It happened on this day, September 25th.
Events:
275 – For the last time, the Roman Senate (Senate) chooses Marcus Claudius Tacitus as emperor to succeed Aurelian following the latter's assassination.
1066 – King Harold II of England defeats his brother Tostig and King Harold Hardrada of Norway at the Battle of Stamford Bridge.
1394 – The Ottoman army led by Sultan Bayezid I collides with a crusader army composed of fighters and knights from several European countries led by Sigismund, King of Hungary, at the city of Nicopolis. The Battle of Nicopolis ends in a Muslim victory.
1799 – The French defeat the Russians at Zurich, Switzerland.
1955 – The first telephone cable is laid under the waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
1959 – Assassination of Ceylon Prime Minister Solomon Bandaranaike.
1962 – Announcement of the creation of the Algerian Republic.
1973 – The American spacecraft Skylab returns with its three astronauts after orbiting planet Earth for 59 days.
1984 – The withdrawal of Libyan and French forces from Chad begins according to an agreement signed between the two countries.
1985 – Three Mossad agents are killed in an armed attack on an Israeli ship in the Cypriot port of Larnaca.
1987 – Fiji Armed Forces Commander Colonel Stephenie Rabuka leads a military coup and seizes power.
1990 – The Security Council issues Resolution No. 670 to impose a no-fly zone over the territories of Iraq and Kuwait and prevent all flights carrying passengers and cargo due to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
1997 – Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal is the victim of an assassination attempt by the Israeli Mossad in the Jordanian capital, Amman.
1998 – British driver Andy Green sets a driving record in the American “Nevada Desert” at 1,142 km/h.
2001 – US war against Afghanistan begins under the pretext of fighting terrorism.
2003 – An 8.3 magnitude earthquake strikes off the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, injuring 849 people and leaving two missing.
2008 – The South African Parliament elects Galema Motlanthe as its new Speaker, succeeding President Thabo Mbeki, who resigned on September 21.
2010 – Ed Miliband is elected leader of the British Labour Party.
2011 – Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud announced in his opening speech at the Shura Council session his decision to allow women to become members of the Shura Council and to elect and run for election to municipal councils.
✴️ The Supreme Council of the Egyptian Armed Forces amends the Constitutional Declaration issued on March 30, 2011 so that parliamentary elections are based on a closed proportional list system and an individual system.
2013 – A new island appeared on the coast of Pakistan, called Zalzala Island, after a strong earthquake hit the country.
2016 – The assassination of Jordanian journalist Nahed Hattar, shot in front of the Palace of Justice in Amman.
2017 – The CDU/CSU coalition led by Angela Merkel wins the most seats in the Bundestag in the German federal elections.
2018 – Bill Cosby is sentenced to three to ten years in prison.
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Births:
1358 – Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun.
1644 – Ole Romer, Danish astronomer.
1683 – Jean-Philippe Rameau, French musician.
1694 – Henry Balham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1773 – Agostino Bassi, Italian biologist.
1866 – Thomas Morgan, American physician who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1933.
1881 – Lu Xun, Chinese writer.
1897 – William Faulkner, American writer and novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949.
1913 – Charles Hélou, President of the Lebanese Republic.
1931 – Manouchehr Achi, Iranian poet and journalist.
1933 – Ahlam, Egyptian singer.
1940 – Raouf Ayyad, Egyptian cartoonist.
1943 – Robert Gates, United States Secretary of Defense.
1944 – Michael Douglas, American actor.
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1947 – Muhammad Al-Qabbani, Jordanian actor.
1950 – Sebastião Lazzaroni, Brazilian football coach.
1951 – Mark Hamill, American actor.
1954 – Juande Ramos, Spanish footballer and coach.
1955 – Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, German footballer.
** Ludo Keuk, Belgian footballer.
1957 – Michael Madsen, American actor.
1958 – Ahmed Al-Faraj, Kuwaiti actor.
1960 – Saïd Naciri, Moroccan actor.
** Igor Belanov, Ukrainian footballer.
1961 – Heather Locklear, American actress.
1964 – Randa Awad, Egyptian actress of Lebanese origin.
1966 – Abu Ibrahim Mustafa, Emir of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat in Algeria.
1968 – Will Smith, American actor.
1969 – Catherine Zeta-Jones, British actress.
1973: Tijani Babangida, Nigerian footballer.
1974 – Victor Pacheco, Colombian footballer.
** Olivier Dacourt, French footballer.
1978 – Rodolphe Douala, Cameroonian footballer.
** Ricardo Gardner, Jamaican footballer.
1979 – Khaled Sarhan, Egyptian actor. ** Jason Comas, Welsh footballer.
1988 – Nassif Zaytoun, Syrian singer.
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Death:
1506 – Philip I, King of the Kingdom of Castile.
1534 – Clemens VII, Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
1777 – Johann Heingisch Lambert, Swiss mathematician, physicist and astronomer.
1849 – Johann Strauss Sr., Austrian composer.
1979 – Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish track and field athlete and actor.
1983 – Leopold III, King of Belgium.
1986 – Nikolai Semionov, Russian chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1956.
1998 – Najah Al-Mogy, Egyptian actor.
2003 – Franco Modigliani, Italian economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1985.
** Aqeela Al-Hashemi, Iraqi politician.
2006 – Jawad Tabrizi, Iranian Twelver Shiite authority.
2008 – Basyouni Othman, Egyptian writer.
2010 – Salah El-Sakka, Egyptian theatre director.
2011 – Theyab Awana, Emirati footballer.
** Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmental activist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004.
2012 – Andy Williams, American singer.
** Eric Ives, British historian.
2014 – Khaled Saleh, Egyptian actor. ** Lashin Abu Shanab, member of the Muslim Brotherhood Guidance Bureau in Egypt.
2016 – Nahed Hattar, Jordanian writer and journalist.
2018 – Ismail Fahd Ismail, Kuwaiti novelist.
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Public holidays and occasions:
⬅️ Armed Forces Day in Mozambique.
