September 25
1513 - Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama and sighted the Pacific Ocean.
1775 - Ethan Allen was captured by the British.
1789 - The first Congress adopted 12 amendments to the U.S. Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification. The first ten became the Bill of Rights.
1890 - Wilford Woodruff, president of the Mormon Church, renounced the practice of polygamy. (This paved the way for Utah's acceptance as a state in 1896.)
1919 - President Woodrow Wilson collapsed after a speech in Pueblo, Colorado, during a national speaking tour in support of the Treaty of Versailles.
1956 - The first trans-Atlantic telephone cable officially went into service with a three-way ceremonial call between New York, Ottawa and London.
1957 - Nine black children were escorted into Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas under heavily armed guard because of racial violence.
1978 - 144 people were killed when a Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing 727 and a private plane collided over San Diego.
1981 - Sandra Day O'Conner was sworn in as the first female justice on the United States Supreme Court.
1992 - NASA's Mars Observer blasted off on a $980 million mission to the red planet (the probe disappeared just before entering Martian orbit in August 1993).
1994 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin began a five-day swing through the United States, hoping to encourage American investment in his country's struggling economy.
2003 - It was reported that more than 14,000 people had lost their lives in France during a summer heat wave.
2011 - King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia granted women the right to vote and run for office in future elections.
2012 - President Barack Obama, speaking to the U.N. General Assembly, pledged U.S. support for Syrians trying to oust President Bashar Assad, calling him "a dictator who massacres his own people."
2017 - Former congressman Anthony Weiner was sentenced to 21 months behind bars for illicit online contact with a 15-year-old girl.
2018 - Bill Cosby was sentenced to three-to-10 years in prison for drugging and molesting a woman at his suburban Philadelphia home. (After serving nearly three years, Cosby went free in June 2021 after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned his conviction.)
2020 - The late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lay in state at the U.S. Capitol, making history as the first woman so honored in the United States.
Birthdays
20 - Bella Ramsey (actress)
26 - Antonia Gentry (actress)
27 - Joy Sunday (actress)
28 - Sofia Reyes (singer)
32 - Emmy Clarke (actress)
34 - Jordan Gavaris (actor)
39 - Zach Woods (actor)
40 - Donald Glover (actor)
42 - Van Hansis (actor)
43 - Chris Owen (actor)
46 - Joel David Moore (actor)
46 - Robbie Jones (actor)
46 - Clea DuVall (actress)
47 - Chauncey Billups (basketball player)
50 - Bridgette Wilson-Sampras (actress)
54 - Catherine Zeta-Jones (actress)
54 - Hal Sparks (actor)
55 - Will Smith (actor)
57 - Jason Flemyng (actor)
58 - Scottie Pippen (basketball player)
59 - Maria Doyle Kennedy (actress)
60 - Tate Donovan (actor)
61 - Aida Turturro (actress)
62 - Heather Locklear (actress)
65 - Michael Madsen (actor)
72 - Bob McAdoo (basketball player)
72 - Mark Hamill (actor)
74 - Anson Williams (actor)
75 - Mimi Kennedy (actress)
76 - Cheryl Tiegs (model)
79 - Michael Douglas (actor)
80 - Robert Walden (actor)
80 - Josh Taylor (actor)
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Today in Sports History - September 25
1926 - The NHL grants franchises to the Chicago Blackhawks and the Detroit Red Wings.
1932 - Jimmie Foxx of the Boston Red Sox hits his 58th home run of the season.
1948 - Nebraska opens the season with a 19-15 win over Cockeye State.
1954 - Nebraska opens the season with a 19-7 loss to Minnesota.
1965 - #2 Nebraska defeats Air Force 27-17.
1965 - Willie Mays, at the age of 34, became the oldest man to hit 50 home runs in a single season. He had also set the record for the youngest to hit 50 ten years earlier.
1965 - Satchel Paige (Kansas City Athletics), at the age of 60 pitched three shutout innings against the Boston Red Sox.
1971 - #1 Nebraska defeats Texas A&M 34-7.
1976 - #6 Nebraska defeats TCU 64-10.
1978 - Melissa Ludtke, a writer for "Sports Illustrated", filed a suit in U.S. District Court. The result was that Major League Baseball could not bar female writers from the locker room after the game.
1982 - #8 Penn State defeats #2 Nebraska 27-24.
1993 - #6 Nebraska defeats Colorado State 48-13.
1997 - NBC sportscaster Marv Albert pled guilty to assault and battery of a lover. He was fired from NBC within hours.
1997 - The WNBA announces it will add franchises in Detroit and Washington, D.C.
1999 - #6 Nebraska defeats Missouri 40-10.
2000 - American basketball player Vince Carter jumps over 7 foot 2 Frédéric Weis in 2000 Summer Olympics, known in France as "le dunk de la mort" (the dunk of death)
2001 - Michael Jordan announced that he would return to the NBA as a player for the Washington Wizards. Jordan became the president of basketball operations for the team on January 19, 2000.
2003 - #15 Nebraska defeats Southern Mississippi 38-14.
2010 - #6 Nebraska defeats South Dakota State 17-3.
2016 - Golf legend Arnold Palmer died at age 87.
2021 - #20 Michigan State defeats Nebraska 23-20 in overtime.
1513 - Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama and sighted the Pacific Ocean.
1775 - Ethan Allen was captured by the British.
1789 - The first Congress adopted 12 amendments to the U.S. Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification. The first ten became the Bill of Rights.
1890 - Wilford Woodruff, president of the Mormon Church, renounced the practice of polygamy. (This paved the way for Utah's acceptance as a state in 1896.)
1919 - President Woodrow Wilson collapsed after a speech in Pueblo, Colorado, during a national speaking tour in support of the Treaty of Versailles.
1956 - The first trans-Atlantic telephone cable officially went into service with a three-way ceremonial call between New York, Ottawa and London.
1957 - Nine black children were escorted into Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas under heavily armed guard because of racial violence.
1978 - 144 people were killed when a Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing 727 and a private plane collided over San Diego.
1981 - Sandra Day O'Conner was sworn in as the first female justice on the United States Supreme Court.
1992 - NASA's Mars Observer blasted off on a $980 million mission to the red planet (the probe disappeared just before entering Martian orbit in August 1993).
1994 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin began a five-day swing through the United States, hoping to encourage American investment in his country's struggling economy.
2003 - It was reported that more than 14,000 people had lost their lives in France during a summer heat wave.
2011 - King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia granted women the right to vote and run for office in future elections.
2012 - President Barack Obama, speaking to the U.N. General Assembly, pledged U.S. support for Syrians trying to oust President Bashar Assad, calling him "a dictator who massacres his own people."
2017 - Former congressman Anthony Weiner was sentenced to 21 months behind bars for illicit online contact with a 15-year-old girl.
2018 - Bill Cosby was sentenced to three-to-10 years in prison for drugging and molesting a woman at his suburban Philadelphia home. (After serving nearly three years, Cosby went free in June 2021 after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned his conviction.)
2020 - The late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lay in state at the U.S. Capitol, making history as the first woman so honored in the United States.
Birthdays
20 - Bella Ramsey (actress)
26 - Antonia Gentry (actress)
27 - Joy Sunday (actress)
28 - Sofia Reyes (singer)
32 - Emmy Clarke (actress)
34 - Jordan Gavaris (actor)
39 - Zach Woods (actor)
40 - Donald Glover (actor)
42 - Van Hansis (actor)
43 - Chris Owen (actor)
46 - Joel David Moore (actor)
46 - Robbie Jones (actor)
46 - Clea DuVall (actress)
47 - Chauncey Billups (basketball player)
50 - Bridgette Wilson-Sampras (actress)
54 - Catherine Zeta-Jones (actress)
54 - Hal Sparks (actor)
55 - Will Smith (actor)
57 - Jason Flemyng (actor)
58 - Scottie Pippen (basketball player)
59 - Maria Doyle Kennedy (actress)
60 - Tate Donovan (actor)
61 - Aida Turturro (actress)
62 - Heather Locklear (actress)
65 - Michael Madsen (actor)
72 - Bob McAdoo (basketball player)
72 - Mark Hamill (actor)
74 - Anson Williams (actor)
75 - Mimi Kennedy (actress)
76 - Cheryl Tiegs (model)
79 - Michael Douglas (actor)
80 - Robert Walden (actor)
80 - Josh Taylor (actor)
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Today in Sports History - September 25
1926 - The NHL grants franchises to the Chicago Blackhawks and the Detroit Red Wings.
1932 - Jimmie Foxx of the Boston Red Sox hits his 58th home run of the season.
1948 - Nebraska opens the season with a 19-15 win over Cockeye State.
1954 - Nebraska opens the season with a 19-7 loss to Minnesota.
1965 - #2 Nebraska defeats Air Force 27-17.
1965 - Willie Mays, at the age of 34, became the oldest man to hit 50 home runs in a single season. He had also set the record for the youngest to hit 50 ten years earlier.
1965 - Satchel Paige (Kansas City Athletics), at the age of 60 pitched three shutout innings against the Boston Red Sox.
1971 - #1 Nebraska defeats Texas A&M 34-7.
1976 - #6 Nebraska defeats TCU 64-10.
1978 - Melissa Ludtke, a writer for "Sports Illustrated", filed a suit in U.S. District Court. The result was that Major League Baseball could not bar female writers from the locker room after the game.
1982 - #8 Penn State defeats #2 Nebraska 27-24.
1993 - #6 Nebraska defeats Colorado State 48-13.
1997 - NBC sportscaster Marv Albert pled guilty to assault and battery of a lover. He was fired from NBC within hours.
1997 - The WNBA announces it will add franchises in Detroit and Washington, D.C.
1999 - #6 Nebraska defeats Missouri 40-10.
2000 - American basketball player Vince Carter jumps over 7 foot 2 Frédéric Weis in 2000 Summer Olympics, known in France as "le dunk de la mort" (the dunk of death)
2001 - Michael Jordan announced that he would return to the NBA as a player for the Washington Wizards. Jordan became the president of basketball operations for the team on January 19, 2000.
2003 - #15 Nebraska defeats Southern Mississippi 38-14.
2010 - #6 Nebraska defeats South Dakota State 17-3.
2016 - Golf legend Arnold Palmer died at age 87.
2021 - #20 Michigan State defeats Nebraska 23-20 in overtime.