory Kingsley who didn’t want his parents anymore.
1995 - Mt. Ruapehu, a New Zealand volcano, erupted with ash and steam spewed twelve miles high.
1997 - The NBC prime-time drama ER did its season premiere live for the Eastern United States, then repeated the performance live for the West Coast.
1998 - Hurricane Georges crossed the Florida Straits, passed over Key West and took aim on the northern Gulf coast. On September 26, hurricane warnings went up from Panama City to Morgan City, Louisiana.
1998 - These films debuted in U.S. theatres: Clay Pigeons, starring Vince Vaughn, Janeane Garofalo, Joaquin Phoenix, Georgina Cates and Scott Wilson; Ronin, with Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha Mcelhone, Stellan Skarsgard, Jonathan Pryce, Sean Bean, Skipp Sudduth and Michael Lonsdale; and Urban Legend, starring Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart, Jared Leto, Michael Rosenbaum, Joshua Jackson, Tara Reid, Danielle Harris and Robert Englund.
1999 - A sightseeing plane crashed on the Mauna Loa Volcano in Hawaii. All ten people on board were killed.
2000 - Cathy Freeman became the first Aborigine to win an individual Olympic gold medal, capturing the women’s 400 meters in Sydney, Australia; and Michael Johnson of the U.S. became the first man to successfully defend a 400-meter title.
2001 - Saudi Arabia severed all ties with Afghanistan’s hard-line Taliban government. The Saudi kingdom said Afghan leaders were defaming Islam by harboring and supporting terrorists.
2002 - French troops rescued 100 American children and others trapped in a U.S.-led mission school caught in an Ivory Coast uprising. U.S. forces landed in Ghana to aid in the rescue.
2002 - The annual Alaska oil dividend (the Permanent Fund Dividend) was announced to be $1,540.76.
2003 - George Plimpton, Author and literary patron, died in New York City. He was 76 years old. Plimpton helped found The Paris Review in 1953. His books include Paper Lion (1966). Plimpton acted several films, including Reds and Good Will Hunting.
2003 - In northern Japan an 8.3 earthquake injured more than 300 people and knocked out power on Hokkaido.
2004 - Marvin Davis died in Beverly Hills, CA. He was 79 years old. Davis was an oil mogul and former owner of 20th Century Fox movie empire.
2004 - The Lasker Foundation awarded its prize for clinical research posthumously to Dr. Charles Kelman, who made cataract removal an outpatient procedure; the $50,000 award for basic research went to Dr. Pierre Chambon, Ronald Evans, and Elwood Jensen for opening up the field of studying proteins called nuclear hormone receptors.
2005 - A magnitude 7.5 earthquake, the strongest in several years, hit northern Peru; at least four people were killed.
2005 - Swiss voters approved a referendum allowing citizens from the ten newest European Union member countries to travel and work in Switzerland.
2006 - A U.S. federal judge granted class action status to tens of millions of ‘light’ cigarette smokers for a potential $200 billion lawsuit against cigarette makers. The suit claimed nine tobacco companies deceived U.S. smokers by leading them to believe that smoking ‘light’ cigarettes was safer than smoking regular cigarettes.
2006 - The U.S. Transportation Security Administration eased the restrictions on liquids in carry-ons aboard aircraft.
2007 - A large swath of coastal land was secured by The Trust for Public Land, making possible the biggest expansion of the U.S. Virgin Islands National Park since it was created in 1956.
2007 - Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega accused the U.S. of imposing a worldwide dictatorship and defended the right of Iran and North Korea to pursue nuclear technology in a speech before the U.N. General Assembly.
2008 - The 27-nation European Union and a dozen other countries banned imports of baby foods containing Chinese milk as tainted dairy products linked to the deaths of four babies were pulled from stores worldwide.
2008 - The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) seized Seattle-based Washington Mutual Inc., and then sold the bank’s assets to JPMorgan Chase & Co. for $1.9 billion. WaMu, founded in 1889, became the largest bank in U.S. history to fail.
2009 - New movies in the U.S.: Fame, with Debbie Allen, Charles S. Dutton, Kelsey Grammer, Megan Mullally, Bebe Neuwirth, Thomas Dekker, Kristy Flores, Paul Iacono, Paul McGill, Naturi Naughton, Kay Panabaker, Kherington Payne, Collins Pennie, Walter Perez, Anna Maria Perez de Tagle and Asher Book; I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, with Matt Czuchry, Jesse Bradford, Geoff Stults, Keri Lynn Pratt and Denise Quinones; Pandorum, starring Dennis Quaid, Ben Foster, Antje Traue, Cung Le, Norman Reedus and Cam Gigandet; Surrogates, starring Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, Boris Kodjoe, James Francis Ginty, Michael Cudlitz with James Cromwell and Ving Rhames; and Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day, starring Robb Wells, John Paul Tremblay and John Dunsworth.
2009 - Shahin Kashanchi of Telluride, Colorado was indicted for providing fake documents that allowed his brother-in-law, Hassan Nemazee, to defraud three banks of more than $290 million. Nemazee was national finance chairman for Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign.
2009 - An Australian court sentenced 39-year-old Belal Khazaal, a former Qantas Airways baggage handler, to 12 years in prison for publishing a do-it-yourself jihad book on the Internet. The book was titled Provisions of the Rules of Jihad: Short Judicial Rulings and Organizational Instructions for Fighters and Mujahideen Against Infidels. Khazaal had prior convictions (in absentia) by Lebanese military courts on terrorism-related charges.
2010 - Japan refused to apologize for detaining a Chinese boat captain. The dispute between the two economic powers arose after Japan gave ground and released the boat captain, Zhan Qixiong. Zhan had been held by the Japanese authorities after his boat collided with Japanese patrol vessels on Sep 7 near uninhabited islands in the East China Sea. Japan had initially insisted that he would be prosecuted.
2011 - A fatal shooting by police in East Oakland, California was captured on video - not by a bystander with a camcorder or a smart phone, but by the officer himself, who wore a city-issued camera on his chest. The incident raised many questions, not the lease of which was: When an officer films his own killing of a suspect, should that officer be allowed to review the footage before making a statement to investigators? In this shooting case, neither the officer nor his partner was allowed to view the footage from the camera before speaking to investigators.
2012 - Pop singer Andy Williams died at his Branson, Missouri home. He was 84 years old. Williams enjoyed enormous musical success with eighteen gold records, three platinum records and five Grammy nominations. He hosted the The Andy Williams Show on TV from 1962-1971 and opened the Andy Williams Moon River Theatre in Branson in 1992.
2012 - California’s Governor Jerry Brown signed a law allowing the testing of Google’s self-driving cars in the state. This made California the third U.S. state to give to go-ahead to driverless vehicles (after Nevada and Florida).
2013 - Egyptian security forces shut down the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice newspaper in Cairo. The move followed a court decision to ban the Brotherhood and was part of a continuing effort to crush the Islamist movement in Egypt.
2014 - Dale Bolinger, a 59-year-old London, England NHS nurse, dubbed the Canterbury Cannibal, was found guilty of attempting to meet a girl under the age of 16 following ‘sexual grooming’. He had plotted to behead and eat the girl. Bolinger was given a nine-year jail sentence.
2014 - The Airbus A320neo made its first flight above the skies of southern France, amid high demand for the single-aisle, short-to medium-range jet -- and its promised fuel economy.
2015 - Motion pictures opening in the U.S. included: the spooky The Green Inferno, with Lorenza Izzo, Ariel Levy and Aaron Burns; the animated Hotel Transylvania 2, featuring the voices of Selena Gomez, Adam Sandler, Nick Offerman, Andy Samberg, Kevin James, Fran Drescher, Mel Brooks, David Spade, Rob Riggle, Molly Shannon, Dana Carvey, Jon Lovitz, Jared Sandler and Sadie Sandler; The Intern, starring Anne Hathaway, Robert De Niro and Drena De Niro [Robert’s daughter]; 99 Homes, with Andrew Garfield, Michael Shannon and Laura Dern; Ashby, starring Mickey Rourke, Nat Wolff and Emma Roberts; the documentaries, A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story, and Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead The Story of the National Lampoon; The Keeping Room, with Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Muna Otaru; Pay the Ghost, starring Nicolas Cage, Sarah Wayne Callies and Alex Mallari Jr.; Stonewall, with Ron Perlman, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Joey King; and Everest, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Elizabeth Debicki and Keira Knightley.
2015 - POTUS Barack Obama welcomed China’s Xi Jinping to the White House with pointed remarks about human rights, cyber espionage and Beijing’s territorial ambitions. Obama said that he had reached a “common understanding” with Xi Jinping on curbing economic cyber espionage, but threatened to impose U.S. sanctions on Chinese hackers who persist in committing those crimes.
2015 - Congressman John Boehner told a closed-door meeting that he was planning to resign as Speaker -- and from the U.S. Congress.
2016 - Pro golfer Arnold Palmer died in Pittsburgh at 87 years of age. Palmer first played the British Open in 1960, finishing as runner-up. He won the next two years. Palmer won 62 PGA Tour titles from 1955 to 1973, placing him at that time behind only Sam Snead and Ben Hogan, and still fifth on the Tour's all-time victory list. He collected seven major titles in a six-plus-year domination, from the 1958 Masters to the 1964 Masters. He also won the PGA Tour Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998, and in 1974 was one of the 13 original inductees into the World Golf Hall of Fame.
2016 - Swiss voters granted increased powers to the country’s intelligence services, allowing them to track internet activity, snoop on email and tap phones. All this, to better fight spies, criminal hackers and violent extremists.
2017 - Former New York Democratic congressman Anthony Weiner (53) was sentenced to 21 months in jail for illicit online contact with a 15-year-old girl.
2017 - U.S. retail giant Target Corp announced that its minimum hourly wage was being raised to $11 -- and would move to $15 by the end of 2020.
2018 - The U.S. imposed sanctions on the wife of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and key members of his government, including the vice president and defense minister. The group was accused of plundering the country’s wealth while helping Maduro maintain his grip on power.
2018 - The discovery of cracked steel beams forced the closure of the new $2.2 billion Transbay Transit Center in San Francisco, CA. (In Jan 2019 Transbay terminal officials said weld access holes suspected of triggering the cracks had been fixed during “extraordinary” and elaborate inspections of the project.)
2019 - The White House released a memo summarizing POTUS Trump’s controversial July 25, 2019 phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky in which Trump repeatedly urged Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter, who sat on the board of a Ukrainian gas company during Biden’s term as vice president. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the summary of the conversation confirmed the need for an impeachment inquiry of Trump.
2019 - China’s President Xi Jinping opened the futuristic new ‘starfish’ Beijing Daxing International Airport, which was expected to become one of the busiest in the world. The new structure was one of the world’s largest airport terminals. The building was designed by Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid, who died in 2016. Inside, it stands out for its flowing, curved lines and use of natural light that filters down to the lowest levels of the building through openings on the roof. Underneath the terminal is a train station and metro line that allows travellers to reach the city centre in 20 minutes.
2019 - Chancellor Angela Merkel’s German government convened a national forest summit as a beetle infestation turned climate-stressed woodlands into tinder-dry dead zones.
2019 - Scientists behind a landmark study of the links between oceans, glaciers, ice caps and the climate delivered a stark warning to the world: slash emissions or watch cities vanish under rising seas, drying rivers and collapsing marine life. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said glaciers around the world were losing 220 billion metric tons of ice a year and that the melt was accelerating.
2020 - Florida Governor Ron DeSantis lifted all COVID-19 restrictions on businesses, including restaurants and bars, saying the threat of the coronavirus pandemic had eased sufficiently to allow the state to enter the final phase of its reopening. Meanwhile, the Florida health department reported an increase of 2,847 COVID-19 cases, bringing the total to 695,887 coronavirus cases statewide. This, as Dr. Anthony Fauci was saying the U.S. was still in its first Covid-19 wave and should be prepared for the “challenge” of fall and winter.
2020 - According to interim results from an early-to-mid stage clinical trial: A single dose of Johnson & Johnson’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine produced a strong immune response against the coronavirus.
2020 - Scientists reported that future moon explorers will be bombarded with two to three times more radiation than astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The health hazard would require thick-walled shelters for protection. China’s lander on the far side of the moon was providing the first full measurements of radiation exposure from the lunar surface.
2021 - The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China, the group that organized an annual vigil (on June 4) to remember protesters killed in China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, said it was disbanding after facing national security charges. (The big Chinese bully had won again.)
2021 - Hundreds of people in Russia, angered by the recent parliamentary election, joined a protest in central Moscow, holding posters carrying slogans such as “Bring Back the Elections.”
2021 - Containment of the Fawn Fire in Shasta County, California reached 25%. The blaze had charred more than 8,446 acres and destroyed 41 residential structures.
2022 - A far-right coalition led by Giorgia Meloni’s ultra-conservative Brothers of Italy party won elections, giving Italy its most right-wing government since the fascist era of World War II leader Benito Mussolini. The Brothers of Italy got 26 percent of the vote, with partners the League, led by Matteo Salvini, and Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia giving Meloni’s right-wing alliance a 44 percent total. Meloni, Italy’s first female prime minister, declared victory and promised to “govern for everyone” with a mandate for “a right-wing government led by Brothers of Italy.”
2022 - U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan warned Russia it would face “catastrophic consequences” if it used nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Sullivan’s remarks came as Russia and pro-Russian separatists continued ‘sham’ referendums designed to pave the way for Russia to annex Moscow-controlled areas in the Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions.
2023 - Ukraine’s military reported a missile strike had killed the commander of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol. The Ukrainian Special Operations Forces said the attack killed Viktor Sokolov along with 33 other officers.
2023 - President Joe Biden hosted a summit of Pacific island leaders, in an effort to counter the spreading influence of China. The White House in 2022 said the U.S. would invest more than $810 million in expanded programs to aid the Pacific islands. (2024 Update: Meg Keen, director of Pacific Island Programs at Australia's Lowy Institute, said Congress had yet to approve most of the funding pledges made last year.)
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Birthdays on This Day September 25
1683 - Jean Phillippe Rameau
composer: Treatise of Harmony, Hippolyte and Aricie, Castor and Pollux, Zoroastre, Les Indes Galants; died Sep 12, 17641897 - William (Cuthbert) Faulkner
Nobel Prize-winning writer [1949]; The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Absalom, Absolom!, Sanctuary, The Bear, Soldiers’ Pay, The Reivers; movie scripts: The Big Sleep, To Have and Have Not; died July 6, 19621905 - Frederick Kohner
novelist, screenwriter: Gidget film series, The Toy Tiger, Mad About Music; died Jul 7, 19861905 - Red (Walter) Smith
Pulitzer Prize-winning sportswriter [New York Times: 1976]; died Jan 15, 19821906 - Dimitri Shostakovich
composer: Symphony No.5, No. 7, No. 11, No. 13, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk aka Katerina Ismailova; died Aug 9, 19751917 - Phil (Philip Francis) Rizzuto
‘Scooter’: Baseball Hall of Famer: NY Yankees short stop [World Series: 1941, 1942, 1947, 1950-1953, 1955/all-star: 1942, 1950-1953/Baseball Writers’ Award: 1950]; TV sportscaster: Yankees TV; died Aug 13, 20071917 - Johnny (John Franklin) Sain
baseball: pitcher: Boston Braves [all-star: 1947, 1948/World Series: 1948], NY Yankees [World Series: 1951, 1952, 1953/all-star: 1953], Kansas City Athletics; died Nov 7, 20061923 - Sam Rivers
musician: saxophone: Hues of Melanin, Suite for Molde, Recognition, Observance, Dedication, Appreciation, Point of Many Returns, Mellifluous Cacophony, Dance of the Tripedal; died Dec 26, 20111926 - Aldo Ray (DaRe)
actor: Battle Cry, God’s Little Acre, The Green Berets, Miss Sadie Thompson, The Naked and the Dead, Nightstalker; died Mar 27, 19911929 - Barbara Walters
broadcaster: The View, Today, 20/20, ABC News Tonight, Barbara Walters Specials; died Dec 30, 2022
1930 - Shel Silverstein
poet, cartoonist, songwriter: The Cover of the Rolling Stone, Freakin’ at the Freakers’ Ball, Sylvia’s Mother; author: Where the Sidewalk Ends: A Light in the Attic, The Giving Tree; died May 10, 19991932 - Glenn (Herbert) Gould
pianist, composer: films: Spheres, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Wars; wrote piano essay about Petula Clark; died Oct 4, 19821933 - Hubie Brown
basketball coach: Atlanta Hawks [NBA Coach of the Year 1978], New York Knicks, Memphis Grizzlies [NBA Coach of the Year 2004]; CBS, TNT TV basketball analyst1933 - Erik Darling
folk singer: groups: The Weavers; The Tarriers: Cindy, Oh Cindy, Banana Boat Song; Rooftop Singers: Walk Right In; solo: LP: True Religion, Train Time; died Aug 3, 20081934 - Royce Kendall
singer: duo [w/daughter Jeannie]: The Kendalls: Leaving on a Jet Plane, Everything I Own, Making Believe, It Don’t Feel Like Sinnin’ to Me, Sweet Desire, You’d Make an Angel Want to Cheat, Put It Off Until Tomorrow; daughter is fellow duo member Jeannie Kendall; died May 22, 19981936 - Juliet Prowse
dancer, actress: Can-Can, G.I. Blues, Mona McCluskey; L’Eggs commercials; died Sep 14, 19961942 - Oscar Bonavena
boxing: heavyweight: record: 56 wins, 9 losses, 1 draw, 42 kayos; found murdered at the Mustang Ranch bordello (Las Vegas) May 22, 19761943 - Gary Alexander
musician: guitar, singer: group: The Association: Along Comes Mary, Cherish, Windy, Never My Love1943 - Josh Taylor
actor: Days of Our Lives, The Hogan Family, Riker, Valerie, Beverly Hills, 902101943 - Robert Walden
actor: Lou Grant, All the King’s Men1944 - Michael Douglas
Academy Award-winning actor: Wall Street [1987]; Disclosure, The China Syndrome, Fatal Attraction, Black Rain, A Chorus Line, The Jewel of the Nile, Romancing the Stone, Basic Instinct, The Game, The Streets of San Francisco; son of actor Kirk Douglas; married since 2000 to actress Catherine Zeta-Jones1945 - Onnie McIntyre
musician: guitar: group: Average White Band: Pick Up the Pieces, Work to Do, Let’s Go Around Again1947 - Cheryl Tiegs
model; author: The Way to Natural Beauty1949 - Anson Williams (Heimlick)
actor: Happy Days1950 - E.C. Coleman
basketball: New Orleans Jazz, Golden State Warriors1951 - Mark Hamill
actor: Star Wars, The Texas Wheelers, Eight is Enough, Batman-The Animated Series, General Hospital; more1951 - Bob McAdoo
Basketball Hall of Famer: Buffalo Braves: NBA MVP [1975]; LA Lakers, Detroit Pistons, Boston Celtics, NY Knicks1952 - Christopher Reeve
actor: Superman series, Blood Horse, Black Fox, Somewhere in Time, Village of the Damned, The Remains of the Day; champion of people with paralytic injuries; died Oct 10, 20041952 - Mike (Michael Thomas) Stanton
baseball: pitcher: Houston Astros, Cleveland Indians, Seattle Mariners, Chicago White Sox1955 - Steve Severin (Bailey)
musician: bass: group: Siouxsie & The Banshees: The Lord’s Prayer, Helter-Skelter, Israel, Christine, Happy House1958 - Michael Madsen
actor: WarGames, The Natural, War and Remembrance, The End of Innocence, Fatal Instinct, Free Willy, Money for Nothing, The Getaway [1994], Wyatt Earp, Mulholland Falls, Executive Target, Pressure Point1961 - Heather Locklear
actress: Melrose Place, Dynasty, T.J. Hooker1962 - Aida Turturro
actress: The Sopranos, Mozzarella Stories, Romance & Cigarettes, Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles, The 24 Hour Woman, Made Men, The Search for One-eye Jimmy1964 - Anita Barone
actress: The War at Home, Daddio, Buttleman, Just Friends, Dream with the Fishes, Wounded Heart, The Rosary Murders, The Jeff Foxworthy Show1965 - Scottie Pippen
basketball: Chicago Bulls; member of 1992 Olympic Gold Medal-winning dream team1967 - Melissa De Sousa
actress: The Best Man, The Best Man Holiday, C.R.U., The Killing of Wendy, Valley of the Dolls, The $treet, One on One, Second Time Around, Reed Between the Lines1968 - Will Smith
actor: Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Six Degrees of Separation, Made in America; singer: Nightmare on My Street, Parents Just Don’t Understand, Men in Black series1969 - David Weathers
baseball [pitcher]: Toronto Blue Jays, Florida Marlins, New York Yankees, New York Mets1969 - Catherine Zeta-Jones
actress: The Phantom, The Mask of Zorro, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Christopher Columbus: The Discovery, Entrapment; married since 2000 to actor, movie mogul Michael Douglas1971 - John Lynch
football [safety]: Stanford Univ: NFL: Tampa Bay Buccaneers [1993–2003]: 2003 Super Bowl XXXVII champs; Denver Broncos [2004–2007]; New England Patriots [2008]1973 - Bridgette Wilson
model: Miss Teen USA [1990]; actress: Billy Madison, Mortal Kombat, Phantom Punch, Shopgirl, The Wedding Planner, House on Haunted Hill, Nixon, Higher Learning; married since 2000 to former tennis champ Pete Sampras1975 - Matt Hasselbeck
football [quarterback]: Boston College; NFL: Green Bay Packers, Seattle Seahawks; brother of fellow football player Tim Hasselbeck1976 - Charlotte Ayanna
actress: Training Day, Kate & Leopold, Entourage, Jawbreaker, The Rage: Carrie 2, Dancing at the Blue Iguana, Love the Hard Way, The Insatiable1976 - Chauncey Billups
basketball [guard]: Univ of Colorado; NBA: Boston Celtics [1997–1998]; Toronto Raptors [1998–1999]; Denver Nuggets [1999–2000]; Minnesota Timberwolves [2000-2002]; Detroit Pistons [2002–2008]: 2004 NBA champions; New York Knicks [2011]; Los Angeles Clippers [2011–2013]; Detroit Pistons [2013–2014]1977 - Clea DuVall
actress: 21 Grams, The Laramie Project, Ghosts of Mars, See Jane Run, Girl, Interrupted, The Astronaut’s Wife, She’s All That1980 - T.I./Tip/T.I.P. (Clifford Joseph Harris, Jr.)
Grammy Award-winning rapper: What You Know, My Love, Swagga Like Us; studio albums: I’m Serious, Trap Muzik, Urban Legend, King, T.I. vs. T.I.P., Paper Trail, No Mercy, Trouble Man: Heavy Is the Head; singles: Bring Em Out, What You Know, Big Shit Poppin’ (Do It), Swagga Like Us, Dead and Gone, Ball1980 - Chris Owen
actor: American Pie, American Pie 2, American Pie: Band Camp, National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze, Hidalgo, Ready to Rumble, Van Wilder, October Sky1981 - Lee Norris
actor: Zodiac, Surf School, Any Place But Home, A Mother’s Instinct, The Journey of August King1983 - Donald Glover
comedian, actor: Community, Magic Mike XXL, The Martian, Atlanta1984 - Jessica Gomes
model: appeared in Swimsuit Issue of Sports Illustrated every year from 2008-2015; spokesperson for Australian corporation David Jones Limited; spokesperson for Korean conglomerates LG Electronics and Hyundai1984 - Annabelle Wallis
actress: The Tudors, Peaky Blinders, Annabelle, The Mummy, X-Men: First Class, Peaky Blinders1989 - Aldon Smith
football [linebacker]: Univ of Missouri; NFL: San Francisco 49ers [2011–2014]: 2013 Super Bowl XLVII; Oakland Raiders [2015–2017]; Dallas Cowboys [2020]2001 - Cade Cunningham
basketball [point guard]: NBA: Detroit Pistons [2021– ]
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Hit Music on This Day September 25
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Goodnight Irene (facts) - The Weavers
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