Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 25

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  French battleship Liberté
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  Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia
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  Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor
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  Sultan Bayezid I
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  Women of a Magdalene asylum

• 275 – After the assassination of Aurelian, Tacitus was chosen by the Senate to succeed him as Roman emperor.
• 844 – A Viking fleet arrived near Seville, then part of the Emirate of Córdoba, and started a raid that was eventually repelled by the city's Muslim defenders.
• 1066 – Harold Godwinson defeated King Harald III of Norway and his English ally Tostig Godwinson at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, ending the last Norse invasion of the British Isles.
• 1775 – Ethan Allen and a small force of American and Quebec militia failed to capture Montreal from British forces.
• 1790 – Peking opera was born when the "Four Great Anhui Troupes" introduced Hui opera to Beijing in honor of the Qianlong Emperor's eightieth birthday.
• 1911 – An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonated the forward ammunition magazines and destroyed the ship.
• 1957 – United States Army troops escorted nine studentsasCentral High SchoolinLittle Rock, Arkansas was integrated.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1977 – About 4,200 people took part in the first modern Chicago Marathon.
• 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 MazeinCounty Antrim, Northern Ireland.
• 1990 – The Ram Rath Yatra, a political–religious rally organised to erect a temple to the Hindu deity Rama on the site of the Babri Masjid, began in the Indian state of Gujarat.
• Born/died this day: | Johann Heinrich Lambert |d|1777| Oliver Loving |d|1867| Robert Brackman |b|1898| Arthur Lyon Fremantle |d|1901| Jacqueline Audry |b|1908| Miller Huggins |d|1929| Glenn Gould |b|1932| Cheryl Tiegs |b|1947| Catherine Zeta-Jones |b|1969| John Bonham |d|1980| José Fernández |d|2016

• Operation Market Garden is featured on September 17, so Operation Berlin/Battle of Arnhem should not appear in the same year.
• Battle of Fulford is featured on September 20, so Harald III should not appear in the same year.

September 25

Sandra Day O'Connor

• 1237 – Henry III of England and Alexander II of Scotland signed the Treaty of York, establishing the Anglo-Scottish border, which mostly remains the same today.
• 1396 – Ottoman wars in Europe: Ottoman forces under Bayezid I defeated a Christian alliance led by Sigismund of Hungary near present-day Nikopol, Bulgaria.
• 1800 – French Revolutionary Wars: After U.S. ships became involved, French forces abandoned their invasion of the Batavian island of Curaçao.
• 1944 – Second World War: British troops began their withdrawal from the Battle of Arnhem in the Netherlands, ending the Allies' Operation Market Garden in defeat.
• 1981 – Sandra Day O'Connor (pictured) became the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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