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Barbara Walters

1929 - 2022

Trailblazing TV journalist who became first woman to coanchor an evening network news show. Created "The View."

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Shel Silverstein

1930 - 1999

Cartoonist and author whose bestselling kids' books "The Giving Tree" and "The Missing Piece" featured artful line drawings.

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Christopher Reeve

1952 - 2004

American actor best-known for playing the title superhero in the original "Superman" movie franchise.

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Christopher Columbus leaves Spain on his second voyage to the New World. Instead of just three ships, he now commands at least 17.

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Discover more of the major events, famous births, notable deaths and everything else history-making that happened on September 25th

Ethan Allen is captured

After aborting a poorly planned and ill-timed attack on the British-controlled city of Montreal, Continental Army Colonel Ethan Allen is captured by the British on September 25, 1775. After being identified as an officer of the Continental Amy, Allen was taken prisoner and sent to England to be executed. Although Allen ultimately escaped execution because […]

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Bill of Rights passes Congress

The first Congress of the United States approves 12 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and sends them to the states for ratification. The amendments, known as the Bill of Rights, were designed to protect the basic rights of U.S. citizens, guaranteeing the freedom of speech, press, assembly, and exercise of religion; the right to fair […]

Cattle pioneer Oliver Loving dies of gangrene

On September 25, 1867, the pioneering cattleman Oliver Loving dies from gangrene poisoning in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. A few weeks before, Loving had been trapped by 500 Comanche braves along the Pecos River. Shot in the arm and side, Loving managed to escape and reach Fort Sumner. Though the wounds alone were not fatal, […]

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The Mormon Church officially renounces polygamy

On September 25, 1890, faced with the imminent destruction of their church and way of life, religious leaders reluctantly issue the “Mormon Manifesto” in which they command all Latter-day Saints to uphold the anti-polygamy laws of the nation. The leaders had been given little choice: If they did not abandon polygamy they faced federal confiscation […]

Grover Cleveland pardons bigamists, adulterers, polygamists and unlawful cohabitants

On September 25, 1894, President Grover Cleveland issues a presidential proclamation pardoning followers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as Mormons) who had previously engaged in polygamous marriages or habitation arrangements considered unlawful by the U.S. government. At the time, and to this day, plural marriages between one man and multiple […]

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First company to mass-produce car radios is incorporated

On September 25, 1928, Chicago’s new Galvin Manufacturing Corporation is officially incorporated. In 1930, Galvin would introduce the Motorola radio, the first mass-produced commercial car radio. (The name had two parts: “motor” evoked cars and motion, while “ola” derived from “Victrola” and was supposed to make people think of music.) In 1921, engineer Paul Galvin […]

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Eisenhower and Khrushchev meet for talks

Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev caps his trip to the United States with two days of meetings with President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The two men came to general agreement on a number of issues, but a U-2 spy plane incident in May 1960 crushed any hopes for further improvement of U.S.-Soviet relations during the Eisenhower years. […]

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New York mobster Little Augie Pisano is murdered

Mob assassins shoot Anthony Carfano, known as Little Augie Pisano, to death in New York City on Meyer Lansky’s orders. Lansky, one of the few organized crime figures who managed to survive at the top for several decades, was estimated to have accumulated as much as $300,000,000 in ill-gotten gains by the 1970s. Still, the […]

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Fifty-nine-year-old Satchel Paige pitches three innings

On September 25, 1965, the Kansas City Athletics start ageless wonder Satchel Paige in a game against the Boston Red Sox. The 59-year-old Paige, a Negro League legend, proved his greatness once again by giving up only one hit in his three innings of play. Leroy Page was born on July 7, 1906, in Mobile, […]

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Boston Red Sox v Kansas City Athletics

“The Partridge Family” premieres on ABC

On September 25, 1970, in the 8:30 p.m. time slot immediately following “The Brady Bunch,” ABC premiered a program that would give television production company Screen Gems its second TV-to-pop-chart smash: “The Partridge Family.” Unwilling to rest as a one-hit wonder when its first big hit, “The Monkees,” went off the air in 1968, Screen Gems […]

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This Day In History: The "Partridge Family" Premieres on ABC, 1970

Mid-air collision kills 144

A Pacific Southwest Airlines jet collides in mid-air with a small Cessna over San Diego, killing 144 people on September 25, 1978. The wreckage of the planes falls into a populous neighborhood, doing extensive damage on the ground. David Lee Boswell and his instructor, Martin Kazy, were in the process of a flying lesson in […]

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