Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 25
This is a list of selected September 25 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.
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Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia
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Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor -
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Vasco Núñez de Balboa
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Vasco Núñez de Balboa
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Feast day of Sergius of Radonezh (Eastern Orthodox Church) | refimprove |
| 1066 – Harold Godwinson of England defeated Harald Hardråde of Norway in Yorkshire at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, marking the end of Viking invasion of England. | unreferenced section |
| 1513 – Conquistador Vasco Núñez de Balboa, upon a peak in present-day Darién, Panama, became the first European known to have seen the Pacific Ocean from the New World, naming it Mar del Sur, or South Sea, a few days later. | refimprove |
| 1555 – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and the forces of the Schmalkaldic League signed the Peace of Augsburg, ending the religious struggle between the two groups and made the legal division of Christendom permanent within the Holy Roman Empire. | refimprove |
| 1955 – The Royal Jordanian Air Force, the aviation branch of the Jordanian Armed Forces, was founded. | Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
| 1957 – United States Army troops escorted nine students as Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas was integrated. | refimprove section |
| 1962 – The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria was formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas was elected President of the provisional government, with Ahmed Ben Bella as Prime Minister. | Tagged for cleanup |
| 1977 – About 4,200 people took part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon. | outdated |
Eligible
- 275 – After the assassination of Aurelian, Tacitus was chosen by the Senate to succeed him as Roman emperor.
- 1790 – Peking opera was born when the Four Great Anhui Troupes introduced Anhui opera to Beijing in honor of the Qianlong Emperor's eightieth birthday.
- 1868 – The Russian frigate Alexander Nevsky wrecked off northwestern Jutland, nearly drowning Grand Duke Alexei.
- 1944 – World War II: British troops began their withdrawal from the Battle of Arnhem in the Netherlands, ending the Allies' Operation Market Garden in defeat.
- 1964 – Unrest and frustration amongst many indigenous Mozambican populations against Portuguese rule erupted in a war for independence that lasted ten years.
- 1974 – The first surgery to replace the ulnar collateral ligament, commonly known as the Tommy John surgery after the first patient, was performed by Dr. Frank Jobe.
- 1983 – In one of the largest prison escapes in British history, 38 Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners hijacked a prison meals lorry and smashed their way out of HM Prison Maze in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
- 2008 – Shenzhou 7, the third spaceflight of the Chinese space program and their first to include a spacewalk, launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.
Notes
- Operation Market Garden is featured on September 17, so Operation Berlin/Battle of Arnhem should not appear in the same year.
September 25: Banned Books Week begins (2016)
- 1396 – Ottoman wars in Europe: Ottoman forces under Bayezid I (pictured) defeated a Christian alliance led by Sigismund of Hungary in the Battle of Nicopolis near present-day Nikopol, Bulgaria.
- 1775 – Ethan Allen and a small force of American and Quebec militia failed in their attempt to capture Montreal from British forces.
- 1911 – An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonated the forward ammunition magazines and destroyed the ship.
- 1962 – The North Yemen Civil War began when Abdullah as-Sallal dethroned the newly crowned Imam al-Badr and declared Yemen a republic under his presidency.
- 1996 – The last Magdalene asylum, an Irish institution to rehabilitate so-called "fallen women", was closed.